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    Budgerigar Matings and Colour Expectations
    Budgerigar Matings and Colour Expectations
    Budgerigar Matings and Colour Expectations
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    Budgerigar Matings and Colour Expectations

    By F. S. Elliott

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    Learn to mate your budgies together to get the very best colour combinations. This handy guide includes chapters on the colouration and correct names of the different budgerigars. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateDec 21, 2012
    ISBN9781447481263
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      Budgerigar Matings and Colour Expectations - F. S. Elliott

      EXPLANATORY NOTES

      As the fourth edition of the BOOK OF BUDGERIGAR MATINGS published by the Budgerigar Society has now been exhausted, a fifth edition is necessary, and this book contains not only the expectations from all possible matings, 1,830 in all, between the 60 older genetical varieties of budgerigars, which Dr. Duncker has kindly placed at our disposal, but also notes on the expectations from the established new varieties such as Cinnamon, etc.

      The matings which will be found in lists I and II are by far the most important as the colour factors of all the young produced in these matings can be ascertained from the visible colours of the birds. On the other hand, lists III and IV contain matings producing young, the colour factors of some or all of which cannot be determined from their visible colours. It is of course generally desirable to arrange one’s birds for the matings which are given in the first two lists, but there are occasions when matings from the third and fourth lists may be necessary, and some of these matings produce some young, in regard to whose colour factors there is no doubt.

      This book is not intended to be a scientific treatise on the colour variations in Budgerigars, but it is an attempt made to place at the disposal of all, and particularly of those who are not conversant with the past developments of this interesting subject, the information which has been so freely given us by Dr. Duncker and the late Consult General Cremer. The researches of these gentlemen have been dealt with in previous publications issued by the Budgerigar Society.

      Dr. Duncker’s theoretical expectations have now been tested by thousands of breeders in this country and abroad, and breeders can have every confidence that if their birds possess the factors or genes (colour-reproducing qualities) given in the tables, they will, over a number of nests, get approximately the numbers of youngsters shown. It is not claimed that these results will be obtained in one nest—in fact, in some cases, owing to the number of different kinds of youngsters which can be produced from one mating, it would be quite impossible to do so—but if a season’s results, or better still, the results from a number of pairs are taken, it will be found that the figures are very close.

      In determining the colour-breeding capacity of a Budgerigar, the visible and invisible colour qualities or factors are the only things which count, and, as far as is known at present, the pedigree of a bird is only of academic interest and may even be misleading. Thus, the bird, which is described in the tables as green/white, whether it is produced from the mating: light green/blue-greywing x white blue, from the mating: light green x white blue, or any other mating, is exactly the same bird. It will not produce, for instance, greywings because one of its parents had the greywing factor.

      In the case of birds with colour factors not indicated by the visible colours the buyer is entitled to receive a definite guarantee as to the existence of these factors and the seller should therefore arrange his breeding pairs in such a way that this guarantee can be given. With this object in view, breeders should study the lists of matings given further on in this book to see whether the colour factors of the young birds can be distinguished by the birds visible colours. But they should never forget that there is a limit to the number of birds with different colour factors which can be kept together in one aviary for no matter what pains have been taken to pair the birds in the combinations in which the owner desires them to breed, it is possible that any cock in the aviary may be the father of any youngster. Several combinations are, however, possible, and some simple instances are given below:—

      All the blue series—skyblue, cobalt, and mauve—can be kept together in one aviary.

      Pairs of yellows may be added to the above, for the breeder will know for certain that every green bird produced will be green/white.

      All the white series—with blue, cobalt, and mauve suffusion—can be kept in one aviary.

      Greywing blue/whites, greywing cobalt/whites, and greywing mauve/whites can all be kept in one aviary and all the white series can be kept with them in the same aviary.

      There are many other safe combinations outside the above and these can be found by studying the mating tables.

      If a fancier wishes to go in for a new colour variety without going to the expense of a pair of birds of that colour, his best plan is generally to get a pure hen of the colour in

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