Boris' Slave

Hi Minx! Your birds are beautiful!

Hi Bux!

Welcome Tal, your birds are beautiful!

Welcome to the forum Mooie! Hank is gorgeous!

Welcome to the forum Tim, if you have any questions at all feel free to ask away. We are all here to help.

So how do you breed a Melanistic Spangle? Is it pure chance to have the gene? and would it have come from the mother or the father? - Jazz I mean.

Gray Girl died sometime Friday night. I found her outside the box on the floor. The eggs were cold & the fertile egg was dead in shell.

I recently bought plans for a home made Hospital Cage. If anyone wants a copy (no charge) you can pm or email me with your email address. The plans come in .pdf format so if you can't support it then I'm sorry I can't help.

You're right Nerwen - Grayson was a normal gray. Will be very interesting to see what the babies turn out like.

Big Boy is a Cinnamon Clearflight Dominant Pied Violet (what a mouthful!). Daz bought a full sister of Big Boy off me & she begat Melanistic Spangle. Nerwen I believe has either the sister Daz got off me or the offspring. Big Boys mum is a white DEC which I think means she can hide certain things (don't know what). It took about a year to finally find out what big boy is. Big Boys Breeding History: Big Boy bred these 2 girls with Grayson: bigger version of above picture: http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/kar...s11-11-2006.jpg Big Boy & Grayson: http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/kar...s21-10-2006.jpg

What can I expect from this pair? they have 2 eggs. Olive: Mr Green:

She's a lacewing. The mauve cheek patches give it away - see my yellow lacewing as an example. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/kar...gYellowHen3.jpg

I do not know the lineage of these birds. She is sitting on at least 2 eggs 1 of which is fertile. I didn't succeed in getting her to move off the eggs as she thought I was offering her my finger to preen! Ozzie: Gray Girl: What can I expect to get from these birds?

Penny: Penny's mum & dad: Big Boy: Big Boy's mum: Big Boy's dad: They have 5 eggs, what are the breeding expectations from Penny & Big Boy?

WOW she has a really small head compared to her body!

I think fallow have plum eye's. Not sure what other features but I think they have brown/cinnamon markings? (not sure)

Meaning of SIRE Definition: 1. [n] male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse 2. [n] the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers" 3. [n] a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority 4. [v] make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them Meaning of DAM Definition: 1. [n] female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock 2. [n] a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea 3. [n] a metric unit of length equal to ten meters 4. [v] obstruct with, or as if with, a dam

Oops, cock is also clearflight. :budgiedance: right flights white (hey that rhymes!)

I've got my cinnamon dominant pied violet male (parents DEC white dam & spangle green sire) in with a dark gray hen (parents white DEC dam & cobalt sire) and they have 2 eggs! What could I expect in the nest? Male I don't have a picture of the female - will try on the weekend.

A breeder & shower (she no longer shows or breeds) told me that she rarely had a sick bird and about all she used was a bit of iodised salt in the water.

vetafarm.com.au has a great variety of food & they sell probotic which can be given to all birds. You just basically need to give your bird a variety of seeds like: red panicum, white panicum, hulled oats, canary, finch, a few (not many) grey strip sunflower seeds, a few (not many) safflower seeds, rape seed, niger seed etc. As long as they get a good supplement of fruit & vegies as supplement to the seed.

I gave my guys some eucalypt yesterday and so many jumped on it at once that they pulled it down! :(Laughing out loud): it frighten the stuffing out of them!

Good luck Bea. You are entitled to: repair, replacement or refund - it is your choice. There is a reasonable expectation of quality when you buy a product (except if they state on the cage prone to rust etc) and a reasonable amount of use is expected from a product before damage occurs. This has not happened, 2 rusty cages in a matter of months is unacceptable. If they will not honour your request for a refund you can put a dispute in with the Small Claims Tribunal. For the amount you are after it should only cost around $15 to lodge the claim. I used to work in the Consumer Affairs section of Office of Fair Trading, (Laughing out loud) I now work in the Business section!

I love this picture of my "Screamer"! :budgiedance:

Know that I fully understand what you are going through Kaz. It is a dreadful feeling when you go to the hospital cages wondering who will be gone today. I feel for you. Unfortunately accidents do happen in bird keeping and even though it breaks our heart it teaches us a valuable lesson that we know we won't repeat the accident.