**KAZ**

I had a friend once who was dying of AIDS. As a maori his family sent for him to come home when the end was near as they have ceremonies necessary to the family at the end and their funerals are very special. He returned to NZ and ten days later he came to me. I had just returned from collecting my daughters from their part time jobs selling the Sunday Times newspaper on Saturday night. We got home and all got ready for bed as it was late. I turned off the bedroom light and as I went to settle in my bed I saw my friend sitting by the right hand side of my bed. He was as real as you or I. I could see him clearly and I could feel him, I could smell him. I didnt believe what I was seeing ....I rubbed my eyes and looked again. Then he had vanished and was on the other side of the bed nearest me, sitting by the side of the bed as if in a chair by my bed ( there was no chair ). He reached out to me and took both my hands in both of his. I felt the warmth of his hands as real as anyone else's hands holding yours. He looked at me, smiled and he was gone. It was the next day that I was told he had died. In speaking with others I also discovered he had visited all of us in similar ways, all over Australia and New Zealand and other places. He had died in New Zealand. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When my mother passed away and I returned to perth from Geraldton where my mother had lived and died.............. I was working late one night in my leadlight shop. My mother had never known I had my own leadlight business as she had suffered a stroke many years ago and had suffered many strokes since.......each one taking her further and further away from us till she was little more than a brain injured child. So, here I was working late at night ....around 9:30-10:30 ish. Leaning over the workbench building a leadlight. I felt a presence behind me, I felt a hand grip my shoulder just by my neck and pressure bearing down ( like someone was leaning over my shoulder peering down at what I was doing ) and I heard these words ........" MMMM SO THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE IS IT ? " and as quick as that happened she was gone. I knew it was my mother and I knew the feel of her hand. I heard her voice as clear as day. She had come and found me and visited me. I knew that for certain. I am psychic and from memory have always been. With me it comes and goes depending on the stresses and business of everyday life. My earliest memory was as a two year old child sitting in the sandpit by the front of the old house we lived in. I looked up and saw an old lady dressed in black with long woollen skirt, long blouse full buttoned all the way down the front and button up ankle boots. She wore her hair in a bun. She opened the front gate and it squeaked from lack of oil or grease. She walked past me and over to the side of the house and walked away. I ran towards where I had seen her pass and she was gone. She didnt have time to have walked anywhere. She had made her presence known to me and then vanished into thin air. My family history is I come from gypsy stock. I have proof of family history written in a book published on our family. Our relatives were gypsies from Kent in England who came out here and settled in the Toodyay and York area of W.A. I feel what gift I have been given comes from them. I found the woman I had seen as a two year old in the book. There was her picture clear as day some 30 years later when I got a copy of our family history book. I am able to make someone phone me by thinking hard about them for a few moments. I am able to pick up a phonecall and say Hello ( name ) before they have even spoken as I already know who has phoned. I was able to exactly determine the price we just paid for our new house weeks before the final price was settled. I was once working for another boss in the leadlight industry. I was working down the back making leadlights. The boss had left for a country trip, the office staff had gone home sick with flu, and there was only me and the new young man at work. He was to call me if he needed help out front but otherwise I would keep working on the leadlights I was making. I heard a voice say to me "SOMEONE IS GOING TO CUT THEM SELVES AND YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE THEM TO HOSPITAL" ..........I automatically said "WHO ? " and the voice answered "PAUL AND YOU WILL NEED TO TAKE HIM TO HOSPITAL". I thought to myself........if I tell Paul this it will jinx things and he WILL cut himself or he will think I am mad. So I said nothing and went on with my work. Within 3 minutes Paul came running down to where I was working holding his hand. He said Karen I have cut my hand and I need a bandaid. He took his hand away and I could see he had slashed open the back of his hand and he needed much more than a bandaid. I quickly got clean cloth and pressed it down on the cut, told him to hold it hard, and phoned the boss on his mobile. Told him I was taking Paul to hospital and he said to lock up the shop and his wife would come down and open up again and we should just go. Paul had 11 stitches. __________________________ Other times I have heard these voices telling me that someone I knew was up the front in the shop while I was down the back. Each time I checked the voices were right. There's much much more I could tell but it would take forever. Suffice to say.......I believe and I see what I believe. You may have a visitor but you may not see them. There will be signs if you are able to tune in. HUGS Kaz

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You are colony breeding so anyone can be the father. Even if you are convinced a hen only mates with one, more often than not they have mated with more than one male. Colony breeding means you can never be sure of parentage. Green is dominant so the only way you get blue babies from a green parent is if its split blue. Try stopping breeding at two clutches by removing nestboxes.

It sounds like he is calling out. Either he hears another bird outside and nearby or he is calling you. Never a good idea to have a bird used to running around at ground level. So many are killed this way in accidents.

Cobalt spangle Welcome.

Definitely BOY

Dusty is doing pretty well right now. Happiest in the cage inside the aviary with aviary bird sounds and occasional visits to the front of cage. Dusty waddles around the cage and runs away when sees me coming so that means Dusty can see me 12 feet away Approx 17 weeks old.

If you were to eat yours off the hanger, that would leave two hands free to do other things. You know how busy you are Might be a really good idea

Welcome Matt

You have posted this in another area. I will delete the other doubled up topic. MY ANSWER Very dark brown cere is considered just past breeding condition and at the stage where it will peel away to reveal the whitish blue underneath of a hen not in breeding condition. How old is your hen ? How long have you had her ? Is it definitely a hen and not a male with hormone issues ?

How cool Great idea for the corn

very sad dave.........he did have a poopy bottom in that photo too either a health issue or a poopy bottom also indicates not eating enough. He was looking pretty good feather-wise too

Good news

Since she is going away.....she wont be able to check that all is well.

I think Dusty is a hen budgie

I'd leave them a bit longer than six weeks. I keep mine in a kindie cage for a lot longer than that. Also whats the weather like where you are ? Heatwise ?

Babies are growing........................SUGAR and STRETCH having a cuddle with Ken

Dusty is still going well. Was inside due to hot weather but seems to prefer the noise and activity of being near the other budgies. Taking a chance and leaving Dusty out there. Eats better when with the other birds anyway.

Some of these products are available on the counter at our South West Budgie Club. Maybe you can ask John to get you some.

The new garage will go anywhere the town planner lets us put it

I will move the clothesline.....get rid of it and put a pull out one off a wall somewhere. The building is a single garage that will become my leadlight workshop. We have to build a double garage for the cars as well. My thoughts are build an aviary off that shed in the corner. Ken is also taking our spa so that will be in the backyard closest to the house. The roses are the same ones from the sixties and there are some more of them inside the side fence too.

I dont know if I will end up with better than before Splat as I may have to cut down a bit. I may end up with half the setup I had before. Most birds have finished breeding ready for the move. Worst part of all this is .....as there are less and less breeding I am losing my backups for fostering so fertile eggs and chicks that need fostering have nowhere to go. The birds will be in temporary accomodations for awhile once I move. We also have Kens parrots to move too. This is the yard I will have to work with Theres an old woodshed we can turn into kens parrot aviary for awhile This Theres a good shed in the corner that could be a part breeding room for awhile and we could put an aviary off that. We have an aviary here thats disassembled ready to be erected, and we have been told of a free aviary in the town that we can get too. Theres a bedroom I could use for breeding budgies in for a little while if I want.

Welcome Your two boys are gorgeous and YES they are both boys

My aviary cant be moved. So I will have to do aviaries there. Might end up being temporary aviaries there till we can do something better further down the track. Starting all over again. Moving.........will do the household move by removalists, and we will have to do the birds in one large move too, and yet another move we will have to do alone is my leadlight workshop glass and equipment. It will be hard work.