I have two sets of breeders that have 7 babies between them (4 eggs were discarded by them) and all the babies are YELLOW!!!

One set of parents are a yellow faced spangled green -Male and the hen is blue and white ( I was told harlequin - but cant see that in any book)

 

The second is a yellow faced green male and a creamino hen.

Fancy 7 yellow babies.

Cant wait to see what colour the others will be that are due on Monday. Dad is Blue and Mum is all colours, apple-green,emerald-green, yellow, grey,and a few flecks of what look like black ( I call her rainbow)

Cindy

Sounds interesting. Can't wait to see some pics.

wow that's a bit odd

 

harlequin is another name for recessive pied, mostly used in australia, but I don't like it at all :

wow that's a bit odd

 

harlequin is another name for recessive pied, mostly used in australia, but I don't like it at all :

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It's like calling a German Sheppard an Alsation.

 

I always wanted to know what a Harlequin was.

:(Laughing out loud): Just a bit

 

Aussie Pet stores call them that and I what to sream every time I see it. Plus the fact they will have albinos and spangles and all other sort of patterns other than recessive pieds in the same cage for the same price.

Edited September 16, 200519 yr by nerwen

I prefer the name Harlequin, it's used by most breeders I know and it was used when my father bred budgies 40 years ago.

He reckons people make up names as he said the names people give some mutations are not what they were, he said he'd never heard of a recessive pied.

I don't care, I just like my ino's.

well I was happy to use either but with all the genetic terms in ym head I wish breeders 'all over the world' would use just the one term for the same thing

well I was happy to use either but with all the genetic terms in ym head I wish breeders 'all over the world' would use just the one term for the same thing

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(Laughing out loud)

I've got 6 books about budgies & 3 folders full of genetics information and I've got different websites marked & occassionally go to the Ipswich Budgie Association meetings & I hear/read so many different things I say what is that bird colour called again? and feel silly. I might figure it out some day. Might not too

wow that's a bit odd

 

harlequin is another name for recessive pied, mostly used in australia, but I don't like it at all :

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Thanks Nerwen, I thought there would be a proper name for her.

Will post picture when I can work it out again

Cindy

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I've got 6 books about budgies & 3 folders full of genetics information and I've got different websites marked. I might figure it out some day.  Might not too

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wow 3 folders of gentic info. I think I should start something like that, print out the info as I find it on line so I can find it again later

 

If you ever do get it figured out please show me the answers

 

 

Cindy- I can't wait to see the pics, there is a spot on the boards that tell you how to post a picture on here.

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I've got 6 books about budgies & 3 folders full of genetics information and I've got different websites marked. I might figure it out some day.? Might not too

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wow 3 folders of gentic info. I think I should start something like that, print out the info as I find it on line so I can find it again later

 

If you ever do get it figured out please show me the answers

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A friend I used to work with who is a biologist and lent me 2 of her uni text books - couldn't take them home as they were huge - but I photocopied as much info from her texts as possible. I also kept (I think) the drawings and notes she gave when she explained sex & non-sex linked genetic inheritance to me. She tried to give it to me in terms I could understand but most of it still went over my head.

Congrats, thats pretty neat, all yellow!

two years ago I bred a lutino hen to a normal dark green/opaline cock. i kept two of the normal dark green cocks to breed with. now one of the sons is in breeding with a harliquin hen, I'm hoping for atleast one lutino hen to hatch.

Congrates on the bubs .. can you post pics ASAP Please..