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Here are some examples of color mutations/combinations we breed at Keely's Keets Avairy.
The birds pictured are not for sale, nor is it guranteeded that we will have any of these colors avalible for sale at any point in time. This is just a brief and incomplete color guide for what we usually expect our breeders to produce, but they seem to surprise us everyday with something new and beautiful.
Every bird is different in some way, these are just general pictures, I hope you enjoy them.
For a real and complete guide to all color mutations that are possible in budgies, go to The Budgie Place. There is a link in the links page.
This is an example of the normal wing markings and 'wild' budgie coloration. Before generations of special breeding, forcing the recessive genes out, all budgies looked like this.
This is a single dark factored budgie, resulting in a deeper green.
A double dark factored yellow base budgie, is an olive green budgie.
A violet yellow based budgie looks similar to an olive budgie but with a bluish tinge.
The violet factor in a white based budgie makes this beautiful purle color. (The color may not show well in the photo.)
A normal no dark factored budgie is a light blue budgie and looks like a bright teal.
Basic blue color. White face, black wing/head markings, and a deep blue body. This basic blue is a single dark factor. If there were no dark factors the blue would be a light aqua blue and if there were two dark factors it would be a dark gray. Keely's Keets Avairy produces the single dark factored blue, as pictured, the most often. He was blinking when the picture was taken, cute huh?
They call this color mutation Mauve, we call it dark gray. This beautiful color happens in double dark factored white based budgies.
The Mauve mutation, two dark factors, and the opaline wing marking mutation result in a light gray budgie.
This is what we at Keely's Keets Avairy dubbed the Neon Green Coloring. It is NOT a real mutation, just what we call the look of this type of budgie. This brillient Green/Yellow is a no dark factored opaline. (Mixed in with some love.)
This is a gray wing, the gray wing's normal pattern markings are all gray instead of being all black. This example of a gray wing is on a white based budgie.
This is an example of a yellow based gray wing budgie, cool huh?
All from the same clutch, these three posed for me to show you the difference between normal, opaline, and gray wing, wing markings. They are all single darkfactored blue budgies, as you can see, both the graywing and opaline lighten the base color slightly compaired to a normal wing marking.
White pieds vary in amounts of visable pattern marking, body color, like blue or green. They are usually splochy, and look like a quilt but sometimes they can be uniform and simple. They can also be so diluted they are almost all white or yellow.
Yellow pieds are the same as white pieds but they are green and yellow instead of blue and white!
Clearflight Pieds are distinquished by the fact that their flight feathers are clear, being all yellow or white and devoid of pattern markings. The clearness of a clearflight pied may continue up the wing to cover almost all of the wing.
This is the same as a white clearflight pied, but they are yellow and green.
Another beautiful example of a clear flight pied.
This is a light blue budgie with a yellow face. The yellow face is fairly self explanatory, it causes the normaly white mask feathers on a white/blue budgie to be yellow. Some of the tail feathers may be yellow, and sometimes the yellow bleeds through the markings on the wings and head. If a yellow/green budgies is a yellow face, you can't tell. Yellow face is the color mutation we didn't know we had until the 3rd generation was born. Pepsi and Sailor gave us two yellow faces in their first clutch and totally shocked us. After that we have had quite a few yellow faces from many couples.
This is a yellow face budgie that the yellow has bled through his normally blue feathers causing them to turn an aqua/teal color.
An example of a yellow face that did not have the yellow mix with the blue body feathers.
A Dark Eyed Clear is a combo mutation of a recessive pied and a clear flight pied. They are solid yellow or solid white, with white cheek patches and plum eyes that never develop colored irises.
This is the classic albino, white with red eyes. Lutinos are the same color mutation, but with an yellow base, making them all yellow instead.
Color mutation combos can be very attractive, this budgie is a gray wing, opaline.
This little budgie stunned us with so many color mutations, violet, gray wing, opaline, and yellow face, all in one.
When a budgie is a pied and a yellow face, the yellow mixes with the white body feathers and creates a cream color.
An example of the color combination of recessive pied and violet.
Another combination of color mutations that we at Keely's Keets Avairy have named the Silverado. Yellow face and gray wing on a white/light blue budgie make the Silverado coloring possible. The color combo was named after the first bird that was a silverado, who was also named after the color. When the bird Silverado was a baby and her yellow and blue color had not come in yet she looked like silver. So we named her Sliverado. When her younger brother Sam Spade grew up he looked just like Silverado and we would discribe him as 'He is a Sliverado' so after two more birds looked the same we christened the color combonation 'Silverado'.