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May 24th May 25 - Eldest chick is 1 week old today! Still waiting to see if those eggs will hatch... The mother would/should have kicked them out if they were no good? Right? -
Still no new addition. Still hoping against hope but also a little scared that soon it will be too dangerous for a new baby to come into the nest box? When are the older chicks too big for it to be safe for a little one. They're likely to crush a new one aren't they? -twbLL2mf6uszWlhIVm7U6DhA1poxnxofPiw74ielx8=w888-h590-no
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HI Kristy, Glad you've 'taken the plunge' in becoming 'one of us'! Hope you enjoy your time as 'part of the family' as much as I have and that you learn heaps! Good luck with everything Katie
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Hi Bianca Welcome! You have four very lovely little birdies there. Are you planning on breeding them or just having them as pets? Good luck with them and I hope you enjoy your time here on the BBC. Katie
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No new baby today. Oh the doubts of it all! Took this photo just on sunset this evening. Trust me, Mama wasn't as calm and peaceful as she looks! DSC_4183.jpg
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I love how they grow so quick! These little guys have been well fed - their crops look like they're about to explode. Looking forward to another baby hatching tomorrow...hopefully DSC_4178.jpg
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Chick 2 has hatched. Therefore I assume that Chick 1 hatched on May 18th. Both looking very health and have a doting, protective mother. Little Family DSC_4171+-+Version+3.jpeg Lunch Break - Mum and Dad DSC_4176.jpeg Have a great day! I am!
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We have a chick! So this is how it happened, perhaps it wasn't the best way to go about it but nature seemed to take over! As some of you know, Aussie and Able's first clutch of eggs (2) sadly turned out to be both unfilled. Because I didn't want Aussie to run herself completely ragged by nesting again right away (which is what she seemed to be planning on), I covered the entrances to both nests in the avery with cardboard. They cannot be removed otherwise I would have taken them out. Aussie explored what I had done and then went away to live her life - I thought. I randomly looked into the nest box some weeks later and found a pile of chewed cardboard and an egg or two (I can't remember exactly). Oops. This was against my better judgement but I'm too much of a softy to take out the eggs out and put an end to the family development. So I left it. I watched those eggs pretty closely. I was doubtful. I suspected that they might be unfilled again. Because I was away when the first couple of eggs were laid and they had been irregular and I had been a terribly Mama and not recorded dates, I wasn't even suspecting that they could begin to hatch any time. Yesterday morning my brother came and in told us that one of the eggs had hatched. I didn't quite believe him but concentrated on holding back a stampede to look in the nest box. Later on I peaked in and sure enough...a cutely ugly little chick lay flopped over one of his bother/sister eggs. So...life has begun once again! I can't wait to watch this little family grow. Chick 1 DSC_4159.jpg Aussie DSC_3160.jpeg Able DSC_3141.jpeg Sorry about the links...I'm too lazy to work anything else out and my photos are way to awesome (big) for this forum!
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Hi and welcome! Hope you enjoy your time here as much as I have! Katie
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Wow! That's so cool! One day...that will be me. For now, I'll just train my little sister up in it. Hehe I have a problem though. I have five younger siblings and they all want their OWN house-trained budgie...hmmm....not sure how that'll go down with mum and dad hehe
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Hi Maz, Thanks for the warning. I don't think I'll ever get that big but you never know. Animals of any kind (well almost any) are addictive to me, especially breeding them. I want a zoo! Hi Finnie, Wow! How times change? Have you been breeding all that time? I'm really looking forward to doing it again. I love animals!!! Katie
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Hi All, I was just reading back over my breeding diary for 2009! What a long time ago that was! Since then I think I have only bred once. Tragically, one of the two chicks that were hatched died unexpectedly and the other escaped from her cage - she was too smart for her own good I say. Anyway, I'm back into it again. For good hopefully. The happy couple are: Aussie DSC_3160.jpeg and Able DSC_3141.jpeg And the beginning of their family: DSC_3159.jpeg Looking forward to them hatching. (Due date...April 5th) Have a good one!
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Thanks guys! Budgies 3&4 are paired and she has just started laying eggs. I'm pretty excited about getting back in to all this fun stuff!
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Alright, well I guess you can guess why I'm here. I'm back in the budgie world and I want to know what my birds are and you lovely people are the ones to help me. Oh, I can make some guesses but I've forgotten most of what I used to know and I'm too lazy to go back and research it from the start so I've come to you guys. Thanks! 1) 2) 3) 4) I'm dreadfully sorry about the horrible pictures.... They will improve I promise!
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Well Hello All, I'm not exactly new, but I haven't been here for 6 and a half years. Can you believe that? How could I?!? (gasp) But it's true. Funny how life get's like that hey? Anyway, I decided to return - the good samaritan - and all that time I've had budgies. It got down to two for a long time there. And then I bred them for one family's worth and then I had four. And then both of my males (Butter who I'd had since like 2007/2008 and his son) died and so I was left with the two ladies. (Who it's my personal opinion got pretty sick of each other's company.) Then my little sister got excited about breeding budgies so she bought two little lads from the budgie guy up the road and here we are. Two of them (the older female, Oi and the blue boy) have paired up and the other two just ignore each other by the looks of things. And now we're just waiting for Dad/Grandpa to make us some new breeding boxes hopefully soon and we'll be able to start this awesome hobby up again. So that's the run-down on this slacker's life. Can't wait to get back into the BBC thing and brush up on everything I've forgotten. Love, Miss Katie
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thats a good one... poor woolies!
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WOW its adorable... luv the photos.... you must have a good camera what is it?
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agreed JimmyBanks i luv em both
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hi all just letting you know that coconut died some time back... RIP
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sweet man... luv it
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awwww you have a very lucky nephew! that is a delightful bird. i am very jealous
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beautiful!
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thanks splat