Dave_McMinn

Cinnamon YF 2 mauve. Cinnamon dilutes the mauve and the YF makes the mauve look greenish. Because it is mauve, it looks grey-greenish, rather than the sea foam green of sky blue, or the darker green of cobalt. So add my vote to the Cinnamon YF2 mauve normal group please.

I never bred her. She is not part of the breeding program. She was at my sister's place. I know this could happen in the nestbox, but this seems to have happened in an aviary in the last week. The bird was not like this it's whole life. As I said, this is a recent development. Sunshine is an orange ring, so that makes her what, 4?

Some random shots of my birds - a few pieds in there for you Kaz - shots of them anyway

A few photos of the current crop Kindy cage New Eggs for Bruticus and his Albino Hen Youngster from Drak Green Cock and GreyGreen Hen.

Thanks Liv for the info. I took some photos so you can see what I mean. She does not appear in any pain, but she is seperated from the others. I will decide what I am going to do in a short amount of time. There is nothing a vet can do, apart from surgery, and that is not happening.

One of the birds that went to my sisters place last weekend to live out its days in their new aviary has alwasy had issues. It has the increase keratin formation on its cere, the feathersa round its eyes have never grown right, its nail always overgrow, however today it was retruned to me with the most serious problem. It seems to have suffered some form of hip displacement. One leg, the left, shoots out to the side on a strange angle. I checked her leg and it is not broken. But the bones around the hip seem funny. She uses the leg to balance and stabilise herself, and can shuffle sideways along a perch, but if you put something else on the perch, say a piece of spinach pokking through the wire of cage, she cannot jump it as she does not have the strength. I have had budgies with broken legs, and this is not that, as with the broken leg, the leg is lifeless of the colour has changed. This is not like that. I am wondering if hip disaplcement is common, or if anyone has experienced this before. My own treament methods? I am giving her a few days in a cage to assess her well being. She is calling out to others and obviously wants to be with others, but the perching and movement issue is a problem. We will see. I know that many birds live with one leg. Like I said, this is a hip issue, not a leg issue. I will make a call soon. I will also put up some pics soon.

Did you decide on a name?

You just have to hope that she passes on the good features, and not the pet-type size

I've had a few with "ambiguous" ceres this year and they all turned out to be hens. You'll know for sure in a few weeks. I hope you are right Daryl

some very cute little ones there Deb

i think Male

More are welcome at my place Macka. Please keep that in mind people - :rofl:

i will take the lot - sold!!!!

She is a wonderful looking young one. I might have to come and get her personally as I am having my doubts that Kaz will be able to part with her - LOL

They are looking great. Not sure on the crested - :rofl:

Although a little stressed, it sounds like they have travelled well. I will look forward to seeing what you plan on doing, in regard to pairing and breeding.

not a bad guess

She is very cute!!!!!!!!!

clearwing is a whole other mutation. Some cinnamon wings are very feint, some are dark. I think you just have a light cinnamon wing, not a clearwing.

I think that is the advice

I am sure Liv had a couple, and if she goes missing, I know which pockets I will be checking!!!!

It is all done for the kids. When they come over to my place, I get my nephews to come in the aviary with me, and they put out the spinach and corn. They love it.

Kind of hard to tell at the moment. The legs are right under the body, so there is no need to do a sponge. The legs do look long. I would give this baby some time and see how it develops. Keep us update regularly and feedback or opinions will be provided. I do not see any major probs at the moment, but we will see what develops. Once the bird gets a bit stronger and has the ability and strength to support it's own body weight, then you can make a judgement on what to do, based on how it appears at that point in time.

I am with Kaz. I had the most wonderful looking developing young pied, but the hips were gone, so it was better to put it out of its misery now. The bit they never tell you about breeding is that sometimes the tough choices have to be made. This is one of those times.

It is a different experience watching her grow by photograph on the other side of the country