Hi...I'm wondering whether anyone can tell me anything about albino/lutino chicks. My female hen has 2 chicks, she laid 5, the other three were infertile. The father is vivid, almost luminous mid green with a yellow face, and the hen is a kind of murky green with a yellow face (don't know the proper names for the variations despite looking at genetics sites!).

 

One of the chicks is going to be green like the father and has plenty of feathers coming through. The other one, 2 days younger, is still almost bald although he/she is almost the same size. She (i'll stick to she, although i'm not sure) has tiny little white feathers coming through but they're really sparse. She has very pale cream coloured wing feathers coming through and she has very pale skin and cere, and red eyes, so I'm guessing she'll be albino/lutino. The question I'd like to ask is: Are albino's/ lutino's usually so slow to develop their feathers? Or could there be a problem. Also how come these two green birds have produced a chick of this colour?

 

I'd be grateful for any help!!

I don't know how quick albinos and lutinos are to feather, but I would guess that they should be like any other budgies. You can get an albino or lutino from 2 normal colored birds. Somewhere in your male bird's genes there was an ino gene. For example, if his mother was a lutino he would be split for lutino meaning that he could have babies that are lutino (females). The gene would have definately come from your male bird in this instance as both albino and lutino are sex linked traits.

Yea...Albino and Lutino are sex-link so both of the parents must split to ino.

Any chance you have pictures? Pictures? :ausb:

so both of the parents must split to ino.

since female can not be split for the ino gene this doesn't work. The female would have to be a ino for this one to be a boy so I'ld stick to girl :wink: Also one or both of your parents are split to blue becuase to get an albino you need a blue gene and an ino gene.

 

They feather just the same as any other, are you sure she hasn't been plucked? Are you sure she is being feed? How old are the both of them?

An Albino is also a double wammy. It is a blue lutino. One gene removes the blue to produce yellow and the other gene removes the yellow to form white.

It sounds like the baby could be a Creamino based on the description. That's a yellowface type 2 albino right?

That's right HurdyBirdy

 

I was abit unsure with the wings, being called cream.

Hahaha...I didn't see that. It was a typo. What I meant was one of the parent.

 

Have you taken any picures yet?

It does sounds like a creamino. It will be a beautiful baby.

 

Yea...Albino and Lutino are sex-link so both of the parents must split to ino.

Any chance you have pictures? Pictures?

Hi...thanks for all your help. The babies are doing well, mum is very protective and I worry that she's over feeding them, their crops are so huge! Is that possible?

 

She (the baby) is definitely yellowish, more feathers are coming through now, although she's still no-where near as fluffy as her brother, I'm almost certain she's going to be a lutino. There are 2 days between them, the eldest is just over 2 weeks old, I think he's going to be a murky, mottled green like his mother. She has a yellow face and the rest of her is a mixture of greyish blue and greyish green. I can't actually work out how to post pics on here, I tried before. I created an account with Photobucket, shrunk the images, but it still wouldn't let me post them, so not sure how to do it. Thanks again for your replies..

 

Actually...I've just spotted a picture on Nerwen's reply post. The 4th budgie from the left is almost identical to my hen, a mottled green blue!

Oh yes, their crops will get very full, what a good Mum you have. Please post some pics, we all love baby photos

Hi all....I'm trying to get some pictures on, i'll do it as soon as possible. As we were taking the pics I noticed that the lutino chick's beak was crooked, crossed over. I think I've identified this as 'scissor beak', and I'm beginning to wonder whether, what with being slow to feather and the crossed beak, she has some kind of congenital defect. I really hope not, but if she does I'll try to correct it (or rather the vet can). Any ideas or advice on this one? I'd really appreciate it...

sound like she is in need of a vet care, when young the beak can be molded back into shape. But some one with knowledge would need to do it.

 

No another note you hen sounds like a yellowface type 2. (which is what the fourth is in my picture) That means you do have a Creamino. This is a bird that is a yellowface albino. Yellowfaces are blue birds but the yellow is not fully taken away.

 

let us know about the baby and what care she needs.

What happened with the baby? What colors did they all feather out to be?