Elly

Many of us breed on the forums and are looking for guidelines to ensure their babies are going to the right homes and some are looking to rehome. Either way this is an excellent document which includes a Sales Agreement & a Budgie Care Sheet that you can give the new owners. I would like to thank Aly aka feathers who took time out of her busy schedule to write it up and format it in a user friendly format for BBC. Thank you Aly you are wonderful You can find the information in our FAQ section under General Information or click here What I need to know when selling my budgie

I just love Apple, Munchy and Migs it is good to see pics of the stinky boys they are having so much fun

gorgeous babies the colors are very pretty

thank you , I am still looking for more ideas so we can have a wide variety

She looks to be a full body grey wing recessive pied is her blue bright between her legs? if not then a greywing recessive pied and I say recessive since you said you can see the red in her eyes that is from the recessive pied gene .

oh I simply love the dominant pied you have been getting Kaz and with the yellow faces too

Excellent cage, congrats

Bird don't become pissed that is not an emotion they can become angered from teasing and bit or out of fear. BUT stressed or still under the weather is most likely why he is still fluffed up. You can call your avian vet and tell them your concern and see what they say. They may want him in for a quick look over again to ensure he isn't loosing weight and give him an exam.

(coughs) they must come and fly to Elly's Kaz they are gorgeous, truly miracles

how big is the cage you have them in? do you have more then 1 feeder in their cage? are they fighting over a particular toy?

Very cute question how wide are your spaces in your cage?

Sexing my budgie Generally the colour of a budgie's cere (the coloured area at the top of the beak surrounding the nostrils) is the simplest indicator of gender in adult budgies. Most adult males have a blue cere with a smooth, waxy completion. Some males, such as albinos, lutinos, fallows, and some recessive pieds do not develop a blue cere, instead it remains the pinkish/purple colour they had as a juvenile bird. Below we have added an link to our member's birds and there is an example of the mutations that do not develop the normal blue colored cere in a male budgie. Click here Example of Cere Adult females have a cere that ranges from a light beige or tan colour through to a dark chocolate brown colour, which become flaky when they are in breeding condition. Another indicator is the shape; males tend to have a more rounded bulbous cere compared to the females flatter shaped cere. When budgies are a younger age (6 week to 6 months) it is much harder to work out the sex and it takes a trained eye to pick up the slight differences. The things to look for are an even pinky/purple colour over the whole cere for young males and a pink or blue cere with noticable white rings around the nostrils for females. This is where many go wrong for we associate pink for girls and blue for boys and many pet shop employees believe that this is how to tell the difference and incorrectly sex the birds. If you are still confused about which gender your bird is the nest step is to look at the behaviour of the bird. Females are known to bite harder than males, which is a great way to tell if you have more than one bird. But still any bird can bite hard when not hand tamed or panicked. Males are the talkers of the species and re quite happy to sit alone and warble and chatter to themselves for hours on end. While females have an urge to chew and rip at things; it is a natural breeding instinct to get a nest set up. Visuals: Pictures to Help Sex your Budgie Notice the blue cere for most cocks or male budgies Notice the brownish cere for hens or female budgies. Notice the pinkish cere for young budgies. (Gender is hard to tell) Last update: 2007-05-07 04:07 Author: Nerwen Click here for the full articles with pics http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...d=14&artlang=en

Sounds wonderful, here is a site I use for reference on safe woods http://www.mdvaden.com/bird_page.shtml

Did you try the Avian Vet look-up to see you may have one that you don't know about , http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...=138&artlang=en

You can't tell if a bird is split for a hidden gene there is no way of knowing unless you know the history and there are still surprises. It is a theory that a small spot on the back of the head may indicate the bird is carrying the recessive pied gene but I haven't seen it documented except for cockatiels.

I will post your answered here: 1. Yes they should be separated here is a good article from our forums about colony and closed breed Colony vs Closed 2. no you don't have to really put anything in the breeding boxes as the hen will usually kick it out. 3. Australian spring/summer--which is US late Fall/winter. Budgies are not fertile year round. They will only breed when they are in breeding condition. Read here for more Breeding Age 4. Depends on the pair of birds usually you will see an egg within a week 5. Australian spring/summer--which is US late Fall/winter The smiles are an optioin when you post a message

do you have pics of this particular bird? We really can't answer any of those questions because only a avian vet can diagnosis if there is really something truley wrong. For pics, you open a free account with www.photobucket.com then you can upload and resize your pics to 450/x450 then you can add them here as an image, photobucket will give you the coding.

Yep you had it right too I remember!!! Thank you for the table

Good to hear and I await pics

it is a new mutation , do you have bigger picture of him? Front and back if you can

that is cute Hoppy and you posted okay

This was a discussion brought on by Norms question on how he got a DEC in his nest called A little surprse in the nest Of course I always want to know answers and read up just like Norm did and I wanted to share what I found Norm was reading too I believe from this site Best of the Breed Al-Nassar Thought you would all be interested Those DEC's are in fact, birds that carry in their genetical make-up, one dominant gene (gene for Clearflight) and two recessive genes (genes for the Recessive Pied).

Any new members want to add their pics to the poofy contest

they both look like YF2 to me, I can see the bleed slightly coming into the neck does he have white around his wings and tail?

beautiful rainbow of colors, congrats on the newest addition