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Post by mudvayne8megan on Dec 21, 2007 5:14:08 GMT -5
I was in the pet shop today and there were the most beautiful budgies they let me hold i really wanted to take photos yet my phone was dieing
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Post by Kim on Dec 21, 2007 6:50:49 GMT -5
Aww, that sucks! But at least you got to hold da birdies!  |
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Post by Kim on Apr 13, 2008 14:23:01 GMT -5
Oh hai!
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Post by Candle on Apr 13, 2008 20:43:22 GMT -5
:loves:
Hei, is symetry a budgie-thing, Kim? His/her "markings" are incredible.
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Post by Kim on Apr 14, 2008 6:04:47 GMT -5
:me too: For the most part, yes, the black bars and mask dots on the faces of budgies are usually symmetrical. If the bird is going through a moult, some of the feathers fall out and the bird looks pretty bedraggled until the new ones grow in. There are dozens and dozens of budgie varieties, the cock pictured above is a dominant grey. The body coloration of the pied varieties are usually not symmetrical, nor are the black markings, because of the random blotches of color. Check out the coloration and mutations of budgies guide, www.budgieplace.com/colorsguide.html |
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Post by stallan on Apr 14, 2008 10:32:13 GMT -5
Those are some trippy looking birds.
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Post by hvymtlmom on Apr 14, 2008 19:12:37 GMT -5
looks like you can get a budgie to coordinate with every room in your home! LOL
that photo of yours is adorable Kim ;D
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Post by mudvayne8megan on Apr 16, 2008 5:34:45 GMT -5
The wild budgies are that green and gold colour yet when they become pets and mate with other birds thats where they get the other colours from? Just last week we were doing birds in my TaFe course. ....of course i remembered this thread |
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Post by Kim on Apr 21, 2008 20:55:29 GMT -5
Well, the normal yellow dominant factor is present in all wild budgies. They variations that stem from the yellow factor (light, normal, dark/olive greens, lutino (all yellow w/ red eyes), recessive pieds and just about any variety that has yellow or green in it is a type of yellow factor bird. The blue budgies in pet stores are from selective breeding of the normal birds. I'm sure somewhere down the line after budgies had been exported to England, there was an odd white chick hatched. They paired these abnormal chicks with other similar chicks and eventually bred the blue series/factor budgies. The blue factor is recessive to the yellow. That means that if you bred a blue budgie with a green, all of your chicks would look like normal yellow/green. But hidden in their genetic code are blue genes that can be passed down to their offspring. So if you bred these particular chicks with a blue series bird, you'd have a 50/50 chance of having a blue series chick in the clutch. But again, if you bred these chicks (the normal greens with the recessive blue factor) to a normal green, the recessive blue factor would not come out in any of their offspring, and would over time be lost. Here's a baby cobalt chick from a breeder's clutch: I iz so 'ittle un pwecious! |
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Post by Candle on Apr 21, 2008 21:20:21 GMT -5
How lovely! <the fact that I find these birds cuddly is disturbing to me: I'm a cat gal...birds are cool, but I've never felt an affinity for them like I do with cats...and water mammals. I do, however envy them: they fly, and I don't, unless I board a plane or dream of it. Enough said!> Kim, is this Budgie moulting? What are the smallish feather up top?
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Post by Kim on Apr 22, 2008 5:33:32 GMT -5
Well he's still a baby, and those puffy white feathers on his back are his down feathers sticking up. Budgies go through seasonal moults a couple times a year. This one is wayyyy too young for moulting just yet! I'm a cat person too, but I've always loved birds. When you have the two together, you just have to be careful |
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