**KAZ**

Both spangle and dominant pied are dominant genes.......you can end up with both and also with spangle dom pieds......you cant show a spangle dom pied.

Kaz doesnt know everything :what: But looks DF spangle to me too

:rofl:

Omelette's first clutch before and after #1 before and after #2 before and after #3 before and after #4 before and after #5 before and after #6 before and after cant wait to see how the next batch turn out :rofl:

You are allowed to post pictures on here at size 480 by 640.................would save us having to guess or use a magnifying glass :rofl:

I have 4-5 budgies in a quarantine cage .............4 hens and one cock. A few days ago one of the hens was looking a bit sick,.............dropped wings, hunched appearance. I was watching her but she seemed to not get any worse. Yesterday I checked her all over especially checked to see if maybe she was carrying an egg and she had no egg where it should have been if she was about to lay. This morning she was on the floor of the cage but when I reached in for her she happily got up on the perch. At this evenings feeding and checking of all the birds, she was laying on the ground of the quarantine cage with the cockbird, a dommie pied fussing all over her, feeding her, preening her and making a big fuss in general. In all honesty she looked like she was dying I reached in to grab her up and check what was going on and when I lifted her up, she was sitting on an egg. Goes to show, some of these guys will acchieve breeding even at great odds. I popped the egg in a foster nest and when I checked back to the spangle mother and dommie pied father of the egg, they were all over each other like a rash :rofl: so......what the heck I put them in a breeder cabinet to finish what they had started. I wouldnt normally put a dommie pied and spangle together, but these guys seemed determined. Here is the hen with her egg under her after I stole her egg and the guilty father

I get similar things up to 60 times a day......due to my website. Pain in the butt.

Dark red is female...............you really must post photos :rofl:

Can do and can just indicate a hormonal imbalance.

Yep looks male..........have you a photo to show whats worrying you ?

Are you absolutely sure of your budgies sex ?

Both..........you show the good ones and breed with the others and of course you breed the good ones too Check your PMS .......i have sent you a message

I never mark eggs........dont want to risk the egg. I have the records of date of being laid, date of hatching etc on the nestboxes. If I foster eggs, I make sure the likely colour of fostered babies from those eggs are not going to be what pops up in the foster nest, so the chicks are easily identifies once they feather up. For instance grey chicks or eggs that will be grey chicks go into a nest that I will only get green chicks from. I really dont see the point in marking eggs to be honest

Colony breeding................ You like making your life difficult Matt ?

Looks that way.............slacker she is

Apparently what was nice was BRUNCH the hen ate the egg mid morning

Photos from the kindie cage

Nope....she was unhappy because I got her out for a photo and she is due to lay her next egg

Candled the egg are there seems to be two yolks. Here are the parents................. Lacewing hen..... Dad,,,,,,,,dark green split lacewing cock

They pretend to eat when they are sick.....only by feeling their crop can you tell if they actually have been eating

In my signature there is a link on how to post pictures

Havent candled it yet as its only a few days old.

Hope so....its the percentages you need to make the difference. Not the occasional nice chick but more of them every time ......that would be cool

Siblings from the first clutch

What symbol is next to the 08 ?