Baby Budgies

[Lona]

Can anyone tell me what mutations I have here? Thanks

[Budgiebonkers]

My guess would be yf type two greywing opaline
Yf type two cobalt spangled.

[Lona]

Thank you for your reply. I'll show you the parents of baby budgie #1

[Lona]

to Budgiebonkers
These are the parents of the second baby budgie, pic 2, I mean

[Budgiebonkers]

Thank you for your reply. I'll show you the parents of baby budgie #1

They are pretty is the white one a albino or df spangled? And that plastic nest box... Did you like it I have the same one but haven't used it yet.

[Budgiebonkers]

to Budgiebonkers
These are the parents of the second baby budgie, pic 2, I mean

Gorgous! I would love a spangled Like yours.

[Lona]

The yf greywing opaline that you identified is the baby from the pairing white spangle female and blue (not sure of mutation- there is violet on him) spangle. What is it about the baby that says opaline? I'm learning as I go, lol.

[Lona]

The parents of what you called Yf type two cobalt spangled, are: female is opaline/spangle, the male is pied/opaline/not sure how you'd describe him :) The baby's 'grandparents' are shown here. I've had no luck finding another one like the 'grandmother'  do you know what they are?

[Mindy]

Gorgeous colors! The opaline means reversing of the stripes on the head and the body color diffuses through the head and wings. I think the second baby is also an opaline, since I see a lot of blue at the nape of the neck.

The grandmother (grandhen? lol) looks like a dominant pied opaline yf type II cobalt. Could be recessive pied, but only if her eyes were dark without the normal light brown irises. I think I see irises in the pic. What do you guys think?

[Lona]

Grandhen, lol. Luv that. She has irises. So much yellow,  so lemony, I've never seen another like her. Someone asked about the black plastic netboxes. I've used wood, even made some myself, but I like these best. Easy to clean and disinfect. They work well. Thank you for your comments.

[Vicki]

You do have some beautiful birds!  Gorgeous colors!  I'd love to get to something like that, they're amazing! 

[Lona]

I'm in Canada. I don't think budgies could be shipped to you there due to 'migragion' laws, lol. Unfortunate. I have 4 of the df spangles offspring...don't need them all. It would be great to help a bird friend.

It's the Spangle's markings that are reversed. Opaline is as follows.The opaline budgie has the barring over its head and down between its shoulders greatly reduced. The markings on the back between the wings should be gone, though often they are present but finer and sparse. The opaline gene also softens the body colour slightly so that it is a little paler than a normal of the same colour.A main feature is also that the body color of the budgie (ie green, blue, grey etc) has replaced the yellow or white on the wings. So instead of having black markings on a yellow or white background they are on a green or blue or grey etc background. The body colour also often shows on the black part of the wing feather and this is called opalescence and can be attractive.
Thre is also, on the flight feathers a 'thumbprint' of either white or yellow depending on whether it's a blue or a green series.

[Budgiefriend]

Awww.... they are so cute!

[Lona]

thank you for identifying my two baby budgies. They're keepers. luv them. I'm getting another budgie on Friday. This is him.