Comments on: Budgie Parakeet Colors, Varieties, Mutations and Genetics

By: ash

ash — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:14:48 +0000

Thanks for informative help. I plan on breeding these two within the year, and believe me, I have done my homework on the subject, and plan to do some experimenting on different breeding ideas. The only subject I didn’t quite understand is the color variations and how they turn out when crossed. So again thanks for the help.

By: Puppies Are Prozac

Puppies Are Prozac — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:28:01 +0000

I wrote about how to tell young budgie’s gender on my FAQ page: http://puppiesareprozac.com/budgie-parakeet/as-pets-faq/

By: Puppies Are Prozac

Puppies Are Prozac — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:23:51 +0000

Ash: The only dominant gene here is green… so you will get greens. The rest of the mutations between your pair are recessives: blue, greywing, recessive pied. So only if your hen is split for blue will you get some blues; if she’s split for greywing, you’ll get some greywings. Only if the male is split for recessive pied will you’ll get some RP.

By: ash

ash — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:18:18 +0000

Hello! I have a toughie for you, (at least I think so) I have a male skyblue greywing, and the female I just got and am trying to figure her out, but what she looks like is a olive green recessive pied, the “spots” on her wings looks like the average black, but some spots are brown? She’s a cute little weirdo! Lol! But what color mutation do you think I would get with these two? I can’t make heads or tails of the charts. (They are aptly named Frank Sinatra & Robin Bird) thanks!

By: Edith

Edith — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:44:11 +0000

I have an white parakeet with red eyes. She has purple cheek patches, her beak is orange and has pink feet. She has hints of very light yellow on her sides. I’m not sure if she would be an albino. Her eyes are red and she has the orange beak and pink legs but the cheek patches and bits of yellow throw me off.

By: G.M.Smith

G.M.Smith — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:40:19 +0000

I need advice regarding a new Dominant Pied mutation in Ringnecks. I suspect it to be the similar mutation as Clearflight in budgerigars, but I get completely confused between the different Dom Pied budgerigar mutations,– Dom Pied, Clearflight, Clearbody and Easly Clearbody, Clearwing, Spangle and then Danish, Dutch, Australian.

Will anyone help. I specifically suspect it to be Clearflight. Does anyone have a picture of a Turquoiseblue Clearflight, an Opaline Clearflight or a Opaline Turquoiseblue Clearflight?

Deon Smith
South Africa

By: Hailey

Hailey — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:58:43 +0000

I am a parakeet owner and would like to make sure from an expert about something. The cere above their beeks can identify their gender, and from what I’ve gathered a blue or purple one means a boy and a brown one means a girl. But if you get young parakeets do their cere change color a bit before they get a bit older? And if so how long until the color settles? I’m hoping I didn’t get the incorrect gender!

By: Puppies Are Prozac

Puppies Are Prozac — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:21:52 +0000

@Sophie: You can expect all white-based babies (white, grey, blue, violet) and some pieds (dark-eyed clears are a combo of clearflight pied and recessive pied). If you don’t know their pedigrees, you may find some surprises with hidden recessive mutations cropping up as well.

By: Puppies Are Prozac

Puppies Are Prozac — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:17:33 +0000

@Dev Anand: Sounds like both parents are split for blue and greywing (recessives). Mom sounds like a pied — if she’s a dominant pied, then half the babies will be pied. But if she’s a recessive pied, then none — unless the dad is split for recessive pied.

How many clutches have they had? Make sure you remove their nest box to give them a rest. They should have no more than 2 clutches a year.