*libby*

Hey guys, i've got two cinnamon babies in a nest atm(1cinnamon spangle 1 cinnamon normal) and i was wondering if it's normal for babies to be extra quiet and extra calm? we've never heard them chirp or call but they're well fed and never make a single sound or movement when we're holding them one even just lies on his back, side or however u place him... the spangle moves a bit but the normal never does... both are healthy weight, well fed and starting to feather up now... could something be wrong with them or are they just both extra calm and tame babies?

my lovebirds grew up on weetbix many years back and never had a problem with them :budgiedance:

pepper i'd say YF2 mauve opaline from the colour on her wings n the bars on her head betty- cinnamon wing violet opalinejack- cobalt normal like kaz said smokey- looks mauve opaline to me from his bars on the face also and the blue cheek patches cinnamon- cinnamon wing YF grey sugar- normal sky blue daisy- cinnamon wing opaline dominant pied max- sky opaline matilda- opaline spangle something... can't tell if YF or grey green... can see some blue on the belly and leg feathers... jill- light green hen

cheers

baby no2 is here another set of little plum eyes... i'll get pics soon

looks like an opaline spangle dominant pied hen on my comp?

if one has grey and one has blue... it means ones a mauve and ones a grey... the bottom mauve one with the blue cheek patches is also an opaline

the story so far... cinnamon and emerald were placed in a breeding cabinet and laid 6 eggs... the last laid early last week. all 6 were fertilised but one has become addled.. their first little plum eyed baby hatched yesterday afternoon with the next due to hatch by tomorrow morning the parents ...(father light green spangle/cinnamon... mother dark green cinnamonwing normal) the plum eyed baby you can see the next baby due to hatch chipping it's way out of one of the eggs

what a gorgeous spangle fallow!!! i dont beleive it's pied gene it's just how fallows work... their rump is the brightest part of them

yeah the people said she'd be split fallow... how they came to that conclusion i'm yet to know but perhaps the baby with pink eyes proved it so lets hope for their next round

i was told on another forum a mixture of clearwing, spangle, pied and fallow with the yf gene is how i apparently got her she's paired to a fallow but their only eggs Died in shell soo waiting for next season i guess but yes she does have the reddish plum eyes with no iris ring ... does it help that the baby who died in it's shell very close to hatching date also had red eyes? they may have been plum but in my knowledge of the two it was more like red rather than plum???

she sure is gorgeous funnily enough i have a hen almost exactly the same which people are unable to identify for me also here's some pics of her too so if any of you can help KBJ you're helping me also

i wouldn't say rare either you can pick them up at most places... the violet picture from little one looks a little tampered with but here's my opaline visual violet cock

gorgeous birds norm, i love the opaline cock!!! he's gorgeous... the others too fluffy for me but still a gorgeous girl congrats on your finds

hey guys, i've got a cinnamon hen mating to a split cinnamon spangle cock... they've just finished laying there 6th egg with 5 of the 6 fertilised so far ... can anyone show me a picture of what a cinnamon spangle looks like as this is one of the possible outcomes from this pair and i'm interested to see what they look like they're both of green series cheers libby

either of the two if you're looking for blue bird outcomes

i'm very sad for your loss of such a sweet little girl... i to have experienced birds fitting in my hands and it's not a pleasant experiece of about 15 birds i've ever seen do this (budgies, cockatiel's and a butcher bird) only one has ever made it through the experience and is alive and healthy in my aviary today... but generally once they fit they dont have much chance... once again sorry for your loss R.I.P little Gracie

hey, just a quick question... you say cuttle bone isnt enough calcium... i provide my birds cuttle bone as well as calcium and iodine bells? is this sufficient enough .... cuttle bone is not always avaliable to them but the bells are all around the aviary and one in each breeding cage constantly? if not is there anything else i can provide them with to boost calcium levels? or should this be enough?

looks like a dominant pied chick to me from the yellow patch on the back of it's head but like kaz said shots of it's wings and back would be good or parent details to help

my budgies live outside in an aviary all year round.... i've yet to have one offically die from severe heat or severe cold... in winter they huddle up in the covered aviary and in summer they're sprayed several times a day aswell as the aviary being sprayed to cool off... any deaths i've had there has been a visual other cause... but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones so i'll touch wood on that one

oh yes i missed the opaline on the last one but i say mauve i see a blue tinge

came from a normal violet and a DEC norm it could be possible the DEC could carry the YF gene without showing it in her right? i'd think definatly a possibility because the mothers split to blue as we got a little sky blue baby also... so fingers crossed then i hope creamino's tickle my fancy :rip:

thanks kaz well that'll make treating easy he was bred in a cabinet so that box is getting torched and parents done over with the spray also before being released back into the aviary but i'll give the aviary and perches a treat also just in case. cheers libby

hey guys i just thought i'd share some of my larger and younger flock with you so here are a few pics hope you enjoy http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/bigp.jpg my YF1 violet hen... she's one of my favourite birds (she has to stay as a link because photo bucket wont let me resize ) big blue couple, the hens a opaline dominant pied and cocks just a normal sky blue... my big gorgeous golden fallows my yf1 violet and two gorgeous fallows... not sure what the non golden one is classed as but she's still gorgeous my cute boy clarky and the love of his life barky :oliveb: pumba my cinnamon wing dominant pied my YF2 mauve spangle called gobbler my YF2 cobalt spangle named jack my lutino hen baby named sunshine first ino i've ever gotten my very messy boy junior... dark green spangle an unamed very friendly light green normal and last but not least if my YF2 opaline violet who is still un named but the most gorgeous bub i've ever owned

hey guys, one of my young birds lately has developed a problem with his feathers growing... they looked tattered and weren't developing properly... for a closer inspection i plucked one the looked as though it had blood on it and on it eating through the quill i found a group of little mites... they dont look like normal mites i've seen on birds wings and so on before as they're not quite so long and slender... these are more short and fat like a tick... could they perhaps be babies? or jsut another kind? ... i have a picture of one to show you... if any of you know what they're, how to treat them or what they're actually doing to my baby's feathers the help would be appreciated i wanna make sure i get the right mite treatment not just any kind cheers