**KAZ**

Some reading for you http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=28294&hl= and welcome

Is there any way to treat it? Other than treating its causes first by having the cause identified, no other treatment other than what you are already doing.......... http://www3.sympatico.ca/davehansen/obstruct.html

She may have brown hypertrophy of the cere which is unrelated to being in breeding condition.

Have jam and chutney .....will travel

Hi and welcome Have you candled the eggs to see ? Also non fertile eggs stay a peachy cream colour and fertile ones go a solid white

You can buy cheap small diet scales at most good stores. Also read this ......http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=22446 and another thing I do with fledged chicks that arent getting it yet about feeding...I put them in a small box like a show cage with a warm lamp up to it and seed underfoot. They peck around the ground at the seed and feed themselves. At the age yours is I would only give it a night feed ( between 4-5 pm ) and all day in a warm cage with seed underfoot and maybe another budgie youngster who will show how to eat the seed.

You can also buy a second hand garden shed and modify it by replacing some sheeting with aviary mesh. Often second hand sheds are way cheaper than aviaries

I will be there.........I dont know if I have any birds with me but I will be there.

I agree with Daz and one feed a day to encourage seed eating.

Nathan .....................you have already asked the question about a Yellow budgie, and a Sky blue budgie here http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=30996&st=0&p=367131entry367131 I am going to be real honest with you here Nathan. STOP what you are doing. I am sorry but you havent a clue. You say you threw out non fertile eggs yet you also admitted you really didnt know how to candle eggs properly or what to look for. Based on when you candled and how old you say eggs were chances are real high you threw out perfectly good eggs. You go out and buy a new bird and put it straight down to breed apparently as well. What ages are your budgies ? Show us your breeding cage so we can help you with advice...........how to post photos link in my signature. You have begun about four random topics along the same lines when you should just have one and keep adding to it by using the reply button. You dont answer or address many questions or suggestions put to you by members. I dont think you should be breeding yet Nathan and you have far too many gaps in your knowledge. You should be learning from us all here and now well before you go adding a nestbox. Sorry, but really......you need to stop and listen.

Take a good hard look at size of cage, whether or not its too crowded with perches and toys and not allowing flight. Post a photo so we can advise

Means to sell or separate out of the flock for sale ......not kill

You are doing a great job I just thought I had better mention a little known fact. Older siblings do feed the younger ones in the nestbox to help the parents out. So, this baby begging food from older siblings is a normal thing. Babies in the nestbox at age 2 and a half weeks will feed their brothers and sisters.

How old is your hen Kristy ?

l hope when she is pregnant, seems like stupid question but is there a size change in the hen? Budgies do not have "pregnancies" . One egg at a time a time is formed and travels down the oviduct to be laid. The only signs you will see is an egg sized lump at the vent ( bottom ) within a day of being ready to be laid. They dont store eggs in their body therefore do not have an enlarged body in any way other than the egg showing at the vent just before being laid. They also do very large poops while egglaying.

She is staying in the nestbox because she is about to lay an egg

It is a quail egg.....we have quails. Usually they lay eggs all over the place and when they have the right number ( ours like to have 8 ) they roll them together into a nesting spot and sit on them Its easy to tell the difference between a male and female quail as a male has markings called a bib on its head ( around throat area ) . Budgies dont have pregnancies...they just form one egg at a time and send it out. Your hen may be eggbound, so she needs warmth and calcium, and a vet if you arent confident about treating her as they can die quickly from eggbinding. Runny poo is normal for egglaying but dark isnt. She may need to go to an avian vet.

Well done Maddy !!!! You are always on the improve for your birds....great job. You made me laugh about the spider dance....I laughed so hard I nearly choked LMAO. About the spider spray..............avian insecticidal liquidator which is safe for birds and can treat feather mites and other things like red mite infestations, also works for spiders and cockroaches etc. Try having some of that on hand instead of surface sprays. Cant wait to see more photos

A newly laid egg wont show as being fertile yet anyway. It needs to be around 5-6 days old. BUT also no newly laid egg needs to be kept warm. The budgie Mums dont usually incubate till they have 3 or 4 eggs. Eggs can be put aside and kept non incubated for a week to ten days or so with no harm done. Take note Taylor and Pride

No....a creamino is a yellowfaced albino

I think your cubby house is going to look fantastic as a bird house !!

Very cool

Great photos This one would make a great avatar or signature

Exactly !! Including settling in time for the new budgie.

Try and remember that diluted body colour also is what happens with cinnamon