Elly

thanks I believe I remember the vet saying it was hard to find out of all of them :yellowhead:

I love the 2nd picture , they are gorgeous.

well I am glad you are back and I hope you are feeling better Your birds as always are lovely

I haven't tried anything but the samples they gave me and honestly I can't tell if he is eating them or not (Laughing out loud). They are layered on top of the seed right now so he sifts. I can give them a try, where do you find those?

wonderful news

thanks Kaz

ah now Bea again if it wasn't for that normal wing pattern and the pink cere he would be Blinks twin : The pics are all so cute cute!! How is Oz doing?

thank you

Hugs on your loss I just lost my Pretty to a very sudden illness his was a respiratory infection and they are so good at hiding their illness. He wasn't even 2 yrs old. The best bet you can do to make sure they are healthy is buy an e gram scale I just purchased one at Wal-Mart. You can get them at an office supply place, e bay but make sure they go up and down in increments of 1 gram and don't pay no more then 40US dollars as you can find them inexpensive. The reason for this is if they have a tumor you will see it in a weight gain and also weight loss can be noticed if they are sick too. I wish I would have weighed Pretty I maybe could have found it earlier but I can't think about what I didn't do but think about what I can do for my remaining budgie Merlin. Tumor are very common in budgies and that is the biggest issue they have with them and what takes them at such an early age. We hope through better breeders taking on the stance to breed healthy tumor free birds that things can change for our feathered friends.

Since Pretty died we are working on better nutrition and I will keep everyone updated on how that goes on the pellet conversion. I wanted to get my e gram scale which I got one from Wal-Mart yesterday so I have to make sure it goes up and down increments of 1g it didn't say on the box. Right now I have Harrison samples for pellets.

we must right , thanks Robin. I look at the time and think wow where I was just 7 days ago.

Adrian they looked very similar I bet they are having a ball together for sure thank you for your kind words.

as I told Shawna in my other post not right now, I am going to focus on getting to know Merlin and his personality better , he is such a quiet, regal gentle boy, an not hyper at all. I really got to know Pretty because he was solo for 9 months. The urge hasn't come to me right now.

thank you and you are so right we do miss Pretty

glad to see she is doing so well , what a character she is.

I have always seen that in him Hurdy he is so regal looking maybe that is why Pretty flirted with him so much

just so you know just because you get all lutinos does not necessary mean that the dad is not split if you keep him with the same hen for a few clutches that would be a better way to determine if he is not split. Here is why you will have 50% lutino split for blue 50% ino outcome if he is split. If he is not split then all the off spring will be lutinos split for blue you could get ino's from the kids if paired correctly. You can see you may need to have a couple clutches with the same female to determine his genetics if you don't know his heritage and it is good to get to at least the grandparents. The further back the better just like humans you can have all brown eyes for 2 generations and then bam someone comes out with blue eyes .

if your female is an albino that would mean she is a blue based bird and your lutino is a yellow (green) based bird and would have to be split to the blue gene to get an ino since blue is recessive. If you knew the parents yes it would help you a bit. If they were two greens then there is probably more of chance he is not split but not necessary because there is the grandparents too and there would be a blue heritage in there that he aquired. If one of the parents were blue then he has more of a chance to be split for the gene. Make sense?

Sure Merlin Baby Pics

Karen, Merlin was like that too very little or very light barring I remember someone saying it could be because of the pied gene so that was interesting.

Donnie (that is what came to mind) not sure if you have one already Winnie for a spin off of his daddy

that was NOT hard to figure out huh he is super cute and a mirror image of his dad.

I know I may just be "odd" but I remember these things and today it will be 1 week at 9:15pm EST US, that Pretty passed away in my sweater. I can't believe how time flies truly and I know he is flying all over now watching us and Mr. Merlin. Kirby reminded me to always remember the good time so this is what I am doing Here are some picture of "stinky" Pretty :angel1: Are you saying you don't want me to poo your curtians or was that get down off my curtians? I have a bit of a hearing loss Why is she always taking pictures of us doesn't she have anything better to do Merlin says? Pretty sighs nope she doesn't have a life :

I was looking around for some nice poems for Kirby because he lost his favorite horse and I came across these I find them to be so interesting. I really like this one because you can post your own story and it is about all types of pets including birds, horses, fish etc... There are beautiful tributes, poems and more. http://www.foreverlovedpets.com/interface/index.php This next website has poems for pet loss they are beautiful (I really appreciate the poems that Karen and Daz posted when Pretty passed away) http://webpages.charter.net/westiesnet/loveof/loss_poems.htm If you find more please feel free to add to this post.

Thank you