Can you please tell me what mutation Flubber is please? I've got Pied Recessive - Guess Yellowface Type 2 because she is all yellow? And green somehow.

 

 

 

Many thanks

Looks to be a normal light green recessive pied.

What squeak says

I'm with Squeak & Dean.

Many thanks but I am confused - how is she a normal as well as a recessive pied. How is she light green recessive pied but yellow - where/what is the yellow?

When I say normal, I meant just the one mutation. Not opaline rec. pied, or spangle rec.pied.

 

Every bird has a base colour. White or Yellow. The white is lacking melanin(The amount of pigmentation in the feathers) So if you take all off the colour out of something, it turns white. Blue is with the white.

If you add in the yellow into the pigmentation, white + yellow = yellow, blue + yellow = green. The reason you dont call them that is because ( I think) you get different shades of green's/blues . So there is light green (your hen) green, and grey green. Same with blue. Sky blue, cobalt and mauve.Instead of referring to the birds as a white rec. pied, or a yellow rec. pied, it a sky blue rec. pied or a light green rec. pied.

 

Good luck to making any sense with that Another member please correct me if wrong!

Edited December 26, 201014 yr by Squeak_Crumble

Squeak has explained it pretty well

When I say normal, I meant just the one mutation. Not opaline rec. pied, or spangle rec.pied.

 

Every bird has a base colour. White or Yellow. The white is lacking melanin(The amount of pigmentation in the feathers) So if you take all off the colour out of something, it turns white. Blue is with the white.

If you add in the yellow into the pigmentation, white + yellow = yellow, blue + yellow = green. The reason you dont call them that is because ( I think) you get different shades of green's/blues . So there is light green (your hen) green, and grey green. Same with blue. Sky blue, cobalt and mauve.Instead of referring to the birds as a white rec. pied, or a yellow rec. pied, it a sky blue rec. pied or a light green rec. pied.

 

Good luck to making any sense with that Another member please correct me if wrong!

 

 

Well done Squeak

Well that's a first...me actually making sense

When I say normal, I meant just the one mutation. Not opaline rec. pied, or spangle rec.pied.

 

Every bird has a base colour. White or Yellow. The white is lacking melanin(The amount of pigmentation in the feathers) So if you take all off the colour out of something, it turns white. Blue is with the white.

If you add in the yellow into the pigmentation, white + yellow = yellow, blue + yellow = green. The reason you dont call them that is because ( I think) you get different shades of green's/blues . So there is light green (your hen) green, and grey green. Same with blue. Sky blue, cobalt and mauve.Instead of referring to the birds as a white rec. pied, or a yellow rec. pied, it a sky blue rec. pied or a light green rec. pied.

 

Good luck to making any sense with that Another member please correct me if wrong!

 

Cool - many thanks. Hubby understands it - I will with time! Brilliant. Perhaps it would have been easier if I had started off with plain budgies - but I had to pick the pretty ones!