Elly

your birds are beautiful, welcome

excellent idea, love the pics

i love them they are so cute

Very nice to met you , you will find this forum to be very information by reading through the FAQ's (which are always being worked on), to fun contests such as the Budgie of the Month (which is open to everyone and closes the last day of this month), along with meeting new people from all over the world and more... Enjoy and look forward to seeing pictures of your "feathered family"

congrats they are beautiful

looks like he is ready to get out, maybe what is in his system is coming out and he will be okay, fingers crossed.

I would love to see both, I was going to ask for pics of your violets.

Awe they are so cute , the flying picture is wonderful :fear

cutenss over load I love all the pictures

very sad to hear this news

you can write a letter to the manager informing him of the situation, if you find they don't respond you can report the store, there was a large pet store by us and I e-mailed everyone on the website the issue, it was the same thing scaley face when I went back the issue was resolved.

I didn't see that you quarantined your new addition? Quarantine provides time for the new bird to settle in along with watching for any illness that the new bird can have or any stress induced illness. My advice is this because this did happen to Merlin who was a mere baby and Pretty was older (both males - so I don't think this just occurs between different sexes) is to separate them and start over. The same thing happened to you is what happened to me. Pretty kept trying to step up on Merlin and being it dominance or mating you would hear the angry dolphin noise so this is what I did and it worked perfectly. Here is the infomation straight from the FAQ that I wrote up to introduce my 2nd bird to my 1st. Quarantine Program is the first thing you will need to do before your introduce any new birds to your existing birds (flock). Here is a method that I have used and found to be useful when introducing a new bird to the existing flock. This method is primary to be used if you are introducing in a small setting (such a inside cage or a small aviary). Those who have large aviaries may have different methods since the situation is different. When I introduce Pretty to Merlin it was a gradual process. When quarantine was over these are the steps I took. 1. I first let them out together on top of the cage with complete supervision 2. I kept their cages side by side but not where they could beak fight or pick at each others toes. So about 2 inches apart 3. I then let Merlin go in Pretty's cage during the day supervised only 4. I then let Merlin go in Pretty's cage during the day unsupervised only after I knew that everyone body was settled. 5. After I knew the daytime unsupervised time was okay, I then housed them together. Now not everyone may do what I did but this is why I did this. When I first introduced them Pretty thought Merlin was a girl (he was a boy) and kept trying to jump on his back plus he was very hyper flirting like mad. Merlin kept refusing his actions of love :fear and would do a lot of dolphin noises. I moved on to the next step when Merlin was doing so much dolphin "mad" like budgie noises and Pretty settled down. For me it took just a little under 2 weeks. Everyone is different some members can put their budgies in straight away (after quarantine is over) but I could not. Last update: 2007-05-06 15:31 Author: Elly

Oh my goodness you are so messy...come here and let me get that for you

Glad you registered and happy to have you here, look forward to more pics :fear

:fear we need another caption contest for sure (Laughing out loud) good one NickNack

be prepared Aly be prepared....by the middle of the week or the weekend we will know if they will still be family or the enemy that stole my precious "feathered son" :fear

thank you for the update, fingers crossed, we can only hope as you are giving him the best care Aly hugs.

I know what you mean, Pretty actually had some very dark teal blue feathers and they were simply stunning, Merlin on the other hand has the black very dark blue feathers per his violet coloring, Pretty was a sky blue.

Well what happens is that your bird really is a blue based bird (or white as they call it with the lack of the yellow gene), remember yellow and blue make green. ' So in the Yellow Face 2 birds the yellow will start to molt throughout the body hence turning the blue into green (yellow & blue = green). If the YF2 gene washes throughout the whole body of the bird it can make it totally green very much like a normal green (which is actually a yellow based bird with the blue = green). How much the YF2 spreads and how dark is based on the genetic make up of that particular gene. Does that make it clearer?

(Laughing out loud)...or maybe it is a YF2 that is heavy on the YF

when you look at normal greens on our mutation page and other sites you can see them coming in...maybe it is like gray hair (Laughing out loud) it comes in at different times

I thought this would be interesting for everyone , to see how we all came across BBC and why we primary use the site. First me....(you can copy and paste the questions and add your own info) How: I found BBC about 3 years ago when I did a search for budgie message boards. Why: I wanted to learn how to take care of Pretty Now: I love the community of members, seeing new faces, educating members and have make a lot of wonderful friends. Who do I have now? I just have Merlin, Pretty passed away a year ago.

It is okay to only have 1 budgie if you have the time to spend with it and bond they do very well. Merlin is an awesome single bird. If you find you are gone a lot during the day and evening then a 2nd budgie would be good but if you wnat to keep them tame you need to work with them especially if you want to be included in the flock. Side note, who is breeding the budgies you told me about? You said they look like Merlin.

Very nice Daz, are you sending me one through flat mail (you know I have been waiting on a lot of budgies through flat mail and haven't received any yet