**KAZ**

If damp and rain gets in then its a MUST to put the birds through a course of coccivet. Coccivet should be kept in the medicine cabinet.

I am sorry to hear about Sunshine. I am comforted by the fact that you had been seeing Tim Oldfield as he has got to be one of the very best Avian vets we have available to us here in Perth. He is just great. Interesting also about the hernia as I never knew about that. I have had the odd hen or two that seemed to have what you have described and we put it down to being an internal egglayer and retire them from breeding.

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Kaz, Number 4 was the only one I "thought" I was 100% right with... :emoticon112: !!! Are you saying a hen because the chick is recessive? Or can you see white on your monitor? Yeah looks whitish on the screen...whats it look like in real life to you ?

I think the one you get in small tubs at the hardware store is called SPECIAL PUTTY....might come in tubes also. Read ingredients before buying.

BUT :baby: Based on a good look tonight and the bright purple pink cere I saw...................... Its a BOY :baby: :emoticon112: :hi: Maybe you dont want him now :baby:

Acts like a hen :emoticon112:

Use a nail punch, punch the nails in deeper and cover the minor indent with some wood putty...wait till it sets and all good to go :emoticon112:

Gorgeous, both of you A HUGE congratulations Julie :emoticon112: :hi: :baby: :baby: :baby: :baby: :baby: :baby: :baby: :baby: PS My next grand daughter is due end of February 2010

its many when your new to breeding though fin but 6 to 10 some times twelve in nest is normal with anywhere from 6 to 10 hatching the last few unless moved nest dont normally hatch as get moved and pooy 6 to 10 is normal? Oh my, I've been telling people 3 to 5 when they ask! Well, Dave, I hope you get your four, and then some. 6-10............NO Average is 5-6 eggs. Anything more or less is abnormal.

Meringue Dave Teachers who cant spell are a worry

QWERTY GB is a row of letters on your computer keyboard............top row of letters on the left. The budgies has been named that due to its obsession with the keyboard

Wont be getting to the Nationals quickly Dave...theres other greywing breeder doing it better than me and have been doing it longer. Who Kaz? The only full time greywing breeder in wa that I know is you. Other good greywings from wa from what I understand have come out of other varieties as recessive surprises. Well recent ones anyway. AND your greywing babies are looking pretty special. Well, I was thinking....Cec Gearing, Rita Posthuma, Carl Alder and Jeff Lloyd for starters I would like to make a decent project out of the greywings not just dabble in them. Here are two of my recent greywing babies and they seem to have paired up in the aviary different parents so unrelated.

1. make the floor of the cage not a nice place to lay eggs................grid and no nesting materials or paper at all. 2. Remove the eggs already laid to a safe place you can keep them. 3. wait until she is due to lay the next egg and keep putting her in the nestbox . 4. ONLY once she has laid an egg in the nestbox do you add the other two eggs. *** you should know that they do not incubate eggs from the moment they are laid and it will have nothing to do with them being fertile or not. Eggs can keep for a week to ten days before being incubated so the two eggs you have can be kept el;sewhere and safely until she has laid the next egg. Then you add the first two to the nestbox. Leaving them in a nestbox that has just been added may mean she will destroy them in "cleaning out"the nestbox ready for use as she will not recognise them as hers in a newly added nestbox. .

I thought it might be spangle too

Wont be getting to the Nationals quickly Dave...theres other greywing breeder doing it better than me and have been doing it longer.

Big Blue and Hen have more eggs...seven at last count, four showing fertile so far. Previous chicks

Yellowface cobalt dominant pied........possibly cinnamon also Baby Male

awwwwwwww so cute The first time I saw it by torchlight, I was convinced it had got its foot caught and was hanging there dead But it did it on such a regular basis, I got used to it after awhile

1. hen 2. hen 3. cock 4. hen 5. cock 6. cock 7. hen

The eye issue with chlamydia is more a weeping runny eye not a bald or feather loss eye.

The price could afford to drop Richo. Most pet shops dont want green budgies and only pay meagre amounts for the coloured ones. What they pay for the budgies and what they sell them for...its a lucrative game

Really sweet Love em

Post pictures if you can. Also spread wing flights out and look for tiny brown specks which may indicate feather mites.

Check beak and feet for signs of scaly face mites.