**KAZ**

I hope he comes back for you. He may do. You may have to spend some time outside with a net in hand.

Pity you didnt have your safety net set up as advised.......even a $20 bed net like suggested would have helped with the escape you have just had. I know what you are going through. When I first began I had escapes in the same way. they see just a ********* of daylight through the door and they are off

I deleted your other two topics which were repeats of this one and not allowed to post multiple repeats topics on this forum.However as regards advice, if she is alone in that aviary and she has only three eggs she will be fine. Three eggs if fertile she can cope with. They do get off their eggs for breaks, to feed and poop so it will remain the same with or without him in the aviary.All your job is now is to be sure she has readily available food at all times. NO you dont need to syringe feed her at all. You may consider adding seed to her nestbox or sprigs of millet to assist her, but she will manage with three chicks if the eggs are all fertile. Be on the lookout for the Dad returning just in case. Not allowed. These other posts have been deleted.

I really like the way you narrate your topics with extra info on the birds and your reasons for pairing them and what you hope to get from the pairings

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

Sorry to hear that. We all have these things going on and dont always say But you may want to read this from Admin member Daz http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....c=13659&hl= MURPHYS LAW OF BIRDKEEPING The best bird in the aviary always dies. Your best hen never lays fertile eggs The pair nesting in the cage that is hardest to get into always have eight chicks The pair you are really counting on lays 8 fertile eggs and all addle before hatching Budgie droppings are attracted to breeding cage roofs. You always run out of seed on a Sunday night when all nests are full of chicks. You move a 3 day old unbanded chick from a pair of greens to a pair of blues (knowing you can identify it later) with the same age chicks and discover later they are all blue. The only chick that misses banding is in the best condition for the spring show and is a stormer. You inadvertently pull out one of the prime throat spots on your best bird one week before the show. Your second best bird looses one tail feather a week before the show. You discover an hour after that the bird you just sold, you had been keeping for a special pairing. The power in the shed fails when it is minus 25 with an 80 mph wind and there are chicks in all the nest boxes. One of the birds you left at home was better than the birds that won. No matter what clothes you wear to to work, if you look hard enough you will find budgie feathers in them. Out of town visitors always visit your aviary the day before your major weekly clean out. Every time you think you have had a fabulous year, you visit your friend down the road, who is having an average year and has raised twice as many chicks as you have, with only half the number of pairs. Every vehicle you own has bird seed in it (and some of your friends) Budgie down is attracted to beards. Every aviary is built 25% too small. Your best bird ends up in your worst show cage. Bird seed is attracted to the living room carpets. The city works department only does heavy construction next to your property during breeding season. Droppings adhear to the side of the band where the number is, not to the year or code that you already know. One of your best birds loses it's tail feathers just before the show so you take it along anyway and throw it on the cage floor in case the judge gives you some credit, and sure enough he doesn't, but you still try to explain to him that..... (see the next one) Tail feathers are attracted to show cage floors Eight out of nine Lutinos are pure yellow (guess which one is wrong classed? )

He has grown a new tail

How old is the chick on the right Kaz?Cant tell you right now as its dark and the records are down in the breeding room. Chicks are also in a foster nest.PS notice one chick looks like it is hugging the other one That's okay, I can wait till tommorrow. Aww cute, I only just noticed that If its the same chick, that would make it 16 days old Good on you ...............yes its the same chick

If she was incubating and with 5 fertile eggs she most likely was, the longest she should be off her eggs is 20-30 mins, so if its been longer the eggs may be chilled. Have you a hen with eggs at the same stage to transfer them to ? How long has she been off the eggs ? She is a very fertile hen, I can't wait to try her with a different cock. YF Blue Opaline Spangle/Cinnamon, gorgeous bird, father of her current mate (DF Spangle YF) You didnt answer my question

The shed looks GREAT Dave !!

How old is the chick on the right Kaz? Cant tell you right now as its dark and the records are down in the breeding room. Chicks are also in a foster nest. PS notice one chick looks like it is hugging the other one

If she was incubating and with 5 fertile eggs she most likely was, the longest she should be off her eggs is 20-30 mins, so if its been longer the eggs may be chilled. Have you a hen with eggs at the same stage to transfer them to ? How long has she been off the eggs ?

Scalyface can be missed and does get missed especially when birds are in the aviary.

95% of the last batch of babies were cocks, but now we are seeing hens coming through in the nests. Very good Some more pictures Greywing dominant pied Cobalt ? dom pied From YF sky cocck and cinn opaline grey hen Greywing spangle hen to greywing cock a grey chick

Even better is, its a hen :fear

Sorry to say I agree with GB and this isnt just a case of early scaly or just a week or two. This was scalyface established before they were put down to breed. Fact is you just missed seeing the signs or treating before breeding.

Hen got out of the nest last night when the first chick hatched....chick dead this morning. All eggs cold. Moved three eggs to another nest in case they will make it. One chick made it from the ice cold eggs ...............in a foster nest.......this chick and there seems to be 4 fertile eggs or more in the parents second round.

How do you store it? EG plastic bottle etc and how long does it last made up as I only have 1 budgie Make it up as you need it....just add a couple of drops to the drinker.

Cut feathers drop out and are replaced. Read member Livs account of her feather dusters and you will find they moulted like any other budgie. There are some who have said a feather duster doesnt moult, but it isnt true.

I will message Stephen Fowler and ask

She was very very normal in all ways. In fact she was growing on to being a large chick for her age.

Despite the myths and old wives tales abounding about budgies pairing up for life. breaking a bond is as simple and seperating them.

Good to hear they are felling better. Fingers crossed for ongoing improvement

A cousin of my husbands who was staying with us for a few days recently, lives in the country on farming land. He was telling us of hybrids he has seen amongst flocks and some that travel all alone. He saw amongst a flock and many many times on his farm, a pure yellow 28 parrot. This is what a 28 parrot looks like http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3085/256138..._ae03fb72ae.jpg and the hybrid he saw was all over yellow with pale lime green suffusion on wings and tail. After seeing it on a regular basis he was going to try and catch it. However some teenagers in a close by farmhouse who had been given airguns recently shot it and killed it for fun He also saw on its own a pure red rosella parrot with no additional colouring at all................just red. he has also seen pure yellow corellas.

Raring to go ?