**KAZ**

If the feather follicles havent been damaged then its a matter of time. If they have there will be bare spots that wont regrow properly.

Personally I dont believe in painting cages...for all the effort you have to go to you are far better off selling it and putting it and the money you would have used buying paint to a better cage. The only way to safely recoat a cage is by having it powder coated.....to powdercoat a cage it cant have rust. The very nature of birds, ...budgies and parrots, and the way they use a cage will always remove paint from the cage.....beaking the bars as they climb about, and gripping with claws etc. I wouldnt do it...my opinion only.

Ivermectin is available from any good bird vet. You wont find it over the counter unless you are prepared to buy a large and expensive cattle pour on kind from a stockfeed supplier. Most budgie clubs sell it from their products tables and most show budgie breeders keep it on hand. Scatt ( available on the internet ) is not available in Australia.

Single cage no aviary....in a cage they can find their water and food. In an aviary they become disorientated and fly into walls and spin in circles. I have had blind birds.

How come you are trying to feed a 2.5 wks old with no experience...were you sold this baby ? Who would sell you a baby this young ?

The link I supplied is where you buy it or at any good bird supply stores

We have a similar product here in OZ that seems to be the same and everyone raving about it also called Quick Gel http://www.birdhealth.com.au/product/quikgel.html

I use the large one of these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-6-5-Litre-Poultry-Bird-Drinker-2YR-GUARANTEE-/250901799983?pt=AU_Pet_Supplies&hash=item3a6ae9a42f#ht_1570wt_952 hanging up and near a perch for access.

I'll take this one pack and send please :D

I dont use that alone as a sign GB...........it was an additional sign in some cases....to post these birds I took it all out of an old topic. ..........the sign of sky violet to me is the two shades I see on the body. Hard to describe but I do know exactly when I have a sky violet over a cobalt

Yes........also a df spangle will have a blue cere.

I am hoping that by posting some pictures for you I can show the difference between violets and sky violets and cobalts. Sometimes blues dont show well on our monitors, so I hope they show a difference here. Very often a budgie seen to be cobalt, may actually be a sky violet but to an untrained eye the average person not experienced in sky violets sees only a cobalt budgie. The difference is is a violet hue around the neck and shoulder area and also the intensity of body colour surpasses the average cobalt. If you can imagine a skyblue budgie with a wash of violet colour over top of the skyblue, then you can almost acchieve in your minds eye the colour you would see if looking at a sky violet. In a sky violet budgie you will see a blend or a coming together of two colours...there is depth to the feather colour and an intensity not evident on a cobalt. Here is a violet budgie (quite purple looking ) Here is a sky violet budgie ( shows a purple flash up around the neck/shoulder area and two shades of blues on body feathering ) and another sky violet ( with YF and dom pied ) ( purple flash near shoulder area and two shades of blues on body feathering ) This YF opaline sky violet hen also show a small area of violet around the neck/shoulder area and two shades of blues on body feathering and here is two cobalt budgies.......note the one solid blue colour.

No

you can disagree with me anytime you like

NO.....if female.....well before that ( egg ) you will see the cere start to go brown....at age approx 5-6 months

all can be found in the food and nutrition forum here on bbc http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=29023

I use a 14 guage

Excellent You rock !!

I am real sorry about your loss. It sounds like the vet was a general vet and not an avian vet. An avian vet would have done tests while you were there, at least a poop sample and look at it under a microscope, and a blood test...this is normal practice for avian vets and the tests only add another $20 to the vet bill. AND you would have gone home with meds appropriate to the illness. Find an AVIAN vet and dont use a general vet for birds....these are the lessons many of us have learnt. General vets dont know enough and arent worth paying. and the vet you saw sucked........attitude like that wont keep business coming in his doors for long. PS one thing you can believe in is your intuition about something being wrong....you were spot on and the vet let you down.

This is an OLD TOPIC

The important thing to do when asking for id for birds is to NOT USE THE FLASH ON THE CAMERA :D

This fella is a sky violet sky violets can be mistaken for cobalts. If you take a close look at a bird like this one you can see two blue layers of colour. If you imagine a skyblue birds with a sheer covering of purple it creates the colour we see called sky violet. A cobalt is more even blue. A sky violet looks to be two shades of colour on the one bird.

Thats one shop taking heed of the latest movement to stop pet stores selling creatures...which one was it Matt ?

Turbosole for Canker Give 1 teaspoon (1gram) into 2 Liters of water for 5 days. Refer to page 43-46 of the Budgerigar Medicine Book by Rob Marshall The average teaspoon is usually more than one gram....is turbosole lighter than most meds ?

Me too. Fingers crossed This was the chick in the nest