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  1. Greywings are meant to have full body colour. Since dilute is a part of this chicks heritage and dilutes are popping out all over the place at Omelette's breeders aviary, I am assuming dilute. Also noted the tail is NOT grey.
  2. BIG MISTAKE !!! The chick I had to euthenase turned out to belong to the foster parents Omelettes chick is still fine and in another foster nest
  3. **KAZ** replied to **KAZ**'s topic in Budgie Pictures
    She is a bossy madam....takes on all comers. Her name is DIVA.
  4. Greywings are meant to have full body colour. Since dilute is a part of this chicks heritage and dilutes are popping out all over the place at Omelette's breeders aviary, I am assuming dilute. Also noted the tail is NOT grey.
  5. **KAZ** replied to a post in a topic in Budgie Behaviour
    Cute PS are you sure the spangle is dilute ? Could it be cinnamon spangle ?
  6. The 2m by 4m will be a perfect size for a flight. Boys will try and "impress" each other but rarely actually get to the mating position
  7. There is a link on how to post photos in my signature
  8. **KAZ** replied to **KAZ**'s topic in Budgie Pictures
    Here is the little hen going through her first moult
  9. I know of some that lived to around 2 years of age, one of those died only at the hands of another budgie.
  10. There is no record of dilute on the father's side.
  11. She sure is
  12. I have received Omelettes " PEDIGREE" and she carries dilute. As far back as her own great great grandfather who was a grey green dominant pied who was split cinnamon and split dilute So this is where her dilute baby has come from. Interesting development So the dad is a grey green spangle who is split blue. Mum is Opaline grey green. We have a baby who is blue dilute. Omelette's parents are .........sire Grey Green Dom Pied and Dam is opaline grey green Darman hen. There is blue in the great grandparents.
  13. The greywing or dilute... and a couple of the others......
  14. He is absolutely beautiful
  15. Have had another absolute surprise in Omelette's nestbox. One of the grey spangles isnt a spangle at all. Just noticed we have a blue-ish greywing or dilute in the nestbox !
  16. Anyone correct me if I am wrong............... Beak and feather can be overcome by older parrots as far as I know but they can carry it just the same. Velcro and Gypsy are infected and with their next moult they will get the multiple splotchy feathering that the photos exhibited earlier show. With that comes the losing of body feathers. Also with it comes a lack of immunity to simple things. they can get respiratory issues right now, canker, yeast infections, megabacteria. In fact one of the parrots I took to the vet the other day had succumbed to megabacteria and yeast infection as a result of contracting beak and feather. A month earlier she was twice the size and healthy and vital. Queenie, the white parrot that arrived with beak and feather and gave it to them all, appeared two days ago ....healthy to a degree and happy, but she had severe breathing issues...mucous in her lungs and bubbling from her nostrils, she had feather loss, and just touching her resulted in feather dust coming away all over the handler. Inside birds with 4 cats here wont work and we would have to be changing clothing, put in some form of air extraction methods, and still the feather dust and virus that sheds would fill the air of the room the bird was in. Velcro is my special bird and Gypsy is his, along with every bird in the aviary that has a hold of our hearts. Rob D says Ken just has to come to a place in his mind where he accepts what must be.
  17. You know how stubborn he is Renee Its time for me to lay down the law. His plan for today was to erect the new aviary we got from Rob and put his parrots in it on the back patio. I told him its too late for them, they are all most likely infected. The important thing now is to get my new flights up for the budgies so they can be moved further away from the infected aviary. If he puts the parrots in the new aviary of Robs it means we also have to strip clean that later on. Basically if he wants to keep any "healthy looking " parrot, it will have to be tested twice within a few weeks as to status of PBFD and again twice before breeding if he chooses to go that way. That is an additional cost of around $600 plus per bird and still the results most likely will be that they carry PBFD. Like with gangrene where the leg is amputated to save the body, the parrots must be culled no matter how "healthy " they are looking for now.
  18. A BIG Congratulations too, Pearce on the arrival of your first red eyed chick in the TCB nest. Your little lutino baby
  19. Velcro is infected also
  20. Yes, for sure. I am not in the least trivialising the potential for budgies to get this, nor am I taking any chances at all. The infected parrot arrived here in January. THere hasnt been for awhile nor will there be any cross contamination between parrot area and budgie area. The parrot aviary is sealed with plastic sheeting so nothing can blow through the yard to the budgies. All feathers at or near the wire are being vacuumed up and the vacuum is not emptied nor stored near the budgies. Clothing or shoes worn near or with parrots is not going to the budgies. Ken has to look after his parrots and cannot come into my budgie areas at all and vice versa. Bleach bath for shoes going into the birdroom. Waterless hand sanitiser is used in the birdroom. My current dilemna is I know the vet wants ALL Parrots culled. I can do what has to be done albeit with great sadness. My husband hesitates. His hesitation to act can cost me infection through the budgies. The longer the parrots are on the property the more chance of infection.
  21. I dont use ivermectin exclusively. I use it and other methods for varying reasons and situations. 1. If I see a bird in the aviary with the beginnings of scalyface, I catch it and apply ivermectin to the back of the neck.......spot on method. 2. Any incoming birds ( new birds ) automatically get a spot of ivermectin. 3. Any birds pulled from the aviary and before being put in the breeder cage get spot on ivermectin. 4. In between, birds in the aviary get the water soluable ivermectin in their drinking water. Or S76. 5. Any suspected feather mites ...the bird gets a soaking of Avian Insecticidal Liquidator by pump pack spray. Spot on ivermectin is used in most cases because its easy and quick and one only application. Flock treatment requires different methods as I have a LOT of birds and spot on in those cases would be very difficult. I think thats about it.
  22. **KAZ** replied to **KAZ**'s topic in Budgie Pictures
    One only chick to this pair. There were two. BUT one had severely splayed legs and actually had ********* growth issues also. At age 9 days looked only 3 days old. Culled the baby. Correction. it wasnt actually a splayed leg situation. the left leg was broken partway from the hip area to the "knee joint ", causing swelling, redness and fluid build up. it could not have been hobbled as the cure for splayed legs and the breakage was too high up to be able to be treated.
  23. what do you mean by "culled" Not used again for breeding. Sold for pet perhaps ?
  24. **KAZ** replied to **KAZ**'s topic in Budgie Pictures
    One only chick to this pair. There were two. BUT one had severely splayed legs and actually had ********* growth issues also. At age 9 days looked only 3 days old. Culled the baby. Sorry to hear that Kaz. How's the other eggs looking? We will only have one chick this round. She got off the eggs for quite some time one afternoon mid incubation and resulted in some chicks dead in shell.