I have an 8 month old blue dominant pied who for some reason has not lost her forehead stripes. She has already gone through her first molt, and the striping still extends all the way down to her cere, and the color of the stripes has not lightened either. My understanding was that budgies lose their forehead stripes after their first molt, so why hasn't she?

In simple terms, the pied mutation means that anything could happen. It will never lose its strips.

or she could lose them in the next moult. are you sure she is dominant pied?

My thoughts were are you sure its a dominant pied ?

I'm pretty certain she is. She has a band of clear feathers across her belly, a patch of clear feathers on the back of her head, and she has a band of clear feathers across the bottom of her wings. She has all the markings of a pied, so I'm pretty certain she is one. Does this change anything at all?

 

 

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Edited October 23, 200915 yr by Eloise

Photo please ?

I am thinking that this is simply a dommie pied that has head/face striping, or really heavy flecking. I have one very much like that.

sounds like a dominant pied with the talk of a band of colour on the body. heavy flecking is possible too. pictures always help tho