colour breeding.

[clinton9]

Dear members
I have questions:

1) I have a male dark green normal budgie which courted the female skyblue opaline budgie, when I breed them, will they produce the all green normal chicks

2) I have a double factor yellow-faced type 2nd mauve normal budgie that had pure bluish-grey body and yellow face.
If I mate this male DF YF type 2nd mauve budgie to a female single factor yellow-face type 1st skyblue normal....will they produce....???chicks

Male DF YF type 2nd mauve + Female SF YF type 1st skyblue =

3) I have male violet-cobalt normal budgie and female olive green opaline budgie and I breed them together....Will they produce both violet-olive green normal and olive green normal chicks

4) I have a male opaline skyblue budgie and a female single factor yellow-faced type 1st skyblue normal spangle, will they produce.... chicks

Male opaline skyblue + female SF YF type 1st skyblue spangle =

5) Will a pair (male & female) of single factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue budgies produce single factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue chicks

6) Will a pair (male & female) of double factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue budgies produce double factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue chicks

7) How I tell the difference between a Goldenfaced blue budgie from a yellow-faced type 2nd blue budgies
Do Goldenfaced blue budgie have orange face orangish yellow face

I appreciate your help.

Cheers

Clinton.

[Bird Junky]

Hi Just like to mention, that as you don't know what

colours etc. your birds are carrying in split form. ie,

what colours their parents/grandparents. Any

suggestions would guesses, educated or otherwise.

Yours B.J.

[clinton9]

You cannot tell a green budgie split for a blue budgie, from green budgies, you have to use DNA to see whether green budgies are carry blue genes or lutino genes, or not.
I do not use DNA from budgies.

I do not have book of budgerigars, about how to colour breeding these budgies and what fledling / juvenile budgie will look like, say you breed a pair of light green budgies, you get light green chicks.

I did not know which is which the best books of budgies, for colour-breeding these budgies.

Cheers

Clinton.

[nev90]

Apr 2, 2012 10:54:15 GMT @clinton9 said:

1) I have a male dark green normal budgie which courted the female skyblue opaline budgie, when I breed them, will they produce the all green normal chicks

If the dark green is not split for blue or opaline:
50% dark green normal
50% light green normal
If the dark green is split for blue:
25% dark green
25% light green
25% cobalt
25% sky blue
If the cock is split for opaline half of the chicks will be opaline

2) I have a double factor yellow-faced type 2nd mauve normal budgie that had pure bluish-grey body and yellow face.
If I mate this male DF YF type 2nd mauve budgie to a female single factor yellow-face type 1st skyblue normal....will they produce....???chicks

Male DF YF type 2nd mauve + Female SF YF type 1st skyblue =

If you have got the yellow face types right all the chicks will be single factor type 2 yellow face cobalt. Half of them will also have the type 1 yellow face gene but you wont be able to see it

3) I have male violet-cobalt normal budgie and female olive green opaline budgie and I breed them together....Will they produce both violet-olive green normal and olive green normal chicks

If the hen is not split for blue & the cock is not split for opaline:
25% dark green
25% dark green violet
25% olive
25% olive violet
You may not be able to tell visually which ones are violet

4) I have a male opaline skyblue budgie and a female single factor yellow-faced type 1st skyblue normal spangle, will they produce.... chicks

Male opaline skyblue + female SF YF type 1st skyblue spangle =

12.5% opaline sky blue female
12.5% opaline spangle sky blue female
12.5% yellow face opaline sky blue female
12.5% yellow face opaline spangle female
12.5% sky blue male
12.5% spangle sky blue male
12.5% yellow face sky blue male
12.5% yellow face spangle male

5) Will a pair (male & female) of single factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue budgies produce single factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue chicks

Yes, the expected result would be:
50% single factor yellow face
25% double factor yellow face
25% white face

6) Will a pair (male & female) of double factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue budgies produce double factor yellow-faced type 2nd blue chicks

Yes, All the chicks would be double factor yellow face

7) How I tell the difference between a Goldenfaced blue budgie from a yellow-faced type 2nd blue budgies
Do Goldenfaced blue budgie have orange face orangish yellow face

Golden face is a brighter shade of yellow than the type 2. It is slightly orange. There is a lot of confusion between the two types and they are often incorrectly identified – especially if the identification is from photos. Also because the types are often bred together it is not always possible to correctly identify the mutations from breeding records unless you are able to study several generations

[clinton9]

Thankyou very much, but I think you would try google (via computer) and write "list of colours", then look for colour,...etc cream or gold or canary yellow as I still don't had idea what goldenfaced budgie look like as I thought I had never seen goldenfaced budgies.

Yellow-faced type 1st have dark cream face.
Yellow-faced type 2nd have pale canary yellow face.
Goldenfaced...orangish yellow ? gold ? face.

Clinton.