strange budgie

[nic bike]

i was searching for budgies on the internet and i come a cross this strange cool looking one i was wondering if anyone could tell me the exact name of the mutation

http://www.budgieplace.com/v_blackface2.jpg

[xxxSpikexxx]

here you go http://www.budgieplace.com/colorsguide.html#blackface

[Aly]

There you go. Spike answered it.

[nic bike]

thank you!! (great link) wow if i get a budgie i would really like to get a blackface they look so cool but i think there quite rare .

[xxxSpikexxx]

They would be expensive too :o

[nic bike]

They would be expensive too :o

probably ;)

[Tiki]

Blackfaces...my favourite...:love:

Other strange types:

http://www.talkbudgies.com/showthread.php?t=13787

[xxxSpikexxx]

I think a half sider would be my favourite :love:

[Laura]

what a beautiful looking budgie :love:

[nic bike]

Blackfaces...my favourite...:love:

Other strange types:

http://www.talkbudgies.com/showthread.php?t=13787

thanks for the link there are some really strange budgies on it especially the dusters they just don't look real
http://www.geocities.com/premierepets/featherduster2.jpg

[Bea]

Feather dusters are one of the saddest occurances in budgies. :( The feathers grow at such a fast rate that the budgie can't eat enough to support the feather growth. All they do is eat, constantly. They usually die before the age of 3 months old.

[Aly]

http://www.geocities.com/premierepets/featherduster2.jpg

Wow...that's sad...:eek::(

[xxxSpikexxx]

That is sad :(

[Tiki]

That is sad. :( Poor little things!

[Tiki]

This one is worse..how can it see...???:(

http://www.geocities.com/premierepets/dut.JPG

[Bea]

This one is worse..how can it see...???:(

They usually can't. :( They live beside their food bowl, eating, and can't see, fly, perch, etc.

[nic bike]

wow thats really sad :cry:

[DeBree420]

i really like the blackface, but there isnt much chance of us getting our hands on one any time soon... for now we will just have to wait and hope the genetics pop up again...
"Note from the MUTAVI Research and Advice Group:
This mutation could be a mutation of the MC1R-locus which is not fully understood nor described in aviculture. Therefore it is recommended to carry out further test matings. It is obviously a pigment distribution factor resulting in some kind of melanism . We have not seen these birds alive and our latest information is that they are extinct."

"Mr. Van Dijk, a Budgerigar breeder from the Netherlands, discovered two blue cocks having black undulated masks and black striped markings at their abdomen, amongst a wide range of varieties at a bird-market. He decided to buy the birds to breed with them and find out if the trait was a modification or inheritable.
In the first year the cocks were mated to normal Australian grey hens. Out of these matings normal greys and skyblues were derived, cocks as well as hens. During the second year Mr. Van Dijk mated the young hens back to the original cocks. Only one mating - original blackface cock x F1 (grey) hen - produced offspring from which a few were blackfaced.
After the second breeding season it was almost certain that the blackface mutation resides on an autosome and is recessive to the wildtype. The testmatings Mr. Van Dijk carried out so far, confirm this point of view. At this moment there are no indications that the mutation is linked to any other known mutation in the Budgerigar.
Mr. Van Dijk observed a much darker body colour as opposed to normal birds split blackface. A blue blackface without darkfactor is showing a considerable darker blue colour as is seen in normal cobalt blue Budgerigars. In grey blackface speciments without darkfactor, a comparable darkening of the bodycolour is observed as opposed to normal grey birds. In green blackfaces the same phenomenon has been observed. By the way, all green blackfaces died. Only a few pictures are left. At this moment Mr. Van Dijk has one cinnamon-blackface, naturally with a brown mask and ditto striped markings on the abdomen.
It was told by Mr. Van Dijk that the first two cocks bought in 1992 must have had a common recessive pied ancestor, because several recessive pieds were found in the offspring. In the passed five years several younsters were bred with a small headspot suggesting they are split for recessive pied."

[Laura]

I have never even heard of a feather duster poor things only live for 3 months all they do is eat, how sad

[Aly]

I hope they figure out something to help the poor little feather dusters. Is there any chance to trim the feathers in some way? That probably won't extend their life any but maybe make it a bit more comfortable...

[xxxSpikexxx]

Or make a special food for them to eat. So they get what the need.

[nic bike]

I hope they figure out something to help the poor little feather dusters. Is there any chance to trim the feathers in some way? That probably won't extend their life any but maybe make it a bit more comfortable...

i think cutting them would probably increase the growth rate of the feathers. shame theres nothing they can take to stop the growing of feathers:(.

[Bea]

Or make a special food for them to eat. So they get what the need.
Some breeders offer them high protien food, but it won't stop the feathers growing and the eventual wasting away of the budgie. :(