I recently put together a pair who are sitting on their first egg..

I am now wondering what kind they are

 

Heres the cock

 

 

Here they are together (she came out to see what was going on lol)

 

 

 

Also I have another pair who are babys and won't be ready till next spring but when i bought them the blue one looked like a boy and the yellow a girl .. But now their ceres have changed and they have swapped sex's lol.

 

This is the best picture i could get.. ( i have very shy budgies lol)

 

http://i948.photobucket.com/albums/ad323/l...ut/DSCF2551.jpg

 

Also was thinking i shouldn't be breeding the yellow with a blue as he/she has a blue patch on their back so she clearly has blue somewhere in there ? (i'm hopeless as all these mutation/genetic terms)

 

WDYT?

Edited October 6, 201014 yr by KAZ

Okay I'd say the pair at the top are two Greys.

 

The two younger ones are a Mauve female and a Cobalt Yellowface Recessive Pied male. You can indeed breed those two together if/when they are the right age..yesyou are correct that the yellow is blue like the female but that shouldn't stop you breeding them together if you want, you'll get beautiful babies IMO.

I agree with jen but the top bird is a blue. OOps sorry it was just my monitor being silly.

Edited October 6, 201014 yr by Squeak_Crumble

Your first pair are both normal greys. They hen might be a dark factor grey but it's super hard to tell on grey factor birds. As both are blue series which is recessive to green series all their babies will be blue series. Depending on how many grey factors each bird has you have a variable chance of getting all grey babies from 100% if you have a double factor grey bird to 75% chance of grey and 25% chance of blue if both parents are single factor grey. That's not counting any hidden recessive or sex linked recessive genes that either of them might carry nor the possible presence of the dark factor.

 

The second pair looks to be a YF2 cobalt (maybe violet) recessive pied with a normal cobalt hen. Again blue being recessive means that pairing these 2 will result in only blue series babies - nothing wrong with that. If the hen is split for recessive pied (carrying one hidden gene for recessive pied) then you have 50% chance of producing more recessive pied babies but if not then all babies will be normals but split for recessive pied themselves. Both parents carrying one dark factor means that you will likely get a mix of skys, cobalts and mauves from this pairing - 25% chance sky, 50% chance cobalt and 25% chance mauve. Again barring any other hidden recessive genes or sex linked recessive genes.

The yellow bird could possibly be a double factor dominant pied. Are there any iris rings ? A double factor dominant pied can have an iris ring on one eye and not the other.

Thanks , Checked his eyes they are both completely black.. So that means Cobalt Yellowface Recessive Pied ? ...

 

I will be breeding these two as they have bonded so well and i think they are both beautiful! They will both be about 14-15months Spring next year so will try them out then!.

 

The male if you look closely is a mix of green, grey, blue and dark green! She looks completely grey i havnt found any other colours on her .. I'm really excited to see what colour babies they produce but my guess is definetly blue based on PPs and fathers colouring.

 

I'll post some piccies when the babies hatch/feather

Thanks , Checked his eyes they are both completely black.. So that means Yellowface Cobalt Recessive Pied ? ...

 

 

Yes

I recently put together a pair who are sitting on their first egg..

I am now wondering what kind they are

 

Heres the cock

 

 

 

Am I seeing things no one else is? I think this cocks looks like a yellowface. Maybe it's just my monitor.

Maybe so Finnie!

 

A better photo of him would help.

Edited October 8, 201014 yr by nubbly5

I recently put together a pair who are sitting on their first egg..

I am now wondering what kind they are

 

Heres the cock

 

 

 

Am I seeing things no one else is? I think this cocks looks like a yellowface. Maybe it's just my monitor.

 

Doesnt look yellowface to me.

Didn't to me initially either but look closely at BOTH pics of the cock. When I looked again at the picture of the cock where his face is partly obscured by the wire, the very edge of his mask indeed looks lemony coloured. The difference in body colour also is suspicious although not conclusive. Need a better picture.

Didn't to me initially either but look closely at BOTH pics of the cock. When I looked again at the picture of the cock where his face is partly obscured by the wire, the very edge of his mask indeed looks lemony coloured. The difference in body colour also is suspicious although not conclusive. Need a better picture.

 

I agree with this, when I looked closer I saw it has a light butter yellow tint. Then I wonder, is there any chance his feather are reflecting of the yellow of the wall behind him?

Didn't to me initially either but look closely at BOTH pics of the cock. When I looked again at the picture of the cock where his face is partly obscured by the wire, the very edge of his mask indeed looks lemony coloured. The difference in body colour also is suspicious although not conclusive. Need a better picture.

 

I agree with this, when I looked closer I saw it has a light butter yellow tint. Then I wonder, is there any chance his feather are reflecting of the yellow of the wall behind him?

yes i think its the peach wall reflecting but it did look very light pastel yellow lemon so but i still think reflection

Body colour is different though and when both birds are together surely the yellow reflection would have affected the hen too???

Edited October 8, 201014 yr by Finnie

Maybe the other grey is a violet grey and the other could be a cobalt or mauve grey which would then look darker.

his heads coved by bar in one next to hen but he does seem to have slight colour change really need another clear picture