Aviary Chatter. The Rare Budgerigar Club of W.A. Inc

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1 Aviary Chatter The Rare Budgerigar Club of W.A. Inc Issue 110 February 2012

2 The Rare Budgerigar Club of W.A. Inc Club Patron Mr Bryan Pearce Executive Committee of Management 2010 PRESIDENT BRYAN PEARCE VICE PRESIDENT COLIN CHAPMAN SECRETARY ATTILA KISS TREASURER ATTILA KISS COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT Show Manager Betty Rea Assistant Show Manager Colin Chapman Show Stewards John Green, Tony Piercy, Jordan Dunn Show Secretary Rose Dunn Assistant Show Secretary Colin Chapman Lovebirds Colin Chapman Accessories Officer Wayne Bender Trophy Officer John Green Magazine Editor Betty Rea Assistant Editor Bryan Pearce Ring Registrar Barry Fletcher Librarian Wayne Bender Catering Officer Carole Pearce & Barbara Transport Officer Wayne Bender Disclaimer The opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the AUTHORS only and are not necessarily those of the committee or members. Editorial comment/requests to Betty Rea, 4 Malabar Cres. Craigie or by phone ABN

3 MEETS THE 1 ST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH AT SENIOR CITIZENS HALL PATRICK COURT GIRRAWHEEN OFF GIRRAWHEEN ROAD DOORS OPEN AT PM MEETING COMMENCES AT 1.15 PM COMMITTEE MEETING Meetings will be held at the Pearce home. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. on the Thursday following the monthly Table Show bi-monthly as advised. All members who hold any sort of position are encouraged to participate and all members are welcome to attend. RING ORDERS ALL RING ORDERS ARE TO BE PLACED WITH BARRY FLETCHER. ORDERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY ANY OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBER 21 GLOVES PLACE, BEECHBORO, W.A Phone Payment must be included with your ring order Closing date a week prior to the 25 th of the month. UNCODED RINGS AVAILABLE AT EACH MEETING ALL CORRESPONDENCE To the Secretary Mr Attila Kiss PO Box 25, Ballajura, WA 6066 CONTENTS FRONT COVER.. PAGE 1. COMMITTEE POSITIONS.. PAGE 2. CONTENTS & INFORMATION. PAGE 3. FROM THE EDITOR S DESK.... PAGE 4. SHOW SCHEDULE 2011 AND NOTICES.... PAGE 5. BRASEA AUCTION INFORMATION PAGE 6. BREEDING VIOLET BUDGERIGARS PAGE 7. CONTINUED.. PAGE 8 CONTINUED PAGE 9. STATE SHOW INFORMATION.... PAGE 10. BLACKEYED YELLOWS, YELLOWS & DILUTES... PAGE 11. CONTINUED..... PAGE 12. CONTINUED.. PAGE 13 INFORMATION AND ADVERTS.... PAGE 14. THE SEAFOAM YELLOWFACE.... PAGE 15. CONTINUED PAGE 16. MEMBERSHIP LIST FOR PAGE 17. BREEDERS DIRECTORY PAGE

4 From the Editor s Desk Membership payment was due at the end of the year, if you are one of the handful of members who have not paid this will be your last magazine. If you need a replacement membership form they can be downloaded from the website, alternatively just ask Betty or Attila. Thanks to Nigel Tonkin who provided the interesting article on the Seafoam/Kerle Yellowface. This is also on the website and those who receive their magazine by will find additional photos of these interesting birds at the end of the mag. Also thanks to Bryan (Pearce) who some time ago brought the article on Violet Breeding to my attention. I have only recently been able to access it in a format that I could use in the magazine. Warren Wilson offers RBC members an opportunity to access some of the rare varieties at the BRASEA auctions (see p. 6 for details). Wilma suggests that we need to know who has birds of each variety available for the Nationals Selections. Jan will be surveying the clubs (on behalf of the WABC) shortly for that purpose, so you may like to have a look at your magenta rung birds and see if there is anything promising that you are prepared to submit for selection. Varieties that we need to be breeding for the 2013 Nationals include: Goldenface (DF), Suffused (Dilute), Violet (Normal) and Spangle AOSV. Dark Eyed Clears (display only). Festivals, Celebrations and Coming Events RBC AGM February 5 th 2012 STATE Show February 19 th 2012 Round and About - who s doing what SOUTH WEST BUDGERIGAR CLUB (MANDURAH) INC THIRD SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH A.M. EXCEPTIONS FOR No Club Shows in: February or May and December will be the 1 st Sunday. COODANUP COMMUNITY CENTRE, WANJEEP ST. COODANUP Contact Jan METROPOLITAN BUDGERIGAR CLUB OF W.A. INC FOURTH SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH A.M. BASSENDEAN COMMUNITY HALL, OLD PERTH ROAD BASSENDEAN Contact Rita Posthuma Wise Words from Wilma When your wire netting is covered with feather fluff, brush off with a banister brush dampened with water. Recommend the wooden handled, stiff bristled brushes sold at good hardware stores. Plastic brushes will do but not as well. Editorial deadline If you have material to be included in the magazine, please get it to the editor as early in the month as possible. The deadline is the 15 th of each month but it may not be possible to fit in anything received at the last minute until the following month. 4.

5 PROPOSED SHOW SCHEDULE FOR 2012 Date Event Show type Monthly special February 5 th A.G.M. No Show March 4 th Table Show Graded Clearbody Greywing Olive Mauve Fallow April 1 st Table Show Graded Lacewing Clearwing Violet Crest Cinnamonwing May 6 th Table Show Graded Lutino Dilute Spangle Spangle DF Emphasis on Young birds June 3 rd Table Show Graded Albino Black Eyed Self OpalineASC Opaline AOSV Yellowface Blue July 1 st ANNUAL Open Graded August 5 th SHOW Interclub Challenge Double points Graded September No show October 7 th BRASEA HOSTED BY R.B.C. November 4 th Table Show Dominant Pieds Recessive Pieds Dark Eyed Clear Dutch Pied UBC NOVEMBER 24 th Wanneroo Show Open Graded Double Points DECEMBER 1 st Osborne Park Open Graded show Double Points December 2 nd Christmas Party NO SHOW WABC FUNDRAISING RAFFLE TO BE DRAWN AT THE STATE SHOW [ ] Please ensure your tickets are returned to the WABC, 14 LYELTA STREET, FALCON WA 6210, NO LATER THAN 10 TH FEBRUARY ACCESSORIES TABLE Please note that only non-perishable items will be held in stock. You may however order other products through Wayne. This is because there has been a lot of waste in the past with items passing their use-by date and needing to be sold cheaply or discarded. Have you had a look at the club s website yet? 5.

6 RBC "BRASEA" PBS WA Fanciers Members of RBC of WA, The Pied Society or BRASEA can purchase birds at any BRASEA Auction or any Auction we attend and we will buy on your behalf and transport to you there are no fees for this service, all you pay is for the bird, a travel cage $15 and the freight We will inspect the lots you are interested in and advise what we think of them and offer a consider value if required qualified Judges are available to look at any bird for you Elenbee Trade Table is also available and they can Mail Order any Bird Requirements to anywhere Coming Auctions Over 350 quality Budgerigars each auction Next Auctions MARCH 25th, Inspections 8am Auction commences 9am YMCA HALL 184 The River Road, REVESBY Auction June 10 th Mascot Sydney, with South Sydney Avicultural Society/BRASEA Show on 9th July 15th Strathpine, Brisbane QLD, October 14 th Revesby, For 2013 Mar 24 th, May 26 th & Oct 13 th Revesby Sydney 2013 July 21 Strathpine Brisbane **************************** For more details8 warren@brasea.com phone

7 Breeding Violet Budgerigars By Leon Saad This article was written by Leon Saad, and published in the January/Feburary issue 2008 of the ABS magazine. Leon is an ABS judge and experienced breeder of the violet variety. It is not for nothing that purple was regarded as the color of royals for centuries past. The ancient Phoenicians, a sea faring merchant people, prospered by monopolizing the market on purple dye and cloth. Purple accordingly was exclusive and associated with royalty. Purple or Violet budgerigars are truly stunning and cherished by many in our hobby. They are somewhat scarce and harder to breed because they require the combination of multiple factors on a blue bird. I sought in vain in my early years in the hobby, before I was able to purchase my first Violet budgie. This was an older, but good quality Violet cock I got from Greg Ruth. I was ecstatic when I bred my first Violet chick. The first signs of the emerging dark pin feathers on Violet (and Cobalt) budgies as they feather up in the nest, never ceases to evoke a sense of excitement. Once ascendant on the show bench some years ago, the conventional wisdom in more recent years is that Violets are no longer able to compete for top honors. Yet at the world s premier show, the BS Club show in England, in 2006 a Violet hen won BIS. Let us hope that this will herald the dawning of a new age of competitiveness for the glorious Violet budgerigar. Indeed, in recent years here in the USA the sight of quality Violets (and Cobalts) on the show bench is becoming more and more frequent as fanciers indulge their passion for this royal color while pursuing success on the show bench with an increasingly competitive variety. My experience breeding Violets from the get go was very different from what I was lead to expect from the literature I read. The established doctrine was that it would be very hard to breed Violets and only a very small parentage of visual Violets would emerge statistically; that the odds of breeding Violets was very low. There was the widely disseminated theory, stated as fact, that double factor Violets did not exist, due to a lethal gene which prevented their survival. To say nothing of the weird formula predicting Cobalt and Violet production according to whether the dark factor is Type I or Type II, depending on whether it comes via green or blue ancestors. Complex yes, Helpful and true? I didn t know; but, to borrow that line from the famous movie, frankly, I didn t give a damn. I just proceeded to pair visual Violets to Skyblues with the hope that I might produce Violet or even Cobalt. Contrary to expectation, I always produced a good number of Violets. The first Violet I ever acquired, paired to a Sky Opaline hen, produced one chick only for me from that pairing, a Violet! I paired the same original Violet cock to a Grey hen and got one more chick, and yes it was a Violet also! I brought in a Cinnamon Violet cock a few years later, and paired to a Sky hen, in the one and only round I took, it produced a visual Violet cock, a Cinnamon Cobalt hen (or Sky Violet, I find it hard to distinguish them), and a Cinnamon Opaline Cobalt hen (or Sky Violet). More recently I paired a Cinnamon Cobalt (or Sky Violet) hen chick in one round. I have regularly bred a good number of visual Violets, when I set out to do so. Why is this? I believe the answer lies in the fact that there are double factor Violets, contrary to the widely propagated view in the traditional budgerigar literature on Violet breeding. Much of the traditional literature one reads about breeding is misleading and wrong. I would strongly encourage anyone interested in breeding Violets to read the excellent articles of Peter Bergman of Australia on the subject. This can be accessed on the internet (just do a word search with budgerigar Violet and Bergman ) or read his recently published articles in Budgerigar World. 7.

8 My own experience makes me readily agree with much of what Bergman has expressed in his insightful analysis, and I make reference to many of his views, to give him deserved credit. I intend to share my own experience breeding these beautiful birds and offer some practical tips based on opinions I have formed in the process, and in light of Bergman s insights. Double Factor Violets? Violet, like the Grey and dark factors, is a color modifier; not a color in itself. It is essential to note that, while Violet is regarded as a dominant mutation, as Bergman emphasizes, it is an incomplete dominant such that the single factor expresses differently from the double factor. Unlike the Grey mutation, a complete dominant one, where blue birds of both single factor and double factor grey appear as visual Greys, with the Violet mutation a blue bird with a single Violet factor (Sky Violet) appears visually to be a Cobalt, and the same blue bird with two Violet factors (double factor Violet Sky) appears as a visual Violet. In this sense it is similar to the dark factor that in single factor produces Cobalts or Dark Green birds, and in double factor produces Mauves and Olives. Bergman explodes the widely propagated myth that the Violet factor cannot be expressed in double factor because of a lethal gene precluding double factor expression. Like Bergman I am here to say that yes, double factor Violets do exist. I have bred them. The existence of double factor Violets accounts for the increased Violet breeding ratios over traditional expectations. So too does the existence of Sky Violets, frequently mistaken for Cobalts. This latter mistake is quite understandable; indeed almost inevitable, because Cobalts and Sky Violets are almost indistinguishable so much so that Sky violets probably make up half of the budgies entered in show classes as Cobalts. Three ways to breed visual violets Traditional literature held forth the belief that a visual Violet was a Cobalt Violet only. It is now settled that you can breed visual Violets in three different ways, as Bergman articulates, including without any dark factor being present. A visual Violet can also be bred by combining in a blue bird two Violet factors and no dark factors (double factor Violet Sky DFVS ) or by combining in a blue bird two Violet factors and one dark factor (double factor Violet Cobalt DFV+K ) There are subtle differences in the intensity to the violet color in these; indeed there are a whole range of shades of violet one can see, depending on how many Violet and dark factors are present in the blue bird. It may be speculated that the vivid parma violets referenced in earlier literature may have been double factor Violet Cobalts, that being the most vivid violet coloration. Mauves that usually appear almost grey, when violet is present have a distinct purple hue. Applying these insights to my earlier breeding experiences mentioned, the explanation of the high rate of Violets produced becomes simple and predictable, without weird formulas. It stands to reason that where your pairings allow for more ways to breed visual Violets, there will be a higher proportion of visual Violets produced. Working with dominant factors, we know that the dominant dark or Violet factors present in one parent in single factor have a 50% chance of passing to the chicks, as happened; not long odds! We can deduce that a visual Violet chick from a visual Violet parent, paired to a Sky, can only be a Cobalt Violet (SFV+K). Also, a visual Violet which is a double factor Violet (DFVS, with no dark factor present) paired to a Sky cannot produce a visual Violet chick; it can only produce all single factor Sky Violets SFVS. Reverting to my earlier mention of the nest of 4 visual Violet chicks produced from a Cinnamon Cobalt (or Sky Violet) cock to a Violet normal hen, the following deductions can most likely be made. I know the visual Violet mother had to be a single factor, Violet Cobalt (SFV+K) because its parents were a Sky paired to a visual Violet. I believe that the Cinnamon cock was most likely a Sky Violet rather than a Cobalt, because that would be a more likely explanation for breeding a higher number of Violets, allowing the emergence of all three types of visual Violets (SFV+K; DFV+K; DFV). As a matter of fact there were two or three distinctly different violet hues among these four normal Violet chicks, further evidence to support this inference. 8.

9 The different intensity and visual expression of Violet and dark factors is also influenced by whether the bird is Opaline or Cinnamon. Opalines tend to have a somewhat less intense coloring than Normals. However, it is particularly with Cinnamons that these differences in violet coloration become more obvious. Cinnamon typically dilutes the coloration and makes it less intense. The range of violet shades is much more clearly seen, and the color is also altered and softened. Some birds emerge looking distinctly lilac, some with an almost pinkish purple hue, when this bird is also a Cinnamon; others appear more purple. The different intensity and visual expression of violet and dark factors is also influenced by the natural ground color of the blue, which differs in vividness. Some Skyblues are dull others are radiant and bright. There is also the Dilute factor which also reduces the intensity of the blue, as in Whites and Greywings. I have a beautiful Normal Cobalt (Sky Violet?) Greywing, and this color is also subtly different from its Cinnamon counterpart. Let me revisit the fact that Sky Violets appear to be very similar to Cobalts. Bergman provides a guideline for detecting the subtle differences between Cobalts and Sky Violets, essentially on the basis that Sky Violets appear to have a turquoise hue near the base of the flight and tail feathers, while with true Cobalts the tails are uniformly navy. Some Violet breeders I have spoken to say they can detect these subtle differences. I have not been able to do so with any degree of confidence. I suspect Opaline and Cinnamon also may confound this guideline somewhat. I suspect that there may be different strains of Violet, and also that depending on the shade and brightness of the blue ground color, Violet will manifest differently, in single and double factor form. This is also true with Cobalts. I would not be surprised if someone s confident declaration based on visual inspection, that a particular bird was a visual Violet not a Cobalt, turned out to be contradicted by subsequent breeding results. Sometimes we get to know for sure, when e.g. a Mauve is produced from two apparent Cobalts we know them to be true Cobalts. When two Cobalts produce a violet chick, we know that either both are Sky Violets, or that one is a Sky Violet, and the other a true Cobalt. My approach is to assume Violet may be one of three kinds unless the breeding records establish otherwise and similarly with Cobalts. There are a lot of interesting hues of blue, and getting Skys, Cobalts, Mauves and Violets from any pairing is perfectly fine with me and there are separate classes for all these in the show. So my Violet breeding friends, the moral of the story is: breed true and have a right royal time too! New book release Dr Rob Marshall s Book The Budgerigar 415 pages, hard cover, with more than 2,000 colour photos and illustrations. This definitive work provides Budgerigar breeders with detailed information on all aspects of keeping and exhibiting. The first 7 chapters cover the relationship of the wild budgerigar with its natural environment. Nutrition required for breeding success with exhibition budgerigars, genetics and breeding systems needed to produce show features are covered in the next 9 chapters. Health and diseases are covered in the final 13 chapters. $114 plus $16 courier postage for Australia Overseas delivery Aus$35 - Bulk orders cheaper ORDERS/CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED Phone: Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford. N.S.W

10 WA S PREMIER SHOW WA STATE SHOW & WA DERBY DATE: 19 TH FEBRUARY 2012 [SUNDAY] VENUE: COODANUP COMMUNITY CENTRE WANJEEP STREET COODANUP TYPE OF SHOW: OPEN/GRADED WA STATE SHOW - ADULTS WA DERBY - YOUNG [Magenta Rings] JUVENILES - [Gold Rings] GUEST JUDGE: GREG ROWE [Victoria] The Show will be conducted as 3 separate shows SETTING UP/BENCHING: 9.30AM AM JUDGING: 11.00AM VIEWING: 2.30PM PRESENTATION/DEBENCHING/CLEAN UP: AFTER VIEWING ABOVE TIMES ARE DEPENDANT ON THE NUMBER OF BIRDS BENCHED ENTRY FEE: 50c per bird. DRINKER AND STANDARD SEED MIX [IN D FEEDER] AND PAPER ON FLOOR FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE AVAILABLE ALL DAY HOSTED BY THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BUDGERIGAR COUNCIL (INC) 10.

11 BLACK-EYED YELLOWS, YELLOWS and DILUTES (This article first appeared in the Newcastle Budgerigar Club Bulletin in It looks at this variety from an Australian point of view. Since it was written, the BSA standard has been discarded and replaced with a new Australian standard which no longer recognises shades of yellow. Changes in Standard aside, the balance of the article is still relevant. The importation of English stock has meant the re-emergence of some true non-cinnamon Yellows on the show bench.) Also need to take into account that in Australia we refer to the Black-Eyed Yellow as Black- Eyed Self and the variety can be produced in the Blue Series too, ie. Whites the Ed. BLACK-EYED YELLOW by Ken Yorke The term "Black-eyed Yellow" taken literally could mean any bird which is yellow in colour and has a black eye. There are however three completely different varieties of Budgerigar which fit this loose description. They are the Double Factor Spangles, the Dark-eyed Clear (a rare type of compound Pied) and the Yellow (the subject of this article). The term "Blackeyed Yellow" should be reserved only for the latter of these three. If you read the NSW BSA Standard for the Black-eyed Yellow you could be excused for thinking that there is only one type of Black-eyed Yellow. This is not so. Just as there are different shades of Green (Light, Dark, Olive, Grey etc.) there are corresponding shades of Yellow, ie. Light Yellow, Dark Yellow, Olive Yellow, Grey Yellow etc. After all, a Light Yellow is only a Normal Light Green which has lost most of its ability to produce black pigment and also has a slightly different feather construction. For this and other reasons geneticists often prefer to call the variety by another name - Dilute. While these differences in shade of colour may be only slight, they do nevertheless exist. The BSA standard combines all these different shades into one standard and simply states that the colour must be yellow. The National Standard on the other hand recognises the Light, Dark and Olive Yellows separately as does the English Standard. So remember that when comparing colour between two Black-eyed Yellows, if one appears paler than the other, it may be that one has poor colour and one good colour, or you may in fact be comparing a good coloured Light Yellow with a good coloured Dark Yellow. Very few breeders and/or judges would have the expertise to go through a class of Black-eyed Yellows and grade them into their correct shades and be certain of it. (The exact same situation occurs with Lutinos.) A very large proportion of Black-eyed Yellows in Australia are either Light Yellow or Light Grey Yellow. An even larger proportion (almost all) Black-eyed Yellows are "masking" Cinnamonwing. In fact some people call the modern Black-eyed Yellow a Cinnamon Yellow or a Cinnamonwing Yellow. This is not to be confused with the bird in the standard called a Cinnamonwing Yellow which is a totally different variety again, even though the names are the same. This means that the modern BEY in Australia is no longer a true variety but is in fact a compound variety of Cinnamonwing and the original BEY mutation. While the original true BEY may be rare in Australia it is by no means at risk of extinction since it can be reestablished at any time by removing the Cinnamonwing factor from the modern BEY. However there is little to be gained in doing this since the Cinnamonwing factor is beneficial as far as the show bird is concerned and judges are accustomed to it. 11.

12 BEYs are prone to get very pale grey markings on the wings, saddle and neck. The addition of the cinnamonwing factor turns this pale grey into very pale brown which doesn't stand out as much on the yellow background, which in turn makes the bird closer to the desired standard. As mentioned earlier there are two other different varieties of Budgerigar which have black eyes and are yellow in colour. How then do you tell the difference between these imposters and the BEY. The following are the major differences. BEY - Tend to have pale grey markings on head, neck and wings and an even greenish tinge in body colour. Possess a white iris in the eye. Grey to Grey-pink feet. Cocks have a blue cere. Double-factor Spangle - Rarely show any markings and are spangle markings, not Normal markings when present. Very prone to an uneven and patchy suffusion, often showing a ring around the neck. Possess a white iris in the eye. Grey feet. Cocks have blue cere. Dark-eyed Clear - Extremely pure colour (better than Lutinos), no suffusion, no markings. No white iris. Pink feet. Cocks have flesh coloured ceres, not blue. HISTORY The Light Yellow was the first mutation of the wild normal Light Green. It has been seen in extremely small numbers in wild flocks. The Light Yellow was established in captivity in the 1870s in Belgium in an aviary which contained light suffused Yellows (the forerunner of the exhibition Yellow), heavy suffusion Yellows and what may have been some Lutino hens (which died out). Yellows reached England during the 1880s but did not reach Australia until 1900 when Mr C. H. A. Lienau, of Adelaide, South Australia imported some from England. In early times the Light Suffusion and Dark Suffusion Yellows were shown separately. STANDARD - YELLOW (BLACK EYED): MASK: Clear ground colour, ornamented on each side by a well-defined suffused white cheek patch. BODY COLOUR: Black, rump, breast, flanks, wings and underparts to be a solid and even yellow throughout. MARKINGS: Clear ground colour is the optimum. Faint neutral markings may be found on cheeks, back of head, neck and wings. EYES: Black with white iris ring. PRIMARY FLIGHTS AND TAIL: Paler yellow. NOTE: Visible opaline characteristics not permissible. GENETICS The Black-eyed Yellow factor is recessive to Normal, Greywing and Clearwing, ie. a Normal, Greywing or Clearwing can be split for Yellow (or White). A Yellow cannot be split for Greywing or Clearwing. These three varieties are genetically very closely related. They are known as multiple allelomorphs. Put simply, that means that the same gene has mutated several times and resulted in several different varieties. Since genes occur in pairs, a budgerigar can only carry the factor for two of these varieties at one time. Therefore a Normal can only be split for ONE of the following group of varieties at one time:- Greywing, Clearwing and Yellow. Similarly a Greywing can only be split for ONE of the following group of varieites at one time:- Clearwing and Yellow. 12.

13 Genetic scientists have another name for the Black-eyed Yellow - Dilute - which is a less confusing term when talking genetics. Using this term a Light Yellow becomes a Light Green Dilute, Dark Yellow becomes a Dark Green Dilute etc. since the Black-eyed Yellow is the green series Dilute then the blue series Dilute is the Black-eyed White. Below are two tables for the matings of Black-eyed Yellows (and Whites). The first table relates to the original true Black-eyed Yellow or White. This table may still be valid for some Black-eyed Yellows and probably valid for a lot of Black-eyed Whites but the second table is more likely to be valid for the modern Cinnamonised Black-eyed Yellow and White. Dilute Breeding Expectations Normal X Dliute Normal X Normal/Dilute Normal/Dilute X Normal/Dilute Normal/ Dilute X Dilute Dilute X Dilute 100% Normal/Dilute 50% Normal 50% Normal/Dilute 25% Dilute 50% Normal/Dilute 25% Normal 50% Dilute 50% Normal/Dilute 100% Dilute BREEDING EXPECTATION for the MODERN YELLOW or WHITE (CINNAMON DILUTE*) Normal Cock X Cinnamon Dilute Hen 50% Normal/Dilute Hens 50% Normal/Cinnamon-Dilute Cocks Normal Hen X Cinnamon Dilute Cock 50% Cinnamon/Dilute Hens 50% Normal/Cinnamon -Dilute Cocks Normal/Cinnamon -Dilute Cock 12.5% Normal/Cinnamon-Dilute Cocks X Cinnamon Dilute Hen 12.5% Dilute/Cinnamon Cocks 12.5% Cinnamon/Dilute Cocks 12.5% Cinnamon Dilute Cocks 12.5% Normal/Dilute Hens 12.5% Dilute Hens 12.5% Cinnamon/Dilute Hens Cinnamon Dilute Cock and Cinnamon Dilute Hen 12.5% Cinnamon Dilute Hens 50% Cinnamon Dilute Cocks 50% Cinnamon Dilute Hens Note that a true Black-Eyed Yellow (Dilute) can be spotted instantly in a nest of modern BEYs (Cinnamon Dilute) during the first few days of life because the Dilute always has a black eye, but the Cinnamon Dilute has a brown eye which gradually turns black after about seven days. So unless you use some identification system (eg ring no., coloured split rings etc) you will not be able to tell the two types apart after this age. The true Dilute will probably be dirtier in colour and markings but this is not foolproof and test mating is the only sure way to check. INTERNET BANKING There have been several inquiries about Internet banking by members who would like to pay their membership and purchases via Internet banking. This has been arranged with our bank Bank West. If you would like to use this system please remember to inform the treasurer about your deposit so that he can justify the deposit in the account book and the books will balance. Account name: The Rare Budgerigar Club of W.A. BSB: ACCOUNT NUMBER NARRATION: YOUR NAME 13.

14 REVISED SEED PRICES Buy your seed through the club a good deal for you and a little bonus for the club. 20kg Budgie Breeder $ kg Budgie Mix $ kg Small Parrot $ kg White Millet $ kg Hulled Oats $ kg Plain Canary $ kg Canary Mix $32-00 Seed orders taken by Wayne ( ) *** Please have your orders in AT LEAST one week prior to the show so that seed can be ordered in time for the weekend. *** RING ORDER CLOSING DATES 2013 RINGS [GREEN] [1 st Order 20 th March 2012]; 31 st August 2012; 30 th November 2012; 28 th February 2013 and May 31 st May 2013] RING PRICES FOR 2013 RINGS WILL BE 55c EACH. Please refer to your Club Ring Order Form as some surcharges apply. RING ORDER CLOSING DATES 2012 RINGS [GOLD] 28 th February 2012 and 31 st May 2012 [Final] Please make sure order and payment are with Barry at least a week before these dates. Dates for 2012 The State Show February 19 th 2012 State Selections May 20 th 2012 Interclub Challenge August 5 th 2012 BRASEA October 7 th Smile a While A member who prefers not to be named recounted that during a visit to a doctor one day the whole waiting room was plunged into deafening silence by a conversation that began My dark green cock... Perhaps this section should be called RED FACES! The Ed. 14.

15 A New Mutation - Seafoam Yellow Face or Kerle Faced Blue On a visit to the aviaries of Kevin O Callaghan in Rockhampton Queensland AUSTRALIA in 2010 a couple of birds that did not appear to be the norm stood out. These birds had a Yellow Face with no yellow in the cap. The cap was white in fact almost whiter than white if this could be so. On asking Kevin where these birds originated, he advised Graeme Kerle of Townsville in Queensland. Graham produced from a Yellow Faced Opaline Cobalt hen (purchased at auction from Ernie Wise of New South Wales) and a Spangle Grey cock non yellow faced (purchased from Robert Manvel also of New South Wales in one of his sale lots) 2 x Spangle Yellow Faced Sky cocks, 1 x Spangle Yellow Faced Sky hen, 1 x Spangle Sky cock. This occurred in The Yellow Faced progeny were all visual Seafoam and were quite obviously different when viewed in the nest. The mask being yellow, the cap white and the body colour Seafoam. Neither parent had any visual variations to what would be described as normal for their respective variety. The initial resultant offspring from this pairing suggest that the Spangle was not a Double Factor Yellow face. The term Seafoam was nominated by Jennie Liebich as soon as she sighted them; the body colour in each resembled the colour of the sea just below the foam of a breaking wave. Seafoam does not reflect the mask and cap colouration, but the body colour only. Realistically they could be called Kerle Faced Blue to reflect the origins or Seafoam Yellow Face to embrace Jennie s initial artistic interpretation. The pairings at Graeme s resulted in nests averaging 70% visual Seafoam with the nonvisual still carrying the trait as Seafoams were bred from these non-visual pairings. Visual Seafoams to Normal Green series birds resulted in visual Blue series (non Seafoam), and Opaline Green hens, these paired back to Blue series (Non visual Seafoam) then gave a very high visual result in Seafoam of about 60%, this being Graeme s assessment. When the first of these Seafoam birds were produced, Graeme, as I understand it, gave a couple to a backyard breeder not knowing what he had produced. Kevin noticed some on a visit to Grahams and was fortunate enough to obtain some to breed with and Kevin then was kind enough to gift a couple to Jennie for her to work with. The pair that arrived with Jennie back to Mount Gambier were both visual Seafoams, one being Normal and the other a Spangle, these produced chicks and we were overjoyed to see that a couple were Seafoams. The resultant chicks did not seem to have a long life expectancy thus a number of outcrosses occurred quickly to try and ensure that the strain remained. Note that at Grahams he did not have the same issue; it may have been that the birds that arrived at Mount Gambier were a little close. On pairing non visual to visual, there are now a couple of out crossed visual birds to work with. There are others that have been paired to non-visuals with no resultant visuals as yet thus more proofing will be required to fully ascertain breeding possibilities. Graham and Kevin have sent down some further birds that are non-visual that have produced this new variety for them and to these two gentlemen Jennie and I cannot thank them enough for giving us the opportunity to work with these and the previous pair of birds. 15.

16 One interesting occurrence is that we now have a Green with a Yellow Mask and White cap and produced from two blues??? This information is being released to share with others this new mutation and to also see if changes are occurring elsewhere in the world of a similar nature. It is a bit premature to determine the breeding habits of this variety, noting that it is Dominant but other surprises might present. I believe the Spangle has something to do with this mutation and other aviaries that I have visited recently have changes occurring and all of these go back to the Spangle parentage. It is interesting as Roy Aplin of the United Kingdom painted birds similar to these some years ago predicting such a change might occur. The mother of the chicks below Opaline baby at various stages ^ Spangle Opaline Sky from the same pairing is this a double factor Seafoam? If you have not paid your membership for 2012 this will be your last magazine. 16.

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