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Had a look NitsuD and that is a great site thankyou

It's food colouring non poison, I put it on their backs down the side of their legs on the top of their heads etc. Works for me, my mistakes this year was putting eggs into a different nest and not knowing who they belonged to but I culled them anyway so now it doen't matter but I won't be doing it again.

I think your food colouring idea is good. I once marked a baby budgie on the bottom of its foot with a black marker permanent pen....it was gone in half a day The food colouring you still need to keep applying it but it does stand out and colours the down. I have a bottle there all the time . I mainly use blue but I changed to purple mixing red and blue it helps better.

here here Kaz

That's not fair Renee, first of all I or we have to make the mistake first and I did say earlier moving young around does not always work. I have had 2 babies last that I was confused over because I put them in a nest where I was quite sure all birds would be green but they all turned out blue. Those birds are now in the cull cage but luckily they were not much good. Had I checked the records I would of relised that both birds were split for blue (MY MISTAKE) BUT I do not want to make the same mistake next this year.

Totally agree Kaz.

For you Shannon This is what my record book looks like pretty hey, and the one out in the breeding room has little one old chicks on it This is a page out of my record book, this is a page from the back This is a page from the book in the breedroom that then gets tranfered into the main book At the start of my book I allow around half the book to record the nest maybe more and at the back about 3/4 back I start putting all the birds I have bred.

Renee sorry but it sounds like you don't who your babies belong to, maybe you should cut down on how many pairs you breed from at anyone time like last year I had 25 cages going and I found it very hard this year I plan on my usual 14 or maybe 16 cage then I can keep control of what I have going. I am like Nubbly only put babies in cages I know are different like a cage that are all spangles so I can put normals in there.

He looks very nice and it's lovely the breeder gave him to you

The Albino is a hen and the Dom pied looks grey green and a hen

I try not to move them around untill they are rung but If I have to i put them in a nest that will not be the colour of that bird but then that does not always work out But I do put food colouring on the so I can at least work out which one is which. As babies hatch I record them on the nest box record sheet. and If they do get moved it is written the record sheet and the nest where they have gone to.

the grey is Nubbly right, well she is looking really good Kaz . Like Clearwing said would really like to see her when she matures

Great advice Clearwing

Yes Shannon will take a photo soon the camera recharges.

I am glad I have my hard copy because I am still trying to get my records off my old computer, I managed to save the breeding records but it won't let me save the birds and I spent hours putting them all on their, but I can still you the old computer but I find it annoying. So my old trusty books are great. I get 3 season to a book before I start another one.

Well for me very important, I keep a hard copy of each year in a excercise book, I know everyone does it different but my way is the same as Greg uses and I find it very good for me. I start out with a book out in the aviary of each nest and what they lay and what hatches etc then that book gets brought inside and I have my mane record book that I have pair numbered with their young so round 1 and their young and down the back of the book I have every bird I bred for that year and their ring numbers sex, I have K for keep a S sold and a D for dies in a column etc and their parents breeding number. So if I want to look up a bird I go to the back of the book find the ring number and pair number which say it 15 then I go to the front of the book and see who the parents are. It is really easy. I also use the budgerigar program and every bird is registered in their. Here a a couple of pics please excuse my scribble white out comes in handy but all this works fro me some breeders use the card system which I think is great but I can't get hold of them yet. Front of the book Back of the book I would like to hear how other breeders do it

Me too as I can't do it. I ring most of mine around eights Maybe earlier, I was tied last night and , but seriously someone told me they can ring their birds 14day and up to a month old and these are decent show budgies no little crappy ones. Maybe they use oil to slip it on.

I would love to have a setup like that but unfortunatley that probably will never happen but I do have 4 aviary so I am lucky, I have a baby aviary which I use when preparing birds for my show team and at the moment there are 25 birds in there getting ready. I have 3 out side aviaries one for adult birds and one for the young and a cull flight. The adult and young flight will be the hen and cock flights when I seperate in preparation for the breeding season. BUt off breeding season I fly all adults together to keep the hens active

Top photo shows three birds.........................The way I read it is Splat is referring to the one at the top behind the other two I see her as talking about two differing birds as there is. When she is tired and its late Splat doesnt word herself very well Yes Kaz tied and a few drinks :wine had a lot of trouble trying to type and this lap top really has a mind of it's own. BUT yes that 1st pied is really welcome to come live with me too

Nice birds As for show quality hard to tell but they mostly look like pet types sorry

Split rings you can put on any age bird :hap: closed rings only when babies between 8 days and ay 14 days but I know some breeders can get them on when they are a month old but I can't

He doesn't look happy to me either and his see isn't really bright blue and he should be shirping and be very active. :hap:

Alls good I just need to learn to ignore Renee when she says silly things like that. She can't help it she has a habit of putting her foot in her mouth :hap: sorry Renee ' I really mean it when I said I would to see photos of your birds when Kaz helps you take some nice photos because I believe Kaz when she says you have some very nice birds there.

Yes but I am a person who went to a pet shop and bought a bird for my breeding program so of course I took it at aiming at me or someone like me. But hey we are all friends here it's all forgotten but I do believe in helping out anyone that needs help or info on my birds. BUT I still believe in strict records of my birds