Rainbow Budgie

Setelah sekian lama mengidamkan sekor "Rainbow" budgie, akhirnya dapat jugak..Angkut sekali ngn anak2 seramai 4 ekor...masa tu anak2 masih merah...Kalu di tanyakan pada org2 yg sudah lama ber eksperimen dengan spesies ni, payah nak dapat anak rainbow kalau dipairkan dengan pair selain rainbow.. 

Tapi Alhamdulillah daripada 4 ekor ade jugak sekor jadi rainbow..Rata2 sebelum ni  breeder yang pair kan rainbow dengan rainbow untuk memperolehi anak jenis ini...

Rainbow adalah salah satu contoh kecelaruan genetik burung budgie...

Antara salah satu presention by DIDIER MERVILDE

Rainbow budgies are a combination of several mutations in the blue range and therefore not an independent mutation. The name “rainbow” was first used by Keston Foreign Bird Farm who create this wonderful and colourful budgerigar. The Boosey brothers owners of the Keston Foreign Bird Farm create this bird for petshops in England.

Previously such bird have been bred in England and on the Continent, usually by change. No respected breeder at that time was interested in these birds.

At the Keston farm they only used yellow-faced and goldenfaced opaline whitewing blue an cobalt. As yellow-face they practiced the Mutant 2 and as golden face they used what we know as Australian yellowface.

Today we see also visual violets and mauves. What we have to avoid are the grey birds.

On the shows they accept also the yellowface Mutant 1 but in my opinion is it better not to use this mutation. The colour of the rainbow is more attrac-tive when we practice the Yellow face Mutant 2 and Australian yellowface birds. The last ones known as the Goldenface rainbow.

The problem with breeding rainbow’s is the size of the bird. My experience tells me that finding good whitewings is very difficult because the white-wings on the continent are different from the whitewings in Australia and that are the birds we needed to breed the real rainbow. For that reason the Keston Farm imported Australian whitewings and Australian yellowfaces.