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Isis93

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  1. I'm not sure if this question should come under this forum title but i have a few birds, most of which are related and they are displaying very unusual colouring. I just sold a yellowface mauve hen and she had numerous bright green fleks on her rump and abdomen and I also have some olive birds with grey flecks and some grey birds with olive flecks. Is this a colour mutation or could it have something to do with diet? I will try and get some pictures up soon. Cheers!
  2. Cheers guys I might give it a shot.
  3. If he has favourite nibbles like millet or spinach etc, try to coax him with them. Food is one of the ways to get to a budgies heart. This could eventually lead to him having to stand on your hand to eat the food. If it works you can progress by putting the cage in an enclosed room, with covered windows of course, and leave your hand, and the food, in his sight just out side the door. Lemme know how he turns out Cheers, Jacob
  4. Despite having more than enough breeding boxes for each bird, they do occasionally squabble over a prefered box. After each of my three breeding hens clutches are out and about, I am going to remove the boxes for a few months to give them all a break. But, as each clutch is at a different stage of development, I am a bit nervous. Budgies are known for being prolific breeders, and in the past I have had some lay a second clutch of eggs while the former chicks are still in the box. So my concern is that once the oldest clutch is out and I remove the box, the hen and her partner will try and move into another pairs box while their babies are at a younger stage of development. Should I be worried? Also, I am absolutely loving this forum. I have found the friendliness of people and how helpful they are very encouraging. Cheers, Jacob
  5. I am feeding them a pet shop brand budgie mix made of canary, various millets etc. Spinach, celery, corn on the cob, every other day as well as seeding grasses. They have clacium bells in their while they are breeding as well as the occasional mushed up hard boiled egg yolk. The mothers are so protective over the eggs, and i feel that removing them would stress the hen and potential any other eggs or offspring in the box at the time. I will admit they are first time mothers, so I will give her a break for a while and try again in a few months. Cheers for your help guys! Jacob
  6. Thanks guys, much appreciated. My old flock unfortunately were released by a bunch of midnight hoodlums, and these guys have only been with me for less than six months. I figured I would let them do a they please, and after their first cluth would halt breeding for a bit. To be honest, I wasn't expecting winter breeders, but there you go! They setteled in and were happy to create life! What could be done about early hatching? Is that just unfortunate or something more? It has happened with the last few chicks hatched from the same hen, but the yare hatching on 18 or 19 days from lay date, so i don't imagine they are hatching early... So many troubles and questions, haha! Cheers, Jacob
  7. Heya! Despite it being the middle of winter, I have eggs and chicks everywhere and some very succesful new mums coming out of the blue. Unfortunately, some of these new mums lack experience and only part of their clutch are hatching/surviving. I have found a trend with a few newborn babies that have died. Their abdomen is an orange and/or purple colour, looks much like internal bruising or something. Is that what it is Or could it be something lacking in the babies diet during the incubation process or even just something that happens after a few hours dead? If it is something I can prevent I'd appreciate any information :rofl: Cheers, Jacob
  8. I have a first time mother who laid six eggs in her first clutch. She has been very attentive, and the first bub hatched without a hitch, and is now nearly a week old and is nice and healthy. The following three eggs have only sort of half hatched... Each egg has pipped and partially opened so as you can see parts of the baby inside, but each baby has died inside the egg before breaking all the way through... I haven't heard of this before, and i was wondering if it was just coincidental, or the shells of the eggs were paticularly thick for some reason. Any information on this topic would be much appreciated . Cheers
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