Jerica
07-09-2006, 12:32 PM
Here at my college (vet tech major) we have a female parakeet that I'd like to figure out what her color is called, I'll try to get a pic of her posted, but until then I'll try to describe her. I believe she is called a diluted, but I don't know exactly if that is just what you'd call her color or what. She is mostly white, head, back, wings with a very pretty fawn color kind of scalloped down her wings and on her head. She has a very very pale light almost sky blue on her ches, tail and lower back. She is so pretty. She also has sort of red eyes. I'm hoping after graduation to see if they'll let me adopt her. She also has breeder leg band on that says TF and sideways says TO then 99 so I assume she was born in 99 making her 7 yrs old. I'm not sure how long our college has had her, but her friends died so she's all alone now. By the way she was donated to our school, we didn't buy her, so that doesn't help anything.
Can you help figure out her color? I know its not likely but would anyone happen to know what breeder this band represent? I'm just curious, I don't know that the college will let me adopt her since normally they adopt out "surplus" animals and she is the only parakeet. She's rather tame when she has a wing clipped and will perch on my finger and allow me to pet her. She occasionally will try to fly off or bite sometimes hard, but she definatly could be better if she came home with me. I'd even get her a parakeet friend. Anyway, any help is appreciated.
Edited to add: she also has some pretty purple feathers on her cheeks she looks a lot like http://www.geocities.com/budgie-place/p_colors.html#dilution if you go down the the dilution section the fourth set of pictures and the one on the right. She looks a lot like that, but the purple feathers on the cheeks are bit more noticeable, the blue maybe slightly more diluted. And instead of looking like the grayish scalloping on the wings, head and back its actually fawn, like a cappucino color.
Can you help figure out her color? I know its not likely but would anyone happen to know what breeder this band represent? I'm just curious, I don't know that the college will let me adopt her since normally they adopt out "surplus" animals and she is the only parakeet. She's rather tame when she has a wing clipped and will perch on my finger and allow me to pet her. She occasionally will try to fly off or bite sometimes hard, but she definatly could be better if she came home with me. I'd even get her a parakeet friend. Anyway, any help is appreciated.
Edited to add: she also has some pretty purple feathers on her cheeks she looks a lot like http://www.geocities.com/budgie-place/p_colors.html#dilution if you go down the the dilution section the fourth set of pictures and the one on the right. She looks a lot like that, but the purple feathers on the cheeks are bit more noticeable, the blue maybe slightly more diluted. And instead of looking like the grayish scalloping on the wings, head and back its actually fawn, like a cappucino color.