**KAZ**

The cock at the back is a normal grey. The female is a yellowface sky violet normal. Her wings look brownish in that photo ........are they or are they black ?

Here in the aviary and going through first moult Father is currently the partner of Omelette and so far they have 4 babies.

I changed your title. In future please PM staff for these things.

Have you forgotten how to PM staff Pearce

and here is a disabled budgie that a friend has given me for Libby too. She is a lovely show type hen who can only get around on her "elbows". I saw her climb a ladder the other night and she can perch when she wants to. Her legs and feet dont work. Libby has offered her a new home with her. and video http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r145/ka...rrent=021-3.flv and a couple more of my baby pictures

Matt, ask these questions as a new topic so other people who arent looking in this topic will be able to answer for you. On another note........fourth chick hatched as she usually does at around 1 PM in the afternoon.....first three chicks black eyed and this chick plum eyed.

Looking really great Liv

186 from three clubs.

About time you popped in for another visit Great photos mate

How many are involved in selecting the team for the National nubbly. Not sure how many were benched - Kaz might know as she was show sec for the day 186

Really good to have you here Mary

Here's hoping Daz RobD was saying just last night that my birds are starting to look like Kaz birds where a number of chicks are coming through with the same features. He says it makes them identifiable as bred by me.

Dom Pied for me too

A quails favourite pastime is bathing in warm sand

Three chicks so far and another due tomorrow

Every budgie is different and anyway 5 eggs is an average amount

The blue chicks Mum will be a gift from me to Libby

good point Shannon

You are taking a massive chance. Rats can dig into your aviary. A friend of mine also lost all her birds to a fox that dug in.

A show bred budgie is not a mutation. He is as I stated a grey green spangle. It is just that his parents MAY have been show types. You are breeding him to a smaller pet type hen so likely the chicks will be less than him and maybe a shade better than her.

Cock is grey green spangle and not olive. Boofy is not a mutation ...it is his heritage if he was bred from show type parents. Green dominates unless he is split blue. Both spangle and dominant pied are dominant genes. I would like to see a clearer picture if you could.

There were two miracle chicks in that nest Liv. The last egg was found broken in the nestbox, and I removed it to find the chick inside was still alive, egg was too broken to reseal and the egg was broken too early for normal hatching. I removed the chick and it still had a white bag attached to an umbilical cord. The area where the cord attached was bleeding.....I stemmed the bleeding and put a spot of betadine on its navel area. Then I cleaned it up as best I could and put it in another nestbox. Afterwards a chick in the new foster nest died so I didnt know if it was this second miracle baby who had died or another chick. Today I have the answer as the chick is feathering up to be a spangle hen.....so the second miracle chick also made it and here she is........... so in all the result from the spangle to spangle pairing seems to be 1 greygreen spangle, 1 cinnamon grey green spangle 2 DF yellow spangles and this latest one which is a grey green opaline spangle...maybe cinnamon...time will tell. = 5 spangle babies The chick from the smashed egg and was hatched four days early due to the broken egg...................

I expect I will have room for about 350 to fly about. BUT I dont put nests in there. Thats colony style breeding which I dont do.

Here you go Shannon Babies in a nestbox one two three four YFsky and older siblings in kindie cage five six others in the kindie cage