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Poor birdy :wine Goodluck with them

gorgeous pics neat :wine Bubbles and Bubba... LOve it!

Nice birds :wine

They look awesome!!!! I love georges one also!

I love chickens!!!! i had two bantams with their furry uggboot feet bought as chicks... one cream coloured and one grey/black... named satay and schnitzel unfortunatly schnitzel (grey/black) turned into a cockrel and had to be rehomed since i live in the suburbs :yellowhead:

Odd... maybe she was a yf violet? i have a cock from Karen who's a yf violet and looks green?

What's the mother?

I don't see the violet gene in him, but you're right in saying you'll see the violet tinge around the neck in a bird carrying it. Look up my pictures of Precious, she's a sky violet - bird carrying violet ( can see the violet tinge around the neck)

Hello and welcome Very glad to have you here and congrats on your new friend I'd also like to hear about the breeding of native fish, so feel free to post about them in off topic also

Gorgeous birds!!!! congrats! I love your "wow bird" also

Yellow faced greys are very possible many members own them... First oneis a violet normal cock Second a yf mauve normal cock Gorgeous bubs!

I'm gonna reserve my sexing for you so far it looks hen like in those pics to me...pus being opaline, the chances of being a hen are higher... but let's wait and see.... i may be wrong but very cute photo's! nice and clear and lovely colours!

Definatly unusual... she needs some kind of attention... I had ahen knock the tip of her top mandible off this week :S that wasn't pretty... ALOT of blood! and struggle with eating, so she's now being hand fed.... check your girls eating well with a sore beak!

Definatly Kaz!!! they're all full of Shitaki mushrooms!!!!!

*I* the non show breeder call them....... BABIES

Pink doesn't usually mean girl... If anything pink is usually the signs of a young male when it's evenly coloured all over the cere... the hens have a more.... opaque look

Very cute, unfortunatly... SHE looks like a HE

Very good point to make Daz. The birds themselves have no options in the matter on a pellet diet. Where as with seeds they know which they want/need. Same as when they want/need calcium when it's provided

I feel dirty when i have birds living inside... All mine live outside, in close proximity to my bedroom window, about 2-3 m... god only knows how many birds there are (Laughing out loud)... I don't have a problem with the extreme noise though, i enjoy waking up to it and during the day it doesn't bother me, then at night as soon as it's dark they're silent... so works well for me :rip:

Isn't there a few kinds of budgie starter? to me it looks basically like hand rearing food and seeds mixed in

i guess i jsut remember the rules, not the chrmosomes:P

all mine have iris rings and aren't sex linked ?

wow that IS a shock

I colony breed AND cabinet breed... i also don't have a bird room or anything and my cabinets are set up on the back wall of my house, next to my window out of the wind and under the patio for weather protection. While i do have SOME problems with colony breeding as i'm home all the time I find it very easy to keep an eye out. I've only had a few accidents when i didn't pull a hen from the aviary or so on right away. All young birds trying to breed and all hens being naughty are removed from the aviary immediatly. I like to have the cabinets used for birds being selectivly bred, or who create a problem in the aviary, and the avairy for all those wishing to breed who don't get a chance in the cabinets. Most of the birds bred in the aviary are sold as pets or to other aviaries. Where as i generally keep the cabinet chicks as i was chasing their mutations. There's alot of downfalls to colony breeding which many people make obvious and draw attention to. But I find there's alot of bonus also and don't feel as guilty for letting these birds breed. Like i said, any trouble makers are removed and it's nice to watch how the ecosystem works. My partner and i spend many hours out under the patio watching the birds and checking chicks and so on.... which isn't always as well welcomed in the cabinets... I say if you don't have anywehre to keep cabinets and want to try colony breeding again, go for it... just make sure you're able to keep an eye on them all and have a spare place to put the "naughty" birds

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