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Hi and welcome pride. Kaz has gave you some excellent advice, good luck with your breeding and hope your eggs are fertile

Thanks Kaz, chooky here's the link to how I made mine. BUT if I was to make another one I would make it a bit deeper. http://www.javafinch.co.uk/buildhospital/hospitalndx.html

I made my own Chooky and I also have a cage similar to a breeding cage actually a melimine(however it'd spelt with perspex over 3/4 of the fron t of cage and wire on the rest with a light globe in one end, I use this cage more than my hossy cage. But if i really get a real sick bird I use the hoosy cage. I will find the link to my hossy cage. I can't find my post, it is old but here is a link that would be easy to make one. http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/tips/tips1.html

No Jimmy

I hope Kaz, I think he may have had a crick in his neck, because last year i had a chick that use to have his head side ways in the nest, I would straighten it and it would flick straight back to the side, BUT when he came out of the nest he straighten up and never did it again.

Look at me popped out a greywing from a lutino

Funny when I think it was Dean congratulating me on a stargazor lol I thought a special bird until I read kaz's bit. lol I am not really sure if he is one because since he has been out of the nest and into a wire cage he hasn't done it since. Maybe it was a neck problem but still will watch him.

What about a clearflight pied

Is his body colour washed out too or normal

I don't know if he is a stargazer because I haven't seen him do it since I took the photo, There are 3 cobalts in that nest and I can't tell which one he is now because he looks normal, BUT will keep a close eye on him.

today I put builders foil on the walls, so far I have done the back wall and the front wall. Monday I will start the side walls. I also siliconed the window, boy I love that stuff, my shed come birdroom is covered in it Getting there

Just a new variety snoopy, I don't want to breed grey wings yet but this little fella just might satrt me off, after I have my dilute hen here. I wasn't happy that he is split lutino and greywing and cinnamon nut I have relised that i keep all hens that are lutino and greywing and get rid of all the cocks I THINK. Hey Kaz do you like him

Thanks everyone, they are just okay. well okay they are nice but I haven't bred that wow bird this year, I think I outcrossed to much, I am a bit dissappointed. Nubbly Geoff (Clearwing) Liked that one too, Jimmy I am not sure but the dad is lightly flecked so I put him with a clean capped hen but it didn't seem to work. Opalines seem to be flecked more than normals.

Geoff had a look at this bird today and he said it was a grey wing, that's what I thought too but Ib thought it was a bit pale but he said it wasn't or it's fine or something. ANYWAY greywing. He will be culled

Some more chicks These 2 chicks are from my violet hen and and white Df spangle son of my white df spangle, (the son is a chip off the old block) cobalt opaline spangle cobalt spangle This fella is from my light green cock and opaline grey spangle These 3 are from dark green opaline spangle cock (brother to your cobalt hen GB)and violet opaline hen I think they will be handy yellow face opaline cobalt I think violet green in colour not sure yet but any way a oplaine This one is the same colour as above and opaline too. I love this hen but she moulted out heavily flecked but will be very handy, the violet cock is her dad This is the hen aboth full sister, you can see her dad in here This sky hen I think will be nice too the violet cock is her dad too but different mum This grey green is from my iffy hen , I think he will be quite nice he has a brother who is cinnamon green and he is better than this one Light green opaline, father is nice bird of Geoff's that he loaned me, he needs moore directional feather I think but he is a outcross so I will see what happens next year when I put him back to my line. I have bred a lot of cinnamons this year, and as you can see a lot of flecking too so annoying.

Today Clearwing (Geoff) came and helped me put my window in the birdroom. Well actually he did most of it. It was really hard took ages but it looks great, Thanks Geoff. Before the insertion of window and after and after Geoff left I started doing the front wall framing but I had to stop because I was scaring Gregs young pigeons that he had let out for the first time so I had to put all the wood and tools etc back in the shed until tomorrow.I was chucking it on the floor with a bit of a bang and Greg asked me to be a bit quieter so I carefully went to put a pile on the floor and stupid me left my finger there well ouch!! boy did that hurt, I have a black finger nail and my whole finger is purple all the way around. Dumb pigeons Tomorrow sore finger or not I am going to finish all the framing

I have never heard of that either. He was probably born like that because I notice him doing it at about two or three days old, he is the youngest of five. He doesn't seem to twirl his head around so far, he is quite fat. BUt I will treat him any way. I have trimadine powder here but no Nystatin I just looked into the stargazer thing and he could be one but all he does is look at the ceiling, he is not doing it as much now, like he looks normal so time will tell but I will treat him with the trimidine anyway.

Thanks Jimmy,Kochy23 and Dibby&Ziggy both birds are stunners I love them too, they have both won me awards the violet came first at the Victorian young cap shield 2009 in the violet class and the white boy came 3rd in the df class as a young and 3rd as an adult bird and champion adult bird at Riverina show etc. Kaz has the white boys brother and they are almost identical, Kaz's boy came 5th at the young shield in the df class and they said he was out of condition so he may of placed higher.

Lovely birds Rach best of luck with them you should have little jelly beans by now

Your welcome.

They look great , well done, when I made my cage fronts I used plastic fly screen clips that you use to keep fly screens on the window of a house , they come off very easy that way for cleaning etc.

Thanks GB, I do like the pied hope she makes the mark, so far she is looking good. I hope the cobalt grows out of doing that because he turns out good which I think he will I won't be able to show him because he will just lean back and look at the roof of the show cage all the time. Last year I had a chick that had his head kinked sideways as a little chick but by the time he left the nest he came good, I think he was leaned on by his mum, I would try and straigten his head and it would spring straight back to the side. But he is now a normal bird.

So annoying, I have only one this year (touch wood).

This baby cobalt that is really weird, as early as a couple days old I have notice that he sits there with his head back all the time nearly, well now he has left the nest and he still does it but not all the time but a lot. weird. I think he will be a nice bird too here he is quite normal being weird The only pied I have bred this year

Hi Erin and welcome, I agree with RIP on this matter. I have a hen at the moment who has laid 11 eggs and all fertile, she did have seven chicks and was doing a great job but I put the rest of the eggs under another hen and 1 of the chicks. I was lucky the other hen fed the chick because she is a first time mum and her eggs were not due to hatch for about another ten days. she now has 3 chicks (fosters) and more to hatch and she is doing a great job too.