I met Dr Nat and Phil (sorry about the mix up!) last Saturday and checked out her breeding birds.

Have to say they were magnificent looking birds - the best I've seen.

 

I am just sorry I wasn't better company Nat. The heat was exhausting and the humidity on the day took what energy I had left. I promise if you invite me round agian when the days are cooler, I will be far more interesting! (I was still recovering from a nasty fall I'd had the week before where I was left lying on the floor for 5 hours before I was rescued).

 

I really liked your setup, the airflow through would be good when the breezes blow. All your birds were bright (brighter than me LOL) and extremely healthy and they were all happily chatting away. I just love the way everything fit in. Well done!

 

All birds arrived home to their new digs in tip top shape and settled into their quarantine cage without incident.

 

Here they are only minutes after being put into quarantine:

 

 

 

 

Please remind me, why did you suggest cinnamon pairings and what colours to put over these ones?

 

I'll start another post showing my other budgies.

Edited January 30, 200916 yr by Boris' Slave

Hi Slave of Boris,

 

Thank you for your kind comments. I am single though, Phil is the manfriend.

 

Lacewing is purported to be a linkage of cinnamon and ino. Pairing them with cinnamon outcrosses improves your chances of retaining the cinnamon-ino link. You could also pair them with normal, opaline or cinnamon opaline depending on what kind of suitable outcross you can find. In my opinion, a good outcross is a nice darkly marked normal cinnamon wing.

 

All birds are siblings.They are only babies, you have to wait till September to pair them.

Their wing markings will darken after their first moult.

 

To pair with your white hens, see if you can find a large buff big bodied well marked cinnamon lightgrey or skyblue squire bird with good head features from one of your fellow club members. This aims to reduce the blue suffusion in the body, improve the wing markings and increase their size. From this pairing, your female offspring will not be carrying any lacewing, but they may be useful to you otherwise for outcrossing with the white lacewing uncle squire bird later on (that is if he is a boy, bit young to tell). The male offspring will be split lacewing so you can pair them back to their aunts.

 

Your yellow squire bird will go well with a cinnamon, normal, opaline or cinnamon-opaline darkgreen, olive or greygreen hen with a really bright yellow face, to deepen the richness of the body colour. (The yellow birds are both split for white so you might get a few white surprises). All hen offspring ought to be lacewing and all male offspring will be split lacewing.

 

You can also pair the greens/yellows to blues/whites if you want, as I have done myself. Although, the dark factors that you need to intensify the body colour of the yellows may cause a blue or grey suffusion in your whites so be careful of that.

 

Even though they are siblings, when they mature you will find you have a couple of favourites. Trust your intuition and use your favourites to breed with first. Make sure you use your offspring (not just originals) to evolve the variety.

 

Avoid other varieties if you want to specialise.

 

After all that, select the best ones to continue breeding with after they have gone through their first moult. (Unlike as I have done selling the babies, but I just had too many of them as you could see, they are quite proliferative).

 

Take all the offspring along to a table show one night and let everyone have a look at them to gain some feedback, but then make up your own mind on your favourites to use, you will develop an eye for them.

 

Keep your original stock until they are past 4 years old and you have got what you wanted out of them and crossed back etc. They are very well bred birds. I expect to see you at the state comp in years to come.

 

Oh yeah, the white ones look pink because they rolled around in some pink shell grit.

Edited January 30, 200916 yr by DrNat

Gorgeous birds :rofl:, congrats Karen.

LOL my parents were surprised to see pink budgies!

Thank you for explaining it again Nat - I shall save this post to refer to.

Very nice looking budgies.

thay are verry pretty birds