Chicks

[Fia Baby]

Seeing these guys really makes me want to try my hand at raising budgies. I've always loved them, have almost always had 1 or 2, but have never raised any. They're beautiful.

 

[PoukieBear]

I want to make sure I understand this: I know cobalt - the deeper, more intense blue. yellow face II indicates the yellow is more intense - so 2 of the "yellow face" genes? Opaline indicates that the body color is suffused throughout the wings? Instead of black bars, they're now colored? Fallow is a "fading" gene (that's terminology borrowed from color inheritance in English shepherds, so maybe you use a different term...) so the bars are more grey or "cinnamon" brown, rather than black? But she's split for fallow, meaning she doesn't display it, but does have that gene.

So close !! !

The Fallow is a deffinintely a different term when it comes to budgies. Fallow is an entire separate mutation and a very rare one. too If you look at the pictures of mine in post #26, you'll see the Fallow mutation.

The reason it is so rare is actually difficult to explain, but the simple version is this: The Albino portion of this mutation should technically wipe out all body and wing colours. With Fallows, this does not happen. The body colour is faded up near the chest, and gradually gets deeper towards the belly and rump. The wing markings are cinnamon in colour, and the eyes are red like what you would expect to see on an Ino.

This is a recessive gene as well, meaning both parents need to have this gene in either a visual or split form in order for the chicks to visually display the colours of a true Fallow.

 

[finchly]

Whew. I'll stick with raising Gouldians, the terminology is so much easier!

 

[PoukieBear]

These two little Floofs went to their new home yesterday. They ended up being named Jackson, and Joshua. Goodbye my little sweets!

 

[Fia Baby]

What mutation is the yellow-faced white one? Albino, lutino, or something else? Are they both definitely boys?

 

[lyx]

They are beautiful! and I love the names Joshua and Jackson

 

[PoukieBear]

What mutation is the yellow-faced white one? Albino, lutino, or something else? Are they both definitely boys?

The one with the yellow face is an Albino, Yellowface II. Some people call this a "Creamino" So once he molts the yellow will bleed a little bit into his body feathers making him a lovely buttercup yellow colour.

Both of them are boys.

 

[Fia Baby]

Ah. I didn't realize they could be both albino and yellow-faced. He's beautiful.

 

[finchly]

They are just gorgeous.