Dave_McMinn

one of the best transgender birds I have ever seen

you would get all blue chicks. TO get clearwings, you need to breed a clearwing to a clearwing, or a clearwing to a normal that is split for clearwing. The clearwing gene is recessive.

pleased to hear it went well. Thanks Kaz for putting up the lovely picture.

leave clearwings to experienced breeders, trust me, I was where you were once, and that $ the choice i made

oucs of older hen are blurry so it is hard to see the quality of her markings. Younger hen should darken after her first moult

Congrats Libby - happiness could not go to a more deserving person.

All olive birds will have a yellow face. A yellow bird is just a green bird with 2 dark factors. It would be different if he was a mauve yellow face II, so really he would be a white bird with yellwo throughout this body, where the white normally is. Without pics, then I am can only base my knowledge on what you say. If you upload some pics, people might be able to give you more accurate feedback

I have two grey spangle brothers ( diff clutches ) ages 6 months and 8 months who are trying to do the wham bam with no thankyou maám Bad bad boys ! It is all about learning to balance. Anyone who has read the kama Sutra knows that there are some techniques that are just damn difficult - :question:

was this taken by you with the new camera? If so, it does sem to be working well for you.

Looking way into the future but I reckon the above 2 would make a fantastic pairing for next year. She's got dark markings, great wings, shoulder, length and feather. He's got the top end, shoulder and feather. Both very nice. Whilst I lack the "Nostradamus-like" ability Daryl no doubt possess, it is fair to see he makes a strong point - :question:

I hope I never have to find out, but I hope that my morals would stop me from trying it!!!

Willow is definietly male!!!

There are people who only eat meat they kill, and others who are happy to eat roadkill. May we never reach this stage ourselves.

That dom pied hen is better than any dom pieds I have, so i figure you are not needing any of my pieds. They can gcontinue to gow up in the peace and sernity of my aviary, knowing they are safe and well.

Flirting is one thing, but any of us that have put a year old hen and cock pairing down in a breeding cage and watched as they stared at each other know that some birds, flirt as they like, have no idea what to do once they have hooked their catch - LOL

The birds look great, the camera seems great. All seems to be going well. You are so lucky that your green greywing hens are split blue. Not only are going getting good greywings, but you are getting good blue greywings and you are getting more blues in your aviary, which some of us know has been a longtime goal of yours. Well done Kaz.

Nice breeding cages set up. It will be interesting to see how these pairings develop in regards to offsrpings.

Linda, I think you have been given some fantastic advice, and you have obviously received it very well. Well done Macka, Nubbly, Kaz, GB and everyone who offered great advice.

I suppose it all depends on what you want to spend. What is your budget like? You can buy a good cage off e-bay for about $180, whihc is about 90 pound or so. The cage you would need is a big cage to allow each bird to have room to move around and not be cramped, especially since the cocaktiel is much bigger. I am not big on putting different species together with budgies, but I know that cockatiels can be caged with budgies. I would suggest if you are going to do this, get a cockatiel that is young and hand tame it. Eventually the young cockatiel will be tame enough to put with the budgie, and if all goes well, it will lose it's tameness with you and will bond with your budgie. This whole process will be much easier to achieve with a young budgie. I would also suggest you quarantine the cockatiel for 30 days, then you slowly introduce the birds tp each other in seperate cages, while you hand tame the cockatiel. Then you introduce them to their new cage together. Do not let one have it first, as this will result in one bird feeling there is ownership of the cage, and causing more problems. I am sure if you do a search on here, someone would also have faced this dilemma, so you can find out more info there.

I agree with what was said before, and I would not be cullng any hens.

Pair 1 - How do you know he is a yf if he is an olive green and you are unaware of his parentage? Anyway, you should get: 25% green dom pied/blue/recessive pied hens 25% green dom pied/blue/recessive pied cocks 25% green normal/blue/recessive pied hens 25% green normal/blue/recessive pied cocks Pair 2 - Normal sky violet cock + recessive pied blue hen? 25% normal sky violet/recesive pied cock 25% normal sky violet/recessive pied hen 25% normal sky blue/recessived pied cock 25% normal sky blue/recessive pied hen Pair 3 - Sky blue hen + yf sky blue dom pied cock 12.5% yf sky blue dominant pied hen 12.5% yf sky blue dominant pied cock 12.5% sky blue dominant pied hen 12.5% sky blue dominant pied cock 12.5% yf sky blue normal hen 12.5% yf sky blue normal cock 12.5% sky blue normal hen 12.5% sky blue normal cock These are the off the top of my head.

My aviary is still in its temporary position, so it is sitting on pavers, not the concrete slab where it will eventually go. That is why the sand was down. Tha pavers naturally slope away from the house, so when it rains, water does run down the pavers, thus the water coming in. This was a major concern over winter, thus the sand - which was very thick.Now hotter summer weather is coming, I am not as concerned. The aviary will be moving soon, one way or another. Hans was limited by the fact he would not show on a Sunday as a Christian. He did show his birds on Saturdays. Now he has no birds and no aviary due to ill health. Showing your birds may give you a form of satisfaction that you are heading in the right direction with the choices you are making in pairing up your birds.My issue is that my club meets on a friday night at about 7:30pm. That is great if you are retired and this is your one big night out a week, but for a young person, friday night budgie club meetings are just rubbish. So much so that I have not been to one since August I think as it is just not convenient for me to go on a Friday night. I am even going to have to consider moving clubs I think.

I might, but then showing to me is nowhere near as important as breeding great birds. I think Hans would understand.

So another baby attacked Frannie? I suppose that is something that you can never anticipate. Good work getting them out of there.

I cleaned up the aviary today and added some youngsters. It is getting a bit crowded in there, I am going to have to do something about that. Here are some I cleaned the floor. You may not think this is a big thing, but it is massive. I removed a lot of sand. This grey boy I bred from two birds I got from deb. He is a double factor grey opaline cock. Check out his spots and mask. I think he is the best bird I have bred, then I see another one and I am undecided. A very cute dommie pied, bred from Kiwi (an Abi Hauder bird) and Twitch ( a Henry George bloodlines bird I bought off Fran McLaughlin) Note the messy floor in the last photo. Some mixed pics