Elly

It sounds like she may have gotten egg bound, I will let though those who are more experienced answer this. Very sorry for your loss :question:

Personally, I believe all of the entries are excellent and I would like to use them all so we can rotate throughout the months, I would add your name that you are the creator but I will need to upload them to the BBC Photobucket Account so if you decide to delete out of your account it won't affect using them, so if you can reply on this post and say sure that is okay that would be wonderful :question:. Budgie of the Month Emblem (Current) Budgie of the Month Emblems (premission granted/uploaded to BBC Photobucket) created by member: Linda_S created by member: Boris Slave created by member: krosp created by member: mysixbabies created by member: mysixbabies created by member: mysixbabies created by member: cute.spangled.bu... Still need permission below/need to be uploaded before offically using created by member: dezdemona created by member: dezdemona created by member: sootie created by member: sootie created by member: shaun created by member: shaun

Time to vote for your favorite budgie picture. You can vote for more then 1 picture. Please give it a couple seconds for all the pictures to load there are so many that it takes time to load them depending on where they have been hosted by the user. Thank You :question: Voting closes in 3 days The member with the most votes will WIN July Budgie of the Month!!! The winner will have a special post dedicated to their winning picture AND an emblem added to their signature for the month of letting everyone know they won!! Don't forget you can submit a picture every month...so this month is now open ** A note, we had a couple links and oversized pictures they can not be accepted all pictures have to be sized to 480x640, thank you . We ask no comments just voting please! If you have questions feel free to PM me PS. at the end of the year we will take all 12 winners for 2009 and will have a Budgie of the Year for 2009.

Put in your best entry for Budgie of the Month. Every one has until the July 31st (U.S. Time EST) to enter a picture. Members vote at the beginning of the month to chose who will be the winner. One picture per member per month. Please remember to keep to the board rules of maximum, pictures should not exceed 480x640 AND links will not be accepted ONLY images. If this is not met then you picture will not be accepted. Any post you make to this thread will not show up so please do not repost. Do not post questions on this thread if you have a question you can either PM me or post in the Competition Area, thank you. Good luck to all that enter. Winners are recognized for the whole month with a Budgie of the Month Picture (below) which is added to their signature line and it is removed after the month is over and is added to the next winners signature line. :question: Also note that all monthly winning pictures will be automatically added to the Budgie of the Year. To check out "2008 Budgie of the Year" CLICK HERE and feel free to congratulate them. Important Information: if you are the Budgie of the Month and are entered in the Budgie of the Year your original photo most stay up and not be moved, deleted, or link broken, this is the only way we can verifiy that that photo was the winner, if you decide to move, delete the photo your photo is disqualified from the Budgie of the Year Competition. Interested in our Monthly 2009 Winners? CLICK HERE and feel free to look, this is a readme only post, to congratulate the winner feel free to click on the CLICK HERE to Congratulate Link in this thread under the photo. Read here on how to post pictures within guide regulation Photo Regulations/How to Post TIPS on taking good pictures that WIN Make sure you have good lighting Try and take your budgie's picture without the bar cages, many camera's will let you zoom in and you can put the lense between the space If it is a close-up use your macro setting (symbolized on some camera's by a flower) and then press the shutter button 1/2 way and let it focus If the picture is blurry check your setting and try again Make sure you resize your pictures to message board size (640x480) too small of pictures are hard to see

Slate is a rare mutation, it is a color adding gene just like violet or grey, it produces a very dark bluish grey in white-based budgies. The darkness of the slate varies slightly according to the dark factor of the bird. Slate, like violet, can be present in a green (yellow-based) budgie, but only produces a darkening effect. True slate only appears on blue (white-based) budgies. This variety is extremely rare. Basic Genetics: Sex-linked (on the x-chromosome) to see a picture go here http://www.budgieplace.com/c_slate.html plus there is an article about Slates too. I agree with with Neville, had told me.

Awesome job to the coaches and the boys!!

Very cute, you have 1 more day if you want to enter her picture in the Budgie of the Month , under the Competition Section. What color are Foofie's eyes?

He is a cutie, he is a Skyblue Domanant Pied, and I would say around 4 months, it looks like he is starting to go through his first molt.

I went and asked some advice from Neville, a member here that knows his stuff and I barely ever disagree with his words of wisdom, here is what he PM'd me Hi Elly I think the chick is both violet and grey. The cheek patches are quite a bright blue which is usual for a bird that has both mutations. I think the base colour is probably cobalt

beautiful, thank you for sharing

Welcome :thankyou:

they are sweet, we had thought about getting a pet rat a couple years ago but didn't go forward because of time being able to spent with them, I read all about them and they are such wonderful pets :thankyou:, very cute!

Not sure I agree that the hen looks like a dark factor grey although greys are pretty difficult to tell in the dark factor series. But like you say IF she is carrying a df then it is possible for the baby to be mauve. If she isn't carrying a DF then the baby could only be a cobalt never a mauve you know so then this debate would be over BUT if you can get another picture of the Grey in natural light that would help too . I don't think it is a mauve personally I think he is a pretty Cobalt to be honest , until I see better picture. If you look at Merlin in my signature he is the pretty much the same color. I can't see how he is carrying a grey gene because grey in a white based bird the out come is a grey.

I would agree with GB that it's LIKELY to be a grey violet but not impossible for it to be a mauve also given that the mother COULD be either no dark factor, single dark factor or even double dark factor (although she does look like having no dark factor). For the chick to be a mauve it would have to get 2 dark factors from each bird the mother would have to carry at least 1 dark factor for this chick to be a mauve. The father is a Yellow Face I Cobalt Violet (carries 1 dark factor) the mother is a Yellow Face I Dominant Pied Grey and the grey is dark so I am saying she is carrying at least 1 dark factor, they can produce a mauve chick. Very cool that they produced a white faced chick The chick has too be either a cobalt or a mauve (these are base colors indicating how many dark factors) with the ADDED factors of grey and violet I would still like to see better pics of the chick in natural lighting. This is my personal opinion.

Hugs, I can understand where you are coming from the same thing happened to me when Pretty died suddenly leaving Merlin the sole budgie. He has remained the sole budgie and has done very well. They will call for a couple days but what you will find is if you leave him the sole budgie that he will come around and start to bond with you more. If not and you decide to get another budgie do make sure you do a 30 day quarantine. Hugs.

too cute

first thing I noticed was the cool T.V. as a signature.

glad she is coming around and gettng the TLC she needed, I like the rename to Willow. Look forward to pics :question:

Check out the FAQs and you will find all this infomation and more...there is an article for Taming Your Budgie too. You may find out that though your male will be more friendly and that is okay, I would work with the one that wants to be worked with especially when you are working with 2 because budgies tend to follow each other so if the female continues to see the male friendly with you she may come around even better.

wonderful news

He reminds me of Merlin's color, I hesitate to say mauve personally, maybe you can post another picture of him in a brighter natural light?

Congrats Kaz

Welcome

welcome

In my signature, you will see Pretty he was a Sky Blue Recessive Pied, his cere was very pink all over