August

i am all for it! its a great idea and i personally can't wait

time to invest in desexing her. if it wasn't so risky! for your sanity i would surely suggest it!

If anyone is sceptical about this, STOP its great, i've been doing thing for about a month my birds are happier and it obvious. After reading on one of my free flight forums that some people had a window open for their birds at all times and they discovered that their birds were foraging in the neigbourhood and the results they'd seen birds weights still stayed down and their personalities became even more out going and friendly i thought i'd try. what i have been doing is taking large trays like in Eterri's latest posts and placing small amounts of favorite treats/seeds and enough veggies for three or four humans(between my Quakers and budgies) and then a layer of toys, then a few large nuts in the quakers then a layer of alfapha grass more toys, i used confetti the other day after eating the had fun just rolling the little pieces of paper in their mouths, by the time i'm done the budgie's try is about 4-6 inches tall and the quakers near 8. i have found that with wild caught birds that don't play with toys it is amazing Carla one of the quakers WAS a plucker, but it seems to be doing much better now. my budgies now fly in their cages because i've moved branches like Eterri said more to the side, no more bickering between couples. its all around an amazing concept. i will try the hanging of things today for mid day snack,

how's the geezer doing, i know everyones wanting more pictures :rip:

if your concerned i would take him to the vet, its better to be safe than sorry.

he's cute and i have no idea, would be nice to see what that is

if your 12 i assume you are going to school, if you plan on hand raising a chick your going to have to bring the bird to school and schools don't let you do that. in my last year of school i did that (after asking and getting no many times) i got in SO MUCH trouble, and thats in grade twelve, in grade 6-7 i don't think thats a great idea plus if you did you may be responsible for your aged but your classmate may not be and bad things can happen. and its unrealistic to ask your mom/dad to raise them when your at school, it a giant responsibility. your best bet is to play with the chicks and they will become tame in time, handfeeding does not automatically mean your baby will be tame, if not handled enough you'll get a wild baby! handfeeding should be left to experienced people its just not fun for a teen.

i feed them to my other parrots so i wouldn't see why not, just make sure they are not flavored/salted and don't have any preservatives in them, organic from what i know is best

they are cute and friendly from what i can see, and Good job looking up all you can on being a great bird owner! you've got two very lucky birds

if she is just being weird without laying i have a great big happy dance for you

i vote female, BUT knowing my luck its the other way around

For the people that sell babies, I currently have my ‘retirement’ clutch weaned, the last one is at one night feeding, and I had this young woman contact me and has been to visit and chosen her babies and at first I got a good feeling from her, I thought my baby was going to a good home. But now I’ve started feeling uneasy about this person, what would you do, she hasn’t said or done anything to make me change my mind I’m just feeling uneasy, and if I choose not to give her a baby how do I go about saying that? Just so confused and stressed! Arg

just a quick question which vet are you using in the city?

just to give everyone a heads up it was actually a combination of scaly face and aspergillosis, i'm slightly annoyed with the vet's office for what i got but meds have been changed and everything sorted out, when i went in the the quakers i felt uneasy with the answers i was getting, so i took the whole lot to one of the other avian spec. in town and i am happier with the explanation i got from this guy. anyway just letting you know!

The fungus was the Latin name for ringworm with and ‘ious’ at the end (Tineaious I think), I’ve googled it at least a dozen times but no dice, there’s not very much information on avian illness on the internet yet, I really would like to know more, just "avian flu" "we're gonna die" I’m just a little Annoyed. Anyway he's being treated with a antifungal Micoanzole and doxyciline for the infection, he’s also being given pro biotics and AVIAN ENZYME by Harrison’s bird food, to make sure everything goes well as well apple cider vinegar ratio 1:15 pts in his water, its extreme! All in small doses, I think its a little over kill, but my vets known to make sure what ever they have is gone and the bird is stable by any means necessary, 'you can fix most drug side effects, you can't fix death'- she’s a sweety I called the office today and asked them what are the early signs for it, the desk has no idea what was going on :S after about 20 minutes on hold, I got a text book answer :S (not by my vet!) Usually appears on the shoulders of wings and appears to be a 'plucker' usually seen in African species of finch, undiagnosed, feathers will slowly fall away during molt and are not be replaced, skin exposed for a time takes on a texture similar to pours in the human face. Left untreated will spread to other parts of the body. So I guess it’s not deadly, you'll just have a naked bird! I’m taking one of my Quakers in, in the next week because she's been a 'plucker' on her shoulder tips since I got her and that's probably where he got it if she has it, all the others are getting a pill once every four days for 3 days. And they didn't say if it was contact or not, but coincidentally I just saw my first pock show up I actual have ring worm, and so does one of my dogs (did I double doctor vist I went to mine then I took the dogs to theirs), maybe its all a great big fat coincidence or its all related. I would suck if my birds got it from Helmer. Now that I’m prepared I have a list of questions for the vet this week.

So Bo has a Fungal and respiratory infection, and I had no idea the latter was an issue! He has a fungi that’s similar to ringworm but for birds, its easy to get rid of and keep away once you’ve cleaned the aviary, and all the other birds are being treated just in case. The respiratory infection sounded like it was deep in his chest, so its wasn’t really detectable from my point of view, by Tuesday we will know for sure if it is an infection and what kind. The doc honestly said she was afraid it was PBFD! After talking to me on the phone last night she was sure, but it wasn’t and I am so happy for that I have 4 babies in the house right now, my goodness scary. So I can’t get a good picture, you know I’ve tried, but at this point I’ll describe what he looks like; Bo is a normal light green male, with a nice fat forehead, well all of the solid yellow feathers are missing, and the skin underneath, is moist looking and has giant pores in it (you could stick feather pins in there and it no bothering him too much!) I’m avoiding him at this point because the look makes me ill and even the thought of it gives me shivers, my vet even admitted that even she was discussed by the look and was ready to be ill after she handled him. But all is good now, I hope, feather’s should be back in three-four weeks,

My camera sucks, so I can't get a focused picture. But he's now missing about 4-5 rows worth of feathers completely gone. Looks like a baby in the forehead now! I called the Vet because I’m paranoid and they said to isolate him immediately, and he's going in tomorrow morning to get blood work done and possibly a skin biopsy, the vet sounded honestly worried (cert avian vet) PS don't worry Bo's been getting blood taken for a few years now and I trust my avian vet more than my canine vet, she very good and I’m not worried at all about that part.

all the birds are molting currently i can't breathe,. life goes on, but my Bo, my oldest green budgie has lost most of the feathers on his head, he has a few that are enough to keep his head looking yellow-ish, if you look closer(looking at him from about a foot away) you can see his skin and the pin feathers coming through (it looks discusting, the feathers haven't started coming out yet but they've started to poke up), i've never seen a molt this bad and i'm some what worried, has anyone seen this before should i go to the vet? i'll try an get pictures tomorrow in the day light so you know what i'm talking about. Bo is 8-12 years old, ex breeder. and is on a pelleted dominated diet.

it depends on the parents and the size of the clutch. i usually wait until the oldest it 14-16 days, but i had a hen at one point that plucked her babies so i pulled them at 3 days old. i want to go into avian oncology or orthopedic surgery, the two areas interest me a lot, orthopedics more at this point because over the summer i watched a family friend who is a equine vet fix busted up knees and it was amazing, so i like that idea i defiantly want to specialize though not just become a cat/dog vet.

i find babies that are handraised from really younge ages like all parrots make great pets, and have a head start when getting a new home. but its a personal choice in the end, i really enjoy it.

So here is my last clutch, three are going to little girls as first pets ages ranging from 10 to 16. their parents' want to start right, always good, and the four a male i believe is going to live with an older couple who currently have one petstore budgie that won't tame down, so he's going to be a mentor and a friendly pet. all being handfed now, piggies Squweesh i'm naked and its cold in this house! so i'm going to jump off the table (he actually did, i was ready to catch though) I am so cute! look at my face! so i can't fly out of here but i will crawl! bowl of babies Hide! And Helmer

i was told off by my vet for using the concrete perches, that they cause problems with the feet, sores and such, i don't know if that would be causing issues with your babies feet but it may be a start by removing them?

On the topic of veggies and budgies i was cleaning veggies for the dogs supper tonight and i threw away a lot of extra fennel 'shavings' and that got me thinking is fennel good for the budgies? i buy a lot of it becuase the dogs love it so much as well as me. Then i thought what about other aromatic veggies, and herbs? basil and mint are in excess in my window pots so what if i cut them down a bit? i can't find yes or no answers so what is your prospective?

someone try to raise bubs with bigger spots i wants one

Gut feeling I raise my budgies for hand raised pets and that is what I go by. And just chatting with them for a few minutes ask them off topic questions, like what they do, like you would get to know a new person in the office, your gut will tell you the last person I had here was mentioning something about his wife then, talked about how he gave his last budgies away to the spca because the wouldn't produce babies for him, its amazing what people will say! And also ask money, and it doesn't have to be cheap, 50$ isn’t a lot to ask for a well bred, healthy, happy budgie, it make take more time, but when the right person comes along you could give baby to them for less if you feel inclined to do so, the price just weeds out the ‘cheap’ people. But 100% if your gut is acting up they are no good. Good luck :dbb1: