Budgie gender & color?

Oh, I don't want that for sure, I hate loss. These are the type that I recently found at one of the stores, this pic is labeled yellow face skyblue opaline spangle also says rainbow spangle underneath

Are you going to post the offspring pics onto your page? I have always liked seeing the results of color crosses, In any birds. I cross different colors of geese, chickens and ducks.

8GeeseALaying said:

Oh, I don't want that for sure, I hate loss. These are the type that I recently found at one of the stores, this pic is labeled yellow face skyblue opaline spangle also says rainbow spangle underneath

Are you going to post the offspring pics onto your page? I have always liked seeing the results of color crosses, In any birds. I cross different colors of geese, chickens and ducks.

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I just put my females in with my males but there not in condition as i dont want them in condition until spring then i will decide who likes who lol and yes i will have albums of pics on my page once i pair them off
Also theres no such thing as a rainbow spangled but there is such thing as a rainbow I had two here was my hen her father was a true rainbow aswell who i bred to a albino masking opaline and got the hen

I like her. She's very pretty.
I know that they take care of and raise their young, I ran onto some sites showing babies being hand fed with a syringe, how likely is that to happen?

8GeeseALaying said:

I like her. She's very pretty.
I know that they take care of and raise their young, I ran onto some sites showing babies being hand fed with a syringe, how likely is that to happen?

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People who hand feed do it to sell hand tame babies but handfeeding chicks makes them chicks worse parents as adults i let them raise them as its nature and im not selling either lol

I would only hand feed if it was absolutely necessary. Like if they were abandoned or orphaned. Also have no intentions of selling unless for some reason I had to.

8GeeseALaying said:

I would only hand feed if it was absolutely necessary. Like if they were abandoned or orphaned. Also have no intentions of selling unless for some reason I had to.

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Knowing how to crop feed is a skill that worth having but its not something I would fell comfortable learning from a you tube video. One minor mistake and the chick will die.

One of the problems with hand feeding a chick that struggling is that mother nature may have marked that chick not to survive. I know this sounds cruel but its how mother nature works. If a chick doesn't beg its parents it will not get feed. You have to ask why the chick isn't begging.
Now there are times when hand feeding health chicks becomes a option. I don't pull eggs and replace with artificial which is a poor way to breed as it leads to large chicks in the same nest as new hatched chicks. That leads to a option to pull the largest chicks (easier to hand feed and they have already had crop milk) so the parents can deal with the newly hatched that need them.

To hand feed a chick to tame it you don't need to pull the chick until its nearly fully feathered by which time it doesn't require crop feeding (syringe). At that age allowing the chick to eat from a bent spoon will work just as well.

If you really want to learn how to crop feed then you may need to find a breeder or a avian vet to show you how. Parakeets and budgies are not easiest chicks to feed.

Another thing to remember is that chicks need feeding every 3-4 when they are young so cancel your social life until they fledge.

p.s most off us don't plan to sell its just the end result of allowing them to breed

gpop1 said:

I have to agree that the violet looks photo shopped. From my understanding violet is to do with the way light is reflected of the plumage. Cameras do not have the ability to show this color and will show a washed out blue. So the picture may be a representation of what the person thinks the bird looks like.

This bird to me looks like it has a violet body in sun light yet the picture shows the violet as a washed out blue.



I have never seen a clean violet bird and from what I understand it would require a double factor violet which would normally be a recessive gene showing on a washed out blue bird with no other mutations. I may be totally wrong

So 8greesealaying it may be possible to find that color but its going to be rare and expensive

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I own a violet male and I really hope to get violet babies from him. I've paired him with a sky blue female and am waiting for her to come into condition. To get violet chicks, you need a cobalt blue bird with 1 violet gene - meaning that any chicks from my pair would need to receive both the dark factor gene and the violet gene from their father to become violets, meaning, theoretically, I should get 1/4 'visual' violet birds from my pair (and another 1/4 that have the violet gene but lack the cobalt gene and thus just look slightly different from a normal cobalt). If I understood the genetics correctly, that is ^^ It's true they are really hard to photograph, usually the violet hue doesn't show. I do suspect there is a secret to making it show though - good light, and awesome camera or something. I'll keep trying! Here's a picture of my pair:

You can tell he's not an average cobalt, but the purple hue doesn't show.

I started the taming process this past Saturday on my new female. Jules my recessive pied male never took to taming, I swear his attitude is "I'm too good to be a pet, I'm better than you" lol his companion that was bought with him which was a normal green male was a sweet bird. Skittles, my new girl, took right to sitting on my finger. After the 3rd day of working with her my male threw a squawking fit and after that I couldn't touch her or get near the cage without her flopping all over. He must have told her I was a monster lol. After having it happen again the next day I moved him and his cage out of sight and out of hearing range & took away any mirror toys she had. We are back to making progress.
Today I noticed that I can see her iris getting lighter already. Does that mean she's older than 12wks like I was told? Also her cere has changed a bit, it's no longer a light whitish color it now has a bit of a tan tint to it. Is she more like 5 months then?

8GeeseALaying said:

I've been researching some of the colors, most I have seen in pet stores. How hard is it to find these colors? I would love to have them as my second pair.

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Top on is a violet... Its photo has been changed on the computer to make it brighter.

However, I did have 2 budgies which had nearly as bright colouring as that pic. The Male was stunning solid violet over his body and he had nearly pure white wings, tail and face with very pale grey spangle markings. .. the female was pied, but only had about 30 percent violet over her body. Sadly a hawk killed my male through the aviary mesh. I have not been able to find any other violet budgies that were as bright and glowing as he was.. and I have been looking for 2 years!!!!

The violet colour will be brighter, or duller, depending on the genetic colours of the actual bird. Most of the time they look like cobalt colour.. which some people still call violet.

I also had another budgie, which people told me was an impossible colour combination. He had yellow wings, tail and head, violet body, and was grey spangle. He had royal blue cheek spots. He sadly died of a tumor in his old age several years ago. When I posted a photo of him on a budgie web site everyone got mad at me and accused me of photoshoping the picture... which I did not... I don't even know how to use photoshop if my computer even had it!

I think they are just fascinating birds and the colors are beautiful. I'm working on an outdoor aviary design. Hope to start building when the weather gets warmer.
I will soon get another pair to breed as well. I'm not sure what colors I want to pair together. I love the opalines, possibly another opaline, maybe a male this time and a cobalt female or a normal green. To me hatching anything is like waiting to open a present, you never know what is inside. Well I don't anyways lol expert breeders know what colors will come from each pairing of course.
I'm excited to try breeding & since my new girl is too young I'm looking for older parakeets on rehoming sites and Facebook pet groups.