Dave_McMinn

hang on, hang on, they never went into my aviary, so let's not assume that they got any notions from my aviary thank you - LOL

Great pics and some excellent models.

I have rehomed Lego and Punchy. They are currently in quarantine for 30 days, then they will join the aviary. Lego is the YF2 Cobalt opaline hen and Punchy is a recessive green pied male So there you have it.

honestly, yes. I have had brothers and sister, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters. My aviary is little purgatory!!!!! Even some male budiges getting themselves agitated, or is it relieving stress, in different parts of the aviary

Well done!! What is your degree in?

Good to see it is going well Deb

Just a bit further..... or I know I put it back here somewhere, where the *** is it?

those batteries must take a long time to charge - LOL!!!!!

Any more pics Kaz? You know we need them

Don't feel bad, you were not to know. Since he still comes, it shows he still loves you!!!!!!

I agree, that youngest grey is an opaline. They are all beautiful Neat!!!!!!

Have you given her the "starving children in africa" speech? Surely every parent has used that one before

maybe he was going through a moult when he was scratched last time and it hurt, and he has learnt from that. If he had pin fathers coming through, and he got a scratch on them, it would hurt. pain is an excellent method of learning something is bad and remembering it, for all of God's creatures, us included. Not nice, nto good, but we all remember pain.

Yes, if the hens and cocks, especially the hens, do not have the right nutrients, then they cannot produce fit healthy young.

How long have you had these guys? Is there a reason you are rushing to breed them? I am looking at the pics, and a few have trimmed/cut flights. I am assuming you either bought them and they have not grown back yet, which to me says that you should give them all more time to settle in before you put them throught the stress of breeding, OR You are trimming their flight feathers yourself, and for some reason you are only trimming one side. Now, I understand the want to breed, but ask yourself why you are rushing into it, if you are? Maybe the photos are old.

I have some wooden cabinets that are in need of some repairs, and I will do it, but I doun that it will be much easier to use wire cages that i bought.

Welll done Deb. She definitely is a cutie

You can use a combination of both. Soak some seed and mix it with some egg and biscuit. Initially start with it really runny, then it will get firmer is Roxy gets used to it.

Deb, I remember the log, and I remember saying to you that may be a problem. Sorry to see it looks like that could be it. Here's an idea, saw the log in half and put one half back in the aviary. That way they have nowhere to seek to fight over as breeding space and yet they have their seat still. I have a mixture of pet and show types. My pet types are the worst behaved. Sebby (my pet type fallow) has attacked two others, though they were both helpless and trapped at the time.(Sebby goes after an easy target). No way to get trapped now.

Great minds....I was about to write that exact same thing. With the money you saved, go to Bunnings and buy some of those sehlves you assemble yourself. get the ones that can be one big shelf or two halves. Use that to lift the cabinets off the ground

Here is a photo Very good setup with cages and breeding boxes. Where do I get breeding boxes like this? Everwhere I go they only have the traditional budgie breeding box, which these obviously are not.

Those who like the rats and feel they should be rehomed have never suffered losses. I have had rats in the aviary, but never suffered losses. I say kill them all!!!!!!

I think that is the aim Kaz, to try to have it look at natural as possible. It gets to the stage that some leaves and branches began growing into the aviary, but the birds learnt to quickly trim those. The young ones are moulting, as is Wilde. Pegasis is constantly fluffed - that is just her, she has been like that ever since she nearly severed her leg. Shame as she is a very large bird. I am specifically trying to only purchase larger birds now, and the breeding of pet types has ceased, so only larger young hopefully from now on Neat Gwenieve is a double factor dominant pied, as best as I can tell. She has very few markings. Her father is a dominant pied (Hugo) and her mother is an albino (Angel). Her brother Maika is a dominant pied with even less black on him the Gweni has. Gabrielle is a single pied, so I figure that Angel is an albino that is split to grey dominant pied.

So was Geo, but it seems that she is going back the other way.

Have you put them in quarantine first?