Hi Everyone,

Well we have a lot of new budgies and 2 of the chick's have come out different!! hehehe

The parents are the yellowhead type 1 hen & yellowhead type 2 greywing cockbird.

So far this pair has had 10 chicks and these are the only 2 like this. Mum has been naughty and has seen another man behind hubby's back But these two must be of this pairing as he is the only male that I have that has yellow on him.

The other 2 males in the avairy are a greywing violet or the blue Australian Pied.

Can you see what you think the colorings are? Would they be rainbows????

The yellow on the wing feathers didn't come out quite as bright as they are in real life, but it's close. The first chick also has what looks like deep green on the wing feathers.

Thanks

Sandy

 

This is the first chick

again

 

 

and it's underbelly

 

 

This is the second chick of this coloring..... It has more yellow in the wing feathers than what comes out in the photo's.

 

 

 

 

Here are the parents....

 

Edited December 13, 200717 yr by josh

chick one is a YF normal and chick two is a yf opaline looks type 2 to me but could be type 1... both gorgeous birds

Looks like they take after Mum

Hi Thanks for the replys.

They're different to mum. We've actually had a few that have come out the same as her, but these are different. The yellow that's on the wings and mantle is nearly as yellow as their heads. It's actually as yellow as dad!

Thanks

Sandy

 

This is one from the previous clutch which is identical to mum.

and now...... (the middle one)

 

And this is from this clutch

 

Edited December 13, 200717 yr by josh

the reason that chick looks different to the first is that the one from the first clutch isnt opaline and it also looks ot be cobalt where as the new is sky blue... By The Way type 1 it is KAZ

I know what your trying to say sandy, these two have a strong yellow to than the first/other ones. It doesn't change what they are - yellowface blues. The green tint in the wings is normal as well for some birds, it's called opalescence.

opalesence in a show bird would be a fault?

that's correct

opalesence in a show bird would be a fault?

 

Not if found on an opaline..

well since it SHOULD be there for an opaline.

 

A normally marked bird showing opalescence is a fault right?

Hi Everyone,

I thought that I would send in some photo's for an update. Well the chicks that we're getting are really lovely birds.... and quite a mixed bag from the parents!

Mum must definitely have a violet gene in there somewhere as she's having violet babies! One is almost purple! Here are some of the pics for you all.

Talk soon

Sandy

 

 

 

 

Now with the chick on the right.... Male or female???

 

And how cute is this..... :(Laughing out loud): This is the same bird on the right, but different bird on the left as the photo above

and the photo is a bit lighter in color than they really are....

 

 

 

And here's a picture of our little pied boy and the other violet.....

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoy the pics!

 

Sandy

Edited January 18, 200817 yr by josh

The babies look fantastic Sandy !! You must be very pleased with them. Brilliant colouring

I agree with Kaz, their colouring is great!

Thanks guys,

Yeah we're very pleased with the colors we've got. We have 4 chicks from the same pair as the pied chick is from. The dad is a sky blue Aust Pied and mum is a very pale, almost washed out, blue cinnamon hen. The last clutch they had we got 2 chicks, a pale sky blue pied cock and a pale sky blue cinnamon hen. This clutch we have another pale sky blue cinnamon, 2 pale blue's and another pied, but that one hasn't got enough feathers through yet to see what color blue it is. It was the last to hatch.

The mother of these clutches is not the best mum. She is an extremely messy feeder and we have to clean the chicks faces up to 3 times a day and with this last clutch, she had 8 eggs and they all hatched but after the first 3 chicks, she started to forget about the new ones that were hatching. I'm lucky that the last one (no. 4) survived, or at least it's lucky.... hehehe

I won't let her breed any more as it's too hard to watch them die when there's nothing wrong with them.

My yellowfaced pair are good breeders tho! They've already had 8 chicks and their 3rd clutch is now hatching and the 4th out of 7 eggs hatched this morning.

By The Way...... with this yellowfaced pair..... after their second clutch I tried to stop them from having a third clutch, but she started laying while the last 2 chicks were still in the box. How can I stop them from laying again after this clutch. Do I just destroy the eggs as she lays them, as in shaking them up...??

Thanks

Sandy

The blue and the yellow is one of the most beautiful combinations I have seen. The blue looks to be a violet. I love your pied I don't think at least for a while I have seen an opaline pied so defined. Very nice and congrats.

Thanks Elly,

I have had 2 violet chicks and one is a lot more vibrant than the other, but they are both nice birds. I have another hen chick that is pale violet with a pale yellow head! That one is really nice but hard to photograph. The color doesn't really come out properly. I'm going to have to start to sell some of the babies as we have too many now and as most of them come from the same parents, we can't keep them all...... :-) and we have more coming.... 4 so far from 7 eggs.....

So, now I just have to work out which ones I want to keep and then sell the rest!

Sandy

Yes violets are so hard to capture. Merlin in my signature is a violet. The flash either brightens the color or washes it out. Natural light with no flash is the best way to capture his coloring I found out. Too bad I don't live closer (Laughing out loud) I would glady love to adopt.

Great young birds Sandy, you did better than me in getting the Violet to show out anyway. Those Yellow Faces have such nice dark faces, I have some like that I want to ask about it, I’m wondering if they are Golden Faces instead of Yellow faces, as I have some Yellow Faces where the Yellow is a light Cream rather than Butter cup Yellow. I heard some show breeders talking about Cream faces too, so maybe there’s a few different types.

 

Also I had a nice big show type hen that would get full batches of fertile eggs, but after the first two had hatched she wouldn’t feed any others, after I realised it, I fostered out the youngest to other pairs. I agree with you it’s points against them & I wont breed from her again & will watch her daughters, so far they haven’t been that keen to breed.

 

Re them laying before the last chicks leave, I have that problem all the time, if you don’t have fosters where you can accommodate them, sadly you will just have to take them away, as that’s all you can do. You don't need to shake them they will die from cold.

Hi Norm,

It's quite interesting with the yellowfaced chicks. There are some that have such pale faces that you can barely see the yellow, then there are others that it's very bright. As for taking the eggs away, if I do that will it stop her from laying once she realises what I'm doing, or will she just keep laying like there's no tomorrow! The second clutch she actually laid 10 eggs.....

 

She is a very good mum and loves her babies, and she's having such beautiful chicks as well, but I'm just afraid that if I don't stop her she will keep laying eggs till she dies of stress or something.

 

With the other hen, the pale sky cinnamon one.... (the messy one), I've tried to put the other chicks in with the other hen but the two hens don't have chicks at the same time. When one clutch is hatching, the other hen's sitting on eggs.... and I only have the two pairs breeding at the moment. I am hoping to get some breeding cages soon, but I have to work out where I'm going to put them as it's just way too hot for them to be in the shed.

 

Talk soon

Sandy

Three clutches I would say is too much in a row. If you just take the eggs away and she still has a place to lay them like still being in a breeder cabinet of having a nestbox...yes she will continue to lay, If you remove her to another cage for a rest, with no nestbox...she may lay another one or two from the perch but should then stop. If it were me and I have other hens incubating eggs, I would transfer her eggs to another bird and put her in a cage by herself for awhile till she is back to condition and then back into the flights.

Hi Kaz,

Yeah, I know. I really didn't want her to have the third clutch, but the only other breeding hen had chicks already and she was no longer in the nest with them, so I couldn't put them in there. And I couldn't take her out of the box as she still had 2 chicks in there that weren't ready to leave the nest.....

If she does it again, I'll have to shake the eggs until the last of the chicks comes out and then take her out of the avairy.

It's amazing hey! I couldn't get them to have chicks at first and now I can't stop them! :rip:

Sandy

Hi Kaz,

Yeah, I know. I really didn't want her to have the third clutch, but the only other breeding hen had chicks already and she was no longer in the nest with them, so I couldn't put them in there. And I couldn't take her out of the box as she still had 2 chicks in there that weren't ready to leave the nest.....

If she does it again, I'll have to shake the eggs until the last of the chicks comes out and then take her out of the avairy.

It's amazing hey! I couldn't get them to have chicks at first and now I can't stop them! :rip:

Sandy

You can boil the eggs and replace them in the nest.