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Post by wompoodove on Jun 5, 2009 17:56:55 GMT 10
Okay now that I have your attention...  I just wanted to share a funny story. I once had an Albino hen and blue male (he was half albino) and many of their chicks were of course Albino too. Well one of them grew up to have a pink hue to his feathers. I thought..Wow! Now if this is a real color I can breed pink budgies and there should be a pretty good demand for them right? Well unfortunately my poor "pink" budgie passed away when he was only about 1 year of age. Upon my post mortem I found out why he was "pink" I always fed my birds shredded carrots and he was an addict. So much so that the beta carotene in the carrots made his skin bright orange and this somehow made his snow white feathers pink-like. Now on a slightly different vein. I am wondering if anyone has every successfully cross-bred budgies with bourkes. I know they are very different birds and in a different family biologically but stranger things have happened. If a breeding was successful then that would be one way to inject the pink/red coloration into budgies.... hmmm maybe I have a bit too much time on my hands with all of this thinking...  Cheers! Don |
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Post by sypher on Jun 5, 2009 19:18:41 GMT 10
lol!!  I was sucked in! Not sure if it has ever been attempted Don, but they are a similar bird so it may have been done somewhere along the line. Shaun |
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Post by avinet on Jun 5, 2009 19:31:56 GMT 10
I once saw some pink budgies advertised for sale in a local pet shop at an exorhbitant price - on inspection the were small poor quality Rosa Bourkes!
I don't believe that budgies have ever successfully been crossed with other birds, certainly not to produce fertile off-spring
cheers,
Mike
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Post by madaussie on Jun 5, 2009 19:44:59 GMT 10
I haven't seen any yet  but would love a red one. j |
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Post by avinet on Jun 5, 2009 20:42:44 GMT 10
I haven't seen any yet but would love a red one. j It's genetically impossible for budgies to produce pink or red feathers - same as cockatiels can't produce green feathers. So it would take a bit of fancy genetic engineering to get the necessary genes into a budgie to get a red one. cheers, Mike |
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Post by Laraine on Jun 6, 2009 19:50:08 GMT 10
I guess one day someone will come up with one. I've got budgies, turks, bourkes & elegants together in an aviary, but only the budgies have bred.
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Post by Robyn on Jun 6, 2009 19:59:34 GMT 10
A red budgie now that would be something.  |
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Post by angelicvampyre on Jun 6, 2009 20:04:00 GMT 10
A red Budgies would be very pretty
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Post by wompoodove on Jun 7, 2009 3:20:45 GMT 10
[quote author=laraine I've got budgies, turks, bourkes & elegants together in an aviary, but only the budgies have bred.[/quote]
Lorraine I am wondering if the Turks or elegants bully the others? Just wondering how all the dynamics work with them all in together...
Don
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Post by damo223 on Jun 7, 2009 17:27:13 GMT 10
when i saw this budgie on the net i thought it was really pink lol but afterwards i noticed it aint  |
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Post by angelicvampyre on Jun 8, 2009 12:58:58 GMT 10
If you feed an albino Budgie canery food then an get a pink shade but it wears off
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Post by Karen on Jun 8, 2009 21:26:54 GMT 10
On a Show Budgie forum was a conversation we were having about the possibility of breeding a white faced green budgie and during the conversation the following came up: "grass parrot male x Lutino budgerigar female in Moree NSW in 1963,
4 hybrids were bred which grew to the size of a Bourke parrot and lived for about 12 months."
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Post by Laraine on Jun 9, 2009 16:39:36 GMT 10
Don, the turks get bashed up by the budgies and elegants, poor things. Both have been getting plucked. When I get the new aviary I might take them out.
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Post by wompoodove on Jun 10, 2009 5:39:30 GMT 10
Don, the turks get bashed up by the budgies and elegants, poor things. Both have been getting plucked. When I get the new aviary I might take them out. Hi Laraine: Yep such beautiful gentle birds definitely deserve to have some space. I noticed while filming all of the neophemas in Aus that it appeared to me that the Turq's were very docile. They were also the most timid and hard to approach. If it wasnt for a hide at a small bore where they came to drink I wouldnt have gotten any footage worth looking at! Cheers! Don |
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Post by sypher on Jun 10, 2009 19:46:39 GMT 10
Very hard to keep alive at my place to. I am another yellow male down. I have lost 2 now to night fright.....one female left, anybody interested?? You can take it for free.
Shaun
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Post by madaussie on Jun 10, 2009 19:51:37 GMT 10
That is no good Shaun i dont have turks but turquoise and they are going good are they sorta the same ?
j
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Post by sypher on Jun 10, 2009 19:55:31 GMT 10
same bird mate. They are nice birds, but arent real hardy at my place. native animals scare them in the night.
Shaun
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Post by madaussie on Jun 10, 2009 20:04:09 GMT 10
Cool i have never had them befor sore them at a breeders house and liked so had to get 3 pair them shy little buggers but cute.
j
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Post by finchperson on Sept 20, 2009 12:39:36 GMT 10
In an issue of Australian Birdkeeper Magazine they said it could be possible to breed fully orange/pink budgerigars! they also said it could be possible to breed white face green and blue face blue budgies! Orange/pink budgies that will be the day!!
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I just wanted to share a funny story. I once had an Albino hen and blue male (he was half albino) and many of their chicks were of course Albino too. Well one of them grew up to have a pink hue to his feathers. I thought..Wow! Now if this is a real color I can breed pink budgies and there should be a pretty good demand for them right?
I was sucked in! Not sure if it has ever been attempted Don, but they are a similar bird so it may have been done somewhere along the line.
but would love a red one.
