Hey Guys,

 

So I'm curious, whats the difference and I heard there can be combinations of the two??

 

Also, if anyone could help me with identifying my hen here.

 

 

Thanks!

Hey Val. I've had this same question before, and did a lot of searching, and it can be quite confusing. But I got a couple of good answers when I've posted about it, and also, here is a link to a post where RIPBudgies gives a good explanation: http://forums.budgie...=1

 

And in my thread here, Neville had a good answer for me:

 

 

 

 

Posted 26 February 2011 - 09:39 AMThere are probably a lot of combinations around but i agree that in most cases you'd need to know the ancestry to figure them out. When the banded dominant pied mutation first appeared they were bred extensively with the existing clearflights so there has been confusion from the start. The clearflight pied can be very variable some only have a few clear feathers and others have large clear areas. Dominant pieds are usually more uniform [/Quote]

 

 

I've searched it on here, and also googled it, and you end up with a LOT of stuff to wade through, and most of it is contradictory. I'd go with what RIP and Neville say.

 

I also remember reading somewhere (I think it was Neville again) that on the clearflights, the clear area on the front of the bird is often up at the top, as though the mask was spilling onto the chest.

 

 

Hope this helps.

okay, Ive read the post now..

 

It seems to make sens that there would be so much confusiiong because they were bred to eachother and many today have many similar characteristics.

 

 

Im just trying to get a better understandings of the pieds and clearflights because Im trying to identify what my hen is... She has the spot on the top of her head (Dominant pied characteristic), but all flight feathers are clear (Clearflight) BUT her eyes have never lightened, she has no Iris Ring as well as her bottom colored green (which I thought were Recessive traits)

 

I just confuse myself, hahaha

I took a second reading of the post by Kaz, I think I got it now.

 

My hen is dominant pied, I believe. I saw an almost exact version of my hen as one of hers and it was labeled.

 

Haha, thanks!

I took a second reading of the post by Kaz, I think I got it now.

 

My hen is dominant pied, I believe. I saw an almost exact version of my hen as one of hers and it was labeled.

 

Haha, thanks!

 

 

Which post and hen of Kaz's are you talking about? Can you put a link to it here?

I took a second reading of the post by Kaz, I think I got it now.

 

My hen is dominant pied, I believe. I saw an almost exact version of my hen as one of hers and it was labeled.

 

Haha, thanks!

 

 

Which post and hen of Kaz's are you talking about? Can you put a link to it here?

 

I have officially confused myself once again. The Kaz post was a Pied Test (I should have linked you to the page of the bird I believe looks like mine, its the bird in Kaz's second post which is labeled a DF Dom Pied...)

 

 

BUT now I have seen a post by Neville about Combination Pieds and I think my hen looks like the hen that he states a " typical combination of dominant and recessive pieds" just because it appears to have very few markings on its wings.

So like I said, I am once again lost. But Im leaning more towards combination..