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and Omelette's grandchildren :rofl:

Experience and observation. Others have to wait longer to tell. I dont. I am sexing babies at around age 1-3 days in the nestbox now.

I thought you were going to keep her with your other disabled birds in the indoors cage ?

Hoping for better results next round. Hen is looking fantastic right now :rofl:

Here is Omelette's two other chicks in foster nests

Photos one and four are females...others too blurry to be sure.

How is this hen coping these days Renee ? :rofl:

Cute little spangles :rofl:

Rocky.......yes. Wont pull him out of the breeder cage for more photos just now :rofl: Here is UNO the baby

Omelette usually lays second round while chicks are still in the nest

Carmen I am so sorry....I had such hopes for him :question:

Omelette's babies began leaving the nestbox today.......first was NASTY so I put a tub in there for her. Then the greywing joined her and tonight when I checked at "bedtime " there was the grey green spangle as well so they have seed as the nesting materials and a lid went on for a cosy night time. the cinnamon grey is still in the nest with Mum who is about to lay a second egg.

Sorry to hear that Pearce Remember all dead budgies look squashed...it does not mean they died by being trodden on or sat on...its just how they look when you find them. Freckles obviously had issues to stunted its growth and issues that meant a failure to thrive. Best this way I guess....nature knows best here. Sorry about the sadness I know you would feel at the loss. :question: Take joy and comfort in the others that are thriving in that nest

Yeah. According to Gerald Binks in his book THE CHALLENGE greywing can hide itself for generations and pop up and surprise you Out of all the budgie's you have, is their any dilute's? wether it be gene or visual. I have a dilute dommie pied hen Funnily enough she is from the same line as Omelette...through Omelette's mother.

What I am actually saying is.....with the more serious illnesses.........they will kill a young bird whose immunity systems is not yet strong. Where an adult bird can take the illness on, and if it has a strong immunity system, can carry it rather than succumb to it......sometimes. These are my thoughts and experiences anyway.

Worst thing about hidden illnesses is more often than not a carrier bird looks perfectly healthy and its only when under stress that it comes out. I discovered that once when a perfectly healthy looking hen passed quarantine period with flying colours for me to find out she was carrying psittacosis and gave it to her cock bird in the space of time for incubation, and also killed all those in breeder cages in the close vicinity. One slight "comfort" is that is psittacosis goes through it kills all the young ones first, so if your new bird is young it should be fine re the nastier diseases which would have killed it if it contracted them. My thoughts. Its a hard call to make. You do all you can with the knowledge you have and vets back up if you thinks its needed.

Yeah. According to Gerald Binks in his book THE CHALLENGE greywing can hide itself for generations and pop up and surprise you

If you bought the best quality and type of budgie seed you could afford and then did the same by buying an equal quantity of the best finch mix you can find......mix the two together ...then you will have a good blend that will help your budgies diet.

I cannot see the black plastic you speak of that he got stuck on but I would like to comment on the fringing on this toy. I have lost a couple of birds who hung themselves on fringing rope like this on other toys. Anything similar to this of the length of rope fringing like this they can hang themselves on. They have a tendency to put their head through and move and the threads tighten up around their neck. One bird I lost just caught her her wing on the threads and she wasnt seen caught up and she flapped andf flapped to free herself and died from the stress. I would not use a toy with rope threads anything longer than cut off to one inch length now.

It will depend on what kind of roofing and walls we do. There will also be an area at the fence end far left that will be open roof for sunbathing for the budgies

Seems to me its the cinnamons, the opalines and the grey greens that improve most of the birds we breed

Not much progress but some

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Yes, but some are split blue and others I am breeding to blue series to get more blue splits. I also have some of Robs birds to breed them too, so have other colour types too. Just needs planning.