Budgie mutations
Budgies comes in many mutations. Some of them you can see here, we will update this topic with more mutations.
Green budgie
Inheritance: Dominant
Green budgie comes in 3 different shades: Normal Green, Dark Green (one dark factor) and Olive (two dark factors).
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Normal Green Olive Green
Grey Green budgie mutation
Inheritance: Dominant
Cheek Patches: Deep blue to silver grey
Main Tail Feathers: Black
Normal grey green are similiar to the olive green but can be distinguished by their jet black rather than deep blue tails.
Soon we will post images of this mutations
Violet green
Inheritance: Dominant
Body: Dark green
Mask: Yellow
Cheek Patches: Violet
Main Tail Feathers: Dark Violet
The effect of violet gene is to darken and enrich the shade of green. This makes, for example, a light green bird with the violet gene look similiar to a dark green.
Sky Blue
Inheritance: Recessive
Body: Light Blue
Mask: White
Cheek Patches: Violet
Main Tail Feathers: Dark Blue
Skyblue is the lightest shade of blue, without dark factors.
Cobalt
Inheritance: Recessive
Body: Cobalt blue
Mask: White
Cheek Patches: Violet
Main Tail Feathers: Dark Blue
Cobalt - it's the medium shade of blue with one dark factor. It is darker than skyblue.
Mauve
Inheritance: Recessive
Body: Dark blue (looks muddy and greyish)
Mask: White
Cheek Patches: Violet
Main Tail Feathers: Dark Blue
Mauve is the darkest blue with two dark factors. It can look muddy and greyish. At grey we have grey/blue cheek patches and black tail while mauve has violet cheek patches and blue tail.
Grey budgie
Inheritance: Dominant
Body: Grey
Mask: White
Cheek Patches: Deep blue to silver grey
Main Tail Feathers: Black
Two varieties used to exist, but it now appears that all greys are dominant. Slight differences in depth of coloration may be noted.
Yellow-faced sky blue budgie
Inheritance: Dominant
Body: Sky blue
Mask: Yellow
Cheek Patches: Violet
Main Tail Feathers: Dark Blue
Originally, several different forms could be recognized.
Lutino
Inheritance: Sex-linked
Body: Yellow
Mask: Yellow
Cheek Patches: White
Main Tail Feathers: Light yellow or white
Lutino is one of the most popular colours. Lutino bird have yellow body colour and red eyes. Cere of the male is pink to purple and light blue/white to tan in females depending on if they are in breeding condition. Legs are pink. Lutino is the green series.
Dilute
Inheritance: Recessive
Cheek Patches: Pale violet to pale blue
Main Tail Feathers: Pale yellow or grey
back, rump, breast, flanks and underparts are deluted by aproximately 70% in the light, dark or olive green birds and sky blue, cobalt, mauve or violet birds. Grey green is diluted to a mustard yellow and grey is diluted to a pale grey
Creamino
Inheritance: Sex-linked
Body: Light cream to deep yellow.
Mask: Light to dark yellow with no other markings.
Cheek Patches: White
Main Tail Feathers: Light to dark yellow
Feet And Leg Color: Pink
Eye Color: Red to ruby
Albinoino NEW!!!
Inheritance: Sex-linked
Body: White
Mask: White
Cheek Patches: White
Main Tail Feathers: White
Feet And Leg Color: Pink
Eye Color: Red to ruby