Dave_McMinn

He is a great looking pied. Following in his Dad's footsteps obviously. Here is an idea. You want more pieds, pair the cock bird with your most prolific breeder. You might get a huge mix of different pieds. You could call the big clutch of Omelette's a one big batch of scrambled eggs Thanks very much, no stop, you're too kind. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed the show. I'll be here all week, try the veal.

Great looking birds as always. Did you buy that Dommie Pied or breed it? Very impressed with its strong clear markings.

I think he is a he and he has stunning eyelashes!!!

Quiche is the offspring of Omelette so it works well. Far better than poached, boiled, or even frap. If she has a pure white offspring, maybe merange (spelling?) :rofl:

Much like their owner - :rofl:

So I was thinking about Quiche, the young male I am getting from Kaz, that was bred by Ommelette (you can read about him by clicking HERE) and I was pre-planning. I took some pics of my birds with that in mind. I took some pics of some Dominant Pieds for Kaz, and I took some random shots. They are all below. Sorry they are dark - no flash on my iphone. Potentials in there. The Cec Gearing bred GreyGreen Spangle Hen, or the very well marked light green spangle hen in the back of some pics would be my initial options.

No. Just give them a hose to ensure they are free from any droppings from others bird and the like, and give them as is.

Your greywing breeding appears to be going well. You have done well to identify a niche, get good birds and breed such good birds. This might be the first of many areas for you at the nationals

send them both if you have to You probably don't want to split them up anyway

I don't think you have to miss show meetings. Just maintain your regular healthy practices of washing hands after looking after birds, showering - lol, and the usual stuff

Hi there, Welcome if I have not said it before. Thanks for the photos. Your birds looks great. Dad is a dominant pied, Mum looks like a normal. The three you have kept look to be a Yellow faced cobalt normal, a yellow faced dominant pied (poorly marked but it cannot be a Double factor, thus it is a poorly marked single factor) and a yellow faced cobalt dominant pied. This means that either mum or dad are a double factor yellow faced bird as all your birds have yellow faces but both mum and dad have white faces.

It is very common. Younger birds do it alot. I have lots of times looked into the kindy cage, counted the birds on the perches, worried one or two were missing, then looked up to see them hanging upside down asleep from the cage roof. Very normal behaviour.

What is megamix?

did you see the avian vet yesterday?

It all sounds very promising

I think you should have an even number.

I took sunshine and another bird to the vet today. My vet looked at her and agreed that it was more of a fracture of her upper hip. There is not much we could do to ease her pain (as we know birds hide it well) nor repair the hip, so it was decided to euthanase her. She has gone to a better place.

There are many reasons that behaviour may change. Changes to a flock, moulting, breeding season competition and so forth. Unlike other animals, I imagine it would be hard to train a budgie not to be aggressive. If you say there is another space in the cage, enough feeding positions and so forth, I am not sure why this is occurring. You say the males are fighting, but there are 2 males and 2 females? Fighting often occurs with an uneven number so this is also strange. I would suggest altering their environment, as in moving perches/branches, adding new toys and the like. This will provide them with some distractions. If they are moulting, some moulting aid in their water might also assist. Others might have some more advice.

you are lucky no one, dogs or ken, got bitten.

I can see why people are having such difficulty. Do you have any other pics? Is the cere always miscoloured like that or was this a photo when it was younger? Has the cere changed as the bird has matured or gone in and out of breeding condition?

Male, although may well be a female out of breeding condition, opaline, grey green and I am going to say greywing.

Try the doxy 45 day prgram - my breeding issues/fertility were cleared up as soon as I did that. I am going to the vets today so i will try to get some more doxy - mine is outdated.

good to see that HE got comfortable

so she is not that old I have to go to the vets tomorrow anyway, so i might take her along for a ride