Most of the young been produced are opalines but one of them is slightly different. All Articles And Pictures © 2017 Cute Little Birdies Aviary Unless Noted. Cocks split for both Cinnamon and Opaline have one Cinnamon allele and one Opaline allele together with one each of the corresponding wild-type alleles. All Rights Reserved.

The linkage between the Cinnamon and Opaline genes gives rise to two types of split cinnamon-opaline cocks, both visually identical. Opaline Grey Cinnamon All budgies have a small white area on the primary flights, but the opaline mutation causes a larger area of white on the primary flights.

Type II split cinnamon opaline cocks are bred by mating Cinnamons to Opalines and have the Cinnamon and Opaline mutant alleles on opposite chromatids, symbolised as cin + - op / cin - op +.


Geneticists call this ' repulsion ' rather than 'Type II'.

Budgie Mutation - Opaline cinnamon My two budgies Lucky (a male bright green and yellow opaline budgie) and Sparkle (a female yellow and possibly blue dilute opaline budgie) have been breeding.
I think he might be a opaline cinnamon budgie.