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Jumbo passed away during the night.

I agree with BJ

There really is no miniature budgie. You can buy anything deemed a mini budgie at any pet shop or from any commercial backyard breeder. If they were going back to the roots they would be working with bush budgies. They arent. They are working with already modified birds from show culls and petshop stock.

Yes the outcome is grim...most of them dont make it once mega kicks in ....

BRILLIANT news !!!!! Absolutely brilliant outcome. Well done !!!

Please please make an appointment with Tim Oldfield no matter what...no general vet ......as right now you really need an avian vet as good as Tim. I would not place any trust in a general vet nor pay one for this kind of issue.

I think he has megabacteria........and as this is a secondary illness once he has fallen in immunity from other issues..........its pretty serious if he does in fact have mega which it appears he does. Make sure your vet is a very good avian vet like Tim Oldfield at Wattle Grove Good luck

I dont know what the percentages are........you would have to know what percentages of the duster gene the parents would be carrying to work out how many fd chicks per nest and even then percentages are generally taken over about ten clutches and would vary nest to nest. noone I know would deliberately breed the parents of a feather duster again after finding one in a nest ( not to say a breeder wouldnt..some might but I dont know of any who would ) . Forum admin Liv once had three feather dusters in one nest. http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=26506&hl=%2Bfeather+%2Bduster

I dont have a pet budgie Flip, because I have 5 cats inside the house

Feather dusters dont live long enough to breed and most likely cant breed anyway.... But both parents have to carry the recessive feather duster gene for you to get one in a nest. If you breed feather dusters from a pairing most breeders either sell off the parents or they dont pair them up again. Paired with other partners they should be fine and not produce a duster until both parents carry the gene. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, New photos

My thoughts exactly LOL

Dont try and breed him under 12 months. Sexual maturity is one thing but they need to be able to feed and provide for a whole family AND themselves and more often then not at under 12 months of age they fail at this.

I made a decision about Jumbo this morning based on what I found when I checked her in the cage..............she was lively enough when I expected to find her listless from lack of food. I was worried the dad who attacked her yesterday would kill her so I removed her to a smaller space ( a spare show cage ) with seed underfoot and a small drinker. I crop fed the first mornings feed and hopefully she will learn to eat with seed underfoot. I have made these decisions based on having done exactly that not only for the first feather duster I had ( DUSTY ) but also for any baby I have that doesnt initially begin to eat on its own. I wont crop feed day after day after day. This baby has to learn to eat on its own. I will crop feed only a couple of times till it learns to eat or not. This way, in my mind I have given it every chance................not starving it till it learns to eat and taking it away from danger from attack from its foster father. If Jumbo goes downhill as many of these feather dusters do and dies, at least I will know I gave it a chance. I will update.

Yeah there is something about them that tugs on the heart strings

I have another feather duster budgie.............a yellowface grey normal female. Surprisingly AGAIN found after I returned from a trip away just like the last one I had. This is JUMBO and she is likely to not last very long as she is beginning to lose weight and her foster father attacked her today. I will make any hard choices I have to in the morning one way or another but here she is at 7 weeks and before.

It is a dominant pied by the markings on the back of its wings. Re pieds and the band around the belly area, very few have these markings as so many pieds have been mis-identified and bred willy nilly with anything and everything that good markings have long since gone by the wayside.

Welcome to our forum. The birds you have are really nice an the cage is well set up for them too. Hope you enjoy your time here

Very cute :D

two hens and the newbie is a boy just as you had hoped. There is no such thing as a silly question too...............no the sun wont have had an effect on the ceres. Its just coincidence that the timing of it was aound the same time. Please make sure if your birds are outside you are too ....unsupervised caged birds are prey to predators of all kinds and it happens on a regular basis.

Hi First thing to do is find out if the owner is looking for it...........check all online and newspaper adverts. secondly HE is more than likely a SHE as albino is a sex linked gene and more chance its female especially based on the biting it has displayed already. For confirmation post a clear photo of the cere above its beak ( use no flash on the camera ). Intent on wanting out of the cage indicates the freedom she has just had or having come from a larger space like an aviary. Please in the meantime feed a good quality budgie seed. as far as everything else goes.......I say please make all attempts to find its real owner first. Too many people who find birds dont do enough to return it to its owner and thats very sad for whoever is missing it.

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=13358

There's a HUGE amount of dissention been caused by statements made in this article.................such as pudgy non flying budgies and lack of health, and breeding for the $$$s inferred. Further statements made have not helped the situation either.......

not splayed

That article is EXTREMELY misleading and full of non substantiated " facts" .......................one has to wonder at the motives of the interviewees http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-news/too-fat-to-fly-pudgy-budgerigars-rule-the-roost/story-e6freuzi-1226377866349?from=public_rss