**KAZ**

I dont use triple C as a pre breeding program. I do once a year doxy treatment. I believe in Triple C as a very good and effective product. If chicks in a nest are having issues like yellowbelly or the nest is mucky, I put triple C in the parents water for a few days. If I have a sick bird that needs a crop feed...........the crop feed is handrearing mixture with some whole egg powder, some whey protein isolate and a portion of triple C. This blend has brought birds back from the brink of death and it works for me. I use Triple C in the water of any sick or "off" birds. It can be used over a few days without going off like doxy does. It is my medication of choice and I find it very good.

Quill mites can be hard to be rid of. I bought in a bird that had quill mites and it took a long time to clear him of those. An avian vet can do a scraping of the contents of a feather quill and put it under the microscope. Indicators of feather quill mites is seeing minute holes or cuts into the feather quill. Quill mites can get into the bloodstream from what my vet told me and what I have heard. Eventually the cure for my bird was ( vet prescribed ) spraying the bird to soaking point with Avian Insecticidal Liquidator and putting S76 in his water. Basically treating topically and internally. Then he was cleared of feather quill mites.

Cant wait to see all your fluffy spiky babies

Yeah, I have heard that those that do a hard cull or get others to cull for them, struggle to regain a good footing when some things go pear shaped. I will be sensible about it and keep my reserve birds too.

Very good advice Troy........Thanks for that You confirm my thoughts and my need to do a hard cull.

You're nearly there

Not really but they can build up to the point where you cant see well through the wire thats covered in fluffy feathers due to moulting birds. Its just part of keeping an aviary clean.

Nearly enough eggs for an Omelette dave

That pair had six eggs but the hen just sat and looked at them. I transferred some eggs to another nestbox and got one chick out of it this baby has gone out into the aviary now The greywing to greywing spangle family newly fledged chick and its dad

Thanks Kaz...just curious...will one male 'cosy up' with BOTh females at one time? You said you removed the other female.

You have already posted this question earlier today and there is an answer in that topic. Multiposting is not allowed so this one will be closed

All four chicks out of the greywing spangle hen to skyblue greywing cocks nestbox now This baby also out of another nestbox Thundra doing much better Found a baby budgie stuck in its egg partway through hatching and heres some of the others

Two chicks now..........second one is cinnamon

Thats so funny cos Kaz hasnt answered yet :rofl:

We cannot really advise. You need to observe and remove the one that you think isnt really the partner of the hen.

Interesting observations. I dont know that I agree with the show budgies lacking intelligence nor with the inability to fly. BUT my flights being 6 metres by two metres each ( two of them ) and filled with things they can play on or with seems to show me that they can both fly, enjoy flying and i definitely see signs of intelligence. Nor do I necessarily agree with thoughts of a geneticist who maybe doesnt have an aviary full of these birds to see and observe each day. Maybe its a Western Australian budgie thing Our genetic pool here seems to be closer than some elsewhere PS Please advise how you arrived at the lack of intelligence theory for show budgies ?? What test ??

As its only one of many bird diseases, you most likely will only find articles...........we have a whole lot of them here already. Anthing else you will have to find on the net. Use the correct spelling and it should come up.

We should consider ourselves lucky then Macka that we dont have to sell at such low prices YET

Oh didn't no that it had a different name for budgies, thanks It doesnt have a different name for budgies. The correct name is Chlamydia Psittaci

YES, IN the health forum where you posted this is many many articles on it..........Pinned articles. Also called Psittacosis. And DEFINITELY YES is a major concern of budgies health. Have a look through the pinned articles in the health forum on here.

Does that interfere with any of your plans? I know a lot of times I've read that some of you don't like cinnamon turning up where it doesn't belong. I just realized that a cinnamon chick from this pairing will have to be a cinnamon and greywing. You probably don't remember when I asked a long time ago if this was a possible combination, and what would it look like. Well, now we will find out! Cinnamon and greywing ? NO. The cock is dilute. The hen is greywing. The chick isnt greywing at all based on what I can see. Anything else we will have to wait and see. I did this pairing aiming for dilutes. Sorry, I meant 'greywing' in the loosest sense of the term, not differentiating between greywing, clearwing and dilute. So, all these chicks will be either greywing/dilute or dilute/dilute, to be more specific. Did I get that right? And then if there is cinnamon thrown on top of it all, that is a separate gene. So I will still be interested to see what this chick ends up looking like. Is this the plum-eyed chick we were talking about before? I've been waiting to see a photo of her out of the nest. Yes

Could have been eggbinding or could have been lack of calcium. Please give a whole lot more details including your setup and aviary. How often do you check them and do you know the signs of eggbinding ? Seems you colony breed. How many do you have breeding in the aviary and how have you set it up. How to post photos is a link in my signature

Very cool Well done with the video. There's also a bird in your birdroom playing with the door to it cage.......might need to put a peg on that cage door

Some of the greywing and dilute babies newly released out into the aviary yesterday

I have come to accept this as normal when you breed in quantity. Its about percentages.