**KAZ**

My breeding cages are these ones....................... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BIRD-FLIGHT-EXERCIS...=item3f01755e48

I am looking forward to the babies coming out of nests this breeding season. I am using a lot of the better youngsters I bred who are old enough. I have filled around 30 breeding cabinets and all the rest of the birds in the aviaries are jumping out of their skins for their chance to breed too. I am trying to make the new corner units for my breeding room and another vertical bank as well which will add the last 12 breeding cabinets to the birdroom and leave it complete. I will do a revolving topic here and add photos of the breeding pairs as I get them organised. PAIR ONE Dommie pied hen bred by Carl Alder and Green Cock bred by Rob Dunstan ( cocks father Gazzard bred bird..and this cock was selected for the nationals ) Hen was about to lay her eggs as you can see by her posture cock EGGS.........two PAIR TWO Omelette cock eggs three PAIR THREE GREYWING TO GREYWING.........a pairing from before that yielded a very good result six eggs PAIR FOUR dilute dom pied hen and greywing green cock ( second round ) currently on six eggs more to follow....

Exciting The old aviary isnt beyond redemption. Offer it for sale here at a reasonable price and someone will want it. Or could it move down the yard and add onto the other aviary ? Will you be adding more breeding cages ?

Part of owning birds is not just having money to replace them but having a fund saved up for vet fees when things like this happen. If you think you arent old enough to do what has to be done then you need your parents support. I say again................you still do not know what killed the others..........whether it be from disease, no quarantine, bad management by you as a pet owner, bad conditions in the aviary. Until you fix what went wrong or know for certain what disease went through there is no point adding more birds. If you have money to buy more birds then you should have used that money for an autopsy on at least one of the birds. Then you would have a real answer you could work with. Meanwhile study up on psittacosis, coccidiosus and quarantine.................all facts available on this forum and learn something from it.

I will watch them grow and then see how they turn out The blue spangle baby from your df cock has already got a blue cere too

Mine too Have another like it......just out of a greywing nest........with a dilute sister and two fosters of Omelette's Bad colouring due to warm lamp on kindie cage But this is better sibling ( dilute ) still in nest omelettes two still in foster nest two others of Omelettes in kindie cage.

Since you have no clue what the others died of and have no real solutions, NOW is no time to be adding more budgies. There is obviously gaps in your knowledge and practices with regards to keeping your budgies safe and healthy. You would rather listen to petshop staff re advice and you havent addressed any of the advice you have been given here. I wouldnt advise you getting any new budgies until you know what went wrong and killed the others

Great photos GB

Wow !! You gotta be happy with them eh Matt. Looking pretty powerful around the shoulders too.

Have you looked here http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=18921

Six more eggs ........second clutch

You dont need to remove or handle eggs to candle. Transfer of bacteria to porous eggshells is a risk. Its just not a necessary risk either as there is no need to handle and move eggs about.

Wait till the eggs are around 5 days old. Dont remove the eggs to candle them. Get the hen out into the cage and while she is out use a bright penlight torch or candling torch ...put it behind the egg ( in the nest ) and shine it forward to you where you can see. Looking for pinkish reddish glow and veins at first.

Wow I never new this, thanks I always knew that changing diet dramatically would force a moult, but I never thought of using this fact to an advantage by creating moult time at a more convenient time and bringing them all into condition at the same time either.

You wont get a user manual unless you have an original copy from the author of the program.

Any budgie.....in condition, happy, fed right, and under good living and breeding conditions WILL BREED. Add more details. Add photos of your setup so we can advise.

Not too early to tell for most of us on here. We will tell you straight away once we see a picture. Take it with natural light conditions and no flash on the camera. Clear cere shot ( cere = nostrils )

Excellent advice

I would look more towards psittacosis or coccidiosis than anything re lead poisoning Ratzy. Answers re conditions in the aviary needed...........wet or damp ? which would account for cocci. New introductions could have introduced psittacosis. Both fatal in a short period of time.

If you have the Buderigar Program ...then why dont you have the user manual ?

Hi and welcome Good to have you here

He would be humping everything..................alive and not alive....drinkers, aviary wire, feed dishes etc. He would be trying to chat up all the girls in the aviary and some of the boys as well he will be trying to "step aboard" every female there is and sometimes get so frisky he will try to mount the males

The average breeder doesnt register anywhere as there are no licenses needed to breed. Budgerigar clubs have breeders of course but 99.9% would be breeding show budgies. We have a list of members who breed in our for sale or wanted to buy section on here.

Hay will make birds want to nest and breed in it. It also will attract moulds. I would suggest white sand ...the kind they sell for childrens sandpits You can buy that sand by the bag at garden places if you only need a small amount.

What guage is the wire ? Some of the bunnings wire is very thin guage and the joining clips and tool dont cut the mustard ( i.e. "work"too well ) Knowing the width of wire you can buy first nand building the aviary to accomodate the wire width is often the better course of action. Good quality aviary wire comes in 90 cm, 120 cm, and 180 cm.