Lacewing Budgies [Appearance, Breeding, Genetics] +Photos

What is a lacewing budgie? Lacewing budgie refers to a budgie that has both the cinnamon and ino genes at the same time.

There is no mutation called “lacewing mutation” that is passed on to future generations. Besides, the Lacewing variety is a mix of two mutations, cinnamon, and ino.

For example, a lacewing budgie can also be a lutino budgie with cinnamon or an albino with cinnamon mutation.

Lacewing Budgie Appearance & Identification

A lacewing budgie has brown markings that come from cinnamon mutation. Besides, they have white or yellow base colors that come from the ino gene.

Adult lacewing budgies have pink legs and feet, and red or ruby-red eyes without iris rings.

Body color	Yellow or white
Head and throat spots	Yellow or white head. Cinnamon brown, light brown troat spots
Wing markings	Pale cinnamon brown, light brown with a minimal yellow or white edge
Cheek patches	Pale violet
Tail feathers	Pale cinnamon brown, light brown with a cinnamon brown quill
Feet and legs color	Fleshy pink, pink
Eyes	Red or ruby-red color with white iris ring
Cere	Pink, and purple variations in males. Light blue, white variations in females. Besides, females have tan-colored ceres with a crusty surface in breeding conditions.

Lacewing Budgie Mutation & Genetics

A lacewing budgie has two gene mutations, such as ino and cinnamon. Both ino and cinnamon mutations are sex-linked and are passed on to future generations via the X chromosome.

A female budgie has one X chromosome, while a male budgie has two X chromosomes.

A female budgie needs one cinnamon gene and one ino gene to visually become a lacewing budgie. Besides, a male budgie requires two cinnamon genes and two ino genes to visually become a lacewing budgie.

What does the ino gene do on a lacewing budgie? An ino gene removes all marking and pigmentation all over the body. The budgie becomes pure white or yellow, depending on its base color. Besides, the ino gene turns the black color to red color in the eyes by removing black pigmentation.

However, there are exceptions that the ino gene doesn’t suppress all markings and pigmentations. For example, the cinnamon gene is one of the exceptions.

What does the cinnamon gene do on a lacewing budgie? A cinnamon gene turns the black color of the markings, and spots to brown by diluting the black melanin.

Lacewing Budgie Breeding

To breed a lacewing budgie chick, both parents need to have ino and cinnamon genes.

Females must be visually a lacewing budgie. But, males don’t have to be visually lacewing. It is enough male budgies to be split for cinnamon or ino genes.

Lacewing Budgie Breeding Expectations

The lacewing budgie breeding expectation table is as follows:

Lacewing male x lacewing female	100% visually lacewing males 100% visually lacewing females
Lacewing male x normal female	100% normal males 100% visually lacewing females 100% of the males split for lacewing
Normal male x lacewing female	100% normal males 100% normal females 100% of the males split for lacewing
Lacewing male x ino female	100% visually ino males 100% visually lacewing females 100% of the males split for Lacewing
Ino male x lacewing female	100% visually ino males 100% visually ino females 100% of the males split for ino
Lacewing male x cinnamon female	100% visually cinnamon males 100% visually lacewing females 100% of the males split for lacewing
Cinnamon males x lacewing females	100% visually cinnamon males 100% visually cinnamon females 100% of the males split for lacewing
Normal male split for lacewing x normal female	100% normal males 50% visually lacewing females 50% visually normal females 50% of the males split for lacewing
Ino male split for lacewing x cinnamon females	50% normal males 50% visually cinnamon males 50% visually ino females 50% visually lacewing females 50% of the males split for lacewing

Lacewing Budgie Varieties

A lacewing budgie can be either yellow-based or white-based with brown markings.

The quality of mutations is important, as it is considered a combination of specific mutations.

Lutino/yellow (yellow-based) Lacewing Budgies

A yellow lacewing budgie can be thought of as a lutino budgie with cinnamon mutations. Besides, a yellow lacewing budgie is a green series budgie.

Albino/white (white-based) Lacewing Budgies

Lacewing English and Exhibition Budgies

Lacewing variety is popular among the English and exhibition budgies also.

Blue, Grey, Violet Lacewing Budgies

The ino gene suppresses all pigmentation in lacewing budgies. Therefore, we don’t see any body color such as blue, gray, or violet in lacewing budgies.

But, in rare cases, the ino gene can be weak and low quality. As a result of that, we may see a pale body color that is barely visible.

Lacewing Budgie Price

Lacewing budgie prices are between $100 and $150 all over the world.