Here are a few photos of the young budgies we bought on the weekend.

 

First one is a very pale yellow, a lot of white and a yellow face with red/plum eyes.

 

 

Second one is I think a Yellowface Type 2 grey green spangle?

 

 

 

 

Third one I'm not sure, couldn't get a front shot but belly is blue and white.

 

I think:

1. creamino

2. YF2 grey green spangle (as you said)

3. Blue recessive pied

 

But I'm just guessing

Edited November 19, 200717 yr by Zebra

I think the same as Zebra

You both can go to the top of the class,

Second chick isnt grey green.....its blue

Write 100 times,I must read the full sentence.Y/F blue is correct.Makeing a excuse for my self.Not expecting,anyone to put down Y/F greygreen.Should never take anything for granted.

yeah i'd have said yf2 cobalt/mauve spangle personally

Edited November 19, 200717 yr by *libby*

Its a Y/F .It could be a mauve or cobalt.Photos play tricks on the eye.

The photo isn't very clear, she is a pale grey color with some green feathers on her front and rump.

I give up,Ill take my ball & go home.All I say its a spangle.

Denise...she is a YF type 2 blue spangle

Y/F grey green doesn't exist, did I get it right?

Y/F grey green doesn't exist, did I get it right?

 

That is debatable Zebra because true green bird will always have a yellow face there is no such thing as a white faced green. Breeders have been doing programs to prove that the yellow based (green)bird can carry the yellow face gene. So at this point no because the face is already yellow . If the yellow turns the blue into green the bird is a white based (blue) based bird not a green. Make sense? So the bird is a YF blue (not green in the bird above).

 

Gorgeous BIRDS, I especially love the spangle marking they are so defined and dark.

Edited November 19, 200717 yr by Elly
adding info

I think I get it . I just read it again: Y/F green and it does sound strange as a normal green is always YF

 

Thanks for the explanation - I'm still learning :fear

don't worry I did the same thing and Nerwen correct me I felt silly when it was explained I was like DUH (Laughing out loud)

Yes, but as I know myself I will probably do the same mistake again

I think that there can be two types of Green, but visually we still just call them Green, because without test mating & seeing the results there is no way [that I know] that we can tell if a Green bird is carrying the YF factor, when it’s mated to a Blue bird.

 

I mated a Cinnamon Greygreen Pied hen with an Opaline Light Green cock this year, [both of which I bought, so didn’t know the breeding] & they produced quite a few YF Blues, proving that both were split for Blue & I think it’s the hen that’s carrying the YF factor.

 

I think the bird in question here is a YF2 Cobalt Spangle.

Ummm is the middle bird also opaline? The head stripes look like it to me. Or do spangles have the same head markings as opalines?

I would have said blue not grey myself from the pictures. What colour are the cheek patches of the yellowface spangle?

I would have said blue not grey myself from the pictures. What colour are the cheek patches of the yellowface spangle?

 

 

The cheek patches are the same slate grey color that her body is.

Ummm is the middle bird also opaline? The head stripes look like it to me. Or do spangles have the same head markings as opalines?

 

That bird is a Spangle, not an Opaline. Some Spangles will get a patch of body colour at the back of the head, when they go through their adult moult.

 

You can get an Opaline Spangle, but it will have the body colour through the wing & body colour in the V area between the top of the wings & less zebra markings on the head.

Edited November 24, 200717 yr by Norm

I would have said blue not grey myself from the pictures. What colour are the cheek patches of the yellowface spangle?

 

 

The cheek patches are the same slate grey color that her body is.

Its a blue bird not a grey one.