Sailorwolf

Yep you definitely can. My Saffy was a Yf2 DF spangle of the blue series. (she is so yellow though that I thought she was in the yellow series, but she never had green babies, only yellowface babies (she was mated with a normal skyblue male)) She is in my signature and here are some more pictures of her. (She is not a show budgie) With her mate, and her baby hopping out of the nest box

Hugs, Jodie. It is hard when you lose a pet. At least you know, she isn't in pain anymore and she got to go peacefully. Wait a little while before getting another piggie, so that Kimy recover from losing Gina. Give her lots of hugs and cuddles so she doesn't get lonely. Then when you both feel ready, get a little baby piggie.

I second what everyone else has said

I have accidentally heated up a nonstick pan with no food in it it before and the fumes were gross. It was making me cough. I put on the range hood and opened all the windows. But it felt kind of caustic. My budgies were fine, but they live in my bedroom, which is at the other end of the house.

Tee hee, She is sweet. She probably doesn't know how to preen herself as no other bird has taught her. I hope you can figure out how to home her with the other two.

Get her to the vet if you can. I don't think 3 years old is elderly for a guinea pig, they usually live for 5-7 years. Has she pooped recently? What does she do when you pick her up or touch her tummy? Is she vocalising?

HUGS. I'm sorry to hear about your girl. Rest in peace Jemma

Teflon is really only toxic when it is heated up really high, especially if you heat the pan with out food on it. We use teflon in our house and my budgies have never had a problem. We have an open plan house and I had them in the lounge one night (they stay in my bedroom) and I cooked with teflon, but I made sure that I had the range hood on full. I've never had any problems. I you are overly worried you could always buy different pans, like copper or stainless steel pans. If you want to put him in the lounge just put him the furtherest away. Open plan houses are more airy so the fumes won't be so concentrated at least.

Big hugs. Jemma is in our thoughts. I hope she pulls through.

Unfortunately I think it is G. lol

I own a drill. Pretty good for a student I reckon. Made my aviary cover with it.

What I want to know, is how would you even get the macaw into the cage!!!! You can't even fit it through the door!! A macaw has tail feathers that are 80cm long, that is double the length of both of the cages. The macaw, if it was managed to be stuffed in the cage without lopping off the people's fingers that put it in there, would chew its way through the bars in no time. Idiots

I would wait for at least 30 days after the last egg was laid before giving up. As the first few eggs laid may not be fertile.

Splayed legs is not caused by lack of calcium (well to my knowledge anyway). Overdosing (as in causing hypercalcaemia) with dietary calcium is quite hard I think. However I did go to a talk to the other day and it showed a picture of Great dane puppies who had too much calcium in their food and they had rather bent legs. Probably got osteopetrosis or something (don't know my bone stuff that well yet )

You know, you could try telling Runt off when he goes to attack Tweety. Let him know it is NOT okay to do that. Birds can be trained just like dogs can. Every time he goes to beat on Tweety, bash the cage. Then he'll learn that beating up Tweety causes scariness. It's what I do. I bash the cage if my budgies are being naughty, like having fights. It stops them and makes them forget what they are doing. Once happened to me , when for some reason Robbie just decided to beat up his sister. She had been doing nothing and he just continued to chase her around and land on her and bite her, so I had to go out there and shake the cage. He stopped and they were fine.

oooooooh okay

I just thought I might write about this as, I don't know if it happens in birds, but it does happen in cows (and other mammals). So I thought I would post this for a little food for thought and open for discussion. In the body there is a set of 4 glands located adjacent to the thyroid gland in the neck (in the chest in birds). These glands concurrently are called parathyroid glands. Parathyroid glands help regulate calcium levels in the blood by producing parathyroid hormone. Parathyroid hormone causes increased calcium uptake by the intestines and kidneys and causes deconstruction of the bones, to achieve its primary goal of increasing serum calcium levels (calcium in the blood). There is another hormone called Calcitonin secreted by the thyroid gland, which does the opposite to Parathyroid hormone. Sometimes cows, before they give birth are given calcium to increase their stores, I guess. However because they are being supplemented with calcium their parathyroid glands do not need to do any work as the body has a high or high enough calcium concentration in its blood. Since the parathyroid glands are not doing any work they atrophy (shrink). However once calving and lactation occurs the supplemented dietary calcium is not enough to cope with the demands by the cow and thus her parathyroid glands need to kick in and start making parathyroid hormone. But because her parathyroid glands have atrophied they can't produce enough parathyroid hormone to cope with her demands either and the cow becomes hypocalcaemic. Symptoms of hypocalcaemia are muscle weakness (which can lead to dystocia (trouble giving birth), a point of note for birds which lay clutches). So inorder to prevent this from happening it is thought not to supplement them with too much calcium, this way their parathyroid glands do not atrophy before calving and lactation. However I do not know if this applies to birds, because well, we haven't really been taught about this yet. Theoretically it should as they have thyroid glands etc and they need to regulate their calcium. The line comes down to the fact that one needs to build up their calcium stores in their bones to prevent their stores from becoming depleted. Perhaps one should lay off the calcium a few weeks before laying in order for the bird's parathyroids to catch up and then when laying commences, or a day or too before, resupplement. I would like some thoughts on this issue. Comments?

Well today's the big day. Best wishes. I hope it goes swell! Save us some cake!

My favourite is number 8

How does that work?

10/10. Hoorah!

Oh no! Put the cage outside with the door open, put some seed in side it. You can prop the door up with a stick tied to string. Hide somewhere and when he goes inside tug the string. Also don't forget to advertise for him in the lost and found section.

Eggs can take anywhere from 17 to 25 days to hatch. it depends on the ambient temperature, how tightly the hen sits on them and when she started sitting on them. The warmer it is the sooner they will hatch as warmth speeds up metabolism. I had one that hatched at 17days

haha. mad cow disease. But seriously: Amino acids are what makes up protein. When protein is ingested, it gets broken down into its amino acids. So by giving more amino acids, in theory you are just giving more protein. It's enzymes.

You are supposed to be able to feel their keel bone. Just like you are supposed to be able to feel your dog's ribs. It is the layer over it that is the main thing. The bones should not stick out, but should feel like they have a nice layer of padding over them, so that the bones have "soft" curves. Feel your own ribs. You can feel them, but you aren't horribly skinny and underweight. (If I have offended peoples I am sorry.) Sorry there are no body condition score charts for budgies. Plenty for cows, horses, cats and dogs though.