As some of you may have known I recently tried to breed two of my budgies, but because the female started to molt I removed them from the breeding cage.

 

Instead, I chose to place in there two of my other budgies

A blue and white harlequin hen- Harley

and a (normal grey?) cock- Gus

They have been getting along famously, here is a picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What colour will the babies turn out of this couple?

Sweet pictures Bek

They are so cute together. Question, is white harlequin same as pied? and if not what is the difference?

Yep, harlequin is another term for recessive pied.

Sweet pictures Bek

 

thankyou

okay cute looking birds

Looking at the touch of wing I can see on one of the pics I'm not sure he his noraml. Is it possable to get a shot of his back?

 

As to the babies they will all be grey since it is dominant. And Gus will have to be split for recessive pied for any pied babies to show up. If he isn't then all the babes will be split.

I'll try to get a picture of his back, although I don't know when it will be available. I can describe his back though. His wings are white with faint markings of blackish/grey (I believe the term used for it might be spangle?) I'm not sure. His head barrings are quite faint and hard to see. His tail is white.

 

Does that help?

Yep, harlequin is another term for recessive pied.

Cool thanks Bea, I wondered because I had seen them interchanged and then saw that the bird looked like mine.

From the photos the chicks will be:

 

half will be spangle (white wings with black edging)

half will be normal (black wings with white edging)

 

If the male carries the recessive pied genes then half will be recessive pied and the other half will be normal or spangle.

 

If the male carries the blue gene then half will be blue and half will be grey. If not then all will be grey in colour and carry the blue gene for the next generation.

 

If the male carries any of the sex-linked varieties like albino, cinnamon, or clearbody then that will affect the chicks as well, with half the female chicks showing these varieties and the others being the colours listed above. None of the male chicks will show these sex-linked varieties.

 

But of course the only way to really tell is to wait and see what happens.

 

Good luck,

Gypsy

thankyou:)

Nicly stated Gypsy

 

Just adding you can get the spangle pieds as well :ausb:

oh woops.. what happened to the pics

I'll try to get a picture of his back, although I don't know when it will be available. I can describe his back though. His wings are white with faint markings of blackish/grey (I believe the term used for it might be spangle?) I'm not sure. His head barrings are quite faint and hard to see. His tail is white.

 

Does that help?

 

He sounds like a spangle and an Opaline.. But I can't see any of the pictures..

 

 

oh woops.. what happened to the pics

 

Maybe thats why I can't see them!

something happened to the links? Did you move were the pics are hosted? If not then it's somwthing up with the host server.

There we go, I fixed it!

I moved them to a different folder in my photobucket which changed the img link. Silly me.

If the male carries the blue gene then half will be blue and half will be grey. If not then all will be grey in colour and carry the blue gene for the next generation.

 

Now is that what is called mauve, the grey color?

nope it looks like normal grey to me

I will find a mauve for you to match too

 

edit- okharder to find than I thought, a mauve budgie still have the blue cheek patchs where as a grey as grey ones.

Edited November 18, 200519 yr by Nerwen