Hey everyone

 

well i have been breeding budgies for many many many years, and this breeding season i have come across a colour i havent seen before at the pet shop or in my aviary and i was just wondering what the colour is called and how common it is...i dont have a picture atthe moment but iwill try very hard to get one by tonight.

 

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The baby has black eyes

a fully yellow back (no laces or black or any other colouring)

a fully yellow head

and a baby blue/green chest

 

its a bit hard when you cant see it but ill get piccys!

 

any help or suggestions would be great

 

thank you all

 

 

Well here are some piccies...they arent the best but you get the idea

 

 

thanks again

Well he's very cute! Not sure of his actual colour though.

thanks for postin bea...long time no talk!!!

wow a global mod and 7,000+ posts!!!!

ive missed out on heaps havent i!!!!

WELL DONE

Yep, you've been gone way too long! How's Seth and ..... forgot the other ones name! You'll have to post piccies of them all. Can't wait for some smarty bum to say what the little one up there is cause he's real pretty and i'm curious now!

You've got me on that one but soooo cute.

Nice looking colours

(Laughing out loud) its a !!??mystery??!!

he is very cute isnt he!!

 

(Laughing out loud) bea im not surprised you cant remember the other ones name...Mon Mon hahahaha

so yeh, seth and mon mon are great and they.....well, LOVE each other

 

i also have a baby budgie that looks exactly the same as Blinkie!!! i was like its Blinkie #2 hehe but its kinda nasty, bites real hard.

 

and guess what, seth was a blue spangle or sumthing like that!! now he is a pied!!! hes practically all white on his back/wings and has a massive white band across his belly very pretty seth

Mon Mon, that's it! We need Nerwen or Rainbow, they're the people to ask about colours! I would guess something like yellow face type 2 clearwing. Believe me, that's just a huuuge guess.

I know :blinks:

 

Bea you should guess more often That's correct.

YAY go bea, see what happens when you have a guess!!!

thanks heaps nerwen for confirming it!!

 

it was a mystery to me, as i havent seen that colour before, are they rare at all?? if i was to sell it, would it be worth as much as a pied? (Laughing out loud) soz im asking all these questions, its just great when you finally breed a new colour into your aviary

Edited November 18, 200519 yr by Luckys Gal

Hi Lucky's Gal! Glad to see you back. That is such a cute baby! I'd say it is a pied, and agree type 2 yellowface blue. Is there any color between the flights on his rump at all? That blue on his chest is such a soft color - really beautiful. I guess you will keep him?

Ohh Your right Rainbow, he could be pied and that gene removing all the patterns from the wings. What are the parents?

hey rainbow long time no talk

i was thinking it was some kind of pied too, the parents are both green but i don't know names of colours hehe, ill get some piccies of them and put them up ill also take pix of its brothers/sisters

 

and yes i'll keep it :bluebudgie: how could i resist such a cutie!!!???

 

thanks again

 

okay well i have some piccies of mummy and daddy, but not too good because they arent tame so i did my best!!

 

mummy

 

mummy again

 

daddy

 

daddy

 

and daddy again!!

 

and just a lil extra....couldnt resist

 

 

Blinkie's look-a-like and it even scratches like Blinks (Laughing out loud)

What a beautiful baby!! :bluebudgie:

love the pics thank you

So am i right or wrong? :bluebudgie: now i'm just confused!

 

Lucky's Gal - That Blinkie look alike is sooo cute!

Not 100% yet Bea.

Mom looks like a possible pied dad is a spanlge and i think the yellowface gene came from him.

 

Can we get an update on the baby? Has he got a name yet?

It's a beautiful bird althought I don't know what he/she is. I would like to see some update pictures as well.

It looks like the mother is an opaline spangle green and the father is a spangle yellow face blue.

 

The chick is therefore a double factor spangle yellowface blue.

 

The double factor spangle has no wing markings at all and the body colour will be blue at the top of the chest and get lighter going down to the tail. Being yellowface the wings are also of that colour (yellow).

 

I would say that as the chick moults out to the adult feathers, the yellow will mix through the chest and be a mottled green colour just unger the bib (or mask) and stay blue to white on the chest.

 

Hope this helps,

Natalie

Luckys have you still got the job at the pet store? If so how is it?????

It looks like the mother is an opaline spangle green and the father is a spangle yellow face blue.

 

The chick is therefore a double factor spangle yellowface blue.

 

The double factor spangle has no wing markings at all and the body colour will be blue at the top of the chest and get lighter going down to the tail. Being yellowface the wings are also of that colour (yellow).

 

I would say that as the chick moults out to the adult feathers, the yellow will mix through the chest and be a mottled green colour just unger the bib (or mask) and stay blue to white on the chest.

 

Hope this helps,

Natalie

 

: I can't believe i missed that on mom i saw the opaline bit and didn't look much harder. But that makes sence, had to make my brain work becuase normally df spangles are all white or all yellow. With a green parent the baby shoudl have been all yellow but of cuase the mom can be split for blue (which is the only way this could happen ) so she gave the blue gene and dad gave the yellowface gene (known as Parblue) making a df spangle that looks like a clearwing, becuase not all the yellow was removed from the bird.

 

Well done Gypsy

thanks heaps guys i also have a picture of the grandparents too ill put em on soon

i havent long got my new budgie and when i went to see the other birds there was 2 like the colour of yours

how lucky!!! i wish there was more over in aus so i could just go out and buy a few as i think they are very pretty looking.

 

 

heres the grandparents:

 

:hap:: I can't believe i missed that on mom i saw the opaline bit and didn't look much harder. But that makes sence, had to make my brain work becuase normally df spangles are all white or all yellow. With a green parent the baby shoudl have been all yellow but of cuase the mom can be split for blue (which is the only way this could happen ) so she gave the blue gene and dad gave the yellowface gene (known as Parblue) making a df spangle that looks like a clearwing, becuase not all the yellow was removed from the bird.

 

Well done Gypsy

 

Thanks Nerwen,

 

I was unsure myself until the photos of the parents were posted. Then it made sense.