I hope a few of you nice people can help me with the following:

 

Dominant Budgies: I have been breeding Dominant Pied birds to Normals and i have been getting a few in each clutch. Am i doing the right things? Should i be breeding Dominant Pieds with other Dominant Pieds or just Normals?

 

DO normals hatched from a Dominant Pied carry and Dominant Pied genes?

 

Lately i have had a few babies that have been bred from 1 Dominant Bird and 1 Normal and they have a dot on their head does this mean anything?

 

 

Danish Pieds

 

What are the best ways to breed to get Danish Pieds. I have kept a few young this season split to a Danish Hen and a Normal, are these now known as Split Danish and if pout with other Split Danish birds or Danish birds i will get Danish young?

 

One final question i bred a baby out of a Clearbody to a normal Olive. It has turned out to be Green/Blue in colour, will this bird carry the Clear Body Gene?

 

 

Thanks for your help.

Edited March 31, 200916 yr by KAZ
corrected....dominant into danish

I hope a few of you nice people can help me with the following:

 

Dominant Budgies: I have been breeding Dominant Pied birds to Normals and i have been getting a few in each clutch. Am i doing the right things? Should i be breeding Dominant Pieds with other Dominant Pieds or just Normals? Best Pairings is Dominant Pied to Good Normals or to Opalines

 

DO normals hatched from a Dominant Pied carry and Dominant Pied genes? NO

Lately i have had a few babies that have been bred from 1 Dominant Bird and 1 Normal and they have a dot on their head does this mean anything?

 

 

Danish Pieds

 

What are the best ways to breed to get Danish Pieds. I have kept a few young this season split to a Danish Hen and a Normal, are these now known as Split Danish and if pout with other Split Danish birds or Danish birds i will get Danish young? Best Pairings is A Danish Recessive to a good Normal to Produce Splits and then pair the Best Splits back to the best Danish Recessives. You can do Danish to Danish if the quality is there. Split to split causes to much waste. You don't know if the chicks are norals or splits.

One final question i bred a baby out of a Clearbody to a normal Olive. It has turned out to be Green/Blue in colour, will this bird carry the Clear Body Gene?

 

 

Thanks for your help.

One final question i bred a baby out of a Clearbody to a normal Olive. It has turned out to be Green/Blue in colour, will this bird carry the Clear Body Gene?

What sex is the chick?

 

If it's a hen that looks normal, it's not clearbody. Hens cannot be split, only clearbody or not - so if it's a girl and she doesn't look clearbody, she is just normal.

 

If it's a cock that looks normal, it could be a normal OR it could be split. Normal/split clearbody cocks will look like a normal, and there's no way of knowing until you breed him.

 

 

EDIT: actually, to make things more certain for you, I actually looked at the tables (probably should have done that before I posted!) - if the hen was clearbody and the cock was normal and NOT split for clearbody, then you get 50% normal hens and 50% split cocks - so any girls are guaranteed normals and any boys are guaranteed to look normal but be split for clearbody.

 

If for some magical reason the cock was actually split, you'd get 25% split cocks (that look normal), 25% clearbody cocks, 25% clearbody hens, 25% normal hens. In this case you can still tell straight away what they are - if the girls look normal, they're normal. If the boys look normal, they're split.

 

I hope this helps!

 

 

 

A couple of good reads, tables etc:

http://www.bestofbreeds.net/al-nasser/article8.htm

http://home.clara.net/np21/clearbody.htm

http://www.birdhobbyist.com/parrotcolour/clearbody.html

Edited March 31, 200916 yr by Emma

One final question i bred a baby out of a Clearbody to a normal Olive. It has turned out to be Green/Blue in colour, will this bird carry the Clear Body Gene?

 

 

 

If the clearbody that you used is the cock bird then your young one will be a male split for clearbody, but if it is the hen bird then it will be as Emma suggested and wont carry the clearbody gene if it is a hen, but will if it is a cock.

Edited March 31, 200916 yr by KAZ
replaced quote tags

i bred a baby out of a Clearbody to a normal Olive

I read this as "out of a clearbody hen", so assumed the TCB is the hen and the normal is the cock.

 

TCB hen x normal cock =

50% normal/clearbody cocks (look normal but split clearbody)

50% normal hens

(so any girls are definitely normal, and any boys are definitely split)

 

OR if he is hiding something, the shifty fellow -

 

TCB hen x normal/clearbody cock=

25% normal/clearbody cocks (look normal but split clearbody)

25% clearbody cocks

25% clearbody hens

25% normal hens

(so clearbodies are clearbodies, normal looking girls are normal, and normal looking boys are definitely split - no straight normal boys)

Edited March 31, 200916 yr by Emma

Guys,

 

Can you please tell me where i can get these tables from, they would come in very handy.

 

Thanks.

 

 

i bred a baby out of a Clearbody to a normal Olive

I read this as "out of a clearbody hen", so assumed the TCB is the hen and the normal is the cock.

 

TCB hen x normal cock =

50% normal/clearbody cocks (look normal but split clearbody)

50% normal hens

(so any girls are definitely normal, and any boys are definitely split)

 

OR if he is hiding something, the shifty fellow -

 

TCB hen x normal/clearbody cock=

25% normal/clearbody cocks (look normal but split clearbody)

25% clearbody cocks

25% clearbody hens

25% normal hens

(so clearbodies are clearbodies, normal looking girls are normal, and normal looking boys are definitely split - no straight normal boys)

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