I have a blue breeding pair with 2 newly hatched chics. I was wondering if anyone might guess at what their babes may look like when fully feathered and any possible future babes.

 

I beleive her to be a Slate Mauve and he an Opaline Cobalt. If you see something I missed I would not mind if someone points it out.

 

Thanks and have a great day!

 

 

Tweety

 

Blue and Tweety

 

Tweety and Blue

 

Blue

 

Tweety and Blue

Edited May 7, 200619 yr by missdawne

Slate is a name for a grey mutation and is different from Mauve but looks almost the same. I think Tweety is only a mauve which two darkfactors on a bird. Your Right that Blue is Opaline Cobalt. Opaline is a sex-linked gene which means males need two of the gene (one from each parent) to show the gene and females only one. This is why all opalines from this pair will be female. The males will carry the gene and be able to have opaline females offspring as well. Females can not be split for any sex-linked genes.

 

With the dakrfactors your hen will give one to each of her kids while the male will give either a darkfactor or none. This means you can't get skyblues.

I thought that the Slate was for the dark back and wing pattern she has...guess I was missinformed.

looks like it. black wings like hers are the nomal for budgies. If the bird was green then the edge of the feathers would be yellow instead of white.

 

Where did you get the information from?

It was in another forum about 2 yrs ago...(Laughing out loud)...no one has told me in all this time that it was not true. Oh well, you live and you learn. Thank you for your information, I am trying to learn more of what the colors and markings mean other than "ohhhh.....she's pretty" (Laughing out loud)