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I havent used concaves for three years since I got my new nestboxes made by Daz. I have had no splayed chicks and no problems witrh the eggs. I have been using flaky bran for nesting materials......2 inches thick

I got the same email too

I think you got carried away Even the dog got stripped

House looks devastated

Should have called it Chubbycheeks

Sorry , I guess I believed it. But they don't talk as much as males, do they?Thankyou nubbly5. Because so many people believe that females dont talk, they dont bother trying to teach them

I think your food colouring idea is good. I once marked a baby budgie on the bottom of its foot with a black marker permanent pen....it was gone in half a day

It is very easy to lose track of baby budgies. I have a couple of times when chicks had to be moved not once, not twice but three times..........before legrings. I try to only move the rung chicks as a rule. Or I move them into a nest where they will be recognised when they feather up. Some can be recognised and others leave us scratching our heads trying to figure it out. I have had three that had me guessing, over time. Sometimes quick decisions have to be made in very young unrung chicks. I record these moves on the nestbox cards and then wait for them to feather up to ID the fostered chicks. On the odd occasion when I had a hen who escaped her cage on a regular basis ( up to three times a day in the birdroom ) I would find she had eaten much of my nestbox cards This taught me to have a diary as well and to record nestbox card info a lot quicker than I was We all make mistakes. Its up to us to learn and try and be smarter than our budgies.

Terrific news I hope she stops laying and goes back to just being a budgie

I think you would be aware too Renee that one of the top breeders over here, a Nationals breeder, ( who shall remain nameless ) has admitted on more than one occasion that he also shifts chicks about so much that he also loses track. Its the shIfting about so quickly with no written record and losing track that causes future surprises and missing splits not recorded to assist moving forward in breeding and this hobby. It wastes a lot of time and birds.

Do you remove your under 12 month olds to another aviary so they dont breed too early ?

Yeah the chick is called Nubbly I think its better than its brother and sister.

I have removed Spice from her breeder cage as she was thinking about laying a third clutch as she is not in condition. NUBBLY is in a tub in the bottom of the cage with Big Blue taking over the caring.

I like that idea! My only concern would be about feather dust ... we keep the lawnmower in a corner of our garage/breeding room and have to routinely clean out the filter and such when the lawn starts growing again with the winter rains. Thank goodness that falls under the parameters of "man jobs"! :wineI will wrap it up or remove it when not in use. Important to all show breeders so that's it in a nutshell isnt it CW

He's gorgeous. How generous of the breeder to give you the budgie. He must know what a great home its going to.

I have just begun using a book ( diary really ) in addition .........ready for the next breeding season anyway. The thing is I have had two computer crashes over time that lost me a lot of my records on computer, and when the new computer came with VISTA, the program kept crashing due to its incompatibility with VISTA. I now have the working program that will run with Vista, but I lost a few records in the crashes. It makes me more certain now to use paperwork as well as computer and also backing up onto a seperate hard drive. My next thought is to buy one of those newer smaller notebook type pcs and keep it in the birdroom.

Cool

Female and NOT albino as it doesnt have red eyes. If black eyes she would most likely be double factor white spangle

I would like someone to show me how they put closed irngs on a bird after 10 days of age??? Because i think there dreamin, or the birds are tiny. Agreed......some recessive pieds have really skinny legs but most of my chicks are rung between 6-8 days

He's very cute

If you have any concerns perhaps then you should take her for a checkup.

Colony breeding ?

Top photo shows three birds.........................The way I read it is Splat is referring to the one at the top behind the other two I see her as talking about two differing birds as there is. When she is tired and its late Splat doesnt word herself very well :hap:

How sweet :hap: please

Put a toilet float valve on the cooler and turn the tap on just a little bit and forget it . Ross Can you do a diagram Ross ?