timbo.1

i forgot to add that close up and it doesnt show on the pics there are very light markings on tht wings. thanks for all the help.

bad news the mum of the six eggs was killed today after laying another egg my neighbour is fostering 2 eggs for me. the attacker and partner is now in a breeding cage on their own. the picture of the albino and yellow danish peid have lost all avairy privilages. she might disappear after she replaces the young and mum i lost

found this on the net a while ago. mix some corn powder with some concrete powder. mice eats then gets thirsty has a drink then concrete sets. no more mice. haven't tried this yet. might sound cruel but my birds are more important to my than pests.

edgar

another i would like to see, read about it on net somewhere, white-face greens

just thought i'd put some more pics on here these two give me beautiful pieds. they had an egg but another bird took over their box so their egg is being fostered. they have a new box. they stole 1 themselves, lucky this box was empty she has 1 egg paired up with a yf2 blue spangle bred her last year 5 + 1 fostered egg. parents of the above eggs. he just finished feeding her

okay i hope these pics will helpfull he is paired up with a yf2 cobalt

this is just my thoughts but what if? what if somebody bred a red budgie? i know some of you are saying it will never happen. think of all of the new combinations you could have, as well as pink and orange mutations. canaries dont have red in their colour scheme but someone did (not using food dye) by crossing a canary to a red hooded siskin. what if someone crossed a rosa bourke to a budgie? i think one day probably not in our lifetime there will be red, pink and orange budgies. another colour is brown. you would think we would have a brown colour now because we have brownwings. the brown on the wings one day could spread like the black has for the black coloured budgies. what do everyone think?

sounds like very nice young their predicting

i'll catch him and take some shots of him for you guys

would love to see pics.

not sure what colour he is. this is the best shot i can get of him. his back and wing are a yellow/white colour thanks

yes i just soak it.

I heard that too nut i introduced the birds at the same time so there was no territories claimed. My mum's ex had budgies, finches, quail, cockatiels and red-rumped parrots all in a smaller avairy than mine and they all bred except the cockatiels the male was infertile. I got my red-rump's in their own avairy and i thought about moving my bourkes in with the budgies but she's gone to nest.

they dont harrass each other and the finches dont enter the boxes. the budgies are now laying eggs but the finches are just paired up. possibly due to the large size of the avairy and having a huge branch on the floor. i'm even thinking about getting a pair of doves for the avairy. i have 2 seed hoppers and 2 water hoppers and 2 fruit hooks in there

the gaps are covered by wire mesh. i had to make the avairy escape proof for my zebra finchs. took my ages to look for all the small holes and when i did release the birds i found another small gap but now there aren' any gaps left.

just some photos of my birds in their new home male- yf2 cinnamon grey female- yf2 grey not sure of the colour of him the female on the left is one of my babies from last year mum-white fallow dad-dilute green their first eggs :ausb: havent bred any budgies in the past 12 months

this is the finished avairy, wouldn't have thought it was a woodshed! it's approx. 3m wide x 3m deep x 2.5m high. at the moment there are 19 budgies in here ,having a ball. the birds have a pick of nestboxes or hollow logs, with a large branch from a apple tree on the floor and there are also a couple of black-belly zebra finches, a couple of fawn jave sparrows. my 4 king quails, 1 male 3 female (lucky boy!) just love scratching around the barked and sawdust ground.

if they're happy leave them. i've got my budgies with a couple of zebras and a couple of javas and there isn't any fighting

recently we moved a new house and my landlord who is also my boss, said i can wire up the woodshed for my birds, already have 4 avairies, so i have and now its fnished. my budgies are now in and started to breed and will post photos of finished avairy as soon as i take some photos

love the lighter youngster

it is a lot safer to have more boxes than birds as some females will choose a box and nothing will stop her from having it as she will kill any babies, smash any eggs and fight with the mum and there will be injuries. i had to put a bird down because she defended her box.

i had a similar experience years age when i had a YF2 cobalt to a opaline green and i normally got blue babbies but on day i checked the nestbox and got a suprised and saw a red eyed baby with my normal ones. it later left the box a yf albino only to moult into a limey green colour. it was a beautiful bird and now i'm trying to breed some myself ( most of my birds are yf2 and 2 female albinos so i'm hoping to get at least one. breeding a creamino has a better feeling than buying one but an even better feeling when you breed one and the parent birds dont show any signs of what they are carrying.

very nice as a renter i have to wait to own a very large avaiy.

bugger i missed the dish again