Posted March 23, 201015 yr Hi all, my budgie has grown one yellow wing feather? he usually has all white and black feathers, and now there is ONE yellow and balck feather??? what does this mean? why? muchly appreciate if someone could explain! thanks alpaca-boy
March 23, 201015 yr its not just one i can see othrs its young going through first moult its yf Hi all, my budgie has grown one yellow wing feather? he usually has all white and black feathers, and now there is ONE yellow and balck feather??? what does this mean? why? muchly appreciate if someone could explain! thanks alpaca-boy other wize you standing near a reflection Edited March 23, 201015 yr by GenericBlue
March 23, 201015 yr It would have to be a yellowface blue and that why I have asked you for pictures of the WHOLE BUDGIE not just of the feather you are asking about.
March 24, 201015 yr Author here are some photos and GB it is ONLY one that is just reflection why is there only one??
March 24, 201015 yr As your budgie moults, all his wing feathers will slowly turn yellow.. so will his body feathers
March 24, 201015 yr Firstly the bird is in nest (baby) feather which never shows the full depth of colour. Secondly the bird is a Yellowface blue. Thirdly the one yellow feather is there because that is an adult feather! What has happened is that the bird has lost it's baby feather and regrown a new adult feather. This type of effect can be seen on birds when they are plucked in the nest as once the baby feather has been removed it will be replaced by an adult one.
March 24, 201015 yr as i said its not just one i can see othrs its young going through first moult its yf Hi all, my budgie has grown one yellow wing feather? he usually has all white and black feathers, and now there is ONE yellow and balck feather??? what does this mean? why? muchly appreciate if someone could explain! thanks alpaca-boy other wize you standing near a reflection
March 25, 201015 yr I have one budgie (an adult) who has one small brown feather on one wing...no other brown. Could this be a hint that it's split to cinnamon?
March 25, 201015 yr I have one budgie (an adult) who has one small brown feather on one wing...no other brown. Could this be a hint that it's split to cinnamon? You don't mentioned what variety your bird is. No. There are no clues to be had for a bird carrying Cinnamon. I would say what has happens is that the feather follicle may have been damaged and as a result it is not producing a fully functional feather. A fully functional feather in the normal budgie is black. The black is a pigment called Melanin. The chemical process involved to produce this pigment are subject to alterations along the way through mutation. One of these mutations is Cinnamon. If a process cannot complete its full set of genetic instructions it will cease production at the point to which the process was altered (mutated). Brown pigment is produced and on further instruction the final result will be black. Deposition of quantity and quality are carried out with another set of instructions. To produce one feather is a complicated affair and things do go wrong. Off Topic: I love your siggy.
March 25, 201015 yr I have one budgie (an adult) who has one small brown feather on one wing...no other brown. Could this be a hint that it's split to cinnamon? You don't mentioned what variety your bird is. No. There are no clues to be had for a bird carrying Cinnamon. I would say what has happens is that the feather follicle may have been damaged and as a result it is not producing a fully functional feather. A fully functional feather in the normal budgie is black. The black is a pigment called Melanin. The chemical process involved to produce this pigment are subject to alterations along the way through mutation. One of these mutations is Cinnamon. If a process cannot complete its full set of genetic instructions it will cease production at the point to which the process was altered (mutated). Brown pigment is produced and on further instruction the final result will be black. Deposition of quantity and quality are carried out with another set of instructions. To produce one feather is a complicated affair and things do go wrong. Off Topic: I love your siggy. :rofl: Very very interesting information RIP Many thanks for sharing this knowledge :rofl:
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