**KAZ**

do NOT rely on any advice from pet shop staff. Despite what they tell you .....................................they know very little. Sounds like your birds had coccidiosis to me..........or psittacosis. Has water or damp got into your aviary at all ?? Quarantine is a MUST DO thing Joel. Losing birds is the hard lesson you will learn by not quarantining your new birds from your existing flock

I agree with Dean

It DOES sound like you need to be adding calcium to the breeding birds as it sounds like some of the babies have rickets or low calcium related leg issues. CALCIVET in the water prior to breeding is good and also through breeding a couple of days a week while feeding chicks. If you can get some vetafarm SOLUVITE D BREEDER also it would help too. Calcivet soluvite d breeder

Brilliant You might have to request some W.A. auction catalogues sometime soon then

I never did get a good photo of that hen. She looks better than that, but that photo was taken just after I took her out of the freight box from QLD on a very hot day.

Very nice

Parents of these eggs are the same greywing parents of the greywing chick that died in the aviary when she flew into the seed tray during a storm This chick and parents

The feet seem very rigid still. He seems happy enough in nature. But no change with his feet.....they are very very stiff.

I wouldnt

Based on your age you go to school. There is no way you would know for certain if all was harmonious in the aviary while you were at school. If the female was kept away from her incubated eggs for an hour or so, the chicks would die in the shell in most cases.

I have followed all your advice I have not colony breed and have done everything you said. I had 1 pair in my aviary together who laid the eggs and none of the other budgies bothered them at all and they were happy cheerful budgies, all healthy and clean. The only thing I found really interesting is that the hen mated with to boys (the first day with one, and the 3rd day with another). But there was no fighting or anything like that. Does any of that help? Having any extra budgies in the aviary while breeding IS colony breeding. You have not grasped what was advised you the last time. I would not blame the cold for lack of results. More likely the distractions and interference of extra budgies in the aviary while you are colony breeding.

Last time you posted you were colony breeding. You said you were removing the nestboxes from the aviary. http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....&pid=338805 What exactly have you been doing this time.........more details will help us work out the issue. I have chicks and we live in Perth too.

A happy plastic nestbox

Great result Is that plum eyes I see ?

Eldest baby has left the nest

More photos of a couple of her babies

Just the male and female in the cage no extras. Breeding condition is brown cere for female and bright blue cere for male ( if he is the type to have a blue cere ) Moulting is hard enough without adding breeding into the mix...........only breed with birds in the very best of health. There is a link in my signature on how to post pictures

One year is fine to breed. Make sure you arent breeding when they are moulting or if they arent in full breeding condition.

Really nice birds !! I'll bet you cant wait to see what comes out of them

I agree with all RIP's advice. One thing to add........... how old are your budgies ???

No. The lines are more to do with babies before first moult. If you are at all unsure of ages do NOT add a nestbox.

KAZ not DAZ If you dont know then dont breed until you have had the bird long enough to know for sure. If not post pictures here.

He is a cockbird bought at auction for a good bit of money and hadnt been used yet. One of Ken Seagrott's greywing dilute line. Ken keep all his progeny. Might have to use A.I. on him. Tumours can cause this but rarely both sides at once being affected. Tumour was ruled out by the vet.

No younger than 12 months. No older than 4 years for a female