I'm not sure how to describe the colouring of my two new additions:

 

Buffy - blue/violet pied?

 

 

 

Nessie - sky blue spangle?

 

 

Any help would be appeciated!

Buffy is a cobalt dominant pied.

Nessie is correct as you worked out.

Thanks KAZ. This colour thing with budgies is quite complex! I'm okay with normal types or inos, but anything else is a complete stab in the dark.

does anyone know what birds you can pair together to throw a cobalt dominant pied??

Well you will need a Dom pied that is blue series or split for blue to start with and probably cobalt,sky or even dk green bird split for blue and then hope for the best.

There is a chart on percentages here somewhere in FAQS. I never worry about things like this as I am not breeding for colour or variety, I am more concerned about breeding the bird first.

When I get a special colour it is a bonus (like my violets)

Well you will need a Dom pied that is blue series or split for blue to start with and probably cobalt,sky or even dk green bird split for blue and then hope for the best.

There is a chart on percentages here somewhere in FAQS. I never worry about things like this as I am not breeding for colour or variety, I am more concerned about breeding the bird first.

When I get a special colour it is a bonus (like my violets)

 

Mmm fair enough. Just like me not expecting to get a grey spangle (i think it is a spangle) from a sky blue and DF white spangle.

Your Df sp could be from a grey sp or even a grey green spangle

not a grey green splat as Jack states white so the bird is blue series as the dad is a visual blue the grey had to come from the mother.

 

as for the birds in this thread I would like to see the pied in adult feathers, i can't tell if the pictures are just dark but she seems darker than a cobalt to me and her check patches are quite dark as well.

Edited September 12, 201014 yr by *Nerwen*

Your Df sp could be from a grey sp or even a grey green spangle

 

 

not a grey green splat as Jack states white so the bird is blue series as the dad is a visual blue the grey had to come from the mother.

 

 

If the grey green spangle was split to blue, it could produce a df white spangle. (Well, when paired to another spangle...)

Your Df sp could be from a grey sp or even a grey green spangle

 

 

not a grey green splat as Jack states white so the bird is blue series as the dad is a visual blue the grey had to come from the mother.

 

 

If the grey green spangle was split to blue, it could produce a df white spangle. (Well, when paired to another spangle...)

 

 

oh oops sorry guys I thought Splat was talking about the DF mother, not her parents!

as for the birds in this thread I would like to see the pied in adult feathers, i can't tell if the pictures are just dark but she seems darker than a cobalt to me and her check patches are quite dark as well.

 

The pics were taken in natural light with no flash, they are as close as their natural colourings as I could get. I have a normal cobalt cock as well and she seems a bit lighter than him, but I'll have to wait until she moults to see her true colouring I guess. I can't do a proper comparison yet between her and the cock because she is still in quarantine.

Baby feathers are lighter coloured and more dull than adult feathers. As they moult their colour becomes brighter.

 

Looks to me to be a cobalt dom pied.

Your Df sp could be from a grey sp or even a grey green spangle

not a grey green splat as Jack states white so the bird is blue series as the dad is a visual blue the grey had to come from the mother.

If the grey green spangle was split to blue, it could produce a df white spangle. (Well, when paired to another spangle...)

Thanks Finnie I have breed white Df spangles from 2 grey green spangles. First we were shock and said WHAT but then yes going back over pedigree both birds split for blue

Edited September 14, 201014 yr by KAZ
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