Im still not sure what you mean by markings. I assume you're not talking about the yellow, or the cheek patches. If she has some faint patterning she is most likely a poorly marked lacewing as mentioned many times before.

 

If you want to test that you can either pair her to an albino with no cinnamon. If the chicks all come out albino or creamino, then you know she is a lacewing. Alternatively, you can breed her to a cinnamon cock. If you get all chicks male and female being cinnamon, then you also know she is a poorly marked lacewing.

By markings I mean the grey stripes on her face in the picture I posted. She can't be a lacewing, can she, as her cheek patch is white, not any other colour?

i say its a YF albino that has been bred using parents carrying cinnamon, so has some cinnamon suffusion.

It's one of those things that wont be known until breeding.

 

Also, all albinos are masking something. albino is just an absence of markings, the actual genetics are still there and when bred you will find out what she is masking.

Edited May 14, 200916 yr by **Liv**

I can't see grey in that picture... thats the strange part...

Cinnamon suffusion? I guess yeah that could be a reason, though her markings aren't brown at all, but grey..

Uh yeah that is kind of strange JB..unless no one else can see what I'm talking about either, then it must be because I know what to look for I suppose..Either way, I edited the picture (see the arrow showing what I'm meaning, also I darkened it) so maybe you's will notice it now?

Oh wow, what a beautiful specimen, thats the sort of bird im looking for to times are desperate now for lutino's and albino's in my area, so if that was for sale i would put $300 no problem on it...Lolim not experienced with mutation's and such but my gosh its a beautiful bird

Who ever owns that bird,$$$ sell it before mattdog changes her mind.

You mean "His" Mind :rofl: u dont see many of those around here so its a very satisfying addition to any budgie flock...

Cinnamon suffusion? I guess yeah that could be a reason, though her markings aren't brown at all, but grey..Uh yeah that is kind of strange JB..unless no one else can see what I'm talking about either, then it must be because I know what to look for I suppose..Either way, I edited the picture (see the arrow showing what I'm meaning, also I darkened it) so maybe you's will notice it now?

i can see a feint grey scaley pattern, not sure what that means but im sure someone will know

yep... I'm going to get a colour blind check done... maybe its my screen I'll check again when I get back home and I'll let you know then...

Its a Y/F Albino,nothing to special.If you know the history of its breeding,yo might be able to

work out it lines,But if a pet shop bird,could be any thing.

okay I'm home now and I see the lines a lot better now but I dunno if I would call them grey... sure its not just an optical illusion where the feathers are layered?

Yes, positive. They are very definite actual markings, though as you may have noticed they don't show up too well in a picture.

Edited May 14, 200916 yr by Jen144

no clue then... what did the websites that you saw the other birds on say they were?? Is that the only area that the bird has the grey markings on them?

Yes it was the only site that had birds that even remotly matched her. No other birds I could find that had red eyes, white bodies and grey markings on them..They were: (this is how the breeder of them described them on his site)

Fallow : Single factor Goldeface, Double factor Spangle, Opaline

Double factor Goldenface, at least one Dark gene and one Violet gene, Opaline Fallow

just went and checked out the website... interesting... if that's what you think the bird is then the only way to figure that out is if you do test breeding...

 

Are there grey markings on your birds wings?

There may be..I just went out and checked..when you look straight on at her wings you can't see much, just very slight grey that may or may not be there...but from a different angle she actually does! I hadn't looked for markings on her wings before..

Some albinos DO show light markings and hers are light markings. It's a show fault but does happen.

 

I would say pretty close to 100% she is YF (or DF goldenface maybe) Albino.

 

Lacewings generally have stronger markings (although I have had a few so poorly marked they resembled albinos but with a coloured cheek patch (either lilac (blues) or greyish (greys)). As this bird has a white cheek patch I'd definitely say albino.

 

She is not fallow, even cinnamon oplaine fallows have stronger markings than your girl, they look very very close to lacewings and are hard to tell apart except for some slight colouring differences on wings and rump, cheel patch differences again too - I've bred a few of those :| when a fallow cock I purchased turned out to be split cinnamon

 

I've seen quite a few white albino's with reasonably distinct markings (more distinct that this hen).

Okey dokey. So pretty sure she's a yf Albino then..well, I'll get back to you guys in a few months after I've gotten her a mate and bred her, and we'll see what the babies are!