Norm

It’s little warmer here than Sydney, but I had trouble the last few months getting some to go down, but of late they are all going down really well & some of the ones that I had together for months have now got eggs, but some of them I did what Maesie suggests, I split them up & paired them with others & that has worked really good. I had a pair of BES [black Eyed Self’s] that I bought who had been together for months in the breeding cabinet, I thought I had once again bought a useless pair, but as soon as I split them up & mated them with other birds, they both now have their mates on eggs. Maybe some birds just don’t like whom we first pair them with. But if your pair are feeding each other etc that shouldn’t be the problem.

Hi Kirtys, welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it here.

Thanks for that site Derek.

Welcome Jade, I hope you enjoy it here.

Good luck Birdluv, I hope it’s still available & suites your purpose, should be plenty of room in that for your birds.

Welcome Falki, I hope you enjoy it here. From that picture Loisto, looks a bit like a hen, but the picture is very small so a picture close up would help us.

Thanks Sunnie.

Mostly mine just clean out the box until they lay eggs & then don’t clean again till they are going to lay again. Which is not a problem to me, as I don’t have concaves in mine & just put coarse river sand in the base & the poops just form in dry pellets, the only muck that gets on my young chicks is on their rings, making it very easy [i don’t’ think] to read the numbers.

I thought the Yellow was the cock too Kaz, on second looks I also see it’s the other way around, so Mum must be split for Blue.

:hap: Now my dogs would have loved that :hap: That thought crossed my mind but I thought those King Charles Spaniels are very accommodating dogs.

Looking good Kaz, but you shouldn’t have wasted your time, you should have put a post in both corners of your backyard [back fence] then two poles up against the house & just covered the whole area, so that you just step out of the back door into the aviary complex…

I think you will find that it’s not have to be, as, as you say they could have either sex, I think it’s just in Kaz’s expert opinion [she’s good at picking them young] think I will leave that to her. Sueanneleach, glad you at least got one out of them, it’s a bit early to tell for sure, but you would think it would be a Lacewing.

They are looking great Libby, I know it’s a show fault, but I like those Opalines with the flecks & man has Precious got some fleck, I haven’t seen one with such definite ones. She’s got great “Blow” I think they call it. But you can never tell I have an Opaline Light Green that had massive amounts of Black on her head & I thought would be good to breed a Black Budgie from. That was after her first moult now she has moulted again & not a sign of Black on her head, strange. I like Frodo too, I prefer the Green [Yellow] Fallows.

Should be Deb, but don’t panic if it takes a day or so long.

So all Blue Deb, like I said, whether you get any Violets I think will depend on whether the DF has any Dark Factors.

Thanks Neat, I think she is my favourite too, got a nice head I think.

You will get mainly Spangles Deb & DF Spangles, but you don’t tell us what colour your DF Spangle is, is it White or Yellow? If it’s white you will get all Blue series, If Yellow all Green series unless it’s split for Blue. Good luck with them.

No a hen can’t cook her eggs Neat? How long had she been sitting on them? As usually a yolk will take some time to dry up like that, unless of course there was a real small hole in it that you can’t see. Or maybe seeing it was so brittle maybe the shell was so thin that it had dried out through it. I have seen this before but usually it takes some time to occur & of course I think it has to be an infertile egg otherwise it just goes rotten [addled]. I can’t say I’ve every seen the other example that you explain, probably it’s just a fault, as sometimes hens have internal problems & you get misshapen eggs & small or over large, so occasionally strange things just happen.

Good summary DrNat…& Derek is stunned, sitting there too afraid to ask any more questions… :hap:

Thanks Libby…her young look a bit small, but still young so may develop more. Blue on Blue…Bobbie Vinton…probably too old for you…LOL… Will be looking forward to your Fallow update.

That was what I was trying to tell her Dave. Yes if it's a hen it could be Norma, not a problem, might even be safer…LOL… Who said your birds aren't good enough for me, if you & Kaz weren't so far away I'd be over to check em out. Blue is Blue... [blue on Blue heartache on heartache] as the song goes... Yellow is HOT…yes actually I would prefer a HOT PINK Budgie if you were going to give one to me…but none of that food dye stuff I want a genuine genetic PINK…no fakes. Lost my Yellow Pied Fallow hen last week Libby, before I could get a picture of her, just found her dead one morning with four young chicks in the nest under one week, fostered them out…at least got about 8 chicks from her, some Yellow Some Blue.

Looks great Pie, nice to have a brand new complex I bet it wont take you long to fill it up…LOL…

I think Endive is better, but they don’t recommend too much lettuce as MB has said, but I think they mean more of the Iceberg type lettuce, but variety of Greens is important.

Great pictures Birdluv.

The Pie, Birdluv…Thanks guys…Thanks for that info Derek…I wont rush into fixing up those cages till I know what’s going on, looks like that was in 2007, so maybe that’s the changes that have already occurred.