**KAZ**

Great news

The chicks from the greywing to dilute nestbox Greywings dilute chick Dommie pied chicks

Sometimes it just means a disturbance or stress and she has felt her nest is vulnerable. She may need a break for awhile and try her again later.

A mystery The eldest chick in the greywing nest of this pair ................................ PAIR THREE GREYWING TO GREYWING.........a pairing from before that yielded a very good result seems to be a grey normal so far so that means that one of those cold eggs from pair SIX and was fostered to the greywing nest.........has made it after all ..............and another grandchild to Omelette. PAIR SIX GREY SPANGLE COCK ( Omelettes and his first breeding ) to FRAN MC LAUGHGLAN SKY HEN Hen Old photo

How cute

Kaz started out with pet type birds and colony breeding. If I speak about the negatives of colony breeding it is because I have experienced it all.

Budgies like that true grit powder dont they Splat

Yes the blue looks very strong so far

You will have more dramas before you end up with successful clutches or fledged chicks. I dont know why you are colony breeding when you should know better

So far ( fingers crossed ) she seems to be recovering. Maybe its a sign I must keep her. So it would seem

I totally agree with GB

I do and once chicks in the nestbox reach two weeks of age I also start adding seed to the bedding http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=22446

I try to keep my babies longer in the kindie cage before going in the aviary during winter. Then you have to be sure there is a zillion places they can access food in the aviary and watch out for bullying types that stop others eating from certain dishes.

Poopy bottom is also an indicator of not eating and not necessarily something that needs antibiotics.

Get yourself a small cage, or a small wooden travel box or buy a cheap plastic mouse cage ( small ) for the trip. I think the cardboard boxes are stressful places to be so I feel sure two hours would be far too much for the bird in one of those. Borrow something better if you cant buy something. Anything you buy can be used in the future for a travel box to the vets for instance.

As I already posted ......she is still with us. She laid an egg today and the photos tell the story

I like surprises Finding out that two grey greens who have three dommie pied babies in the nest, are split BLUE The greywing chicks are starting to get real spiky with lots of feather

Seems very apt this euthanasia topic right now as I had to euthanase another hen in the aviary today. She either had a fast acting tumour or egg peritonitis. Found her on the ground and when I picked her up her whole abdomen was swollen up like she was carrying a tennis ball in there. Sorry Nubbly, it was one of your hens Well I know now why she was attacked. Seems she was trying to nest and lay an egg in that cull cage and others attacked her because she was trying to protect her spot. Chances are high she had taken over a food dish Here she is today

Good news. Off to a good start Splat Cant wait to see your next batch of babies grow.

She is still with us

Problem solved. I sent Jack some old unused leg rings.

Try for a better photo. That one has too much light so we cant see fully what you are trying to show.

shes got barring all across her head still and if shes not sick doing young chick fluffy thing stance i say very wittle baby 10 week olds max hasnt molted in them pics colour wize im not touching I agree with GB. She hasnt even got visible iris rings....which she would have even in a brown or grey if she was actually up to 5 months. She hasnt. So that would mean she still has her baby feathers and a long way to go before she has her adult colouring.

Well, I discovered her at dusk last night after arriving home from a budgie show, so I couldnt see who did the dirty deed

I dont know who did it. I have culled only her from Omelette's babies.