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Goldfish will still live in warmth, my Pond gets hot in summer and they're fine and super cold in winter. I think it's an amonia problem by the smog.

I don't mark any of my eggs. To tell if it's ready to hatch I look for pipping (small parts of the egg being pushed from the inside out) I candle them for movement outside of the membrane (where you can see they've broken through) and listen for chirping. They shouldn't really have overly "dark" spots, those eggs may be addled, DIS or even rotten by the sounds of it... Best you can do is probably wait and hope they'll hatch so you can be ready and know what to look for next time :hap: Excellent news Renee :hap: Glad it helped!

It seems a little smoggy in there AV, do you have an amonia problem? you can get Ph equalising kits to get rid of that...

How old is he?

I cleaned my pond out today :hap: I have two fantails 3 shrabumpkins (or something?) and about 5 comets I have a favourite in there called smooch he's an orange fan tail with white lips For those that own siamese fighters easy way to feed them, which they love !!!! Mozzie larvae the squirmy wormy ones, they chase them around and have soo much fun!

Will be fully feathered and short at about 4 weeks from memory... but the swaying of the group can still be there up until like 7 weeks! Be warned they take a LONG time to wean and are very hit and miss! Mine were at 9 weeks :hap:!!!!

Oh god baby weero's are UGLY With all their swaying and their hissing and their striking at you LOL! My boy bubbles was reared from the same age, but I love him

Oh no Maesie Hope they look up soon!

indeed he did His mums down on eggs atm, but i'm not holding my breath, she's very hit and miss with her sitting... likes to scramble them

The second chick born was attacked by it's mother, but the eldest is still alive and kicking His name is Frodo, if you do a search for "frodo" in the search engine on the forum you'll find a few topics with many updates of him as he grew up until his first show a few weeks back

Here try this http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....mp;#entry253097 Just to add a bit more, don't forget the mixture has to be fed to the bub warm, so sit the syringe in a cup of boiled water before feeding (make sure it's only warm not hot when actually fed)

It can take up to 12 hours sometimes even more before a new born chick is fed... my advice would be leave her alone as much as possible, only check every 4 hours or so(just a little peek through the door), if it's not been fed then give it a small feed and put it back under the mum. Just make sure you've not disturbed the mum so much that she won't feed it.

How come you're short on time?

Don't know if that study is true... My friends sister-in-law isn't really girly at all :s Infact the complete opposite hehe and they had 4 girls Same with the people with 4 boys, the mothers extremly petite...

I heard scientists found a way to give you a certain gendered embryo... but I can't remember how they did it now... bugger... If worst comes to worst like you said, you'll get a boy, but the main thing is a healthy child a couple down the road had one boy tried for a girl and got another boy so tried for a girl again and got twin boys... they gave up after that lol Then my friends brother has 4 girls haha... I guess some people are just destined to have all same sex children hehe

odd, i see no head patch and no body pied markings... but i guess seeing clearflights at the back will help Either way chicks are still SF I love that picture though, she looks as though she wants to break out of jail hehe

hehe aww i'm sure she'll forgive you, heck i've almost sent my neice to school on days which are pupil free days haha!!! How was I to know, if I'm not reminded by her

How odd Are you sure it's not a nromal grey but with blue cheek patches, as that can happen, but you can't have a blue bodied bird with grey cheek patches(or else it's a mauve)? Who knows, but i personally can't wait to see them grown up I'm going to have freight some of your dusks and get them breeding in Perth

Poppy isn't a cinnamon spangle, she's a normal spangle... only Lady is a cinnamon spangle

Looks like one dom pied parent Renee (can't see evidence of it on the mother) Baby1 is a dom pied, baby2 is an opaline and baby3 is a single factor dom pied

Agreed, it's a blue :hap:

I have two yf2 df spangles... They look like cremino's with black eyes and can get suffision. I recently sold one also to a member on here called aaron, check his profile to see pics of his little guy.

I'm very sorry to hear that R.I.P. little birdy, atleast you tried

You will get normals depending on the shade of the birds you could get sky's, cobalts, mauves and violets of all of them. Cocks split to opaline and cinnamon and any other hidden mutations which may be in the mix...

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