*libby*

And 50% dom pieds

Connector pens That's what I use usually

You sure mum is violet? Looks cobalt with a slight violet tinge near her neck area?

Heya and welcome aboard

Love the middle boy, how cute's that! Red as a tomato He's not happy JAN! lol

Don't forget Bepanthen cream helps burns if you can't get to a vet, although you'd need to stop him picking at it, perhaps an Elizabethan collar?

Damn them demon spawn kidlets and their wanting to touch your precious' LOL!

HAHAHA AWWWW!!!! Great photo's Neat, they're gorgeous! LOVE the last one Well we can all guess he cr*pped his dacks

Aww, what a cuddly bub

I've found the calcium and "charcoal" bells to be just the normal plaster of paris and some bitumen rocks thrown in... :S

I get all seed in a big salad bowl and pour small amounts at a time onto a slim line low plastic plate (like one from a bbq which are disposable) I blow forward and shuffle the plate, blow forward and shuffle the plate, all husks naturally come to the surface as they're less "dense" Same with sun flower seeds... Only takes a few blows then i'll place them in another salad bowl ready for the aviary birds and start another plate load May take me all of ten minutes, but after blowing all seed dishes from the cabinets which are changed every second day I save myself 1kg of seed !

Heya and welcome

Welcome guys It's a rewarding process I had to hatch two alone yesterday, both are doing well in their nests

Agreed, depends on the individual hens Some are, some aren't...

okay, well since i didn't see an area on this forum telling you how, when, or why to hatch a baby that's late I thought i'd make up a little article with a video... First thing to remember when a baby is late is Patience. You can't rush it, if you hatch it to early it will die, but then also if you hatch it too late it will also die. I've hatched probably somewhere near... 30-40 babies to date which have been late (Not for the fun). Before a baby is ready to hatch it will start moving around in it's shell, You can see this by candeling it, this usually happen 24-48 hours before the baby is due. The second step is "Chipping" The baby bird inside the egg will break it's beak slightly out of the internal membrane and start picking away at the egg letting in larger amounts of oxygen and preparing itself for the outside world. The last step is when the baby begins "chirping" This means the baby is ultra close to hatching itself out and is now ready for the outside world as it's lungs will be able to bear it. BEFORE you can hatch any baby bird out you have to make sure it is Chirping and past it's hatching time (usually AM the day it begins chirping *between midnight and morning*) Don't leave it too long in the shell in hope it'll hatch if it's already past it's hatch time, but do make sure it's been chirping for atleast a few hours. Even 12 hours can make the difference between a DIS bub who didn't make it out and a healthy happy chick who you helped. I leave all mine until midday the day they're due to come out, if I check them by midday and they've still not made it out I aid them. All sorts of things can make them unable to hatch, temperature, exhaustion, dehydration, weak chicks, illness, but I find instead of letting nature take it's course whilst in the shell it will still tell you if they were meant to be helped or not as they'll either survive once out, or they won't. The longer the chicks are in the egg and past their due time the more faeces will be in the egg with the chick, which can be potentially dangerous also. You can see faeces under a good light when candeling also, which can be a major indicator the chick is over due if they've already stopped chirping. Step 1: Look at the egg under a light to see the baby moving inside (make sure to look for dark spots of faeces) Step 2: Check the egg for signs of "chipping" (breaking away from inside out) Step 3: Listen to the egg and see if the baby is still only "chipping" or is now "chirping" within Step 4: Find the spot the baby within has already begun to chip away at and pull the top off (make sure you do it at this end and that you're especially careful not to catch the baby, it's also handy to have tissues near by for the poo and blood). Step 5: Pull small fragments of remaining shell off, piece by piece. Step 6: Dry baby with tissues ***DO NOT pull anthing off where the umbilical cord was as this can cause the bub to bleed*** Step 7: Return bub to the nest once warm and let nature NOW take it's place with it's parents :hap: http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1l...nt=P8120765.flv - Video of Hatching a baby!

That's the way LOL!

Aww getting big 10 months to go until he's 1 LOL

Aww gorgeous! Look at that smile!

She sure does It looks darker in the picture than it really is, plus it's greasy But she's like a sand blonde colour haha How old's your boy now?

She has chubby cheeks I wasn't anywhere near her neck LOL! Although she did do some almighty burps haha!

Aww he's gorgeous! He really can drop that bottom lip can't he! I got a lovely photo's of my friends new born (12 days old) Called Mattilda yesterday I was burping her and she seriously looked like she was on drugs! Eyes popping out and everything LOL! Made some nice photo's though

My god! My hair looks like his! I really was born on that day LOL!

Very cute, well done

Exciting!!!!

"When I see you smile, by bad English ???? What the? No idea what it is?