**KAZ**

Besides all this, parents often lose interest in single chicks. Solution ...........remove this chick and foster it into a nest with similar age chicks......either at uncles house or yours. Remove nestbox and give parents recovery time

my uncle has the birds in a seperate cage. the baby is the only one in the nest and is about 2 and a half weeks old. i dont know who the real plucker is as i dont know the birds as well as my uncle does and hes not the type that looks out for these things so i should say he woulldnnt know either. this one chicked brood is actually probably the 5 th nest the hen and cock have raised and i have told my uncle numerous times before to seperate the birds as its no good for them to keep laying. Also the first nest they had the had about 7 or 8 babies and the last two nests have only given a total of three so now you can get the idea how my uncle doesnt seem to follow keep your bird healthy and keep a good eye on them rules. Please dont get me wrong though he takes very good care of all of them at lets them do what they want. hes a good guy i also noticed to nite the mother wasnt with the baaby inside the nest... will the baby get cold seeing as half its feathers just aint there???? DANIELA 5 clutches is beyond ridiculous really. No wonder the hen isnt acting normally. Your uncle, good guy or not, needs a rocket up his backside and some new knowledge taught to him. He is the cause of his own problems. He puts them in a position with a nestbox and they will literally breed themselves to death. Problems like this are because she is tired and fed up and she isnt up to the task of completing the raising of babies. Over the time she has been raising 5 clutches she most likely has gone out of breeding condition and may have even moulted in the breeding box. GRRRRRRRRRRR ^_^

That was the baby Cheeta got from me and she kept thinking it was dominant pied and even published it on a forum as dom pied when it came from two recessive pied parents and had no iris rings

Close up photo of the eyes showing iris rings please ?

How can he have iris rings fresh out of the nest ?? and be a recessive pied ??

Siblings look GREAT Liv Presented the photos to a judge and breeder who says.................. 'Fraid so , Karen !! Advise her to split up the parents, but don't throw them out. Our understanding is that it is a recessive characteristic. and another very experienced breeder who says............ Hey Kaz Had a look I would definitely say that is a feather duster ask her if the primary tail feathers a shorter than the secondaries if so feather duster tell her I’m very sorry they are heart breaking plus they don’t chirp like normal chicks they sound different

Yep,,,,,,,,,,,the super hen she is has a tendency to pluck the down off her babies.

Sounds like it, hence my suggestion about the triple C to the parents earlier.

How old is the chick Liv ? What do the parents and siblings look like ?

I was thinking about it once. Wanted to put bantams in the parrot aviary. I was advised against it due to cross infections and parasites.

Which ones were the parents Liv ? and what do the siblings look like ?

It IS one Liv. PS try to up the protein for this baby...............all its protein goes into making feathers from what I hear.

I dont know about the blue cere But that side on shot shows nothing. It could easily be seen as a white cere going on a part cere photo..................white cere means female. Before we go telling you what babies they will have maybe we need to establish what sex the pied is ? Better photo please ?

Yep.....interesting development

PM Daz for a CHAT....he has experience in these things.

Very interesting......thankyou for posting that. I dont use charcoal as such, but I believe it is a component of the Murphy's Minerals that I sometimes use.

In most cases it only means something for the affected chick. It will have a very limited lifespan........generally weeks. Most show breeders still breed the parents and siblings. http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....c=23257&hl=

first two look like cinnamon spangles to me

that photo is a dead giveaway

Gotta watch Omelette......she is nibbling down on a baby or two already ( again )

Showcage training today for two babies in the kindie cage........so far they are being very good. These two are now independant enough to go in the kindie cage.............. I like the way this blue baby girl is turning out........aged three weeks

He is very cute, and he is cobalt dominant pied . The age seems right to me PS ......yes remove the feather.....it will annoy him.

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