I don't know if you can see what I mean in these pictures..but Cinder is a Mauve apparently, but there are some cobalt coloured feathers on him, so much on the underside of his tail that it is almost all blue instead of mauve..I've seen a post on another forum, with a budgie that looked exaclty like him, and they were saying he was slate? You can sort of see it on the first picture..

 

 

 

 

 

Also, I bought a new budgie, Angel. I can't post any pictures of her as of yet, so I'll describe her..She is a green spangle, but there is some olive-green on her neck and a blue streak down the middle of her chest to her tail, turning some of her chest an aqua colour and the underside of her tail completely blue. It's not very easy to see though. Maybe I'm utterly wrong here, but does that mean she's split for blue? Just a thought..And the olive-green bit, is that just normal or is she split for grey-green or something? Sorry if I'm totally wrong on this, I'm just guessing..

 

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It's hard to tell in your pictures but your bird looks like he has blue cheek patches (rather than purple that a mauve would have) and that would mean that he has a grey factor which would account for the colour. I don't think he is dark enough to be a slate

 

You wouldn't be able to see if your green spangle was split for blue. Many green birds have a few bluish feathers. It is possible that you have a type 2 yellow face blue that has gone green, or another possibility is that he is a green bird carrying violet

Cinder's cheek patches are either a really dark blue or purple..I'm not sure. It does look a lot more like dark blue though.

She could be a yellowface gone green...I really don't know how old she is. But it's a streak down the middle that is blue, it's even green near her wings and everything..I didn't think yellowfaces had it like that?

Edited September 27, 200816 yr by Jen144

Also, is it just normal that she has a few patches of olive-green near her head?

Cinder is a mauve and defintely not a slate.

If she is a YF2 and has darker patches near her head it possibly means that she is a violet carrier

I thought that mine was a slate too But it's a mauve I haven't really looked at the cheek patches though, so I will tomorrow

Here is a picture of Angel, (sorry about the quality of the picture ) any guesses on how old she is? I got her from a petshop so I have absolutely no idea..She does have iris rings, you can't really see them in that picture. And if she is a yf2, she would have to be pretty old (or at least, not majorly young) to be completely green colour wouldn't she?

 

I have a YF spangle just like her and she is only about 5 months old. the amount of YF cant be used to tell the age of a bird.

To me she looks around the right age, but its really hard to tell as some look older when they are still young. are her iris rings completely white?

she looks more like a green to me.

Agree with Nerwen here, dark green spangle and I'd put her under 1 yr of age

Her irises are not completely white, close though..Just wondering, how can you tell if it's just a normal green or a YF2? She does look identical to a yf2 I've had before..but I haven't had a normal green before. :sad:

The colour intensity and how even it is...

They can have full Iris rings from about 3 months onwards in some birds, but by looking at her, her cere colour and how her head is she looks young to me

I agree she is younger than a year and would wait about 4-5 months to breed with her.