Oct 14, 2020 10:55:22 GMT
fluffyduck
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Post by fluffyduck on Oct 14, 2020 11:00:09 GMT
Could someone please help determine what colour my budgies offspring would be, as im totally useless at this whole genetics thing. And if someone could let me know how to add photos
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Post by mona on Oct 14, 2020 12:26:22 GMT
If you are using your mobile, scroll to the bottom and click on Desktop version. You would be able to see post quick reply with a button to add images: "Add images to post". You can upload and attach the image and click on Post Quick reply. 🙂
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Oct 14, 2020 10:55:22 GMT
fluffyduck
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Post by fluffyduck on Oct 14, 2020 12:38:59 GMT
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Oct 14, 2020 10:55:22 GMT
fluffyduck
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Post by fluffyduck on Oct 14, 2020 12:39:30 GMT
I know their abit of an odd couple but there getting along great!!
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Post by blueelephant on Oct 14, 2020 13:01:54 GMT
I have no idea on offspring but they are a properly lovely little pair of budgies. I'd love to see photos of any offspring they have!
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Post by mona on Oct 14, 2020 15:16:12 GMT
I am not good at genetics. But your buds are adorable.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Oct 14, 2020 15:46:56 GMT
Yes, both adorable! Love the color of the male budgie - so unusual! There are some people here that are good with genetics so maybe they can tell you something.
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Oct 14, 2020 10:55:22 GMT
fluffyduck
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Post by fluffyduck on Oct 14, 2020 16:31:35 GMT
Yes he is a beautiful colour not sure what variety he is. But he is identical to this bird pictured below. If anyone could tell me what variety he is also
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Post by yellowfacedviolet on Oct 14, 2020 19:55:34 GMT
Your male is a rainbow budgie, which is a combination of yellowface, blue (in this case sky blue), opaline, and clearwing or full-body greywing (nearly impossible to tell which of those two applies here, but it hardly makes a difference.) In addition he may be spangle. A better photo of the wings would help in that regard. Your hen appears to be a grey dominant pied. It's possible she's a mauve, but I'd expect to see cheek patches that were more clearly violet and a body color that had a tinge of blue. The results of mating the above two depend heavily on whether your hen is a single or double factor grey, that is, did she inherit grey from one or both of her parents. If she's single factor, @50% of the clutch will be grey. The remaining 50% can be cobalt and sky, but not mauves. If she's double factor, the entire clutch will be grey. @50% will be dominant pied @50% will be yellowface 100% of the hens will be opaline. So if you see an opaline, it's a girl 100% of the males will be normal/split to opaline, that is, they will appear normal but will be carrying the recessive opaline gene. So if a chick is not opaline, it's a boy. If your male is spangle, @50% of the clutch will be spangle. Your male's other rainbow traits will go hiding unless your hen is split to clearwing/ full-body greywing. If you were hoping to have some rainbows in the clutch, the only way for it to happen is if your hen is not double factor grey, allowing blue to come through, and she is split to clearwing/fullbody greywing. Then, if your male passes on yellowface (50-50 chance) some of the girls could be rainbow. But only the girls.
The above is based on what we can see in the parents. There's no knowing what other recessive or sex-linked traits they could be carrying--recessive pied, cinnamon, ino etc.
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Post by fluffyduck on Oct 15, 2020 6:49:43 GMT
Thank you very much for that information. The hen does appear to have a shade of blue/grey between her wings but not sure. Ive attatched some more photos below.
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Jul 21, 2020 16:27:07 GMT
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Post by Barry on Oct 15, 2020 15:46:08 GMT
Gosh he's lovely.
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Post by yellowfacedviolet on Oct 15, 2020 16:05:19 GMT
Well, that does indeed look more like mauve. If she is, everything in my first response still applies except my comments about grey. If she is a mauve, mated to your sky blue male, then 100% of the chicks would be cobalt blue. All the other predictions--opaline, dominant pied, yellowface etc--still apply, and the chance of producing rainbows increases.
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fluffyduck
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Post by fluffyduck on Oct 15, 2020 16:43:45 GMT
Oh great! Thanks for the help. We definitely need more rainbows in the world, would you say my boy is a spangle then?
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Post by yellowfacedviolet on Oct 16, 2020 2:56:30 GMT
...would you say my boy is a spangle then? I would. For rainbow budgie purists, that would preclude him from being a true rainbow. But over the years a more expansive view of what a rainbow budgie is has evolved in some quarters. Doesn't really matter. They're all lovely.
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