I have a Mauve Opaline Hen and a Sky blue YF2 greywing split to recessive pied cock that have 4 chicks so far. One of those chicks is ino (red eye buds). I was wondering what this tells me about the parents? I'm really trying to learn this so... does this mean that this chick is a hen and she got it from the father which means he's split for ino or did she need a gene from both parents to be ino and both parents are spilt for ino???

The Cock Bird would be split ino as it is a sex linked gene and no hen can be split for a sex link gene.

Yep sex linked, The cock is XX and the hen is XY(the opposite of humans). It is carried on the X chromosome so the male needs two copies for it to be viually expressed whereas the hen only needs a single copy.

okay so I've now learned that the father is split ino.... am I correct in my understanding that this chick must be a hen then??

Yes

Just wondering if Ino is common and easy to obtain? As it was pointed out to me before that my one new chick in my one clutch was an ino... well I checked on the chicks today and in my second clutch shure enough.. .there's an ino in there too. Are they that common to get them so easily?

 

The one pair that produced an ino chick is a Mauve Opaline Hen and a Sky blue Yellowface 2 Greywing split to ino and split to recessive pied cock and the other

pair is a Green Dominant pied hen and a Green Opaline split to Ino cock... the question about the chicks themselves then is... since the Ino chicks must be hens in both these cases what are they called... Just ALBINOS or are they ALBINOS split to ????

 

Well either way I'm at least learning more about the parents. Now I know that both my breeding cocks are split to ino and at least two of my 8 new babies are hens.

Edited December 6, 200816 yr by chrissy0705

Is there anyone who can answer my last inquiry?

If its about are inos rare ? No they arent. Maybe where you live they might be, it all depends on what people like to breed.

Top one split to greywing and MAYBE rec pied as well.

Bottom one masking opaline. (is it albino or lute?) as if its a white bird both your greens are split blue also.

Top one split to greywing and MAYBE rec pied as well.

Bottom one masking opaline. (is it albino or lute?) as if its a white bird both your greens are split blue also.

 

 

I'm sorry Pie I don't understand what you're saying here? If the chick is pure white with red eyes it would be albino wouldn't it? Forgive me but I don't know what "lute" means? My one pair are both green series birds and the other pair are both blue series birds... so if the chick from the greens turns out to be albino then both those parents are split for blue? But what is lute?

Lut is short for Lutino .....

 

 

Which is a Green Series " Albino" so to speak .... If the "White" Albino's they they are ( PARENTS) split to blue

Lut is short for Lutino .....

 

 

Which is a Green Series " Albino" so to speak .... If the "White" Albino's they they are ( PARENTS) split to blue

 

Oh... duhhhh I should have known that. Lut = Lutino Ino = Albino... I got ya. So if the bub in the green series nest is white the parents are BOTH split blue, but if not the bub will be pure yellow with red eyes and the parents are just green. I think I got it. Thanks Neat.

Cheers Neat- yeah sorry Chrissie- I meant lutino. Does the chick have feathers yet? It should be a yellow bird- lutino as parents are green but theres a chance it could be white which would mean the parents are split for blue- its the same as getting a blue chick from green birds.

Cheers Neat- yeah sorry Chrissie- I meant lutino. Does the chick have feathers yet? It should be a yellow bird- lutino as parents are green but theres a chance it could be white which would mean the parents are split for blue- its the same as getting a blue chick from green birds.

 

 

I got it now Pie.. .thanks. THe bubs don't have feathers yet they are all only a few days old with the a few "downy" puffs here and there. I know I'll be waiting to see what she is though. I'm learing so much about all 4 of the parents parents just by them having these two clutches.

great to see your learning... I am learning with ya. lol. I guess thats one of the great things about breeding, you can actually figure out what genes your birds are hiding....

jimmy i feel like im storking you , to clarafiy im not but as for the birds did you get your birds all from same place could they be brothers ?

It's okay GenericBlue I forgive you... good point? did you get them from the same breeder chrissy?It's okay Chord I forgive you... good point though, did you get them from the same breeder chrissy?

Edited December 20, 200816 yr by **Liv**

was good i thought just that i buy good line brothers when can for percific breeding lines ..and only keep the cocks usually from these breedings till i kind of know what i have then i think about hens

Edited December 20, 200816 yr by **Liv**

I did not get all four of these from the same place.

 

The one cock I got from a pet store and the other I adopted from a women that could no longer care for him due to the unexpected arrival of her third child. With their genetic make up could they even be brothers? An Green Opaline Cock and A Sky blue YF2 Greywing?

If there is one thing I have learnt in my small time here it is this...

 

Anything is possible when you breed budgies, always expect the unexpected. That said I don't know if its possible for them to be brothers. maybe, maybe not.