Hi there, I have a normal light green budgie with a yellow spot on his head and I was wondering what colour budgie I should pair him with in order to produce the most interesting colours? I'm not sure what colour his parents were but I know that his brothers and sisters from the same clutch were dominant pieds (yellow and green) and some cinnamons or spangles (didn't get a good look at the wing patterns, also shades of pale olive green). He was the only normal wild type coloured budgie in the clutch. I'm assuming that my Henry will also possibly be carrying some other genes?

 

Secondly, I also have a blue spangle opaline and I'm also wondering what you recommend I pair him with. Not sure about the colours of the parents or siblings this time! Thank you in advance

What colours/mutations do you like? If you tell us what you like we might be able to help you a little better, what one person considers interesting may not be so interesting to others..... Check out the members budgies in the colour/mutations section to give you an idea of what there is.

I like:

recessive pieds

double factor dominant pieds

dilutes

lutinos

albinos

the budgies with very pale yellow faces and pale blue body colour which look spangled (not sure what those are called but they're not the normal yellowfaces) Here's a link to one that I like (the sky blue, yellowface (typeII), opaline, clearwing budgie on the third row)

 

http://www.budgieplace.com/v_combinations.html

 

I also like clearbodys, lacewings and double factor spangles. Knowing the colours of the two budgies I have now what colours should I pair them with to get any of the colours stated above?

 

Here's a website with really good pictures of the colours I'm talking about http://www.budgieplace.com/colorsguide.html#spangle

Edited December 8, 200915 yr by budgie_gal

If your green boy has a spot he might be split for recessive pied so if you pair him with a recessive pied hen you'll get recessive pieds, if any of his siblings were blue you may get blue or green series birds, if not you'll just get green series.

If you pair him with a blue series recessive pied your chicks will be split for blue and will be able to produce blue young.

Also if some of his siblings were cinnamon then he could be split for cinnamon. However if he was bred in an aviary his brothers and sisters may have different dads so........

 

With your blue opaline spangle you could find him a yellow face hen in the blue series so then you could get some yellow face blue opaline spangles...... Exactly what you get wolud depend on exactly what you paired him with but since you like yellow faces I think it'd be a good way to go.

Thank you It's really interesting hearing your suggestions so if anyone else also has ideas, I'd love to hear them!

 

I've been looking to get a green/yellow recessive pied but they're really hard to come by around here. How do we tell recessive pied chicks from double factor dominant pied chicks? They look the same to me! I read that recessive pieds have a belly patch, do they always have that?