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Yeh he is just lovely my most favorite baby at the moment, I was so excited I thought it was a violet but he turned out to mauve but that's still good :bluebudgie:

We have a Jack Russel named Buffy, she is a great cat chaser, she is so well trained that she doesn't bother about the birds at all :bluebudgie: I have been know to trap cats and ring the council and they come and pick them up but these are mainly strays.

Norm the same thing happened to me, last week a bought a sky blue hen, she looked fine at the breeders but when I got her home and put her in the holding cage , she behaved weird wouldn't perch just sat on the floor, Greg thought she looked crook but after a few days she is now great, I THINK IT WAS JUST NERVES. So hope that is what is wrong with yours just needs to settle in.

I just stick the dowel in a vice to hold it put then I use my jig saw or a hand saw and cut a slit on each end, works for me :yellowhead:

Normaly when a cock birds cere goes to a browny colour means they are out of condition. Or sick. Maybe you should go to the vet and get some worm syrup and they will tell you how much and how to worm him. Good Luck :yellowhead:

That is a real nice cage I just love it :yellowhead:

It's like Macka said he could have worms, have you wormed him lately. His cere doesn't look to bad from where I am sitting :yellowhead: I just tried to lighten your photo hope you don't mind,

Yes stunning birds Norm which they were mine :yellowhead:

I normally wait until a couple of babies have hatched before I put it in

She will stay grey

She is looking good Kas

Thanks everyone for all your caring thoughts etc I hope we make it because we have been together on and off for 17 years and I have been living here for a few years. We get along really well never fight so maybe things will work it's self out.

Thanks Libby, I am hoping for the best. Yes I love my beautiful birds and if the worst comes maybe I can keep about 12 . Just don't know how I would be able to sort through them like that I sold 26 ladt week end nearly killed me. Some were my best breeding birds and some nice babies. I hope things get better and not worse time will tell. What I can't understand is why he built me the avairies and breeding room for me not to be here. Maybe I'm just parinoid whos knows

Me to Kas

Any way here is an update on my babies, I have have taken most of my breeding birds out of the breeding room till I know what's going on with my life.this is nest 9 the pied nest there are 3 pieds in this nest 2 Lt green and 1 sky blue yellow face but it looks like all the yellow has bled through all the white, I didn't know the mother was a yellow face because she is Lt green oplaine cinnamon. Here is the sky blue yellow face pied This little grey oplaine is from nest 5, there were 4 babies in that nest but they are fostered everywhere because they were feather plucked. In the nest 2 yellow face grey opalines , a grey normal opaline, a Yellow Face sky blue opaline both parents were opaline This lot are from everywhere as they are fostered there are 2 double factor yellow from nest 1, 2yellow face opaline grey, 1 cinnamon grey green spangle from nest 14 and 1 Albino which I was hoping to get a yallow face but it looks to be straight Albino This lot are from nest 10 the parents are sky blue split albino and grey yellow face hen which I got the albino but it looks like the rest are just plain greyThis lot are from nest 11 the cock is the same as above and mother grey yellow face normal and all I got was 3 grey normals This lot is from nest 1 she had 5, the 2 yellow double factors being fostered out, 1 Dk green normal, 1 opaline cinnamon normal and 2 grey green spangle 1 being fostered out. These next few pics are from nest 12. Well I hope you all like my pics

No Norm my relationship might be coming to an end , so I will be homeless.

Hi there Newern here is my entry for this month, I have named it "Wispering a secret"

Hi Kate and welcome to the Forum as for your pairs I will take a stab at it I think pair 1 is Violet cobalt cock and yellow face 2 hen Pair 2 is I think a dominant pied cock and as you said lace wing hen but I don't know much about lace wings Pair 3 is I think a Recessive Danish Pied cock and Opaline dominant pied hen Pair 4 is sky blue cock and dominant pied hen Good luck with your breeding Kate

Yes Norm I agree with Kas, my partner thinks the same way as he has been breeding and showing since a boy and he has commented on how they have changed and he thinks for the worse, he says they are loosing sight of what is a good bird these days because it is all on size and feather. Ahh well something like that anyway.

All sounds great Kas

Ahhh he is gorgeous Kim , I love yellow face blues :hap: he looks like he is a real sweetie . Welcome to the Forum Kim it is a great place to be.

Yep I totally agree with Macka, good luck

Differently the Budgerigar Programme. So easy and its free unless you have more than 2 hundred birds.

Hi Denise Welcome, I agree with all the above, both are hens :hap:

Hey Joey are you sure she was hatched in December 06, because those latest pics you said when you first got her in July, well she still looks uncapped in a couple and by July she should capped for sure, Joey she could be younger than you think. She looks cinnamon to me. :hap: