I have been pondering with myself for a while now on weatehr to buy two more budgies as a breeding pair possibly a pair of spangles to add some colour to my budgie family. On the other hand I dont know about buying two but defonatly an cock and spangle to breed with Kiwi a young normal green hen. And then I wanted to get a whole new pair to have fresh bloodlines if you understand??

 

I also want sure what to section to put this in.

 

This is Kiwi she is a year old at the moment but in October she is 2 years. Also she has no Iris rings in here eyes so that puts me off a little from breeding with her.

Others are better qualified to answer this then me, but if you are only breeding pet budgies I wouldn't worry about the bird not having an Ires ring.

If you were showing then it would be different, and remember some varieties have the plum eyes with no Ires ring.

Edited June 2, 201014 yr by Taboo

Hi Jodie,

I'm not up with genetics either but I remember reading spangle to spangle, you don't get all spangle offspring. I did breed a similar green cock sp. blue to a spangle,(split nearly-everything) hen and got some beautiful spangle chicks.

 

Just found this it may explain better

Spangles are another Dominant variety. They appear in all colours and varieties, and they have the same breeding pattern as the Dominant Pied ie., they produce 50% Spangles when paired to a non-Spangle partner and again they cannot be split for Spangle. In the Green series they have a bright green body colour, however, the wing markings differ from Normals in that the black and yellow wing markings of the Normals are reversed in the Spangle, they are yellow and black instead. The other peculiar feature of the Spangle is the fact that when two Spangles are paired together you get some of the young devoid of the normal Spangle markings. In the case of the Greens they are yellow all over, including the wings, whereas Blue series are all white. The correct definition for such a bird is a Double Factor Spangle

I wanted a double factor spangeled babies, sorry I didnt explain well enough.. But what I meant was I didnt want spangle babies but I wanted spangled budgie adults to add some variaty to the birds I already have. Like just buying more colorfull birds. And that I dont care really what offspring looked like afterwards. Sorry and thanks for the replys.