March 23, 201015 yr Is this the same bird with the one yellow/black feather in amongst the white/black feathers... ?No JB ....where's the wing photos you said you would post with the updates ? Alpaca...............she has scalyface.........you need to treat her Edited March 23, 201015 yr by KAZ
March 23, 201015 yr yes defenently got scaley face and im not touching on the mutation lol looks olive to me cinnamon need picture of whole bird frount and back to even go near yf or not
March 24, 201015 yr Author The wings are the same as originally --- normal wing markings, but cinnamon and yellow. Does any one know what mutation please??? OH NOOOOOO SCALEY FACE?????? WHAT IS THIS ... can someone please help me!!! how do i treat it?? how does it happen? is it infectious????
March 24, 201015 yr The wings are the same as originally --- normal wing markings, but cinnamon and yellow. Does any one know what mutation please??? OH NOOOOOO SCALEY FACE?????? WHAT IS THIS ... can someone please help me!!! how do i treat it?? how does it happen? is it infectious???? Use the search function or faq section..........scalyface has been covered to death on this forum I mentioned the wings photo because you said you would post them.
March 24, 201015 yr Author oh sorry KAZ i dont remember, must have forgotten well here are they wings so whats the verdict, im going to look at scaley face on FAQs now thanks for the tip =] alpaca-boy
March 24, 201015 yr Has to be YF cinnamon mauve I think..........blue tail is a dead give away. Not grey green at all
March 24, 201015 yr Author Has to be YF cinnamon mauve I think..........blue tail is a dead give away. Not grey green at all but dont all wild green budgies have navy blue tails??? thats what i thought and just another piece of info which might help, she has purple cheek patches now?? does that mean anything?? and if she were to be a yf cinnamon mauve why is she predominately green especially when i got her and she was only 8-10 weeks old that is too early for moulting and suffusion of yellow isnt it?
March 24, 201015 yr Your original photos showed a bird in baby feather. As I have already said in your other post these baby feather do not show the full depth of colour. Green youngsters will always show a degree of blue in the body feather. Your bird is NOT yellowface. It is a Cinnamon in either Dark Green or Olive. You correct on the tail in the wild birds, they do indeed have blue tails. If she had had a black tail she would have been a Grey Green. Cheek patches are a guide also, Violet in the Light, Dark, Olive Green and Sky, Cobalt and Mauve. Grey Greens and Greys have grey ones. Some varieties are white but I will not go into that on this thread.
March 24, 201015 yr Your original photos showed a bird in baby feather. As I have already said in your other post these baby feather do not show the full depth of colour. Green youngsters will always show a degree of blue in the body feather. Your bird is NOT yellowface. It is a Cinnamon in either Dark Green or Olive. You correct on the tail in the wild birds, they do indeed have blue tails. If she had had a black tail she would have been a Grey Green. Cheek patches are a guide also, Violet in the Light, Dark, Olive Green and Sky, Cobalt and Mauve. Grey Greens and Greys have grey ones. Some varieties are white but I will not go into that on this thread. I would so totally listen to this lady she knows what she is saying
March 24, 201015 yr Your original photos showed a bird in baby feather. As I have already said in your other post these baby feather do not show the full depth of colour. Green youngsters will always show a degree of blue in the body feather. Your bird is NOT yellowface. It is a Cinnamon in either Dark Green or Olive. You correct on the tail in the wild birds, they do indeed have blue tails. If she had had a black tail she would have been a Grey Green. Cheek patches are a guide also, Violet in the Light, Dark, Olive Green and Sky, Cobalt and Mauve. Grey Greens and Greys have grey ones. Some varieties are white but I will not go into that on this thread. I would so totally listen to this lady she knows what she is saying Awww shucks.
March 24, 201015 yr i second that rip is the mutation master when it comes to yf type anything i say olive then i knew it wasnt yf though Your original photos showed a bird in baby feather. As I have already said in your other post these baby feather do not show the full depth of colour. Green youngsters will always show a degree of blue in the body feather. Your bird is NOT yellowface. It is a Cinnamon in either Dark Green or Olive. You correct on the tail in the wild birds, they do indeed have blue tails. If she had had a black tail she would have been a Grey Green. Cheek patches are a guide also, Violet in the Light, Dark, Olive Green and Sky, Cobalt and Mauve. Grey Greens and Greys have grey ones. Some varieties are white but I will not go into that on this thread. I would so totally listen to this lady she knows what she is saying Awww shucks. Edited March 24, 201015 yr by GenericBlue
April 26, 201015 yr Author Hi i was once again wondering what colour she is. as she has now fully completed her moult, and i think she is either light green or olive green i will include a couple of recent pictures. what do you all think?? thanks in advance, A-B.
April 26, 201015 yr i dont know jack about genetics but thats a pretty budgie, my guess though is light green Edited April 26, 201015 yr by Houman
April 27, 201015 yr Was this our "YF Cinnamon Mauve" discussion from before A-B? She still looks to me to be cinnamon green but not a light green. I'd pitch for Cinnamon Dark Green based on her cheek patches. If she were olive I'd have expected darker violet cheek patches and she strikes me as not quite grey green looking enough now that she has moulted out. She still looks like she has a few baby feathers to moult out from her chest though.... It'd be great tp follow this story through with a test mating. If you pair her in the future would you post up the results? Edited April 27, 201015 yr by nubbly5
April 27, 201015 yr Bloody ***! I argue BLACK AND BLUE that this bird is NOT a yf. GB too argued the same but noooooo RIP comes along and hey presto so long as she says no yf it's not a yf. Nubbly goes away grumbling........................ :emoticon112:
April 27, 201015 yr Author Was this our "YF Cinnamon Mauve" discussion from before A-B? She still looks to me to be cinnamon green but not a light green. I'd pitch for Cinnamon Dark Green based on her cheek patches. If she were olive I'd have expected darker violet cheek patches and she strikes me as not quite grey green looking enough now that she has moulted out. She still looks like she has a few baby feathers to moult out from her chest though.... It'd be great tp follow this story through with a test mating. If you pair her in the future would you post up the results? Yes nubbaly this is that same discussion. so a dark green, see that the thing is, i thought it was definately not d/green, i thought it must be olive or light as it doesn't have that emerald green intensity that d/greens have?? i will try get some new pictures in good light! umm definately. i will definately post a breeding journal, i am so excited to do so. it will be my first time breeding. but i have to wait til the end of the year as they are still young, i have to wait for Alfalfas cere to go brown and crusty that means she is ready right? and then i will put in the breeding box! :emoticon112: but if i do breed her will that give us extra info on her colouring the bird that i am pairing her with "mortimer" is a cobalt blue, y/f not sure which one i think ty2, and he is opaline, i think as he had blue on his back before, but as you can see in the picture on page 2 of this forum he has lost it?? dooes anyone know why? thanks alpaca boy Edited April 27, 201015 yr by alpaca-boy
April 27, 201015 yr i have to wait for Alfalfas cere to go brown and crustythat means she is ready right? Not exactly. Brown and crusty is generally considered going past breeding condition. Light to medium brown is better as it will see them through. Dark brown and crusty is the later stage when it peels away to reveal white and blue underneath which is out of breeding condition. Also wait for age of 12 months but you know that...right
April 27, 201015 yr Author yes kaz i know, i1 year, before start breeding. i got alfalfa on the 12th of december so that is when i am going to start trying. as she was atleast 8 weeks then. so by that time she will be over a year old.
April 28, 201015 yr A-B the issue you have is that cinnamon affects the intensity of the green. I have bred many cinnamon dark greens and a few cinnamon olives and they ae quite hard to tell apart. In that respect we could all take a stab at it and it'd probably be a 50:50 chance. Breeding her will give you the dark factor results. Also to me she just isn't quite grey green enough to be an olive but then like I said, they can be a bit tricky to tell apart in the cinnamon version.
May 1, 201015 yr Author ah ha! you are right! thanks nubbaly :fingerscrossed: why didnt i think of that, the cinnamon decreases the intensity of the chest feathers! so then i dark green would look like a light green, but not quite, therefore giving the colour that alfalfa has! we have solved the mystery so i have a cobalt boy and a dark green girl, what colours could i get from this?? only dark green and cobalt ?? or could i get sky blue, light green, cobalt and dark green?? PS: i should have figured that out, as i posted a topice on a powder blue, and people replied saying it was a sky blur and the cinnamon had diluted the colour on its chest. oh well there you go. so alfalfa is a normal dark green, with cinnamon wings and mortimer .. well i need help on that, if anyone care too its under "opaline or not opaline?" but i know he a cobalt, pied and split for opaline. what pairs could i posssibly get?? from thes two?
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