Feb 20, 2021 19:03:10 GMT
kawikami
Brand New Budgie
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Post by kawikami on Feb 20, 2021 21:54:32 GMT
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Post by Hezz on Feb 21, 2021 1:59:19 GMT
She looks to be a sky blue opaline spangle. Spangle is a dominant trait; opaline is sex-linked. Unless the male is split for opaline, which wouldn’t show as he needs both genes to carry the opaline trait to be visible. Edit that: For your normal male to produce opaline offspring, he must be split for opaline. If just your hen was opaline, none of the chicks would be opaline. I think that’s right.
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Post by yellowfacedviolet on Feb 21, 2021 4:18:39 GMT
Yes, that's right Hezz. An opaline hen needs at least a split-to-opaline mate to produce opalines. So the normal blue male here is definitely split to opaline. Spangle is dominant, as is Normal. So a mating of the two produces on average a 50-50 split. This clutch beat the odds a bit.
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Feb 20, 2021 19:03:10 GMT
kawikami
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Post by kawikami on Feb 21, 2021 4:21:30 GMT
Here are two of the three babies she had. Blynken and Nod
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