What colors would you call these?

MamaBirds_Quail

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My 3 indoor budgie aviary babies are now 5 weeks! Their coloring is WILD and I just welcomed 5 more chicks (2 scarlet tuxedo, 1 EB pansy looking bird with black legs, 1 Tibetan tuxedo but with light legs/pink beak, and one EB pansy looking bird with chocolate brown legs) so I’d love some opinions on what these are:

Parents are mixed flock bred, and are in a mixed flock themselves they carry: roux (including a scarlet roo), EB, fee, fawn (one Manchurian fee), pansy, sparkly, and enhanced brown.

Bird 1:
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I have NEVER seen mottled wings like this before! They literally have 4-5 either fully white, or white banded flights on each wing, dispersed randomly, but no other white markings 🤨
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I really like the two stripes of red feathers around the edge of the breast.

Bird 2: of note— this bird had prominent wild-type striping as a chick, but has EB legs
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Bird 3:
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Brown chest is an Italian roo trait yes? Is this bird just a wild looking Italian?! Or some weird form of Pharaoh? Can those two be co-dominant?
 
Pic 1 is a roo. Not sure what breed exactly, but both my males are the exact same color. Pic 2 is likely a female- looks just like my lil Therese :)
 
When you can verify, please let us know.

Based on the pics,

#1 looks like a Tibetan (no feather pinning) roo (has red tone in its mask and chinstrap).

For me, it's difficult to know for sure without seeing a hen and roo side by side because in these pics, its chest is darker which also suggests hen.

#2 looks like a Rosetta (has some feather pinning) hen (seems to have an absence of red tone in its mask, and has somewhat of a white chinstrap).

White is a natural part of EB, but it's typically selectively bred not to show.

There is actually a specialized black breeder in the US that is developing a black line featuring a white bar, essentially embracing the natural EB white. Tibetan is currently accepted as the base of the black lines.

So in your case, the white is likely EB's natural inherent white rather than another white gene such as English White.

#3 I have no idea. I'm curious to know too. 🙂
 

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