Dave_McMinn

Well, the good news is that there are 2 eggs, laid today. One to Sebby and Cheese and one to Milly and Humphrey. I am really pleased that Humprhey will have young that keep his lineage going. I was going to get back into budgies (had them when i was younger - about 20 years ago) and i had planned on getting some budgies. Humphrey ended up being caught by my mother and her friend. he must have escaped from somewhere and they caught him by hand, so you can guess how exhausted he was. he is not the most spectacular looking budgie, but he is the first little one i got when I started with budgies once more. He has now, and will always have a special place in my heart. I expect his offspring to be good birds as well. Milly produced some good looking birds with her previous partner Zeus (may he RIP) so hopefully these offspring will be good. Sebby is just a beautiful bird, and her and Cheese hit it off. Like before, her egg is smaller than Milly's. Nothing from the other pair. Like I said, I think they are about to be returned to the aviary, replaced with some others soon.

The box is attached on the outside of breeding cages. It is not possible to remove it, so once they are placed in a breeding cage, the box is available to them. Now, Sebby and Milly have both bred before. Sherbert has had the opportunity to breed but "decided" not to. She was not too young, she was with a "preferred" partner, she just decided not to last year. I thought I would give her another chance this year. I will give it another week.

well, the pairings of Humphrey & Milly and Sebby & Cheese look promising. Plenty of visiting the nest box, preening each other, him feeding her. The other pairing of Sherbert & Nibbler looks less promising, and I am blaming Sherbert. Nibbler tries to feed her, and even interact with her, but she will have nothing of it. She has been in the nest box and has cleaned it out a bit, but I am not sure that there is going to be any result there. Her cere has gotten darker in the last week or so, but it does not look promising. It has only been a week, so i will give them another week, but if there is no sign of "romance", then back to the aviary they will go.

Well, the girls have been remodelling. Shavings have been removed out of each nest box and are on the floor of each cage. A good sign so early on, only 1 day into things

I have to do an overhaul of my aviary, and so that meant moving some of the budgies, so it was a great time to start pairing up some of them for breeding. I have started slowly, and we will see how we go. There is space for 7 breeding paairs, but i have only started with 3 pairs. Whilst I like the pet types, I do prefer the larger budgies, so one of the things I am doing here is trying to breed for size. I need more green in my aviary as well, so I am trying to pair green birds with blue birds, so I will get green birds, unless the green is split to blue, which I will not know until they breed. I am also a bit of a romantic, so if two pet type birds actually "get together" I will give them a chance. That is what I did with Ozzy and Angel as well as Sebby and Romeo, and I have done that once more. So, the current pairs are Humphrey and Milly - Humprhey has not bred before and I do nto even know his age. Milly is 3 this year, has had 2 clutches, and is a great mother. Nibbler and Sherbert - Nibbler is the son of Milly and Zeus. He might be split to Cinnamon, not yet sure. Sherbert is a Clearwing, though since this is recessive, she might pass on this gene, but it will not show. Cheese and Sebby - These two kind of found each other in the aviary. They are constantly feeding. Cheese is a Golden Face Type II Recessive Blue Pied, whilst Sebby is a Violet Fallow. Form pair 1 I think I should get normal greens. If there is anything else, it is because Humphrey has some hidden genes. From Pair 2 I think i should get normal light greens. neither appear to have a dark factor, unless Sherbert is split for blue. Some offdpring might cary the clearwing gene and that could appear a generation later. Nibbler may be carrying the cinnamon gene (his mother is a cinnamon) so that might appear in the girls. From pair 3, I have no idea. We discussed it on here before, but i am not sure whether a consensus was reached on what you would get breeding a recessive pied to a fallow.

Name : Macaroni Sex: Male (I think) Sky Blue Recessive Pied Other mutations: Golden Face Type II Name: Cheese (see, macaroni and cheese go together - method in my madness!!!) Sex: Male Sky Blue Recessive Pied Other mutations: Golden Face Type II

You would only get blue if your recessive pied cock was split for blue, otherwise all the young would be in the green series. If your recessive pied cock is not split for blue, and you bred it with a blue spangle then you should get 50% green spangles & 50% green normals, all being split to recessive pied. If your recessive pied is split blue, and you bred it with a blue spangle, then you should get 25% green normals, 25% green spangles, 25% blue spangles, 25% blue normals - all birds will be split to recessive pied If your recessive cock is split to blue and you pair it with a blue clearwing, then you should get 50% green normals, 50% blue normals - all are split to recessive pied (as I understand, and I stand to be corrected, the clearwing gene is recessive itself, so if the mother is the clearwing, none of the offspring will be clearwing. However if the father was a clearwing, not the mother, than all cearwings produced would be female) If you recessive pied was not split to blue and you paired it with a blue clearwing, then you would get 100% green normals, all split to recessive pied I think that is right. Others are better than me at this.

He was, until a couple of months ago, when he died mysteriously. I was devastated. At least he had the chance to pass on his brilliance. Not sure what caused it, as no others perished. He was not old, just fluffed up one day, then went down hill rapidly.

Like kaz said, it is in their instincts. being from sucha dry area, they hear the rain and get excited. breeding season - woohoo!!!!!! Nothing worse then it is about 10pm, everyone has setled down for the night, and it starts to rain. Birds all start chirping - (Laughing out loud)

i m sure they will listen

I love budgies that colour Liv. I have 2 hens that colour, but their Dad was the first one I had seen that colour and he looked amazing. Here are a few pics of Zeus, Athena (at the back) and Aphrodite (at the back)

Looking forward to seeing them feather up more

They are cute Kaz

Looking forward to seeing some feathered up pics Norm - eventually

Lonebudgie - what do you mean by the comment "Three generations then add new blood" ?

hey there Well, I'll take a shot at it. The first two - on the left is a sky blue boy and on the right is a yellow face type II cobalt blue girl. the Second two - on the left is a yellow face type II spangle opaline skye blue boy and on the right it an opaline cobalt blue girl. the third photo - your friends bird, am I guessing it is a boy.

She is a beautiful budgie. I would love her in my flock solely for her colour. As for mutation, she is definitely a pied, and I cannot clearly see an Iris ring, so I would say recessive spangle pied. You are very lucky, about half as lucky as she is to be caught.

In the fourth picture down, what mutation is the budgie?

Boof is one of the first Opalines that I really like. I think it is because his colours are blended all throughout. Some opalines just haved this birght head colour and then a different body colour, with some colour mixed into the wings. Boof is more of a complete blend. Thanks for the responses and answer on TCB's. I went back and looked at your posts regarding their flight feathers, and saw they are all like that. All good now, thanks.

looking at the pics, does the skin colour indicate anything? I mean, it looks like a pied in terms of the skin colour. Is that possible?

The place I was a had 4 TCB's for sale. I was tempted to buy them all - but it is about getting variety in my aviary. And should I breed them to each other? What if they were related? Better to buy one at this time, and breed to a Lutino. Boof is my favourite, I am not the biggest fan of opalines, but he looks great to me.

I was talking to Kaz last night about some birds I saw when I was out, and how i should have bought them. She said go back and get them. Well, I was going to, but I came across something else. I have 4 young males, all '07 birds, in quarantine at the moment. I have named their cage "The Bar". Here are all 4 boys at the bar This is Boof - he is a Grey-Green Opaline Spangle. Then there is Punter - he is a Green and Yellow Dominant Pied - probably a double factor dominant pied Slate is my Mauve Spangle. He looks grey, but Kaz assures me that due to his bluey cheek patches, he is in the blue series, not grey sereis. And then there is Norm. Norm is my first Texas ClearBody. When thinking of a name for him, I thought what do I know about TCB's? Only what Norm has taught me online, thus the name was born. So there you have it. My newset additions.

Hmmmmm......... blondes over brunettes.... Sorry where was I? Great looking birds Kaz. I agree, as I have said before, they are amazing looking "pet" types. I do love the yellow face grey. Amazing looking bird.

Cool. Congrats. look forward to egg news. Any pics of the breeding pairs?

must be the light and my fading night time vision - (Laughing out loud)