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This grey baby is very friendly :D

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foster Mum is in the nestbox and this time I hope she has some babies of her own.....as she raised two fosters this time. :D

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PAIR SIX GREY SPANGLE COCK ( Omelettes and his first breeding ) to FRAN MC LAUGHLAN SKY HEN Hen ( Old photo ) jan09061.jpg

 

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Parents to the grey opaline baby that hatched from the cold egg and was fostered in another nest.........

 

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...........have hatched out a sibling today. Fingers crossed it does well. One egg to go.

 

 

Sibling fostered into another nest. the hen isn't doing the right thing by her chicks. I believe she has gone out of condition. Last egg was there last night and this morning the egg had been opened and the chick found dead. It had been battered and bitten and hidden in the nesting materials by the mother. She has been removed to a holding cage for a week or two before going back into the flights.

 

 

Other chicks that have fledged have been put into a new kindie cage in one of the corner units I made recently

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Wow there are some very nice chicks there Kaz, well done :)

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Percentages of really good chicks thus far as compared to medium good chicks isnt great, BUT I do have some others in nests that are promising.........and then there is all those fertile eggs and pinkies yet to develop into "something" :angry::)

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Same here, The chick that died today is the one that Nubbly liked.

The parents have 5 more in the nest , so cross my fingers. The six from the 1st nest were all very strong.

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PAIR SIX GREY SPANGLE COCK ( Omelettes and his first breeding ) to FRAN MC LAUGHLAN SKY HEN Hen ( Old photo ) jan09061.jpg

 

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Parents to the grey opaline baby that hatched from the cold egg and was fostered in another nest.........

 

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...........have hatched out a sibling today. Fingers crossed it does well. One egg to go.

 

 

Sibling fostered into another nest. the hen isn't doing the right thing by her chicks. I believe she has gone out of condition. Last egg was there last night and this morning the egg had been opened and the chick found dead. It had been battered and bitten and hidden in the nesting materials by the mother. She has been removed to a holding cage for a week or two before going back into the flights.

 

 

Other chicks that have fledged have been put into a new kindie cage in one of the corner units I made recently

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The dilute Dad escaped his breeder cage and went looking for his chicks :angry: He found them and when I found him he was trying to feed them through the bars of the kindie cage :)

The dilute Dad escaped his breeder cage and went looking for his chicks :wub: He found them and when I found him he was trying to feed them through the bars of the kindie cage :)

 

Oh what a good dad! :)

Same here, The chick that died today is the one that Nubbly liked.

The parents have 5 more in the nest , so cross my fingers. The six from the 1st nest were all very strong.

 

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A few random photos

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A Mum waiting for me to finish taking photos :nest:

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Another baby has fledged and found the perch fairly quickly

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more babies in nests

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and the aviary birds enjoying some fresh seeding grasses ( roots and all )

 

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have two chicks in foster nests

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The YF chick died. Parent pushed open the sliding door on the nestbox and this YF chick got out and died on hitting the tiled floor 3 feet down :sadsorry:

:rip: :) oh gosh I'm so sorry Kaz, that chick looked good too. Not having a good time with your birds these last two days :sadsorry: The rest are looking brilliant, such a shame to lose a chick like that.

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Breeding and keeping budgies isnt all a bed of roses ...............so much can go wrong :sadsorry:

 

Two chicks fledged the nest today...........A dark green dommie pied and a greywing skyblue dommie pied

 

Anyway.......here's some random photos

 

From the greywing spangle hen to greywing cock nest

Greywing

 

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and with the greywing spangles

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Surprise dark green chick from a grey green normal to a grey green spangle hen

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remaining sibling to the YF cinnie grey that died in a fall from the nest

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sad way to loose your YF Kaz. But wow what gorgeous chicks the rest of the photos are, your Grey opaline is my favourite :sadsorry: ..

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sad way to loose your YF Kaz. But wow what gorgeous chicks the rest of the photos are, your Grey opaline is my favourite :sadsorry: ..

 

My favourite too :rip:

Gorgeous chicks, growing well too :sadsorry:

 

I quite like the little dark green surprise - very nice!

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Gorgeous chicks, growing well too :rolleyes:

 

I quite like the little dark green surprise - very nice!

I have another dark green surprise in yet another nest :P

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:rolleyes::P Sorry, but I had to giggle at this one.Classic!!

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all chicks in this nest are cocks too :P
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:rofl: I saw this chick and I thought

 

 

STUFFED AS A GOOG !!!

 

 

 

EDIT........goog = egg

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They're all very nice. I love this Giant One!

 

It's a shame about the YF chick. Was it the glass sliding door from your older post? Who would have thought a budgie could push that hard to open it. :rofl:

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It's a shame about the YF chick. Was it the glass sliding door from your older post? Who would have thought a budgie could push that hard to open it. :rofl:

 

 

No...it was the sliding door on the nestbox :rofl:

It's a shame about the YF chick. Was it the glass sliding door from your older post? Who would have thought a budgie could push that hard to open it. :rofl:

 

 

No...it was the sliding door on the nestbox :rofl:

 

 

Oh. :rofl: Can you put a clip or something on it?

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It's a shame about the YF chick. Was it the glass sliding door from your older post? Who would have thought a budgie could push that hard to open it. :rofl:

 

 

No...it was the sliding door on the nestbox :rofl:

 

 

Oh. :rofl: Can you put a clip or something on it?

I might have to. The new nestboxes I just had made have lighter weight doors. ( Not my choice ) If a budgie wants to play around with them they can lift them up.

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