He is moulting which is why he looks like he does. :dbb1: he is getting darker as he moults

 

Just had a look at the full picture... YES A BOY!!!

i was so busy looking at his colour that i didnt even notice his face. :budgiedance:

 

He has moulted all his baby bars out and the feathers you see on his wings that are darker than the others are the new feathers that are coming though darker than the baby ones.

Edited May 2, 200817 yr by **Liv**

.....What age do they get the iris rings?I have never had one of my YF2s turn from cinnamon to normal during a moult though?

.....What age do they get the iris rings?

Iris rings ( light ) may be from 5 months on....

.....What age do they get the iris rings?I have never had one of my YF2s turn from cinnamon to normal during a moult though?

What appears to be black markings often is really dark brown. One of my cinnamon dom pied boys looked like that on throat spots and top of wings but lower down the wings they were lighter brown. Same thing.

Not normal. still cinnamon, just darker brown which almost looks like black, but not :budgiedance: . I have had it happen to mine too. When you put him next to a normal, you will see that the colours are different :dbb1:

Cool, well it will be interesting to see how he comes up after his moult.

this is what Bing looks like right now because he is going through his first moult, bits of yellowy green appearing all over his body and the blue slowly disappearing

Looking like a nice bird you've got there... look forward to seeing what he turns out like after the moult.

Yes I would agree that he is going through a moult.

Double factor yellow face type 2 budgies have a mottled green and blue belly. So if that stays mottled then that is what he is. However I think he is currently moulting.

I think he is cinnamon so when he is a bit older Ill put him with my other cinnamon YF hen.

Yes as we expected he is just going through his first moult, something like 4 to 5 months old. With Cinnamons you often get that contrast when the new feathers come through, because the juvenile feathers were pale, the new ones will fade a little & look more normal soon. So I think he is Yellow Face2 Cinnamon Violet. So you have plenty of choices of what colour he is. Yf Cinnamons are nice looking birds I think.

I will be interested to see him in a month when he is all cleaned up to see how his feathers come back in. , he is a pretty one for sure.

okay first off- i started skimming this thread so if it has been answered already sorry.

 

You new one is a yellowface type 2. You will have to wait for the moult to finished to see of change in frather colour evens out or not. If not then a DF yellowface type 2 tends to get more a of a patchy look to the feathers than a single factor (who in the end looks almost like a normal green)

Edited May 5, 200817 yr by Nerwen