Boris' Slave

Yes, he is cinnamon.

I had resisted putting this pair together again. Last time I did they only successfully raised 1 chick who was . . . ahem, different. She lived roughly the same time as Angel and they were best friendswho grew up together and who were both different. If I have the same result this time round then I know the cocks genes are flawed as I have bred from the hen before with perfect results. Fingers crossed for good genes. :ausb:

My special girl and her special boy have come together again: They have a bub! There is another egg that's not in the picture: Any idea's on breeding outcomes?

I don't know if he's split to anything. I got him from the Ipswich Bird Spectacular in June this year. I bred the hen from an Albino hen & Cobalt cock.

Turbo is 5-6 weeks old. She's been cracking and eating seed (small amount) since she was just over 3 weeks old, when I got her she was perching along with her 2 siblings in her own cage. She has also been flying since she was 4 weeks old and fully independent since 5 weeks (my choice - her choice 4 weeks).

This is the lovely couple: Here she is on the nest - very protective: After politely asking to see her bubs she moved over (honest): What is the possible outcome of this pairing?

Hopefully I've fixed it now.

I put Turbo in the aviary today - before I cleaned it. What a mistake! When she wasn't landing on my head she was hanging off my glasses and begging for food! I felt like a matador! I'd look up see her coming towards me and try to duck and weave out of the way. Waste of time, she is so fast no one can avoid her! She was a bit mesmerised by the camera so I did a little slideshow (click to play): http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/kar...nt=70f9430f.pbw

I use the Scale & Mite Remedy and it clears it up just fine - available from pet stores & produce stores.

Trouble isn't the right word Daz. It was pure mental torture and anguish. To think that your birds are eating til they are full but starving to death! Mate, that's not something I'd wish on my worst enemy. It took around a year to get rid of it, in which time it took out nearly half my flock. The vet bills mount, the medicine bills mount & the cost of the autopsy were secondary in my thoughts (painful & noticeale though). It was enough that I contemplated euthanising my entire flock and dismantling and destroying my aviaries and cages to ensure it was gone. Don't know how these diseases come about. My father bred budgies when he was a boy and until my aviaries got it he'd never heard of it. His birds rarely got sick and if they did a quarter teaspoon Epsom Salts in 100ml water with some straight into the beak a couple times a day & the rest as cage water cured everything. Maybe I should give all these expensive medicines the flick and go back to the $5 pack of Epsom Salts - the tried and true method of yesteryear (except I've got a fortune in bird medicine!).

Sam & Turbo are both doing great. BJ - pied - I had to remove from the parents as they stopped feeding him.

It goes without saying that it's best to breed to improve the birds. My TCB hen has paired herself up to a white cock with a blue cere (not sure what the mutation is called). Until I can get myself a TCB cock I'll let her breed with the white boy and see what I get. Thanks boys.

Have a look on www.petlink.com.au

I've got the A15301F, I found them a bugga to assemble (mainly coz I'm hopeless). Just don't put the door on upside down like I did! Other than me not being able to build . . . I've had it for about 4-5 years and have had no problems with it.

What? No pics yet? How slack! :

Prior to a couple of weeks ago I had in my main aviary: 40 Budgies, 8 Lovebirds, 7 Bourke's, 8 Red Rumps, 2 Green Cheek Conures & 2 Eastern Rosella's. My main aviary is not used for breeding. I moved the Lovebirds out as 1 pair bit a budgie drawing blood. I moved the Green Cheek Conures out as I have now put them in their own cage to breed. The Bourke's are fine as they mostly keep out of the budgie's way but sometimes a budgie will seek them out. Red Rumps in non breeding situations are not usually aggressive (except when adding new pair RR) & the budgies can't bully them. Green Cheeks are okay as long as you know the personality of them. My male is a real pussycat and got on with the budgies. I introduced a new female about 5 months ago and she's a little cow. The Eastern Rosella's mainly ignore the budgies except when they decide to play a game that I call "try to squash the budgies". It is funny to watch - they wait until a budgie is a bit separate and then fly straight at it knocking it from the perch or attempting to land on it while it's on the wire. They haven't got a wire one yet - budgies see them coming! :(Laughing out loud): Kakariki get on well with budgies too.

I've got a TCB hen, so would I be better to breed her to a normal cock or lutino to get the line started?

Beautiful Bird. If this bird happened to be blackface - which Kaz said it's not - blackface is recessive.

Good luck with your breeding plans Maddi.

Poor little tyke, I've got 2 leg splayed birds. It is very disheartening when you find one in your nest. Good luck with the correction.

Thanks for that Daz, I've saved a copy. I've been trying to download the Budgie Program but can't get past the first file. Scratch that, after 4 hours it's let me download the second file!

How many bubs you got in the nests now?

Thanks. Hard to believe with all the lots up that there is only 1 Albino! Shopping list: Albino, Lutino, Lacewings, maybe DF spangles & DEC, oh and a few pieds . . . hmmm where's that page again . . .

Where's the catalogue? I must be going blind in my old age.

He is a mature male who has crazy hormones raging and the urge to find a mate and procreate is very strong. He may get over it - eventually. A male I had inside for a couple years did that non-stop. Birds will grind up their dried poop, you can't stop them doing it, all you can do is clean out the cage a couple times daily to lessen the amount there is.