Sailorwolf

Very cute. Skuz is gorgeous I'm guessing the bottom belongs to the naughty girl's partner.

In answer to your first question, his pacing sounds like he wants to be let out and have play time. I think some birds have been known to say their first words around 7 to 8 weeks, not sure, i've never had a talking budgie.

These are my opalines Name: Kito (2nd from the right Sex: female Colour: cobalt Other mutations: spangle, yellowface type 2 Name: Nikio Sex: Female Colour: Violet Other mutations: n/a Name: Bacardi Sex: female Colour: Violet Other mutations: Cinnamon, spangle, yellowface type 2

Maybe you should try using a crop needle, that way, it shouldn't get any feed going into its lungs

Well e had his maiden flight last night. It was very cute. I love watching them when they have their first flight. They fly so slowly and just hover, trying to figure out what to do and their little cheeks puff up. hehe, so cute. He's such a little darling, I'm hoping that my brother will take him, so that I will be able to continue to see him as he grows up.

Have you got a safety door?

I thought I would post pictures of the little baby here as not many people really saw him in the previous topic. He is a cute little fella, he is a yellow series double factor spangle cinnamon. I initially thought he was a girl, because he was born with purple eyes and thus he is a cinnamon. But he has a very pink cere. This can only mean one thing, that Saffy is a cinnamon in disguise!!!!. Upon looking at the DIC babies 2 out of the 3 were cinnamons, so this is highly likely. Either the baby isn't actually a cinnamon and I got it wrong (which I don't think so as his eyes seem to be quite plumb when the light shines on them), or Emmett is a double factor cinnamon (his wing markings are lighter than black and appear brown, but I don't think so) or Saffy is actually a hidden cinnamon and Emmett is carrying cinnamon (Saffy being a DF spangle this is possible and Emmett looks like he carries cinnamon) Although, one would wonder why she didn't have more cinnamon babies in her previous clutches. One also wonders why she had only one whiteface, so I guess that doesn't really matter. Anyway the baby is a little darling and I especially love it when he poofs up his little head. He lets me give him skritches which is absolutely adorable and he falls asleep in my jumper and then tries to eat my finger. He has a small amount of green and blue suffusion coming through on his tummy and his butt. He is such a bright yellow too even brighter than his dad's yellow. So he is going to be very bright when his adult plumage comes in. Saffy is looking absolutely gorgeous too. I never realised how light her yellow was (like banana milkshake) until the little baby was born. Her new feathers coming in have given her an almost white belly, making her look more like a yellowface type2 than a yellow series bird. She is hugely active and is sweet as. Saffy!!

Ooo Jessamy is a pretty name. Nice one LisaC Welcome back Broken Dreamz Nice to have you back. I know what you mean, the budgie forums are too much fun to stay away for long.

17.989 sec is my best I then got 18.04s yay

Here are some pictures of the chicky: And one of Saffy: The chick is a very very bright yellow, so gorgeous.

Hello Well only one baby hatched. It is a yellow cinnamon double factor spangle. It has green infusion on its belly and bluey green on its legs. It has faint markings on its head and wings. I thought it was a girl initially, because it was cinnamon, but its cere is starting to look quite pink. I checked the other eggs and 3 were dead in shell unfortunately. The 3 that died all seemed to die at exactly the same time as their development was only about 2 days different between each one. 2 of the dead babies were cinnamon, which makes me think that either Saffy is a cinnamon or Emmett is a visual cinnamon. Not sure. Saffy is doing SO WELL. She is even better than before she started laying. She was running around the floor at top speed this morning and was even trying to fly. Her tail feathers have all grown back now too so she looks gorgeous. Emmett is being the doting father and lover. I think that all that time that Saffy spent incubating and lying down on the nest was actually just as effective as cage rest. All is well

You need double the number of nestboxes than you have of pairs. But I would say that you are not ready to be breeding. Your birds are too young and you don't seem to have researched.

I would suggest that you invest in some mousetraps and place them well away from any place that a budgie can get to. I'm a bit confused by these white things on her chest that you mentioned. Firstly eggs can not be seen through the skin. Secondly only one develops at a time. Thirdly the only organs that occupy her chest are her lungs and heart. Her ovaries are in her abdomen, which is covered quite extensively by er keel bone and pectoral muscles. Those white things don't sound good to me, i would get them checked out.

I wouldn't think that this would be true, as birds, mammals and some reptiles determine their sex by their chromosomes. Meaning that whatever sperm reaches the ova first will determine the sex. Chromosomes do not get affected by temperature, because if they did then you would have the warmer parts of your body as female and the cooler parts as male (So a female torso and male limbs hahaha). In many reptiles this is not the case and temperature determines the sex outcome. It could be possible that temperature will affect the survivability of the eggs. As I think it can affect the survivability of sperm. Cooler for if you want boys and warmer for girls. So I would say that if you have the parent birds in the cool or warm environment, that may determine the outcome. So far I have had equal numbers of boy and girl babies.

Yep it is definately possible to get green spangles. Any mutation you can get in white series, you can get in yellow series. My Emmett is a green spangle and his daughter (could be a boy) is a double factor green spangle. Emmett Emmett is on the very right, this is a better picture for seeing his wing markings I don't have any pics of his daughetr

I breed for fun. I just love seeing the little babies surprise me with their colours and I love being able to hand tame them and make wonderful pets out of them. When they are raised I will be selling them (not to a petshop). I control my population by not putting nesting boxes in the cage. Although some budgies decide they want babies no matter what, but there are ways and means to stop this.

It is best to take a very sick or moribund bird in for tests if it is a virus. Dead ones will start to autolyse immediately after death, so it is best to collect the dead ones as quick as possible and put them in a refrigerator so that you can take them to the vet for a necropsy. If any are seen to be becoming sick take it to the vet as it will just be starting to have the virus attack and thus the virus should be easier to detect. Most dead and sick ones have lost the virus already if it is a gastrointestinal virus. So take to your vet some dead budgies and sick ones.

Opaline is a sex linked gene so, yes, males can be carrying it. It is thought that the spot on the back of the head can mean that they are split to recessive pied.

Isis was like that when I first got her, she just hid at the bottom of the cage under the paper lining. After a few days she became quite brave. I think it is a nervous thing as she has always been the most timid of my budgies.

It is geberally much safer and easier to breed through a closed breeding system as then you are less likely to have fights break out in the aviary and less deaths as a result. Hens will often fight over potential nestboxes and you will require double the number of nestboxes than you have of hens. With a closed system you are able to keep track of the parents and due hatching dates, with healthier chicks, as you can give them more individual attention. I prefer closed breeding as gthere is much less trauma associated with it and you find that many other breeders on this forum will agree.

We have a few Canadians in our year here, It is much easier to get in here only a b grade average for foreign students and is cheaper to come here from Canada too. Maybe you should come to NZ

Very well. It is a very lively and squiggly thing :budgiedance:

Well we have one baby so far born on the 17. She looks to be a cinnamon. No other babies have hatched yet athough at least 4 eggs were fertile.

Could he possibly be a rosey bourke, they look like pink budgies

His wings look heavily marked though