KeetCrazy

Nice lot. Good job!........Soooooo wishing we had better breeding stock here in the midwestern USA

WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is to 6 beautiful little pink jellybeans. My first 2 hatched are doing well. #3 due today, but it doen't look promising. we shall see about 4,5 and 6. God luck with your clutch!!

I let my birds out during breeding Michelle. It will all work out just fine. 2 babies hatched, 4 more to go

Fascinating notes. Thank you! Will be researching this more.

GASP................................He is beautiful!!! <------------------------- hops plane to Aussie and steals loaned bird!!

I don't know about that neat............It would be a neck and neck race I think!!! (Laughing out loud). Good Luck, HANG IN THERE!!

FOUND IT CARE OF BABIE BUDGIES IN THE NESTBOX Thank you kindly Neat :-)

okay, baby one hatched at 10:08 a.m. It's crop is still empty at 2:04 P.M. How long do you usually wait before interveining to hand feed if parents aren't? **Edit** Crop all nice and full now. Things are going beautifully thus far!!

Fantastic news!! How exciting for you. I did a happy dance as well for my first fertile egg. In fact all 6 fertile eggs...(Laughing out loud)

Good news Neat! Good luck, I hope it all works out for you.

I ADMIRE your ambition!!! Give it all the effort you have and you will succeed! Good for you :-)

Thank you Karen~ I wasn't sure if the hen would do it or not.

i know dumb question: Do you remove the shell once the egg hatches? Does the hen throw it out or should I go in the nest and remove it?

I think there is info in the faq section about it. Not so good at searches on this site, maybe someone else will be able to give you the link. P (?) B eak and Feather D isease Good to see you posting again By The Way. :-) was wondering about you.

(Laughing out loud)............well I was thinking maybe your mom wouldn't notice.......*grin*

Hmmmmmm maybe *GIFT* your mother a nice healthy plant that isn't bad for the birds. That sounds like a win, win to me. Just toss the other and replace with the new one!!! Just a suggestion.

You scored: 10 / 10 Total points: 100 The average score for this quiz: 7 / 10

SUPER and SUPER!!!! Congrats on egg #3. You should be able to take a peek tomorrow and see if there is any veining in the first egg. Look close, it can be hard to see. GOOD LUCK!! Actually kinda cool that we can do this at almost the same time. Helps with the ...NOW WHAT's......(Laughing out loud) There are several others currently with eggs and chicks as well. P.S. I like this name better ;-)

Hang in there Neat. you never now what could happen, as the post above show. XXXXXXXXXXX fingers crossed for some cute little pink blobs!!

We are all done laying and our total is 6 eggs. All of them fertile. First is due to hatch in 2 days...........getting excited and nervous!!!

Just wondering as someone I ref'ed here was also out doing yard work when egg was layed. Just curious if you could be from the "LS" board. Just wondering as someone I ref'ed here was also out doing yard work when egg was layed. Just curious if you could be from the "LS" board. never mind just answered my own question. WELCOME!!!! So glad you made it. Helpful and pleasant here aren't they???? *SMILE* You will LOVE this board!!

Just a quick update to my observations. Egg #6 has arrived a day late. I was expecting it yesterday morning and nothing, so I though she was done. My observation is this. I found it odd that yesterday she was out of the box more than she had been since she started laying. She did not seem distressed at all and looked fine, so again....I thought she was done laying and just getting some needed exercise and some good stretching in. She was even preening a bit. I now wonder was she not trying to indicate she was having trouble passing the egg?..I dunno, she looked fine enough??!!?? ( scratches head) Early this am I was watching television in the bird room and....................They started mating. Which shocked me. She hasn't allowed him *privileges* that I have seen anyway, since last week. Just prior to egg #3 being laid. So this all brings me back to my original thought that mating does in fact aid in the laying of eggs. I believe it to be the contracting that is associated with the mating that helps to stimulate the egg to pass. I have now added this catagory to my breeding journal. I will continue to study this activity in future pairs.

Truly impressive!!

Thank you very much. I was not sure what I was looking at I guess. This is my first time around with breeding, so everything is an unknown in a practical sense. I have educated myself for months and months on breeding, but nothing is as good as hands on experience.