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Hi and welcome Glad we have people who actually check what to do BEFORE they get them Shows your dedication to owning your birdie !!! Hope we're able to help you along your way, there's plenty to learn!!!

Having perches in the cage so early may slow down their weaning stage as they won't be on the floor often enough to pick. Try taking the higher perches out and replacing them with natural branches when they're older. A natural "thicker" branch on the ground for the to practice perching is good and it is easier for them to remember tog et off, go to the floor and pick around

Link won't work for me Dave.

They look fine In the floor of their new cage place a ladder for them to climb and perch if they wish and a log on the floow for them to learn to also... Don't forget for weaning them to have all food sources on the ground. Incase you wanted to know their mutations they are: Yf2 cobalt opaline (probably hen) and a yf2 normal sky - can't tell the sex yet. They're beautiful and you've done a wonderful job!!!

Yep she is spangled also. In the first of the two pics you can see it clearly Very nice photo's.

Learn from our experiences i guess Can you do any corrections?

Aww gorgeous! i wish i was on the broadband not the dial up so i could watch the video. Oh well, I'll watch it another time They're adorable!

I'd say soak it in salty luke warm water... and wait for the vet

Nope none of them live inside with me officially... Leroy (cockatoo) comes in at night, but spends all day outside... The lorikeets have their own patio cage, the budgie is one of the tame pets for sale and the weero's also live in their own patio cage

None of my birds have only one wing done. Both wings are done, although aren't shown as it's hard enough to hold one out, let alone two. In the pictures from the back you can see the tips of both the clipped wings. It's best to clip both because it equals up their balance. Some prefer to keep only one done, but I think it can cause alot more trouble than it's worth. Sending a bird spiriling out of control every time it tries to fly away is not my idea of nice training. Clipping both so still stable but ability being decreased is.

sneaky birds!

Fingers crossed for some good luck :fear

My galah gets the same clip as the cocky also... He's never had any problems either and he's a very strong flyer also... Maybe the two that got away from you grew some of the feathes back without you noticing them? They fold under the feathers that don't get clipped so it's easy to miss them in large cockatoos?

Here are the photo's of the birds clips for you. budgie: - stretched out - folded under Weero: - stretched out - folded under Lorikeet: - stretched out - folded under Cocky: - stretched out - folded under I give all my birds the same clip and all have nice un-hacked looking wings when clipped. Everyone is able to flutter to the ground but unable to get any height, even if wind gets them. I'd like to see your cocky's clips if you have any pictures? Leroy's previous owner didn't clip him. He could fly well and even now with clipped wings my partner and I take him to the park, throw him up about 10-15 metres into the air and let him get some exercise. He'll fly down over a distance of about 30m regardless of whether the wind is there or not. With his clip he's not going anywhere. That could also be due to him not wanting to leave us, but I think it's the clip as it works for all of my birds.

His are just clipped normally... Although we don't have anywhere for him to get out... There's only the long bare trunk of a gum tree for him to "try" to climb which he never bothers... other than that he's got a 7ft high colourbond fence to try to scale haha :fear I'd love to see him try it He enjoys his free time out back. Screams int he morning to be taken out with his cage so we'll take him out open the door and leave him, after that he'll sit on it, go into it, get down and have some grass and other nibblies... walk around, come and sit on the washing trolly if we're hanging some out, then come sunset, he'll climb back into his cage, sit there and scream his box off until be bring him back in for the night to be covered He's a princess... and a very demanding on at that.

Sure, I'll get a photo of my tiels wings, my budgies wings and my sulfur cocky's wings. All mine get the same clip and we have No dramas. Leroy (cocky) even lives out back all day long outside of his cage.

Just normal hard boiled crushed egg is good

She's definatly a hen She looks like she could be spangle opaline cinnwing pied by a few of those feathers :S???

Depends what size tiels I have some of my budgies almost as big as some of my tiels so why not i'm sure they have WAY bigger birds than the ones i own haha!!!

Hi and welcome Lovely birds by the way!!! Look forward to keeping you around, it's nice to to have "out of town" members

Nice and big!!! and a good price!!!

You're more than welcome That's my boy Clarky, he's a yf2 opaline dom pied sky blue cock

I'd say you already have cause for concern if they're fighting over nest boxes. Pictures would be good of your set up

Passwell is an excellent brand and what i use to hand rear my babies.Egg and biscuit done by them is a good mix, although a little bit extra egg powder can always be added :)The difference between budgie starter by them and their egg and biscuit is that budgie starter is much like a hand rearing mixture with a few seeds in it and their egg and biscuit is like normal egg and biscuit.Chick starter for chickens are little pellets. The budgie starter is the same as hand rearing but with whole seeds mixed in.

I agree, I have hand reared also and prefer to leave them with the parents and tame them. Although a hand raised one will be tamer, quicker it doesn't get the "healthy" appeal of the parent reared bird, no matter what you feed them! A bird who's handeled can become just as tame as a handreared one, the key is time