okay I'm into recessive pieds and have some normals.

 

On the weekend I bought:

 

Adult Cocks:

 

A normal green (good type and size to keep type and size)

A normal grey (better and slightly bigger than the green) but so far has not produced any babies (so hints to try and improve his chances of being/becoming fertile are very welcome)

 

Adult Hen:

 

Olive Opalene dominant pied, spangle

 

Young Hens:

 

Sky blue opalene cinnamon

Sky blue cinnamon

Olive opalene cinnamon

 

So my four budgies (grey recessive pied hen, blue recessive pied (was told cock but unsure as cere is brownish), yellow faced split recessive pied cock and my Blue (dark) split recessive pied cock) has increased to 10 birds.

 

I was told not to breed the Olive Opalene Dominant Pied, Spangle hen to a recessive pied or an inferior male (was told , she's too good to be bred to an inferior male so I must be doing something right in selecting quality breeding stock ) so may use the new grey normal cock if I can get him to reproduce or the normal green.

 

What happens if you breed a dominant pied to a recessive pied or a split recessive pied? sorry if that's a dumb question!

 

Would these cinnamon hens be okay to breed to a recessive pied (if my unsure one is a cock)?

 

Kind Regards,

 

Harlequinlover

I was told not to breed the Olive Opalene Dominant Pied, Spangle hen to a recessive pied or an inferior male (was told , she's too good to be bred to an inferior male so I must be doing something right in selecting quality breeding stock ) so may use the new grey normal cock if I can get him to reproduce or the normal green.

 

Grey is good for size as is normal green. If you want some split birds in your flock (carrying gene for blue) then use the grey.

 

What happens if you breed a dominant pied to a recessive pied or a split recessive pied? sorry if that's a dumb question!

There are no dumb questions here. The recessive gene can produce smaller birds. But a dominant/recessive paired to a recessive (or split recessive bird) can produce a Dark Eye Clear, this bird is totally Yellow (green based) or white (blue based) with black eyes not red like a Ino.

 

Would these cinnamon hens be okay to breed to a recessive pied (if my unsure one is a cock)?

Yes but keep track of the cinnamon to know which birds are split for it.

What happens if you breed a dominant pied to a recessive pied or a split recessive pied? sorry if that's a dumb question!

There are no dumb questions here. The recessive gene can produce smaller birds. But a dominant/recessive paired to a recessive (or split recessive bird) can produce a Dark Eye Clear, this bird is totally Yellow (green based) or white (blue based) with black eyes not red like a Ino.

 

Would these cinnamon hens be okay to breed to a recessive pied (if my unsure one is a cock)?

Yes but keep track of the cinnamon to know which birds are split for it.

 

 

 

thanks Nerwen,

 

okay a dark eyed clear either white or yellow.

 

okay will have to get a book, can't remember what was said about the cinnamons (males would be splits I think and these males would produce female cinnamons, forget what the females would be from the first mating (was it normal?).

 

Harlequinlover

Cinnamon is a sex-linked gene

 

Normal cock bred to a cinnamon female would yield all the cocks to be split to cinnamon (they would not be visually), all the hens would be normals.

 

Normal hen bred to a cock split to cinnamon can yield you cinnaman females

 

Cinnamon hen and a Cock split to cinnamon will yield you both male and female cinnamons

 

Two Cinnamons bred together would be 100% cinnamon

Cinnamon is a sex-linked gene

 

Normal cock bred to a cinnamon female would yield all the cocks to be split to cinnamon (they would not be visually), all the hens would be normals.

 

Normal hen bred to a cock split to cinnamon can yield you cinnaman females

 

Cinnamon hen and a Cock split to cinnamon will yield you both male and female cinnamons

 

Two Cinnamons bred together would be 100% cinnamon

 

Thanks Elly

 

Harlequinlover

your welcome