**KAZ**

I have a few budgie pictures to share..... DF Spangle /split lutino a gift from a friend with his hen YF grey spangle a gift from a friend Lacewing hen with her cock....grey green cinnamon /split lacewing Others........... a gift from a friend

and their Mum and Dad

Some of the babies.....

I would personally retire a 4-5 year old hen. She is "getting on" as far as breeding goes.

What ages are the budgies ?

I havent had a feather duster yet.

I dont know the answer to this, but does anyone else ?

You are going Karen ?

Outstanding

He is lovely have you given him a name ?

Your green clearwing has "issues" and I do not think you will get an egg out of her at all. When hens do this they are what is termed an internal egg layer. She cannot produce or expel and egg. She wont produce you any eggs at all. She must be culled.

I was hoping for spangles but thought I would only get about two.

Babies so far seem to be 5 hens one cock. And so far five are spangles, The ones feathering up so far are two grey spangles, one grey cinnamon spangle, one grey green spangle and two others to feather up.

Twitch.......I worry about the boy

The chicks are looking fantastic Renee...congratulations

Perseverence and variety and trying different ways of serving and doing this EVERYDAY will get your bird eating vegies.

What do you mean by a Double Factor Sky Blue Spangle split ?? well he is a double factor spangle i know that much, and he has 2 really light sky blue patches on his chest only visible if you examine it properly, i couldnt find a better name for it so i just added sky blue split?? Photo please

It is really helpful to have a perch on the nestbox, both projecting inside and out. If not the hens often scatter the eggs trying to jump out of the box when you check the nestbox. When scattering the eggs they become addled and wont hatch. If it doesnt come with one, its easy to fit one. Drill bit the right size for the dowel you fit so it sits in there tight.

Hi Stew .........good to have you here I can sex my baby pinkies at such a young age mainly by keen observation. Because I work from home and can check the budgies and nestboxes at any time of the day, I notice the little things...the "signs" . Over hundred and hundreds of chicks and developing a sharp eye I can sex my youngsters from a very very early stage BUT there will always be one or two that can fool you Red eyes you can see the second they hatch.....kind of looks like they have no eyes at all...the red blends with the pink skin tone. Even though eyes are shut you see the colour under the skin of "eyelids". Red eyes is anything INO....albino, lutino, and it can also be fallow if you are likely to be breeding any of those. Plum coloured eyes will show on any chick that will be cinnamon, recessive pied, DF Spangles. Black eyes covers just about anything else. A lot of us like the idea we can work out what they are before it becomes really obvious. Monster budgies a lot of us here have and a lot of people have bigger budgies than I do too. Its the world of show budgies There's "something" about them thats very appealing. You are another one from Perth ? There's a lot of us here from Perth. I will let you know when there's a budgie club event on if you want to take a look. A budgie auction coming up at the end of the month too.

I just put this cock in the spangle section but he can also go here too Yellowface double factor spangle cock

She is a cinnamonwing opaline grey green

Beanie is a female and seems to have tricked us all

What a little cutie

Yellowface double factor spangle cock DF spangle cock