Now I have a book that speaks of, and shows pictures of a Lime budgerigar (a special mutation)

Has anyone ever heard of or seen any of these???

They talk about a bird in there who was split ino, he produced some ino offsprings who had a brown suffision on their rump...

In the book they show pictures of this bird and the mutation... ( I can scan these and upload them for you all to see)

I have an ino cock who has brown suffision on his rump and since this is a book done by Western Australians was wondering if this bird could be in the same genetic line...

Interesting libby! I have never heard of a lime budgie.

A picture would be good

Copying the book now

they're rather odd looking strangly enough...

Sounds very interesting Would love to see a picture too

Sounds unusual! Would love a photo!

This is the two pages of the book where the mutation is mentioned... you can't see the birds rump very well, but I am uploading photo's of my boys rump and wings currently also...

The book is called Buderigars: all you need to know

By Michael S Christian, fisrt published 1983 the birds were apparently bred in 1979 though by the west coast budgie club.

 

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/lime1.jpg

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/lime2.jpg

 

(pictures are too big so need to be links)

i have the same book but it is an newer edition and doesn't have it

They are very interesting.

WOW !!

Thanks *libby*

Cool looking, there must be a lot of different mutations that have come and gone.

But not many that have been photographed like these.

i have the same book but it is an newer edition and doesn't have it

 

Same here. I have the newer version 1996. No photos and no mention in the text of lime budgerigars. This would perhaps indicate that the mutaion didnt materialise into anything.

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/brown1.jpg - my boys wings

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/brown2.jpg - far away rump

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/brown3.jpg - close rump

(and before asked, no he's definatly not a lacewing and is definatly an albino)

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/b1-1.jpg - front on

Thanks thats very interesting.

I've also read the newer copy.

I thought so too Derek... I've noticed his rump since day one (easier to see with the naked eye) but never thought anything of it until I saw this book... I presumed it was some kind of suffision...

I have an albino like that too, with the light brown on the rump.....

I am far from even being educated in the budgie world but those first pics from the book remind me of the fallows that a breeder I know has. I have a baby lacewing that has those wing markings like your bird.

 

Edited June 7, 200817 yr by sueannleach

I’m always looking out for something different with Budgies, when you get some thing like that I think it’s very interesting to see if you can work with it [breeding] to concentrate & bring it out more, maybe it’s a new mutation which would be very interesting I would think. No I have never heard of a Lime Budgie.

years ago i breed a creamino that left the box as a yf2 albino and when it moulted into his adult feathers it changed to a limey green colour. unfortunatly it died 6 months later and i never got photos of him or bred from him

Sounds like an albino with lots of green suffusion that the yellow bled through turning him 'green', would have been pretty!