**KAZ**

I believe what you say GB

We dont refer to them as English here in Australia, but you would be referring to show budgies also known here as club rung budgies. Best way to get show type stock birds is to join a budgie club and buy from breeders in the clubs.

Here is two baby budgies. One is a spangle ( on the right ) and one a normal ( left ). You will see the difference in the patterning of the feathers

He appears to be a dilute. :rofl:

I dont touch the eggs I candle...using a torch behind the egg IN the nestbox......pointing forward to where you are means no need to handle the egg. You see what you need to see without changing the order of things. Eggs are in sequence in the nest....eggs rotated in and out from under the hen as she keeps them at a consistant temperature. There really is no need to handle an egg for candling.

Kaz just wants some dommie pieds thats all :rofl:

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=13358 :rofl:

About the greywing spangle I posted........he is the longest bird in my aviary.....

Thats for sure. I would have said spangle to the cock at the top, but he is a greywing spangle. As a purple ringer I had better put him down to breed after his moult.....and quickly :rofl:

Nine years huh :rofl: I got a long way to go...... :rofl:

Our clubs over in W.A. are already showing violet classes. Only true ppurple looking visual violets are elligible. At the first couple of shows some people submitted birds that were not true violets so these birds were removed from showing in that category.

The greywing spangle cock and a normal grey spangle

:rofl: :rofl: Do you remember the old tv show Mr Squiggle ?? Macka, you remind me of the character called blackboard :rofl:

Come live at Kaz's place little one........lots of space and a female owner

Dom pied

I feel sure you could let this one slip under the radar and come live with me

If male the cere should be pinky purple. If what i can see is a lot of white...And if you can see a lot of white on the cere, then i would say sunnie is a female and its a unisex name anyway.

Kens home and was going to be working on the aviary, but we just heard his Dad ( who is in hospital ) now has renal failure and it will bring on a heart attack within 24 hours or less and he will die. There is nothing they can do as everything is failing. Heart, and he has pneumonia too, bladder cancer, osteomylitis, gangrene and infection in foot and leg...the list goes on. :nest:

Daz was the ring registrar for QLD...........ask him.

Well considering they fledge the nest in another week or so, she is just getting ahead of herself Try putting an incecream tub under the nestbox hole with springy wood shavings in it. Scatter seed on the floor of the cage for her to graze on and make sure you put her back each night as she wont be fully feathered yet. Are your nestboxes so designed that the entry hole is too easy for the chicks to get out ?

Anything is possible.

Yeah, even on the photo I posted the right colour didnt come out as I see it either. Blues are so hard to photograph.

Pairing expectations percentages are generally based over them clutches I believe so it would be rare for anyone to be exactly right or wrong

ack ack ack ack ack !!!! That's funny....can't say I've ever heard mine do that but now I'll be listening for it Hens are notorious at ack ack noises........its their way of saying back off and or give me more room.