**KAZ**

You are lucky to have heard this but do not intervene. All is normal so far. Dont handle the egg or turn it over.

I would give her a holiday and time to mature rather than try her breeding again so soon.

I was just checking nestboxes, and I got a shock when I saw one of the babies with a red beak :rofl: I was investigating it for signs of injury and then noticed all the chicks in that nest had red beaks......it was then that I recalled giving the parents beetroot last night too

Yesterday the budgies got beetroot with their carrot. Youy cant half tell they enjoyed it some of them preferred the carrot

Great results... the chicks that went red and died would have had an infection....could sometimes be a simple as seed in the water off a budgie parents beak and it turns the water sour in no time at all..........happens to us all.

Totally agree. Anything that makes a budgie happy keeps them well

and being from a violets nest could very well be mauve remembering it is a modifier like violet and grey it can come in 3 shades also is that right kaz ??? Yep

This guy........... Looks Mauve in these photos not grey......what does he look like in "real life" mate ?

There's a lot of old info out there for us bird keepers....combine that with petshop blurb on the sides of packs....and we end up with things we dont really need or are using for reasons that dont make too much sense anymore. Like the petshops promoting sandpaper sheets for the bottom of cages and sandpaper perches. None of mine have it and none of my birds have claws growing out of control either. To be honest I have never had to cut a budgies claws, and when I hear some budgie owners talking about taking their bird to the vet for regular claw and beak trimming I wonder WHY

You could be right about the airsac mites too. Recently an imported cockbird I had in quarantine was showing the same symptoms. I put spot on ivermectin on the back of his neck and the very next day he was better with no audible breathing sounds. Have you access to ivermectin spot on where you are ? I think you can buy it over there in the form of SCATT.

Maybe parental saliva acting as hair gel :)

They dont need anything other than branches or wooden perches to rub their beaks on Ross. I seriously doubt cuttlefish does anything useful for a birds beak My birds havent got cuttlefish and they havent got beaks down to their feet

Not serious at all! Despite being quite deep it had completely closed over when we took the band aid off yesterday Is it very tricky to do? Meshing is a pain........even Cec said the other day he hated that part of the job. Its slow and tedious and cutting the mesh gives you blisters on all your fingers.

I have started doing the mesh down the centre. One section done today If I didnt have leadlight work on right now I would get this done sooner

If people have knowledge of these things they WILL reply. No answers means we havent got a clue

Age has little to do with simply saying what suburb you live in so members can help point you to a local vet so what suburb are you in ?

You've got some great chickies coming out Nubbly I love reading your topic as you take the time to explain things clearly for all our members. Great job

Dont worry too much about the clear eggs and slow results mate......I am hearing similar things from all over Australia right now.

WOW !!! It isnt about huge numbers mate when the quality is there

Hi 'cameronsch', I have an open fully wired flight for birds to get out in sun etc. which they love, I have some cuttlefish out there as well as in aviary. Would that give enough Vit. D. ? I have liquid cal as well but do you need it also, all the time. They get plenty greens etc also. thanks for advice. If they are getting sun then they have their own source fo vitamin D3

They do vary....but givent two days she will lay again and hopefully in the new nestbox. If you see she has eggbutt ( swelling under her tail area ) put her in the nestbox as often as you can till she decides its a good place to stop and lay her next egg. Once she has start adding the others back in there..its all budgie psychology I'm afraid.

There will be shadesails up covering the whole area, including the whole roof, for summer. And I may well solartint the windows too.

She lays like that due to the splint thing you are using being too big, too heavy too out of balance for her size. You will just have to try a few things till it works out. ****EDIT...........recently in a nestbox I had a young one like yours at same sort of age with splay legs and redness at the joints. As I didnt want to splint legs on a baby that small I tried giving extra calcivet in the water to parents and a drop of neat calcivet to the baby every second day. It fixed itself with calcium alone and no splint in the end.

Lightweight guaze and sticking plaster ( no sticky directly onto the legs )

Just bought two more ( 2nd hand ) sliding aluminium windows for the back wall. So we can slide them open for crossflow breezes and shut down for bad weather.