Is 5 old for a lutino?

[birdguhl]

I'm still just getting to know Luee, but I've noticed that he is slower at getting about than my other two. (Although he is pretty fast at coming towards me when I've got millet!) He quite often puts his beak down to a perch as if he is wanting to make sure it is really there. That made me wonder about his eyesight. It could be that he is still just a bit tentative around a new environment, but I also wondered if certain mutations age faster than others?

[Deleted]

All budgies age the same.

[nat]

I don't think colour mutation has anything to do with premature aging. I'm not sure if red eyes are more succeptible to visual deteriation than a normal or dark eye? I have read that especially with red eye chicks you need to not take them from a dark nestbox straight into the room light as it can damage the eyes.

[BudgiesBuddy]

I agree with Nat that mutations has anything to do with premature aging

[birdguhl]

Thanks for responses. In my ignorance, I had been thinking that if yellow budgies need to be mated with yellow budgies to get more yellow budgies (or whatever colour) they might accumulate characteristics like faster ageing or joint or sight problems or whatever. Since talking to local budgie man he said you can get yellow budgies from green budgies and vice versa. I am guessing really intensively bred birds do have issues like pure pedigree dogs and the like.