Boris' Slave

I totally agree with violet as Elly has said. ALSO...please wrap this one for travel with Daz to my place :hap: You got no chance Kaz! That's Turbo, I was given her along with mum's peachface to handraise back in September and she has the most beautiful personality of any of my birds (including Boris). She loves to play with her humans but doesn't want to live with us. I was playing with her in the aviary on Sunday (after she almost crawled over my shoulder and out the door!) and I put her on her back tickling her belly then removed my hand and she just lay on her back in my hand looking at me. She has never bitten me or anyone else.

10, 11 & 12 forgot to type in opaline - fixed now. 16 & 17 don't know, but 12 & 17 are 16's parents.

Don't know much about mutations so will leave it for the one's who do. But my blink guess is clearwing sky blue. She is very pretty and may be considered a small Show variety bird. Nasty wing clip unfortunately which hopefully will grow out.

I am cataloging my birds so I know exactly what their visual mutations are and I would like confirmation or refutation on my thoughts. If I am totally off I am very happy to be corrected as I am going to be doing serious breeding come this breeding season. 1. Yellow Lacewing Cock 2. White Lacewing Hen 3. White Lacewing Cock (extremely light markings) 4. SkyBlue Spangle Cock 5. SkyBlue Opaline Hen 6. SkyBlue Graywing Cock 7. Graywing Gray Cock 8. Gray Opaline Hen 9. Dominant Pied Cock 10. Cinnamon Violet Opaline Hen 11. Cinnamon SkyBlue Opaline Cock 12. Cinnamon Gray Opaline Hen 13. Green Cock with a Pied Spot (don't know what to call him) 14. Normal Gray Cock 15. Dominant Pied Cock 16. Cobalt Opaline Hen 17. Cobalt Opaline Cock 18. Spangle Hen 19. Clearwing Cock

I can personally vouch for the quality of Daz's work. I have also seen in person these cages and they are of superb quality so whoever gets them will be getting a bargain.

LOL you guys, the system is set up that it records 1 vote only per IP so if you want to vote more than once per day - vote from a computer with a different IP.

Love the Bourke picture! Looks like a female normal or 'wild' type Bourke. Far better looking than the mutations I reckon!

Congratulations Pika! Your family must be extremely proud of your accomplishments - as well as yourself obviously. All your hard work is certainly for an honourable pursuit which I am sure will bring your much joy and peace.

Could always send the water up my way! I'm a hop skip & jump from Wivenhoe Dam sitting just about 20% capacity.

I check mine over visually every week then a good physical when they have their Fido wash bath every 6 months. I usually end up with about 10 chunks missing from my fingers - the rosella's are the worst! :

All this is a moot point if people quarantined for 60 days as is the recommended length of time. All new birds should go on a full 45 days of Psittavet then 10 days of Probotic to give them some oompf. The chances of a bird/bug becoming immune to the treatment are so infinestimally small as to be not worth worrying about but the consequences of not doing a proper quarantine with also the treatment is foolhardy - I was this foolhardy twice and paid a heavy penalty on both occasions (actually the birds paid the penalty - with their lives). First time was with Megabacteriosis (now called Avian Yeast infection or similar) and the second time was Psittacosis. Ideally birds should be given this medication annually - like a flu vaccination for want of a better example. I have my flu vaccination annually - prevention is alot better than the cure. Mothers immunise their infants for Polio, Measles, Croup etc.

I used to colony breed but ultimately had about a 10% death rate amongst chicks from nest invasion and found it too distressing finding those little bodies. I bought an ex-display cage set-up that is super heavy and divided into 6 individual cages which I just screw hooks into the nest boxes and hang on the wire - the wire is strong enough that a cockatoo couldn't bite through it (not that I'd put one in it - too small).

Good luck getting rid of them. I was lucky to get rid of ours, my dad put mouse wire in the weep holes of the house and I finished off what the hawks and cats didn't get.

I agree BBC is one of the best budgie forums worldwide.

Boris says "sqakakakakakakak!" I guess that's budgie for "thanks for the compliments".

Most of her paralyses seemed to stem from starvation. She actually climbed onto my finger tonight, she wasn't really confident perched on my finger so I put my finger on my chest and she sat on my finger there until she was tired enough for bed. The parents raised her until almost when a budgie chick would leave. I guess they wanted to start another family as there was an egg in the box.

She was happy to pose for the camera now that her feathers are in order. then I said, "you'll be fine with the feather out of your beak" hahahahahaha!!! I love you mum

They are maturing quite nicely these chicks! Chick 1: Chick 2 next to daddy:

All bar the newest blue foster chick have fledged. The blue one has grown most of his feathers back and is looking really cute! Here is some snapshots. Ain't I sexy? Like the headdress? This one was hard to pin down for a picture, he just won't stop! Got you cornered! Got most of his feather back again:

Sadly the parents not only stopped feeding her they started plucking her. After removing the male budgie yesterday I made the decision to leave the chick with the female hoping she'd feed her. She did not and with the little one on death's door I removed her around 10.30am this morning. I started her on almost pure liquid weet-bix fed hourly. Second feed I put some probiotic in a small cup with 3ml water which she drank. She has bounced back but is partially paralysed. Just before our dinnertime I gave her her dinner. She is very demanding and this feed she actually started making noise: Bring that spoon here NOW!!!

Budgies won't immediately mate with a new mate. They have to bond first and in my experience takes anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks. Plus if the hen isn't in condition it will add to the time necessary for bonding. Unless extreme conditions dictate (ie death of a cock) do not let a hen raise chicks by herself - it takes too much out of her. Removal of a cock from a hen that has eggs will result in the hen abandoning the eggs and both hen & cock calling incessantly to each other. The cock may also hurt the new hen.

One of my best breeding cock birds died while the hen was on 5 eggs. There was unfortunately only 1 fertile egg so he must have been at the end of his fertility. She hatched and raised the chick all by herself and the chick is a handsome fellow who just fathered 2 chicks. I have had a case where a hen has killed a cock bird placed with her. There had only been 1 cock bird she was happy with and when I took him out and replaced him with another cock, well she was fine with him until she went into condition - then she completely tore his scalp off. I placed "her" cock bird back and she was perfectly content after that. I have not had a case where 2 different females have rejected the same male. I'd say neither fancied him - maybe he wasn't really interested in "hens" and they were offended?

Love cockers! I love your Red Rumps too! I recently lost my opaline male red rump, gorgeous colours like yours.

oh that is so true!

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