Hi all,

 

I believe I have purchased my first DEC although it has the slightest coloring of purple through the body. Depending on where the light sits on the bird depends on the visibility of the purple. Does this still make him a DEC?

 

He has a purple cere and I was told he was a DEC.

 

What would be best to pair him to? I purchased him on the weekend and also purchased a pale purple spangle and they seem to have taken to each other already? Would this make a good combination or should i look at finding him a different mate?

 

Thanks

When pale body color shows on a mutation that is supposed to be clear of color, that is called suffusion. In show budgies, it is a fault, but in pet budgies, it can make a bird quite pretty.

 

I don't see why you couldn't pair those two up. If you got them from the same place, did you make sure that they are not brother and sister? With both of them having pale purple color, one might wonder.

 

A DEC (Dark Eyed Clear) is a combination of recessive pied and clearflight pied (also called Dutch dominant pied) All the chicks from this pair will be split to recessive pied. And unless the spangle mate is split to recessive pied you will not get any DEC chicks, or any recessive pieds.

 

But the clearflight pied gene should get passed on to some of the offspring, and some of them should also be spangles. You could also get normal chicks and chicks that have both clearflight pied and spangle.

 

If your goal is to make more Dark Eyed Clears, then you should see what other birds you have that are recessive pied, or split to it.

 

They sound pretty. Do you have photos?