**KAZ**

If they are internal egglaying they are useless and not worth persisting with. I guess you have to make the definition between hens that wont lay and hens that are trying but are internal egglayers.

This is a topic about many things...... so how does WHAT happen ?

Since you posted this in the health forum, if you looked in there you would have seen a whole topic on feather cysts. HOWEVER, the cyst that hen has is one that doesnt have a good outcome. Despite your need to save this hen she is most likely better off being euthanased. the location of the cyst makes it very likely she has a tumour.

your photo links have TWO http parts to it.....remove those and the photos will show. You seem to have copied the img link but also used the picture icon to post which adds another http part. If you copy the img link all you do is paste it, I will edit your previous links. your previous links and now without the extra http not sure how i post a picture as i have tried not sure how i post a picture as i have tried

Beak colour doesnt play a part in sexing........please post a clear cere photo.....using macro setting on camera ( no flash ) but sounds male so far.

Your photos are getting better Renee. Now try playing with your macro setting

Yep....doesnt look cinnamon at all in these photos Renee

I have only just paired up most of them Renee.......we shall see. A lot of them were moulting before so I had to wait for that to be done with

What do you mean by are you sure about the cinnamon ?

Renee...............I have ten chicks TEN only. Consider yourself lucky and dont ever move like I did as it stuffs up the birds for a very long time.

I was told to do that many times before Macka, and ONCE I followed that advice. Unfortunately for me a hen was a carrier of psittacosis and she not only killed the cockbird she was with within the incubation time of the disease but all birds in breeding cages around her died too. I lost all birds within about 9 breeding cages due to her carrying psittacosis and not showing symptoms. Needless to say I havent quanrantined in a breeder cage since. Read back through Renee........already answered.

Personally I think the opaline hen is going to be a better bird than the sky normal at this stage anyway........looking better as far as feather up top and width across the cere..... they both could do with a longer mask we also have some greywings out of nest and some other babies hatching, fertile eggs. Fertility and results still down but I just put some other birds down to breed as my breeding room can handle the summer we will have. The temporary breeding room will now be permanently the end bedroom ( we have 7 bedrooms so we can stand using one for breeding ) .........Cec Gearing came for a visit and convinced my husband to let me keep it as a breeding room rather than build one way down the yard. :D I have 40 breeding cabinets on the go. soon to be rebuilding the aviaries down the back yard since the two aviaries we came here with were never intended to be all we had. This fellow died after being attacked in the quarantine cage by another bird.

Hi, If her flight feathes are missing that would be why she can't fly far, I'd say her wing must be okay if she can fly at all, not out of joint or broken e.g. Holding her wing out maybe because she feels unbalanced? Maybe if she flew into something that broke her flights so she may have bruising. I think I'd cage her until her flights come in then see how she goes. I agree with Robyn

Good to see you back Laurie and my deepest heartfelt feelings on your loss of JD They have a way of worming their way into your heart don't they. Pixel ( great name by the way ) is a real cutie and has some "swank" about him ( show budgie bred maybe ? ) and I hope he fills your heart over the oncoming months and years.

Sorry ...............I think your vet is a DUD...no good. Not only did he get the age wrong but also the mutation...........you cant have a bird whose both clearwing and greywing on the same bird. It can either be clearwing or greywing not both. If clearwing the body colour wouldnt be as washed out. I think I mentioned greywing spangle which it can be but the vet is dreaming saddleback and the clearwing/greywing combo. If Pipsqueak was a year or older the iris rings would be solid white and they arent. The vet is no good

I gotta agree with the sheeting up from ground floor looks like you have other things the way you want. If I can make a suggestion ? if your divider was changed so it runs across the aviary ( not front to back ) then you would have a whole back wall for breeder cages..............more of them and not so squeezy a space as the section you have now.

There has been no info as yet as to what size the original nestbox is.....do you have a picture ? and whats the update ?

There is nothing you arent doing that you should be doing Matt. Lets hope the losses stop soon

You cannot be changing nests amidst raising of babies, not as drastically as you have. You risk abandonment. If the new nestbox was in the same position in the cage YES but not in a totally different place. These things must be thought through well before breeding begins. Some people try and use finch baskets and dont think about the size of budgies and babies and wonder why the adults just chew up the baskets. I dont know how big your nestbox is but it may have to do OR you will have to put the new nestbox where the old one is. You most certainly dont leave both there or the female will just get confused.

Also is a sign of lack of calcium..catch her up, cage her and dose her up on calcivet. Read this http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=29320&st=30&p=352149&hl=thundra&fromsearch=1entry352149 and read up on my hen Thundra

If viewing the birds is a priority then use plastic sheeting HOWEVER.............to be considered are the costs of losing birds due to mice contaminating their food supply.

Not citrus for cocci ....that is supposed to keep megabacteria at bay http://www.hotdevil.com.au/web/index.cfm?do=general.viewCategory&category=5db4b514-cee3-4eaa-a3b6-182f6aed50fe sold as a weed killer and available at good hardware stores. Gas canisters for it are very cheap Mine cost me about $89 from Bunnings........gas canisters are a pack of four for approx $5-$6

Not citrus for cocci ....that is supposed to keep megabacteria at bay http://www.hotdevil.com.au/web/index.cfm?do=general.viewCategory&category=5db4b514-cee3-4eaa-a3b6-182f6aed50fe sold as a weed killer and available at good hardware stores. Gas canisters for it are very cheap

I'll have your cast off beanbag Renee

Good idea about the flame. I use one of those flame guns in my aviary for spiders, feathers etc and sometimes the concrete floor too. A good investment that flame gun.