Pink Budgie???

[milliej]

Not sure where to put this but on a picture clip I saw a pink budgie (Rachael Kellett?) I had a lavender lacewing a few years ago but he was ill when I got him and didn't survive long sadly, absolute beauty tho'. how does a lavender or pink budgie come about and are they very rare?

[Deleted]

theres no such thing as a true......pink budgie.. ..

[Gaile]

was it a pink bourke parakeet

[Rachael Kellett]

I can answer this question as I asked her when she sent me the photo The bird in question was definitely a budgie but it isn't usually pink. They had just been fed beetroot and it had rubbed itself all over the beetroot staining its feathers pink lol So I'm afraid you can't get a pink budgie sorry even though I would love one myself

[barrieshutt]

[milliej]

Mar 21, 2012 20:11:17 GMT barrieshutt said:

Well I never did, that is most unusual...Barrie is that one you bred and it came out as a new mutant/strain or has it also had a strange diet

[clinton9]

Budgies are the only very strange birds that are related to lories and fig parrots that had red, pink, orange colours, but unlike lories, the domestic budgies cannot produce red budgies or pink budgies or orange budgies. Musschenbroek's lorikeets eats seeds same way as budgies eat seeds, and lives in New Guinea and had red colour on body.

There is nothing known about how small lorikeets become budgies over past 5 million years ago.

Either small lorikeets that lives in open woodland that are replaced by arid deserts, become budgies, by produced the mutations that can cope better with living in desert, OR budgies were new mutation chicks produced by small lorikeets that eat seeds, but budgies were much better than parental lorikeets, in copying with eating seeds and lives in deserts.

Budgies had no pollen-collecting brush on tip of tongues and eats seeds & greens only, along with barks. Behavior and appeance similar to grass parrakeets rather than lories.

But juvenile budgies are often playful and show similar behavior to lories.

A lory can renew 10 primaries over 6 months, and have 1 gene of flight feathers, but budgies take 3 months to renew 8 primaries and can have 2-3 genes of flight feathers.

Seems the Mother Nature had red, pink, yellow budgies been weeded out of existance during first million years, so the genes for red, orange, pink had been weeded to zero, but the yellow colour remained (not weeded out), so for 5 past million years the budgies are always green (light green). A red or pink or orange budgies or yellow budgies ended up became meals for falcons. Because over 10 kinds of falcon species in Australia, so budgies always green coloured. Over 5 past million years the numbers of genes / DNA for red, pink, orange then decresed to zero, left yellow budgies in existance.

Only way is to breed orange, pink, red budgies, is....To breed lutino budgies and choose the one budgie with orangish yellow plumage & breed with normal lutino budgie and then back-breed to produce more orangish yellow budgies.

Red turkeys came from breeding the Buff turkeys, so orange budgies will come from breeding lutino budgies, then red budgies come from orange budgies.

I do not know what violet-lutino budgies look like... (violet-mauve + lutino budgie = violet-lutino budgies)

Violet-cobalt budgies may carry red genes / DNA and might maybe produce a red budgie
(red + blue = violet)

Cheers

Clinton.

[syahdu]

i found this red budgie on web
its real or not, idont know...

[BudgiesBuddy]

This is not a budgie. This is Bourke Parrot

[Bird Junky]

Hi Back in the 60's we used food colourant. Even after telling
them the colour couldn't be guaranteed to get through the moult they still sold like hot cakes....B.J.