What Mutation are my boys?

[daksabird]

Daksa is the green/yellow, Jinni is the blue. Ive been told Daksa will never have the blue cere or white irises. In his 2nd pic he did not have his longest tailfeather(molting), when they came in they came in very very pale yellow almost white.

[Hezz]

A simplistic attempt from me is that Daska is a normal or olive-green dominant pied; his green is showing up differently in both photos. He may also be a yellow faced, but again that may just be the photos. As a dominant pied, he most certainly will get iris rings and a blue cere, if male. It is the recessive pied that don’t.

Jinni is an opaline, looks to be sky blue but may be cobalt. Again photo colours can sometimes be deceiving.

[Morgan]

I would go with dark green and sky blue for the colors, and I don’t think you can tell if a green series bird is yellowfaced or not because they’re already yellow-based - but otherwise agree with Hezz on the mutations. Beautiful buds!

[Hezz]

I said possibly yellow faced as the yellow of the face seems darker/richer than that on the body.

I meant dark green as in one dark factor rather than two; just a bit confused with that at the time.

[daksabird]

He is a yellow face and his true green does have a very very slight olive tint.

[Morgan]

Oct 24, 2021 1:07:21 GMT Hezz said:

I said possibly yellow faced as the yellow of the face seems darker/richer than that on the body.

I meant dark green as in one dark factor rather than two; just a bit confused with that at the time.

Would that make him a yellowfaced mauve then? Turning the body that color green?

You have a good eye Hezz!

[Hezz]

I made the mistake of assuming that a yellow/green budgie couldn’t be a yellow face once before and was corrected. Not sure when that was, or whom. But not all yellow face types “bleed” into the body colouring. Yellow face type 1’s yellow colouring is limited to facial feathers and, not always, peripheral tail feathers. I have no idea whether he is a yellow face or not, I was flagging it as a possibility.

[Morgan]

Oct 26, 2021 0:42:53 GMT Hezz said:

I made the mistake of assuming that a yellow/green budgie couldn’t be a yellow face once before and was corrected. Not sure when that was, or whom. But not all yellow face types “bleed” into the body colouring. Yellow face type 1’s yellow colouring is limited to facial feathers and, not always, peripheral tail feathers. I have no idea whether he is a yellow face or not, I was flagging it as a possibility.

I know that green budgies can have the yellowface mutation, I just don’t think it’s possible to tell because they are already yellow anyway. But I could be wrong there too. That was just my understanding of it.