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Parents feather pluck for various reasons... Sometime it's the birds nature to pluck itself/it's young... Other times it's because they want to go back down and lay another clutch, but the previous clutches chicks are seen to be as "in the way" and are attacked to make room for the new members... Sometimes it's boredom... There are many different reason why they do it, so without delving into Your set up and such or past history of the birds there's no way to give you a probable answer

I agree, that is a pretty cool branch, tonnes of places to perch there... Perhaps attach it to some kind of a solid log/door stopper/weight, so it can be moved from room to room with you or left out back when un used?

I have two boxes of 100 five ml syringes that i use My grampy who recently passed away was a doctor so we received all his medical supplies from his surgery, As i hand rear so many birds they've really come in handy (almost through a box of 100 already) Like Kaz said, they do stuff up VERY often and a new one is required, individually at my local chemist a 3 ml syringe is 70c a pop :grbud: (local price where i am only though) hope that helps

My birds live in an aviary out back all year round, your birds should be fine with adequit shelter :glare:

glad to see she's gone to a wonderful home Bec, she seems like she's loving it there already as any bird would!! :glare:

I think you all do a wonderful Job at running this site :glare: It's excellently managed! Well Done to all that help with it i say!

Albino means she's red eyed and white feathered(white based bird) (it's a gene that removes all pigment from her) You can also get Lutino which is red eyed and all yellow (green based bird) or a creamino, Yellowfaced white based Ino it gets confusing She unfortunatly will not visually pass down her genes to a chick if she's an albino due to it being a Sex linked gene... it will only create all her male offspring to be split to the mutation unless her partner carries it. She also has the possibility of being a Df spangle so if she is all her babies will come out blue bodied with white spangled wings or possibly a DEC which i'm not sure how that works for her offsping but if her partner doesn't carry the gene it will not show i beleive... Can you tell me if she has red eyes, pure black eyes or black eyes with iris rings by anychance, as that will tell you which kind of bird she is... If you're avoiding green offspring Do not breed her to any Yellow and green birds, yellow and blue is okay, but yellow and green will give you green offspring.

They're quite buff birds, to aid them to breed you may need to remove some fluffy feathers from around their vent and preferably remove them form the avairy to some place else

What would you like to get from her ?

No her all whiteness if she's a albino will not pass on to her chicks unless the cock is albino or split to it ... what kind of chicks are you chasing? that might help people to tlel you what kind of cock to get :budgiedance:

It's a highly easy mistake to make by keeping the cabinets in the aviary, the breeding pairs should be able to Hear not see other birds, as it can cause too many distractions, let alone being able to come in contact with other birds... How long have you had them in the cabinets? it may take a while for the pair to bond and decidie to go down... sometimes they choose not to at all..

Your first bird is very Clearly a hen Someone has mislead you with that information....

Soooo cute!!!! But it's sad she's sick

If an iris ring is showing she's DF dominant pretty bird

Whilst on dialup i've found it's easier to copy them to paint, crop what you want in the picture, save it and then upload it to Photobucket

Very good people there always helpful, not uptight about money... A question over the phone is answered with as much detail as one whilst there, without the nagging of "you'll have ot make an appointment" for a simple three second answer that most other vets pull

Aww poor things did you go to the avian vet in wattle grove? or just a local one?

Were even the littlest starting to show through signs of it ? or just put down due to precaution?

Good decision I personally don't think i would either after seeing kaz' chick the poor little soul

I'm so sorry to hear this KAZ!!! i know how much u tried to help these chicks too

to show cinnamon The cock has to be either visually showing or split I think that is what Daz is trying to say it COULD be cinnamon due to the Plum eyes or something else with plum eyes

If it's only a "possibility" of it showing in the offspring and it's not life threatening it's your choice to give him a chance at fate i would say will his prodigy definatly have it or not.. who knows all in your court i think to try or not

Cool job bec too in-detail for me to understand, i stick basically by the Pairings link on DAZ' website.... Much simpler for me Then again like you said, you have been studying genes for years well done :oliveb: i think this'll help alot of people

You mean avaries and not Cages right ?

He'll do jsut as well in a cage if you want to keep him inside for observation, although it won't exercise his wing as much