Here are a few more pics of Tazzy and Wylie. I introduced them in "My Flock" last night and have had a few comments on what they might be. Thought I would post a few more pictures here shot at different angles to provide a better look.

 

So far I've had suggestions that Wylie is a yellowface Type I and Type II. Colour - Skyblue or rainbow? Male

 

And Tazzy is a recessive pied. Sex???? And not sure on colouring? To the naked eye the colour looks almost a violet (so pretty). And to me, the wing markings look more brown than black. Does that mean cinnamon? Or is that just normal for a pied?

 

The two cuties together.

 

Any comments appreciated

I say type 2 for Wylie. He isn't a rainbow that includes pied and clearwing, which he isn't.

 

These are better shots of Tazzy than the last post. Yes she (yes I think you ahve a her here) is a recessive pied. With you saying she looks almost violet in real life mean you could have a visual violet. Meaning one gene violet. Also the markings do look brown to me which means cinnamon.

following you Nerwen **coughs**raises hand**

 

Is he a type 2 because the yellow is washed through his body color to make the bright green color? I can't see the yellow in his body, so can you explain. Thank you.

yep that's right he body is what most folks call aqua which is the yellow washing all over, a type one will have a clearly blue body and yellow face. Then there is the type 2 with a patchy bleed of yellow in the body of the bird.

And a Type I would have white tips on the wings??? Wylie has yellow.

Visually, there are two types of yellow face: Type I and Type II. In type I yellowface budgies, the mask feathers are all yellow. The yellow may also show up in the peripheral tail feathers. The yellow is confined to these areas only and the budgie is normally colored in the body feathers. Type II yellowface budgies have yellow in the mask feathers and tail, just like the type I. However, after the first molt at 3 months of age, the yellow diffuses into the body color and creates a new color, depending on the original color. In the case of the sky blue variety, as seen below, the type II yellowface creates a seafoam green color, but in the type I yellowface the body color remains sky blue.

 

Scroll down to Yellowface Description, they did a good job explaining it

http://www.geocities.com/budgie-place/p_colors.html

 

So yours is a Type 2 because the yellow turned the blue into an Aqua Green color (not sure if aqua is the correct coloring but that is what I see) but if you compare your bird to to the bird they have pictured they say it is seafoam. The tipping on the wing doesn't have anything I believe to do with typing.

Edited February 17, 200619 yr by lovey

wow i have no clue but now i want TWEETY and TAZZY! they are so cute! and i love tazzys wings!

Seafoam is in fact an incorrect term used in some places for yellowfaces.

 

The tipping on the wing doesn't have anything I believe to do with typing.

You lost me here, what bit are you talking about?

They're very cute. I especially like Tazzy.

Seafoam is in fact an incorrect term used in some places for yellowfaces.

 

The tipping on the wing doesn't have anything I believe to do with typing.

You lost me here, what bit are you talking about?

 

As for seafoam that came off that site (Laughing out loud), so I am glad to be correct.

She was asking about the tipping, and I told her I didn't think it had anything to do with it??

Visually, there are two types of yellow face: Type I and Type II. In type I yellowface budgies, the mask feathers are all yellow. The yellow may also show up in the peripheral tail feathers. The yellow is confined to these areas only and the budgie is normally colored in the body feathers. Type II yellowface budgies have yellow in the mask feathers and tail, just like the type I. However, after the first molt at 3 months of age, the yellow diffuses into the body color and creates a new color, depending on the original color. In the case of the sky blue variety, as seen below, the type II yellowface creates a seafoam green color, but in the type I yellowface the body color remains sky blue.

 

Scroll down to Yellowface Description, they did a good job explaining it

http://www.geocities.com/budgie-place/p_colors.html

 

So yours is a Type 2 because the yellow turned the blue into an Aqua Green color (not sure if aqua is the correct coloring but that is what I see) but if you compare your bird to to the bird they have pictured they say it is seafoam. The tipping on the wing doesn't have anything I believe to do with typing.

 

Lovey is right about the difference between type 1 and type 2 yellowfaces, except type 2's don't change color after the first molt except to get a bit darker. The aqua or turquoise color many times is present when they initially feather in as babies. I have two that were born that color.

 

Seafoam is just a color description, like aqua or turquoise, and not a type.

 

As far as white tips on the wings, I don't think I remember ever seeing that. The flight feathers can be a mottled color sometimes, with black and white on the same feather in splotches, but that is considered a fault in show birds.

And a Type I would have white tips on the wings??? Wylie has yellow.

 

I'm now with the programe I missed this post before

 

Well that site give this statement:

"The yellowface type I variety has a bright yellow face but the yellow does not affect the body color or appear in the wing feathers."

 

I've never thought about that before, I just believe yellowfaces are the same as any other type (bar opaline) that have the same coloured wing edges as the head colour.

And a Type I would have white tips on the wings??? Wylie has yellow.

 

I'm now with the programe I missed this post before

 

Well that site give this statement:

"The yellowface type I variety has a bright yellow face but the yellow does not affect the body color or appear in the wing feathers."

 

I've never thought about that before, I just believe yellowfaces are the same as any other type (bar opaline) that have the same coloured wing edges as the head colour.

 

Nerwen, I'm inclined to agree with you. With pieds, the wing feathers are often different due to the pied influence, and that has nothing to do with the yellowface gene, or the color the shell feathers are edged in. In a normal yellowface blue, the flights would be black and the shell feathers would be edged in yellow, so the yellow wouldn't appear in the flights. I think that must be what the author of that statement was talking about.

And a Type I would have white tips on the wings??? Wylie has yellow.

 

I'm now with the programe I missed this post before

 

Well that site give this statement:

"The yellowface type I variety has a bright yellow face but the yellow does not affect the body color or appear in the wing feathers."

 

I've never thought about that before, I just believe yellowfaces are the same as any other type (bar opaline) that have the same coloured wing edges as the head colour.

 

Nerwen, I'm inclined to agree with you. With pieds, the wing feathers are often different due to the pied influence, and that has nothing to do with the yellowface gene, or the color the shell feathers are edged in. In a normal yellowface blue, the flights would be black and the shell feathers would be edged in yellow, so the yellow wouldn't appear in the flights. I think that must be what the author of that statement was talking about.

 

 

 

 

 

WOW!!!! I am so incredibly lost....whooosh right over my head....but one thing i do know is that they are very pretty indeed.