I’m pairing up this new pair… the Cock I bought last year at the Hunter Valley Budgie show…he looks like a Sky Blue in this photo, with flash, the fact that his colour bled out so much, do you think that means he’s a Violet Sky Blue & not a Cobalt?

 

I already mated him with a Grey Green Normal that I bred & their young are moulting out good-looking birds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hen is a Yellow Face Violet Normal…I bred myself from a YF2 Opaline Violet Sky Blue hen I bought & a Violet Spangle cock also bought.

 

They bred four or five nice YF Violets like her all what I think are pretty good hens, so I’m hoping for big things with this hen, as I think she is better than the Grey Green he mated with before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took a picture of her in natural light so that the colour didn’t bleed out, like the picture of her sister that I put on the forum before, as you couldn’t even tell she was a Yellow Face.

Very nice Norm the cock seems to be carrying violet also. Wonderful pair

Thanks Kaz, I have a pair that I have with their first four young, it’s a Cinnamon Opaline Grey hen I bought at the bird sale here last year, from a guy from Grafton. She is from show stock, but not that big herself. I mated her with a nice Grey Green cock from the Pet shop that looks nice & has bred some better type young, I’m pretty impressed with the young, which are mostly Cinnamons as the cock is also split. They look like the best young I have bred [show wise] so far, really wide heads, big birds & look strongly buff…. just about to leave the nest some photos soon.

nice birds, the first one almost looks cobalt and not sky blue I know there are variations in colors and pictures are hard to show blues, so you know best , I love the Yellow Face.

Some pictures of my four new bubs, that I mentioned the other day.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm afraid my birds aren't happy to be models on the Internet. These are the best shots I could get.

 

Two Cinnamon Grey Greens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Cinnamon Grey Normal.

 

 

 

One Grey Green Normal

 

A close-up of the feathers.

Edited April 14, 200817 yr by Norm

Lots of feather there Norm Big boofy headed chicks arent they ? You should be happy with those

Lots of feather there Norm Big boofy headed chicks arent they ? You should be happy with those

Thanks Kaz, I like them but will be interesting to see how they moult out.

Hi Norm , if you catch up the Cobalt and turn him over and look at the feathers under his rump , the longer feathers before the tail feathers ,its here where you can see the violet character in the feather and if you have a normal to compare to it is even eaiser to see the difference.

Nice birds.

wow they are beautiful

Gotta Love cinnamon Feather

Very nice Norm!

 

Thanks guys.

they are gorgeous

really cute pics there!