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The beak is mis-shapen however with the meds working and some new growth it may well correct itself with time.

How can you buy any new birds Ratzy when your Dad is making you sell any your birds produce ?

Since it has gone to the eyes also...the spot on ivermectin in needed to be able to clear that up. Oil can be used on feet etc but if you have already used the spot on then you dont need oil as well. Is the beak still normal shape or will it need trimming ?

Thankyou so much for posting such lovely photos :camera:

Any invasion of another birds nest and damage to eggs or chicks is a common issue in colony breeding.

Put it on a pedestal stand instead of hanging....if you have the room for it. As GB says its a chook feeder and as such is designed to be a ground feeder.

I have always found that one spot to the back of the neck even with bad cases was enough. :camera:

What do you mean by how many times a day do you ivomec ? If you mean ivermectin spot on ( back of neck ) ............its once only ...not once a day...just once a treatment. What kind do you have ? and how are you using it.

You need to figure out how old she is..............since hens have more trouble with eggbinding and prolapse after the age of 4 years, your window of opportunity may be lost. Going after other hens nests and eggs in a colony breeding situation is common behaviour for most hens.

No wider than 12mm bar spacing :bluebudgie:

Very very nice Catherine.....good score :bluebudgie:

I thought you might :bluebudgie:

Havent you heard of Humpty Dumpty

Thanks for the plug Clearwing. This years auction is shaping up pretty well at this stage. Catalogues will be out early May. Cheers PT If that is the melton auction I might try and go to that one :bluebudgie:

Well they certainly drive the prices up dont they....in some cases to scary levels. I have heard there are some that boost the prices of their birds by a network of friends helping bid the birds up too :bluebudgie:

I am now using a CANON IXUS 80 IS

More than anything is her bloodlines click really well with Gary Armstrong birds.

A very good topic and I look forward to seeing more.....

Lovebirds are far too aggressive and will kill budgies so NO to that suggestion Some people put cockatiels in with budgies but I personally wouldnt mix anything with budgies myself. How big is your cage ?

Hi Maddy and welcome :glare: Best choice if you have male budgie is another male budgie. They get along real well with each other....male to male. Adding a female will bring you all kinds of trouble, besides the fact that females hate to share perch space most of the time

Hey Patrick, the chicks look just great A suggestion that may help you and one I employ for all my chicks in nests these days ....in this topic http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=22446 is using seed in the nestboxes. At the age yours are now, the older ones start to help the younger ones eat too :yuck: and from the age of two weeks with seed as bedding in the nestbox the chicks who pick around the nestbox anyway learn to feed themselves a little extra as well as parental feeding thus taking some of the load off parents in larger clutches. they all exit the nestbox able to feed themselves and knowing what seed is. Since I began this practice I havent had any backward fledged chicks who wont feed. Ps if you check some of my nestbox pictures from past topics and posts you will see the same level of nestbox " mess" or not ...as yours and in some the seed in nestboxes as I have done. A chick does pick at droppings in the nestbox as does a parent eat droppings before going in to feed babies....this way they have their immunity system becoming established and a natural gut flora is also implemented this way. Too clean a nestbox doesnt help that. Keep the pictures coming. :glare:

Sorry to hear this

At this rate I will have to send the budgies out to work :glare:

I agree

I have bought from auctions over east with the help of people I know through here. Once I bought birds I hadnt seen based on ther write up in the catalogue with noone to check for me...........wasnt happy with those birds, but definitely happy with birds I saw by photo first and got checked by a friend who bid for them for me. It has worked out well so far. BUT I also would like to hear from those who live over that way as to what auctions they see as being the good ones