Sailorwolf

They are very cute. My daddy budgie tried to ride them too. He didn't care whether they were boys or girls.

I would say wait for 1 or 2 months. It is a lot harder to get budgies to breed when you only have one pair. They are stimulated to breed when they hear other budgies singing. However it is not impossible to get them to breed, just a little harder.

Maybe you should put him with a friendly male budgie, or introduce him to a girl really slowly, by putting her in a cage in the same room as him and then next to him, and then let him fly out with her and then put her in his cage. He might just be a really nervous fellow and need things done slowly.

How very cute. She must really be bonded to you to imitate your laugh.

I think you should give it a chance. Just keep feeding it and if it is going to die, at least it will die warm and with food in its belly. I could have a form of dwarfism. In that case it would lead a perfectly normal life, but just be smaller. You don't know, that is why I suggest you just keep feeding it and keeping it warm for as long as it needs to.

In my sky violets the colour is also seen in the wing feathers.. I'd show you picks without the sheath over the feathers, but my birdies are asleep right now. You can see it on the bottom wing feathers of this chick... Feathers. But you can't look at a spangle's wing feather's either. Here is my crappy picture of the budgie in question:

As I said in the other post, Dave, leave te garage door open and a cage next to his wife with food, in the hopes he comes back to her.

Just keep trying. Dave you should keep your garage door open in hopes that Ozzy comes back to feed his wife.

Sky violets look cobalt coloured. So if you have a cobalt with violet around the necl line check for the torquoise flight and tailfeathers, he may actually be sky violet, not cobalt. The best guide to distinguishing Violet Skyblues from Cobalts are the tail and flight feathers. Cobalt tails are a solid navy blue. The darker the Cobalt body colour, the deeper the blue of the tail but even the palest Normal Cobalts have navy blue tails. In Violet Skyblues the tail feathers are turquoise at the quill end darkening to blue toward the tip. The depth of turquoise in the tail varies with the depth of body colour. The difference we see in the tails can also be seen in the flight feathers. The colour in the flight feathers of Cobalts is dark blue. In Violet Skyblues there is a glossier turquoise iridescence like that seen in Skyblues but slightly darker that the Skyblue. In general Violet Skyblues have a brighter appearance than Cobalts. Feathers. Unfortunately Alo (the cobalt in question) is a spangle so I can't look at his tail feathers. His father is a sky blue though. I'm pretty sure his mother, Saffron, was a double dark factor(she's a DF spangle so it is hard to tell, but she has had all cobalt babies), so genetically he should be cobalt. Haha, two conversations going on at once.

Just from my observations so far, all my birds showing it have had opaline babies. I will be breeding again next year and we will see whether this theory holds true for my other birds that have opalescence. :ausb: I would say too, that birds showing more opalescence would be more likely to be split for it than others showing minimal opalescence. Though on that noe. Arkady has produced two babies so far, one opaline violet female and one cobalt yf full body colour grey wing spangle male called Robbie. Robbie shows no opalescence what so ever, just like his mother. None of my none opaline female budgies show any opalescence whatsoever even though they have opalescent brothers fathers.

heheh (Laughing out loud)

It means, that the animal can't be proven to be dead, unless it is warm and is still dead. Because when things are cold, they shut down, but may not necessarily be dead.

haha, now halfsiders are something completely different once again. Halfsiders can be two things: a tetragametic chimera or some else that is wrong with the pigment. Tetragametic chimeras are when twins are initially formed, then one is reabsorbed by the other when they are only a few cells big and thus the animal has two different sets of DNA

It's like they say in hospital and clinics "It's not dead, until it's warm and dead"

The pied mutation comes about, because certain areas of the body have no pigment (or crystalline structure in the case of birds), thus the side where the cheek patch is white, is a side that has been pied and the side with a blue cheek patch is an unpied side. :offtopic:

Your violet sky blue looks like he is carrying the opaline gene Just a bit :offtopic: but, what about cobalt budgies who have violet around their necks. They obviously can't be carrying a violet gene, or else they would be visual violets, so how do they have violet on their necks. This is how it is with Alo my cobalt spangle. Curious

Are they incubating it? If not then it may only get cold in the nest. Make up a very liquidy mix and dab it on the side of its beak with a toothpick. The baby should lick it up. If not you may have to feed it with a crop needle. Look at its crop while you are feeding it to see if any food has gone in. Milk is a good place to start if you don't have any rearing formula. Then if the baby survives through the night okay, go and buy some rearing formula.

For humidity: you should have open water in the room. I had a fishtank, which was good for this.

All birds are like that. The chromosomes are actually called ZW. This I would say is because both mammals and birds come from reptiles and reptiles don't all rely on chromosomes to determine their sex. It is only mammals that have XY for males and some insects too. Birds have XY for females. Some reptiles have both chromosome and temperature determination. I am not sure on amphibians and fish. I know some species of fish can change sex later in life.

How very cute. Do you have pictures of the parents?

Yes, but they may not be in an avairy

When did she last lay her egg? How old is she? She may be egg bound or she may be preparing to lay her next egg. It depends when she last laid her egg. They lay eggs every two days. I was just wondering because they usually lay more than two eggs. However she may be fine. It takes 18 to 21 days for the eggs. Sometimes they take 17 days sometimes they take over 25 days to hatch.

Aqua my late recessive pied had plum eyes

It is a really good idea not to house seperate species together as they can pick on each other and hurt each other and they have different dietary requirements too.

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