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From: noonan@cbnews.ATT.COM (D. J. Noonan)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR: Re: Parakeets and Canaries
Message-ID: <14186@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 18:06:38 GMT
References: <396.25de4753@desire.wright.edu>
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In article <396.25de4753@desire.wright.edu>, sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes:
>little ones.  It should be interesting to see what colors we end up with in the
>babies since the female is blue with white and the male is turquoise with
>yellow.

My wife, who raises lots of budgies, going to try to predict what you
are going to get:


" I'm not entirely sure what the colours of your bird are, but
  if the male is a 'turquoise' bird with a yellow face and black wing markings
  is generally referred to by breeders as a 'yellow face sky (blue) cock'

  If the female has a white face, ocean blue body, and black wing markings,
  it is referred to as a 'Sky blue normal hen' 

  When a Yellow face sky is mated with a Sky blue normal typically
  half the chicks will be yellow face sky and the other half will be
  sky blue normal.
  Since Yellow face is not sex-linked, chicks of either sex can be
  can have yellow faces.
  Two blue genes are needed to get blue.
  (Blue is is recessive to green, violet, and grey.)
  Therefore, it is likely that the chicks will be blue. 
  
  If your parents look differently than I described
  (e.g.: white body patches on the female)
  then the results will be different.

  Please let me know what colour the chicks turn out to be.

Beth Anne Noonan

"
Dennis Noonan