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Have a great trip Liv I almost got on the plane Saturday for good, never to return, but changed my mind for the time being Of course I would of had a box full of my best birds give or take 40 :rofl: As to where I would of put them is beyond me so I am still here.

Congratulations cute photo

Congratulations Libby and Bobby and all the best for the future :rofl:

GREAT ADVICE Macka :rofl:

I agree with Daryl and Heathrow also but that's what Kaz is saying too. If it's not in their gentic makeup it doesn't matter how protein you feed them it won't make little birds huge or short fine feathered birds have plenty of or dense feathering

So kaz is the list on the cage or is someone sitting down taking or writing the bids down

I soak seed every night and next morning I put my soft food mixture which I make up consisting of varies ingredients but I use to use Passwell budgie starter and crumbles which is much easier. for example 14 breeding cages I soak 1/2 a cup of each of hulled oats and wheat over night with avicleans to stop bacteria. then the next morning I rinse it well and drain it. Mix 2 tablespoons of budgie starter to I tablespoon of crumbles to the soaked seed. Twice a week I add 1 hard boiled egg (shelland all blended in a blender) and grated carrot. I also add 1/4 teaspoon of Vetafarm Soluvet, it is a multi vitamin. With this mixture I just put it in the breeding cages every morning and adventurely the birds start eating it, once they start they can't wait for it to turn up each morning. But there is one warning once you choose what soft food you want to use you should stick to it until the end of the breeding because this year I made a big mistake and changed mind half way through and it turned the birds off because of the change. Well this is what I was told. Because birds started feather plucking etc which they never did before and don't do now. Budgies don't like sudden change. Hope this helps. I also give my birds wholemeal bread at night and all flights also and they eat it like it is going out of fashion but at first they never touched it. It takes them a while to try something new.

I actually think that no 2 is a cock, as it looks very pink and number 3 a hen and yes I also get stuck on the dark ceres but i think yours is a girl. I have 3 babies now with the really dark ceres darker than yours but I think mine are cocks.

Dilute.....Here is mine

I am going to mention this written Auction at our next meeting. It sounds fun, how much time do you allow before it's all finalized?

Oh okay, at our last meeting we had a selling Auction where is they brought their birds along with a set price but you had to draw a number and the highest number went first and he picked the best bird there which everyone wanted including me. i got number 4 so I had to wait my turn

WOW Really nice birds Kaz but what's a written Auction?

Thanks Dean and Liv. Dean that is what the DF spangles looked like when they were first discovered as Geoff Gardiner my friend was the one that named them back in about 1976, It is in the Australian National Budgerigar Council "The Standard", he said they had a bib or collar but then they decided they had to be a whole colour. But that yellow cock is my favorite and Geoff said he is an outstanding bird His grandsons which are from his son the white DF spangle I did well with this year are white with grey suffusion on their front and back and I am really hoping they moult that out too. I put him with a grey opaline spangle BIG mistake should put him with a grey normal. His brother that now Kaz has who is almost identical has 3 babies, one is a grey spangle cinn spangle cock I think and A DF factor white which is looking very clean and the 3rd is a spangle but mother is not feeding her well. But I put this cock with a cinnamon grey spangle hoping to get clean DF spangles.

155: When you are told you have too many birds to cull some, so you do as your told and cull 14, then go and buy 6 more Now I have been told I have too many again because he can't hear himself think :rofl:

Oops that's what I ment to type . What Macka you mean she looks like a splat or a blonde :rofl: Funny thing that suffusion the whole 3 had it when they feathered up as babies and then grew it out when they went through their first moult which they're still doing. strange. This spangle line is very slow maturing I guess it's because of the amount of feather they have.

That's great news buick

Sorry don't mean to be rude but why would you bring home a sick birds as your other birds may get the same thing, even if it's isolated. If the bird survives you will need to disinfect the cage with something like Virkon S to kill any diseases left by the bird and even if the bird lives I would still disinfect everything the birds being in contact with.

Thanks Kaz and GB. I think he is classed as proponent or something like that, because what ever he fathers they all turn out the same and nearly as good as him some even better, occasionally I get one with not as much feather and that is probably the genetics from say the mother

154: When all you talk about are your birds because something good happened and you need to share it but your partner is so sick of hearing the birds

Kaz you have her older brother, the white Df love this little guy :rofl:

Here is my yellow Df Spangle cock And one of his daughters she is hatched in the first week of July so has heaps of maturing to do yet. What do you think, he has 3 daughters the same

That's great, once you have fixed that I really must insist on photos of breeding room update thankyou :thumbs_up: Haven't seen pics of your breeding room for ages :hmm:

Gee Kaz they are really looking good. Want to see them when they go through their first moult. :thumbs_up:

It really goods great Kaz, I bet it feels great walking into such spacious aviaries. Getting rid of that door and window will be great as you said it will give you more room :thumbs_up:

I give my birds race n grow and it has molasses they love it.