**KAZ**

Stop her breeding............give her six months ...try again. If she has this behaviour fully ingrained and does it again in six months time........cull.

Not quite...............with females it a presence of white more than anything else.

The plum eyed chicks eyes right now are very easily seen still as plum. I will try for a photo Here is a greywing chick from before ( full sister to the new one ) note down colour

Here is the chick with plum eyes No its normal for greywings

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.

Yeah............looks like the cock was hiding cinnamon

Hold off on the beetroot Dave and the carrots

Real bad news Mate You seem to struggle for every little thing, whether its financial or moral support. Its about time that all changed. You are the typical australian UNDERDOG and I think you will have your day one day and it may be sooner than you think.

Thats for sure when this was taken I was laughing my head off. The baby had such a full crop, it was trying its best to flip itself up onto its feet but everytime it tried to bend its body at crop level it kept falling back onto its back.....like a beachball trying to move

As I have been breeding through the cold weather I have been getting 90% cocks this time around too

I dont know about the texture or shiny-ness of the cere. It can vary from day to day. The whitish ones just have a habit of not looking as shiny due to the colour. Is there any reason that you know of why you produce many more females than males? It seems to be seasonal. I have discovered with time that I breed an abundance of hen babies through warmer weather and when I breed through colder weather I get an abundance of cocks.

I dont know about the texture or shiny-ness of the cere. It can vary from day to day. The whitish ones just have a habit of not looking as shiny due to the colour.

the babies Interestingly the fourth chick has plum eyes

Budgie females are famous for bickering over who owns the perch. Usually it can be solved by more space.

Great that you used the ivermectin. Nothing more you can do but wait. Two weeks generally see huge improvement. I have never clipped budgies nails so I'll leave that to someone else

Here is two baby budgies ..........photos I just took Male Female

QUESTION What is an egg tooth ? ANSWER An egg tooth is a small, sharp, cranial protuberance used by offspring to break or tear through the egg's surface during hatching. In birds, the process of breaking open the eggshell is commonly referred to as pipping. Baby birds have a pipping muscle on the back of their necks. It is this muscle which gives them the strength to force the egg tooth through the inner membrane of the eggshell. When a baby bird becomes too large to absorb oxygen through the pores of its eggshell, it uses its egg tooth to peck a hole in the air sac located at the flat end of the egg. This sac provides a few hours worth of air, during which the baby bird breaks through the eggshell to the outside. The egg tooth falls off several days after hatching. The only mammals to hatch from eggs, the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, also develop an egg tooth before birth. Newly hatched baby showing its egg tooth

Is he moulting ? Check him over for missing flights and tail feathers.

two babies

Teagan appears to be dilute opaline SF dominant pied

You need proper budgie legring cutters...nothing else. You cut one side and then the other and let the ring fall away.

Good job Dave. Why the second drop of ivermectin though ?

I stick to what I said originally and he is single factor dominant pied