White is blue?... what the?

[DeBree420]

hey...
i have a cinnamon white budgie... but the white, when viewed from certain angles, is actually a pale pale shiny light greenish blue.....
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u12/DeBree420/minnion2.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u12/DeBree420/minnion1.jpg
HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN THIS MUTATION?!?!?!!?...
... and if so... does it have a name?:S
i have only had that budgie for a week or so, and when i got it, it was kinda a rescue from a local petshop... it was thoroughly underfed, had a massive sore on the back of its head and was scratching crazily as its first feathers still wernt all through yet
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u12/DeBree420/minnionheadinjury.jpg

[Bea]

She's a white lacewing. A lacewing is an ino budgie that also has the cinnamon gene. ;) A lot of inos have a coloured sheen to their feathers, it's something that's very hard to breed out of a line.

[DeBree420]

sooo... lots of inos have a colourfull sheen to them?
awww i thought my child was super special...turns out shes just special!

[Squeak_Crumble]

very pretty.no offense a bit scrappy though:o again no offence

[DeBree420]

hehe yeah i agree... shoulda seen her in the petshop!:eek:
shes a million times better now... still needs lotsa work tho
the botttom pikkie is just to show the head-wound... which was about 2-3 times the size when i got her

[Tia]

She's beautiful! My bird was a bit scrappy when I got him back from the pet shop but his tail & wing feathers are starting to grow back now and I'm sure that in a few months he'll look lovely!

[ravengypsy]

sounds like she's getting better and has a great home now!! Her coloring is beautiful lacewing!

[Kerry C]

Your bird is an Opaline, Red-eyed White Lace Wing with a blue suffusion.
The suffusion is cool to look at, but a major fault when showing.

If you were breeding for show you would need to put that bird with a normal grey cock to try and breed out that suffusion and to darken the bar markings. Don’t go with a cinnamon bird because the idea is to darken the cinnamon marking NOT make them lighter.

Lace-wing is a sex linked mutation. Meaning it’s on the female gean - it’s easier to produce female lacewings, where cocks need 2 copies of this gean.

[ravengypsy]

Kerry, how do you tell that a lacewing is opaline?

[Jessincka]

I know nothing about mutations, really, but I do know that little girl is really beautiful.
Yes, a bit scuffy, but she'll clean up and be amazingly beautiful!
What's her name, again? I don't know if you mentioned, but I was just curious. :p

[homebird]

I was introduced to this type of Budgie on another board - The owner [from upper Michigan] was breeding them to show the iridescent colours - very beautiful birds. As said previously ~ The 'breeders' all said it was a fault that was bred out for Show.

I didn't know about the Cinnamon tho - thought Dilutes were OK???


But i would like to thank you for getting the beauty & looking after her/him. I think she's lovely. :budgie:

[DeBree420]

her name is Minnion, as she is a perfect little sidekick for my cockatiel(Cinnamaroll is a whiteface cinnamon pearl) they just totally match!
yeah i think it will take a long time for minnion to not be scrappy,she is clearly noticeable from the rest
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u12/DeBree420/budgieroomcopy.jpg
some of her tail feathers are fairly broken, and the wound on her head was HUGE! you cant really see from the pikkie...and she is a million times better after a week or so here...
but the wound took up like half of her head :eek:

[homebird]

:happy4: I love the 2 white birds together! How perfect.

Great cage too. I guess she was being picked on by the other Budgies in the store.

[Kerry C]

Kerry, how do you tell that a lacewing is opaline?

Your last picture. Look at the bird's back and how "broken" the shell markings are that indicates the opaline mutation, not a real good one, but still opaline.

Now look at these Lace-wing sites:
http://www.budgieplace.com/colorsguide.html#lacewing

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=16974&pid=197283&st=0&#entry197283

Lou Smaldino did a really nice article on the BAA web site on Red-eyed Lacewings
http://www.budgerigarassociation.com/

[ravengypsy]

thanks Kerry, :) learned something new

[DeBree420]

wow thanks Kerry! that first site is so informative...finally a site that shows images of the different types instead of just descriptions (leaving much to personal interpretation)

by the way i dont think minnion was being picked on at the pet store...apart from me being a regular there and minnion could have only arrived in the 2 days in between visits, but the wound on her head was so large, i first thought she might end up with brain damage:furious: ...it was seriously a hole in the back of her head!:eek: :eek: :eek:

[atvchick95]

her blue matches my caspers cheek patches - which is ONLY seen after I take a picture of her - Casper is an Albino

[Jessie]

I think shes absolutely gorgeous, shes very cute. I would love a pretty budgie like her.