So I recently bought two budgies from a local breeder a albino male and a recessive pied hen she is almost completely white with the exception of a small very light blue patch under her right wing and a few bars on her head I’m very new to the genetics ring and need some help in the possible out comes. Cocks parents are an albino split pied cock and an albino hen I believe and hens parents where a diluted sky blue and a recessive blue pied hen. What colours may be possible from them? I’m not 100% sure if that was the combo for the parents but one way or another I think that’s the heritage. I’ll set them up later in the spring, I’ve got budgie and Quaker babies being hand fed and I don’t want too many more right now.

 

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Poopie feet, I have a hen that really hates me looking in her box, she never comes out when she has eggs and chicks, so I have to look with her in there, so because of this I don’t clean out the box as often as I probably should. Anyway whenever I pull her babies they have poopie feet with build up and it can take about 10-15 minutes to get it off. The hen removes all bedding right down to the last wood chip or ball of care fresh, so they sit in the bottom with nothing but a layer of poop after a day or so, and it doesn’t help that mommy does her business in there too. What do I do to prevent this? This time around I pulled my chicks probably two weeks earlier that I would have like to just because one of the chicks from her last clutch never regained movement in one of his toes, and I didn’t want to risk it. I’m kind of at a loss, should I glue care fresh to her box bed? Aggravating little bird! Arg

 

 

(I’ll put pics up soon)

 

 

 

One last thing are crested Budgies as a whole are they any harder to breed and raise than any other budgie?

 

 

 

THANK YOU!

So I recently bought two budgies from a local breeder a albino male and a recessive pied hen she is almost completely white with the exception of a small very light blue patch under her right wing and a few bars on her head I’m very new to the genetics ring and need some help in the possible out comes. Cocks parents are an albino split pied cock and an albino hen I believe and hens parents where a diluted sky blue and a recessive blue pied hen. What colours may be possible from them? I’m not 100% sure if that was the combo for the parents but one way or another I think that’s the heritage. I’ll set them up later in the spring, I’ve got budgie and Quaker babies being hand fed and I don’t want too many more right now.

 

Next question

Poopie feet, I have a hen that really hates me looking in her box, she never comes out when she has eggs and chicks, so I have to look with her in there, so because of this I don’t clean out the box as often as I probably should. Anyway whenever I pull her babies they have poopie feet with build up and it can take about 10-15 minutes to get it off. The hen removes all bedding right down to the last wood chip or ball of care fresh, so they sit in the bottom with nothing but a layer of poop after a day or so, and it doesn’t help that mommy does her business in there too. What do I do to prevent this? This time around I pulled my chicks probably two weeks earlier that I would have like to just because one of the chicks from her last clutch never regained movement in one of his toes, and I didn’t want to risk it. I’m kind of at a loss, should I glue care fresh to her box bed? Aggravating little bird! Arg

 

 

(I’ll put pics up soon)

 

 

 

One last thing are crested Budgies as a whole are they any harder to breed and raise than any other budgie?

 

 

 

THANK YOU!

 

 

To answer your questions....

 

1. I love Albinos but have trouble with the genetics. I have an Albino Cock with a Dominant Skyblue grey wing Hen. I too am looking forward to the chicks. (Nerwen your call)

 

2. Try taking the chicks from the nest box every two to three days. Make sure mumma stays away and clean out the nest box. If she keep throughing out the bedding. Give up with it. But keep cleaning the box.

 

3. I don't know but would emagine that they would be the same as any other budgerigar.

Daz answered the rest but as for outcomes:

 

Ablino females

Bue normal males split albino and dilute

If your male got the split pied gene from his dad then you can get Blue Recessive pied males as well again split for albino and dilute.

Now Nerwen my understanding of the Albino is two mutant genes creat it. The Lutino and the Blue gene. The lutino takes out the blue to produce Yellow and the Blue takes out the yellow to produce the white.. Am i close?

 

So it is a blue lutino?

im only going to take a stab at question #2

when i breed...

I would clean the babies feet every other day. I would put the babies in a plastic container lined with a dish towel, and take a moistened q-tip and gently wipe their feet. each chick would take about 1 minute to do. If you do this often, it wont take you nearly as long as it does now. I love this time, the chicks will start to bond with you. It give mum time to get out too, strech, poo etc. but my mums would only tolerate them being gone 5 minutes or so! I would clean out the box at this time too. only some of my hens would use the bedding, the rest got dumped out! as soon as i put the box back, mum was back in it like a little rocket!

Edited March 20, 200619 yr by Thirtyfive Black