*libby*

Yes ma'am hahaha they're on their way haha

me too fingers crossed... i'm just glad that I get to pick the parents and go after the colours of babies i want now :fear BRING ON THE VIOLETS haha i'll probably never get any knowing my luck though hahaha!

he's totally fine exactly like the other baby except if his crop isnt full to the brim he'll inflate himself like a balloon haha maybe it a new age emotional blackmail for the parents to feed it haha god knows but either way he's healthy weight and appetite so i have nfi :S

aww i'm very sorry you lost her shaun! she looks like a gorgeous bird! what made you say eggbound? she may jsut have been run down form looking after her babies hence why in a last act to help herself she "got rid" of them i also hope she didnt die in pain... she' looks peaceful now.. almost like having a nap in my experience when they die in pain and fit their legs got straight back behind them :S so atleast she didnt go that way lets hope it was peacful my condolences libby xoxo

omg gorgeous!!! i love your violet spangle and the 1st budgie in the pics of your new budgies

hey guys just thought i'd show you all some pics of the new birds we've recently gotten and the cabinet that my partner and i built yesterday we've got 15 new birds in our aviary in the last weeks... 2 we bred ourself and 13 we bought we bought: 3 violet recessive pieds 1 df dominant 1 yf2 opaline dominant pied 1 cobalt dominant pied 1 opaline spangle possible violet hen 2 greywings 2 df spangles (both yellow and white varitiety) 1 cinnwing green hen 1 violet clearwing spangle and bred the cinnwing spangle and the other normal cinn wing here's a few pics of the new lot hope you enjoy - the violet spangle clearwing - one of the grey wings - one of the violet recesive pieds and a DF baby - the yf2 dominant pied -the df dominant pied and another dominant we got -another of the violet recessive pieds -the opaline spangle hen possibly violet -the little baby cinnwing spangle i bred -the normal cinnwing i bred - the cabinet my partner and i made with it's new occupants well there's a few pics for ya hope you enjoy

you can get a powder ant repellent to sprinkle around the outside of the aviary... i dont see how it can harm birds if it's far enough away you could also try putting a tray of water then the dish with your fresh foods in the middle of the tray of water? i dont see them swimming to get to it.... my birds like a tray of water with fresh grasses mixed into it? they bathe and eat at the same time! quite fun to watch also... or theres always quails... i dont seem to of had any insect in my avairy for months since i've had quails they're cheap as chips too or free if ya want some i had 4 then she had babies so it became 8 after selling some off now i've got another 6 chicks under a hen atm! so if you need any dont hesitate to ask hahaha

i didnt mean greywing i meant a cinnamonwing grey spangle

looking good tracy!!!!! i bet the bubbas are loving it out there and not having to watch crappy "people tv" haha

i'd also just say grey cinnwing spangle... they're definatly slight brown in that second picture

for my knowledge of what colours you'll get from them i think the options are greens, grey-green and grey... not positive on that also depends on splits

yeps all the baby girls will have the opaline like him and all the boys will be split to opaline

hey guys atm i'm currently hand rearing two chicks from hatching (not by choice) they're 6 and 4 days old now but one (4days old) keeps swallowing air into his crop.... it's not a small amount when he's being fed it's more a whole crop full that he inflates by himself whenever there is room for it... is it bad for the bub? i remove the air ever time i catch it with it and have tried all different things to stop it ( thickening food, thinning food, lying him on his back, lying him on his front) any info would appreciated thanks libby

Doink i've got tommy's look alike :hap: and the youngest!!!!

woops my bad:S ? "light green spangle fallow" :hap:

absoloutly gorgeous kaz!! i love your grey dominant pied bub the best :hap:

oh the fun of guessing genetics of a bird well from what i can see it looks like it's got cinnamon spangled markings on the upper half of it's wing.... so unless it is a fallow dominant pied like KAZ said i'd just call it s spangled lace wing masking dominant pied? but then again you're the expert norm :hap: hehe look forward to seeing the sexing of this bub it's gorgeous

yeah cloudy's a spangled recessive pied:) i'll answer for tracy :hap: i have many pics of her birds on my comp he's a cutie some of his last clutch i beleive came out cinnamon spangle recessive pieds

hehe gorgeous!!!! how do u get them to hold out the same one wing each time... now that's skill i baggs the littlest cinnamon one

Quick question.... didnt someone mention earlier in these posts that the mother shows through cinnamon and to produce a cinnamon baby the father had to be split also which he obviously was.... so my question is... wouldn't that mean that the cinnamon baby could be of either sex? Normal / Cinnamon cock x Cinnamon hen = Cinnamon cocks Normal / Cinnamon cocks Cinnamon hens Normal hens

they're very cute! gotta love your little cinnamons

yeah i'd have said yf2 cobalt/mauve spangle personally

what a gorgeous little bubby i have one just like him named saffire:P

wow what a lively bunch gorgeous

i'd say it's got cinnamon or greywing also on my comp?