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[Mikey666]

:) ;) hi keets fans,
I am attempting to breed a dilute yellow faced opaline sky blue hen to a cobalt normal blue cock.Wish me luck on the colors.Cobalt is 7-12 months while the opaline is over a year old.I will keep you updated.bye

[titoandMac]

good luck with your budgies!

i have a question. I have had my budgies since september and did not know of this website so i guess i did some things that are trust killers. Since i didnt know on the second day i took them out with a cloth and let them climb on me. Right now they will hop on my finger in the cage but hop off if i move my hand. They run away from my hand in the cage and i used to grab them to take them out but now i get them on my finger and move my hand out super fast so they stay on. They hate leaving their cage and the only time that they fly is if they are trying to get back to the cage or if something spooked them. I now know i was terrible with them but i really want them to still trust me! Did i ruin this chance of trust? Please help!

[tigerlily85258]

iv had my baby for 5 years and i did thous same things and within a week or two of hard work she is starting to trust me

and good luck with the breeding mikey!!!

[ttime]

how young are they?and why did you put a mad face for the thread?

[keet_tweet4]

Good luck!

How old are they? You must wait until they are atleast 12 months old to breed. Yes a male may be able to breed at four months but this is very dangerous and not reccomended. Many breeders wait until their budgies are 14 months until they breed them.

[Mikey666]

:D everything is going well with my breeding pair.I still have them with nesting box and they are still experimenting.Hopefully they will be abled to breed soon and lay eggs.I will keep you all posted:budgie: :S

[Squeak_Crumble]

ummmmmm Excuse me but do you know that in this "Experiment" You could well kill one of your budgies????:mad:

[keet_tweet4]

ummmmmm Excuse me but do you know that in this "Experiment" You could well kill one of your budgies????:mad:

You could pretty much say this of all breeding budgies. But yes, it is extremely risky to breed underage budgies. Mikey didn't answer how old they were.

[Mikey666]

My keets are one year for the opaline female and 7-12 months for the cobaly cock

[keet_tweet4]

Ok. That sounds good. I was worried you were breeding two babies. Do keep us updated, and any pics would be great...*hint hint* :)

[Budgiekin]

Any updates? I'd love to see some pictures! :)

[Mikey666]

i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc67/Mikey555000/24.jpg Hoping to breed this pair for spring.Opaline dilute sky blue yellow faced female and cobalt normal cock

[Mikey666]

3274You could pretty much say this of all breeding budgies. But yes, it is extremely risky to breed underage budgies. Mikey didn't answer how old they were.
These keet are one year for the opaline yellow faced dilute sky blue female and 7-12 for the cobalt normal cock.The recessive pied grey green is a female I think7-12 months old

[Mikey666]

3279here are pictures of my keets today

[mango8271]

Hi

I don't know what colour's you are hopeing to breed but i thought i give you some of the basics genetics, dilute is reccesive so both parents must have dilute in them to produce dilute, opaline is sex linked so a cock opaline with a normal hen will produce hen opalines with normal cocks split for opaline, where as in your case you have a hen opaline so if your cock is not split you will get normal hens and cocks spit for opaline, yellow face is Dominant so you should get yellow faced chicks, For example i had a yelowface grey cock split for opaline about 7 months old and i put him with a 2006 green spangle the pair raised 7 young ( my biggest clutch ever) and there was 2 yellow face opaline spangle hens, green opaline spangle hen, grey green spangle cock, grey green cock, grey green hen, and a yellow face grey spangle, so i got nearly a 50% of yellow face.

I'm no expert on Genetics, so if anyone thinks or knows what i have said is wrong please correct me.

Thanks Ash