Guest dutchman Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 hello everyone, this is my first time on this great site for budgie lovers. we are in holland.i had a pair of cage birds "jock and billy" and last summer i built an outside aviary and they bred very soon after "august". she sat on 2 eggs for about 5 days then stopped. in december she sat on 2 eggs again this time for about 2 weeks then stopped again.so we introduced another male and female,"thomas and judy"not long after jock is back in the nest box. the last chance i had to check she was on 4 eggs but both boys are feeding her so am not sure who is daddy.so anyway by my reckoning the first egg was due to hatch saturday but could not catch her out the box to check but today i heard chirping, so we are all excited but i dont want to disturb her and she abandons the box again.fingers crossed Link to comment
Guest budgeover Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 well i have got my legs and fingers crossed for you!!! (Laughing out loud) Link to comment
Guest Imotive Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Why legs anyways...I am not 100% sure, but the females rarely abandon the babies becasue well they know something is living if you catch her out check! Link to comment
Rainbow 0 Posted March 7, 2005 Member ID: 198 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 31 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,028 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 15,290 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/03/04 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2009 Birthday: 24/04/1965 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Most of the time budgies will breed better with another pair they can see and/or hear. Congratulations on the small peeping noises! Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Most of the time budgies will breed better with another pair they can see and/or hear. Congratulations on the small peeping noises! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> thank you. i think they must be 3 now. will have a peek at the weekend Link to comment
Guest Imotive Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 C'mon you have to have a peek soon please tell us I am so excited becasue hopefully you can get pictures ::):):):): Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Most of the time budgies will breed better with another pair they can see and/or hear. Congratulations on the small peeping noises! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> finnaly caught jock out the box. grabbed my camara, not sure but i think it is 3 chicks and 2 eggs. at least i knoww she is feeding them Link to comment
Guest Imotive Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 HOw can you be not sure didn't you check!?!?! sorry very excited :glare: Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 My Webpage breeding tips Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 tried to send photos but they dont make it easy Link to comment
Guest budgeover Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 im sorry. i can't help you. it took me ages to fathom it all out. keep trying Link to comment
Rainbow 0 Posted March 9, 2005 Member ID: 198 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 31 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,028 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 15,290 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/03/04 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2009 Birthday: 24/04/1965 Share Posted March 9, 2005 My Webpage breeding tips <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You will either need to type in the whole address, or copy and paste from the "img" or "url" box on your photobucket account. I'm sure you'll get it - try again. If not, e-mail the picture to me and I will post it for you. Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 tried again to post some photos but no joy.i have managed to look in every day now, there was 4 chicks but the smallest looked dead. there is now 3 healthy looking chicks so i take it that mother ate it. i will wait till saturday, when the youngest is 10days old and give the nest box a quick cleanout. Link to comment
hath 0 Posted March 16, 2005 Member ID: 70 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 847 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 6,535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/10/03 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 30, 2020 Birthday: 30/09/1969 Share Posted March 16, 2005 mothers dont eat dead chicks you need to take it out now or you could contaminate the other chicks and they will die Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 well you got me worried so i took out the nest box.There were 3 chicks no dead one or egg shells only droppings. I dont know then but there were 4 chicks on the last round of photos. I wish i could get that photo bucket to work! Link to comment
hath 0 Posted March 17, 2005 Member ID: 70 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 847 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 6,535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/10/03 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 30, 2020 Birthday: 30/09/1969 Share Posted March 17, 2005 did you check the floor of the cage in case the mother pulled the chick out by accident Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 i did not see anything on the floor.apart from jock and billy there are another two males and three hens in my aviary, maybe they had a hand. also a hen laid an egg on the floor 2 days ago "not below the nest box". There are 6 extra boxes but they all seem to be fighting over a certain one. strange. perhaps i should transfer this on to the forum. Link to comment
hath 0 Posted March 17, 2005 Member ID: 70 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 847 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 6,535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/10/03 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 30, 2020 Birthday: 30/09/1969 Share Posted March 17, 2005 are all your boxs the same height Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 tried again, no joy. this is my email if someone who knows how to post photos could they kindley send me your adress and i will send some phtos to post.steve99hilversum@yahoo.com Link to comment
Guest hommer2054 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 I recommend you remove any females that are not active and put them in a separate cage. I prefer to breed mine in separate cages with the breeding box attached or inside the cage. This way there is no fighting hens will always fight over nesting boxes it?s a normal thing they do By breeding those on there own you end up with better babies and a less stressful owner. I started off like you with just one cage and I was always removing dead chicks and birds because of hens fighting over nesting boxes One bird even went in to another birds nest box and killed all the chicks That?s when I decided to get separate breeding boxes and now I have five pairs breeding with twenty two babies so I must be doing something right. Also never leave dead chicks in the box as they can cause diseases and contaminate the other birds Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 they are all the same hight, but one is the ;looks like a tree trunk; delux model.i did not know they were so fussy. Link to comment
Guest dutchman Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 (edited) edit- okay I was tying something if this didn't work sorry -Nerwen Edited March 18, 2005 by nerwen Link to comment
*Nerwen* 0 Posted March 18, 2005 Member ID: 5,064 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 121 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,817 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 18, 2014 Birthday: 20/02/1982 Share Posted March 18, 2005 okay so that didn't work with the picture If your using Photbucket you should once uploading the picture have something that looks like this: you want to copy the bottom html (the bit titled img) then paste it in your post and it should work fine. Link to comment
Guest Imotive Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 This may be off topic but Nerwen I love your signature it is very cuol mix of xute and cool...yes I am 12... Link to comment
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