Posted June 28, 200817 yr Hey everyone! I'm a new member and thought i would post pics of my budgies, and was hoping somebody would be able to tell me the gender and type of budgie and approximate age. I just purchased an aviary which included 4 budgies, so i don't really know anything about my new ones. I already have 2 budgies a male and a female which i have had for about a year. At The Moment the new birds are in the one cage and my 2 are in another cage..for the quarantine thing i have read about.. is it 6 months until i am able to put my old birds in the aviary? I get the aviary tomorrow so the 4 new birds will be going in there. I also want to get a couple of quails, am thinking king quails... do they need to be quarantined as well? Any other help/ advice would be great! Thanks These are my 2 budgies The blue male is called Bird and the green female is called Nim. If these aren't the correct gender please tell me because that is what i was told they are when i got them! The new budgies Budgie 1 Budgie 2 Budgie 3.. I think there is something wrong with this budgies leg. it is missing a nail off each foot and notice how it sits in the picture, different to the other budgies. The lady who i got them from mentioned something about it bad leg, or something along those lines but now i can't remember what she said. Budgie 4 Edited June 28, 200817 yr by birdluv changed ATM to At The Moment. please do not use shortcuts - use only approved shortcuts found in the guidelines
June 28, 200817 yr beautiful budgies, the two budgies, bird is a boy and nim is a girl so they were correct... WELCOME TO BBC! EDIT: Woops it seems you already observed the two toenails. hehe\ i am going to guess the mutations of Nim and bird. Nim looks like an olive opaline and bird looks like a sky blue opaline??? dont worry if im wrong as i am guessing and i have never guessed mutations before Edited June 28, 200817 yr by Andrew
June 28, 200817 yr Welcome Bec Happy to have you here. Your budgies look very nice. Andrew has confirmed your two original budgies sexes, so you were right about that too They are a grey green normal hen and a skyblue normal male. Budgie one is a Double Factor grey dominant pied Budgie two is a grey green spangle hen Budgie three ( a hen ) may have had splayed legs in the nest that were never corrected or treated as well as the missing toenails. possibly recessive pied. Budgie four I would say is a Yellowface type 2 skyblue greywing dominant pied hen Quarantine is 30 days minimum at least 5 metres from existing birds, until introduction if all is well. Quails...quarantine also unless they come from the same place. Cheers kaz Edited June 28, 200817 yr by KAZ
June 28, 200817 yr Beautiful Birds No 3 first look SPLAYED legs mate, missing a toenail doesn't make a differnce in their stance .... I Should have read Kaz's post before typing mine lol , On a good note Whoo Hooo I am right Edited June 28, 200817 yr by Neat
June 28, 200817 yr Welcome to the forum , I agree with Kaz with the quarantine be strict about it becaue it is important to the well being of all your birds.
June 28, 200817 yr Hi and welcome Bird and nim are a grey green normal and a sky blue normal Bird 1 is a grey Df dominant pied Bird 2 grey green spangle bird 3 i think is a sky spangle recessive pied bird 4 greywing light green dominant pied My outlook on their mutations Agree with all other advice given about Quarantine and splay legs
June 28, 200817 yr Hello and welcome to the forum Im not to good with colours and mutations of budgies as for the genders i see 4 hens and a cock but i cant tell on your other budgie
