Parakeet colors?

Just curious, a friend of mine got a parakeet last month. He's your typically yellow %26amp; green budgie. She got him a mate but it died when she hit a wall trying to fly back to their cage. The female was white with blue spots, they looked sort of looked like tick/freckle markings.





But anyway his owner plans to get him a new mate since he's lonely I told her about some parakeets I saw at the petco, some of 2 of them were pure white, one was yellow with a green spot on the side and the others were the standard blue %26amp; white and yellow %26amp; green. There was one that was periwinkle blue with white on the head, neck %26amp; face.





Anway if this bird gets a new mate and they breed at some point would the chicks have the same colors as their parents or would they be different?





Another friend of mine used to have pigeons and the chicks sometimes had the same markings as their parents or were a mix of the two.

Parakeet colors?
It all depends on what the parents parents where so to speak.1. you may get the same colour or some revert back to the normal green. Or you might get colours you dont expect.


The only way you can plan colours is line bred them so you know the history of the parents grandparents and so on, to plan the colours you want


cheers
Reply:It would depend on the exact genetics of the parents. Buying from a pet store you never know what you'll get. In general though if one bird from a pet store is the regular green, all resulting chicks will be green as well since it's the dominant color in parakeet genetics. Most pet store parakeets aren't split to other colors or bred for anything fancy, so the green will be the visual dominant color.





The chicks will be green, but split to whatever color the other parent is. Meaning that if one of the chicks is then bred to another bird that's the same color as the other parent (non-green), it can produce chicks other than greens.