My brother's friend has offered to sell me his last and only young violet male. He insists on calling him a visual violet bird and I want to know why. I don't have a picture of him, he's a possible purchase. Steve's been breeding budgies for 30 years, and he's a member of the Western suburbs budgie club. All his birds are show quality and rung.

What colors would be produced if this boy was mated with my small violet hen? Would the boy squash her? She IS rather tiny.

I don't really "get" violet.. Here's a chart if you can make sense of it.http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/charts/vich.html

 

I've heard people recommend pairing a small female with a large male before, so I'd assume it isn't harmful to the female.

The club I am joining recommends pairing a large male to a small female, so you should get show budgies out of the pairing. I assume it is quite a common occurence in the show budgie world, so, no I don't think she would be hurt, unless, of course, she is unusually small.

Think of a female, 1/3 to 1/2 size bigger then your average finch, and a male showbudgie...are you surprised I think she'll be squashed?

I'm also running out of the cable ties that you twist on, to hold doors shut. I got sick of hearing Skye and my unnamed girl playing with the cage doors, so I cable tied unnamed's doors shut, and I have Skye flying in here. Skye's such a good girl, she knows when to go in the cage...but for now, I have no way to keep her in there!

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My brother's friend has offered to sell me his last and only young violet male. He insists on calling him a visual violet bird and I want to know why. I don't have a picture of him, he's a possible purchase. Steve's been breeding budgies for 30 years, and he's a member of the Western suburbs budgie club. All his birds are show quality and rung.

What colors would be produced if this boy was mated with my small violet hen? Would the boy squash her? She IS rather tiny.

 

The term visual is taking the genetics to the top of the rung. We perceive the colour of the budgerigars because light is reflected and refracted off the feathers. To call a bird a visual violet is to acknowledge that the colour is a preceived colour and not true. We see a rainbow but there is nothing there.

 

If you mate a violet cock to a violet hen you should get 50% violet cocks and 50% violet hens.

But that is not to say the bird is pure and not split to anything.

The club I am joining recommends pairing a large male to a small female, so you should get show budgies out of the pairing

 

if you kept doing this your birds would lose size over the years but as you are not going to show it shouldnt be a problem

 

 

 

the best matings to produce violets in order of getting most violets are are violet mauve x violet blue,violet x violet blue , violet mauve x violet, violet x violet this last pairing gives you the least chance of a violet chick giving you the expectations of sky, sky split violet, cobalt, violet, mauve,mauve split violet