Hi again,

 

You can tell my kids are occupied. Maybe i have too much time on my hands today.

I recently have had 12 chicks fledge and i am curious as to how i would describe them as a few have lighter markings on their wings, some darker etc. Their is a lot of info on this topic but also some conflicting stuff so i am a bit confused. I also have a bird that has a green wash over it's chest feathers, bright yellow underneath it's wings & on back when it's wings are stretched out. Here goes. Hope someone can help.

This guy has the green wash (the blue chick next to him is his sister)

I pop a couple more of him on.

now one of his back

 

next are a couple of his sisters.

It's the wing colour Eg: greywing?? that has me curious.

This young boy is quite small but i have kept him as he is split to Lutino

and is also a golden face so i was hoping to breed him to a bigger hen.

What colour would you say he is, he is currently moulting and has green coming through

and his lemon is now bright golden buttercup yellow. What should i record him as????

 

Thanks,

Lib

Hi again,

 

You can tell my kids are occupied. Maybe i have too much time on my hands today.

I recently have had 12 chicks fledge and i am curious as to how i would describe them as a few have lighter markings on their wings, some darker etc. Their is a lot of info on this topic but also some conflicting stuff so i am a bit confused. I also have a bird that has a green wash over it's chest feathers, bright yellow underneath it's wings & on back when it's wings are stretched out. Here goes. Hope someone can help.

This guy has the green wash (the blue chick next to him is his sister)

I pop a couple more of him on. This guy is an Opaline Light Green.

now one of his back

 

next are a couple of his sisters. The one at the back is a Cinnamon Opaline Grey Green and the one at the front is a Cinnamon Light Green.

It's the wing colour Eg: greywing?? that has me curious.

This young boy is quite small but i have kept him as he is split to Lutino

and is also a golden face so i was hoping to breed him to a bigger hen.

What colour would you say he is, he is currently moulting and has green coming through

and his lemon is now bright golden buttercup yellow. What should i record him as???? At this stage I would go with YF2 Mauve (maybe grey) Clearwing (maybe Greywing). A bit hard to tell from this one photo. Can we have a few more photo's of this one. Front and back and especially now that he is moulting.

 

Thanks,

Lib

Thanks for that.

I will post some pictures of the last bird today.

I think he may be a grey wing.

I appreciate your help. I have been breeding budgies most of my life as a hobby but have recently decided to take it further.

I have never really taken much notice as a kid about colours, wing colours if it was a spangle or opaline etc but i am now taking notice and finding it very interesting. This site is very informative.

 

Lib

Edited January 7, 201015 yr by KAZ

Hi ,

 

This is the original and NEW photo of the cock bird i was trying to work out the colour/description of. In the first photo he was young in the second picture's

he is going through his first moult.

So what's the verdict YF2 Mauve or grey or green????

Just introduced to the aviary

Going through first moult

Now a rear view

 

Thanks,

Lib

YF2 Mauve greywing