Elly

I agree I would have him covered from 8-8 if possible, that is what I do with Merlin, you can even do a temporarly covering for 14 hours for a week and see if that helps and then resume back to 10-12 hours. I personally am very surprised that a vet that deals with birds would not give you different suggests like the above. Anyways, always move the toys around, it is not stressful but fun to see things in different places. Think about it if you were in the cage no matter how big and nothing ever changed I think we would all get a bit of an obessive complusive disorder :budgiedance:

I hope he recovers very soon. I believe I remember reading honey is natures pain killer and antiseptic.

He is a gorgeous boy, we have a cage like that behind him and have only used it for travel.

congrats, life is amazing.

Does he have iris rings too?We all learn from others like you are learning but a Website I used to use is having issues at the time but there is a PINNED Website under our Mutation Section that you can start to learn about them done by our member Ravengyspy.

I am feeling very left out :fear Norm.... :feedbirds: no birdies for Elly or Norm We will have to do it the hard way Elly…breed our own…you better get a gal for Merlin. We don't have a set-up to be able to do with you and others do and an outside aviary is not going to happen in our climate, plus the birds that are bred here well they are not like those over there.

I am feeling very left out :fear Norm.... :feedbirds: no birdies for Elly or Norm

I didn't see my name on there Kaz...I talked to Merlin he would love that white one :fear they are beautiful and Pie, Libby and Dave are so blessed to have someone thinking of them.

What are the dimensions of your cage? I assume this is your first time breeding, how much reading up have you done, we have a great FAQ section dedicated to breeding this is really where you need to start BEFORE you start to breed. Also, it is advised to not colony breed but to do closed breeding where you put a hen and a cock together and they can be on their own with no fighting. With having an odd number like this you can come across some bad experiences here. I am not an expert and the experts will come in and help you out.

NickNack you didn't bring it :fear:, I fear we will have no cake for this celebration.

I believe active foraging too will help and enrichment toys where he has to work to get his food that will start to redirect his mind, and Kaz is right mirrors, bells anything that they can see their image can start the behavior. Budgies are very social creatures and when they see their reflection they believe it is another budgie. My grandma's budgie had a mirror and it was caked with food he lived to be 15. We now know that there are many ways to enhance a lone budgie's life as I have one too and don't have these issues thank goodness but I believe with effort it can be changed or at least lessened.

thanks Liv, I certainly would not be comfortable starting a post about me

It is possible, only time will tell .

Just noticed you just reached 2000 POST WHOOOO WHOOOO Bring out the CAKE!

Go Fish (but my husband) Have you ever had to have any of your teeth pulled?

Go Fish (can't do it even if I had the money to do it) Do you have long hair?

Can you explain what RBS is please, thank you for those who don't know. Also does he eat more then seed? If so a better diet mix of seed/veggies/fruits and possible vitamin supplements will improve his health or stablize it. okay adding I looked it up Randy Budgie Syndrome Mating behavior seen in caged budgerigars; it includes courtship feeding and regurgitation, attempts to copulate with inanimate objects or humans. Some questions for you: How long do you keep his cage covered? Do you rearrange his toys around at least 1x a week? Do you add new toys (these could be toys you removed and then brought back after a month)? Do you have a mirror or any bells his cage? Do you have his cage by running water? Your vet is he an avian or a regular vet?

Well the KEY is the parents unless the parents are carrying both genes. If you don't have spangle parents then it would be a DEC but if you didn't breed them everything that was said above is true. As for the blue feet Neat I heard that really doesn't go with this or that mutation but maybe I am wrong.

Beautiful spangle marking on the first one, I really like the Spangle gene when it is very dark and enhanced like that, I am sorry to hear about baby 6

have fun ladies

Go Fish (need a brush up on my American) Did you enjoy school?

beautiful

He doesn't look like he has molted out at all yet Neat and if he was at your parents house (not sure how long) you should have seen the tail end of the molt, he is a doll.

His throat patches especially are way too light to be a full strength colored bird if he was they would be much darker in the first picture that was posted, I believe these pics were taken with a flash which is making the body brighter in the other pics but to confirm if you can take a picture of your bird in the sunlight with no flash that will help or tell us is his body a lighter or a bright color .

I think a cobalt it looks to bluish on the bottom and greyish like mauve