Sailorwolf

Yeah, well you can't stick doxycycline in the cabinet, it needs refridgerating (either once it is made up or as soon as you get it)

You are unlikely to get doxycycline and you shouldn't be using it without a prescription either. Doxycycline goes off over time and needs to be kept in the fridge anyway, so if you don't need it straight away, then don't get it. Plus you shouldn't need it unless you have birds that are sick anyway. And because it is stored in the fridge it is not something that I would be wanting to get on my food.

That's awesome good to hear it

Ivermectin is not very soluble in water. It all sinks to the bottom and when the bird drinks they get a smaller dose than they should or none at all. So use the spot on instead.

Good work!

That's great!. You'll learn lots!

Don't worry GB, I have both a cow skull and a horse skull and a seal vertebra sitting on the deck. I also at one time had a dog skull and a box of dog bones, these were on loan to me from the university. All the vet students get a box of bones and a dog skull in their first 2 years to learn from. They are very educational.

I agree with Kaz, that would work well.

Doesn't look like French moult (which is a virus).

Done. The test doesn't cater for people who have both indoor and outdoor birds very well. I think a good question to add would be whether people would choose a cage that would give the budgie more exercise and room and make it happier (ie a long flight cage) over something ornamental and small (ie round cages or small cages or tall cages). There was a question similar to that.

Hen

Aww. I think you should get him, he'd be awesome to try and breed from. But that is your choice.

Sorry to hear that MB. Hugs.

Ring around, you'll find most vet clinics are very helpful and welcoming.

We've had discussions before about theories. Theories are the highest form of knowledge in science and facts are the lowest. A theory is a hypothesis that is highly resistance to falsification. Meaning that all theories that exist today have not been proven wrong. The theory of gravity is a theory and yet have you ever seen the theory of gravity proven wrong? There is also the theory of relativityand the theory of plate tectonics. So just remember that because something is a theory does not make it any less verifiable, in fact it is something that has not been proven wrong. Once a theory is proven wrong it is not accepted any more. The order of importance in science is Theory at the top followed by Laws, then Hypotheses and then Facts at the bottom. I noticed after writing this Elly that you have quotation marks around "theory" in your post and you probably meant to use it in its everyday colloquial term, but I'd thought I would just outline it for new readers.

Mmm yes. Birds are living dinosaurs. However it is generally considered that ancient dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Some were possibly lukewarm blooded, (however, I have only seen the lukewarm idea from one source [the documentary "Evolve" on Nat Geo] the lukewarm ones would most likely have been the large ones because that is how they got so big, the smaller ones [which birds evolved from] were more likely warm-blooded). Many ancient dinosaurs also sported feathers, such as the Dromeosaurs and even the Tyrannosaurs

131 I just want to fly over and give everyone hugs.

I love Alex. Ruby the African grey is also a real sweet heart (she has a potty mouth on her though): She has fairly strong language, which she picked up from watching tv, but for those not afraid of that, there are many videos of her, many that don't have strong language too. LOL. For those interested look up "Xrated parrot" on You tube. She's a funny little character.

This is so horrible. My condolences to those who have lost loved ones- family, friends and pets. Hugs to everyone that is affected.

Well either: 1. The Crested lethal factor is a myth in canaries 2.You have just been lucky so far in that no DF crested cannaries have developed in your clutches where all eggs have hatched. The Mendelian ratios are very rarely perfect in real life. 3. The canary lethal gene may actually work differently than other lethal genes, as in it appears differently. 4. There is more than 1 type of crested gene. 5. The lethal factor may have applied to another crested type that is not bred now. However lethal genes do exist in the world as I said above in the Overo Lethal White Syndrome and the Manx cat and brown velvet chinchillas and as MB said the Bobtail boxers. If I understand it correctly: I think the lethal gene can go as far as an egg may not even develop in the first place. Lethal genes just mean that when an animal has both, something in its development will prevent it from surviving in the world or developing properly. This can mean it can die at the 1 cell stage, 8 cell stage, embryonic stage, foetal stage, when it is born or when it is going through puberty. There is one in sheep in that they can't be exposed to sunlight, so for outdoors it is a lethal gene, but for farmers that house their sheep inside it is not really lethal. Lethal gene doesn't mean it will die from those genes, but it can produce a situation in which survival is unlikely. Such as a spina bifida manx cat. It won't die from spina bifida, but it will die from starvation.

Are these Canaries or budgies? If it is canaries, the crested gene may not be lethal for them in double factor. And do you not get fatalities because maybe the chick just didn't develop in the first place? Also could there possibly be 2 types of crested alleles and/or genes existing at different loci on different chromosomes? It is quite an interesting topic. The manx gene is also lethal in double factor. If you breed 2 manx cat's together 25% of the kittens will have spina bifida <- these are the double factor manx cats.

A lethal factor is when for some reason the animal cannot survive normally and dies. Lethal factor occurs when an animal is a double factor in a certain gene. Often when an animal is double factored in a lethal gene they die before they develop (in some genetics they are born, but cannot live) Examples of the lethal factor are Frame Overo White Syndrome in horses where the foal is born white, it is a double factor frame overo, and has no nerves leading to its intestines and thus it dies a few hours after birth. In chinchillas one example of a lethal gene (they have 3) is 2 brown velvets mating together. A double factor brown velvet chinchilla can not exist because (I think) it dies, or does not reach full development before birth. Lethal factors in crested may work in that the bird dies before development so that you are left with more clear eggs or dead in shell eggs in a crested to crested mating, resulting in a smaller clutch of viable young. That way you wouldn't actually experience them. The reason why I think it is lethal is that the crested gene does not carry the necessary function for life, but as long as it has another normal gene there along side it it can still carry out the necessary function. When there are 2 of the lethal genes, there is no gene that can carry out the necessary function and so the chick dies. This is all from the top of my head and may not be completely accurate, but it is food for thought. For instance if you bred a crested to a crested you would get: (theorising) 25% DF crested (lethal factor, these die before they hatch or develop etc. etc.) 50% SF crested (normal crested) 25% normals So you would only see 66% cresteds in a clutch and 33% normals as the DF cresteds wouldn't make it far enough to make up clutch numbers. To the breeders of crested budgies, does this seem about right? Haha Pearce I like the Crested you posted, he's funny.

Get him!!!

Yes, one of the others just said that crested budgies are hard to breed because the genetics are unknown, plus there is also the lethal factor.

Wow what a scary situation! I hope everyone is okay and that all pets survive as well. We usually get a pink sun at sunset when Aussie has bush fires. I'll look out for it.