I found this pearler of a website filled with amazing information about budgie varieties. I think someone has been smoking something or woke up from a vivid dream and decided to write about it!

 

With information like this out there and the gullibility of the general public these days, how can beginners be anything but totally confused.

 

A little excerpt:

 

"As clearwings are recessive, most birds will produce either dark or light babies. One of the problems of this variety is, that unless the fancier knows the background of his or her birds, then suffused or diluted babies will be produced. As in all forms of budgerigar, there are light, medium and dark in all colours. If two birds of the light group are paired together, then very weak-coloured birds will be produced. If two dark-coloured birds are paired together, then the bird is known as a double factor Clearwing."

 

All I could think was "What the........"

I want whatever their on... :rofl:

:rofl: Have they got any more pearls of wisdom to share with is we may all be on the wrong track and they may be absolutely right NOT

 

 

PS did you send them an email ?

Funnily enough there was no e-mail address to contact - maybe they just put this stuff up for fun?..............

 

BUT I also could not copy to paste into post. I had to screenshot, type and then copy....... what on earth would you protect that (un)intellectual property for I had to ask.

google budgerigar articles eric peake and more will be revealed :rofl:

Here is another bit that made me giggle.

 

"One of the problems of the modern Dominant Pied is that the colour in the body has become very irregular. This will have to be seriously dealt with in the near future, to prevent the bird reverting back to a normal."okay I get the irregular body colour but reverting to a normal......... pelease!

 

There is plenty to wonder about in this website. As I can't cut and paste (otherwise I would post more pearlers from here) I will give you the whole website address to have a look at. There are some nice Pied quotes there too!

 

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/whisperingwings/page2.html. Mods please remove this if it's not appropriate to post the addy.

Edited April 20, 201015 yr by nubbly5

The Recessive Pied has no iris ring in the eye as does the Australian Dominant Pied. :rofl:

 

I was able to right click copy and paste using firefox and this website http://www.angelfire.com/ak/whisperingwings/page2.html

Edited April 20, 201015 yr by KAZ

i thought dutch and danish were two different varieties, this site reckon they are the same an there are only two types of Pieds...???

 

 

Fallow with pink eyes...? Are you kidding me... :rofl: There plum not pink...

Edited April 20, 201015 yr by LittleBudgie2005

lol pure blue lacewing. That would be a site to see! And clearbody and spangle are definetley not alike!

The Recessive Pied has no iris ring in the eye as does the Australian Dominant Pied.

 

I was able to right click copy and paste using firefox and this website http://www.angelfire.com/ak/whisperingwings/page2.html

 

 

lol whisperingwings lol says it all

Geez, maybe we have been wrong all this time...

No, I am fairly sure I dont have a blue lacewing, or a fallow with pink eyes

they have merged books together but in doing so they have made no sense

probbly through in their own two bob as well

 

One of the most striking of all the budgerigars is the Yellow-faced Violet

 

this above statement is taken straight from a book

i have it here as i read it just other day im not sure what one book i will check

its all very confusing

funny also

doms turning normal

Sad though. This is the whole point of peer reviewed information - so that you don't end up publishing rubbish just like this. Then the www came along and let people publish whatever fantasies and bullsh*t that came into their head. Sigh.

 

At leaset we know better but some people don't and would stumble across this website on a search (as I did). Mind you this site is soooooooo confusing that you probably would not get much usable information out of it anyway....... even if it weren't so completely incorrect.

 

Had to have another read . Poor ole Eric gives himself away in the very first paragraph "much like little parrots".......... um yes because the ARE little parrots!!!!!

Edited April 22, 201015 yr by nubbly5

I just had to laugh. Not much else you can do after reading that! Certainly not believe your pieds are about to turn into normals! hehehe

I'd like to know what a white-wing is? Wonder where they are getting their imformation?

'If we pair a clearflight/rec pied to a rec pied, we will produce a dark eyed clear'?????

I'd like to know what a white-wing is? Wonder where they are getting their imformation?

'If we pair a clearflight/rec pied to a rec pied, we will produce a dark eyed clear'?????

 

 

Isn't that right though? A Clearflight paired to/combined with a Recessive Pied produces a DEC? I thought I read that somewhere, can't for the life of me think where!

 

When I think of I will let you know!

 

EDITED: It was Barrie Shutt's article on Budgerigar Colours and Mutations.

 

If a Rec and a Rec were paired it would create a "DF" which would be actually be called a DEC wouldn't it? Or am I still confusing mutations? I know you can't actually get a DF Rec which is why I thought it was a DEC...

 

someone correct me cos I'm feeling slightly stupid right now :emoticon112:

Edited April 26, 201015 yr by Amy S

I'd like to know what a white-wing is? Wonder where they are getting their imformation?

'If we pair a clearflight/rec pied to a rec pied, we will produce a dark eyed clear'?????

 

 

Isn't that right though? A Clearflight paired to/combined with a Recessive Pied produces a DEC? I thought I read that somewhere, can't for the life of me think where!

 

When I think of I will let you know!

 

 

A Clearflight/Rec Pied paired to a Rec Pied does give you a DEC. However it should be written as a Continental Clear Flight so as not to confuse with people calling the 'Clearflight Pied' (mismarked Australian Pied)

 

Eric peake does some great drawings but I sent him an email back in the 90's about that article, also about the colour of a Fallows cere (he had painted it blue) in one of his pics. He came back with some excuse that simply didn't cut it with me.

Oh phew, thank you for verifying RIP! I feel much better now - my genetic/mutation researching is sinking in :emoticon112:

I'd like to know what a white-wing is? Wonder where they are getting their imformation?

'If we pair a clearflight/rec pied to a rec pied, we will produce a dark eyed clear'?????

 

 

Isn't that right though? A Clearflight paired to/combined with a Recessive Pied produces a DEC? I thought I read that somewhere, can't for the life of me think where!

 

When I think of I will let you know!

 

EDITED: It was Barrie Shutt's article on Budgerigar Colours and Mutations.

 

If a Rec and a Rec were paired it would create a "DF" which would be actually be called a DEC wouldn't it? Or am I still confusing mutations? I know you can't actually get a DF Rec which is why I thought it was a DEC...

 

someone correct me cos I'm feeling slightly stupid right now :emoticon112:

 

As RIP says Continental clearflight (is that a Dutch Pied?) and rec pied gives DEC.

 

BUT Rec and Rec paired together will only give you Rec (DF yes! As a recessive mutation the bird has to have 2 copies of the gene for the recessive mutation to show visually). So effectively a rec pied has 2 recessive pied genes (effectively df rec but we don't call it that with recesives). If it was only 1 red pied gene it would only be split for rec pied.

I'd like to know what a white-wing is? Wonder where they are getting their imformation?

 

You have to be careful when you are questioning others that you do not type something that makes you look bad.

 

White-wing is a term that was once used for a blue-based clearwing. If they had excellent wings, with no markings, their wings were white, thus they were called whitewings.

Oh come on Dave!.............. Where would we all be without the odd dumb question or 2.

 

Ask away Ratzy and don't feel bad about asking a question that might seem a bit obvious to the rest of us! The only dumb question I think is a question not asked. At least Ratzy didn't publish a web article based on obvious and complete lack of understanding

I'd like to know what a white-wing is? Wonder where they are getting their imformation?

 

You have to be careful when you are questioning others that you do not type something that makes you look bad.

 

White-wing is a term that was once used for a blue-based clearwing. If they had excellent wings, with no markings, their wings were white, thus they were called whitewings.

 

Do'n't know about saying that the term was 'once used', as in the UK and those who subscribe to there way of thinking the term 'whitewing' is still used today. In fact it was the English that coined the term originally. They have a tendency to split certain varties into there respective green (yellow) and blue (white) series.