*libby*

haha very nice :oliveb: if only i had an aviary big enough to have a water source down the bottom and frogs :ausb: what an ecosystem you and ken have going... must be gorgeous at your hosue

WOW! aviary frogs haha exactly what do you do with an aviary frog :oliveb: gotta get me one of those :ausb:

thanks KAZ umm the baby is still in the nest with the others should i remove it? none of them seem to show any signs of feather plucking there's no blood on him anywhere and i can't see any actual broken ones... only normally growing ones or pins coming through... again presumably... i heard it's contageous and he's in a nest with 4 other chicks... the youngest around 8 days oldish... if it's a concern for the other babies health i'll remove and hand feed him in a second cage i dont beleive it to be the hen or the cock feather plucking... he has no blood on him anywhere and the other chicks are also fine but i'll keep a steady eye on them as they're inside anyway.... what vitamins would you recommend to help the little tike :oliveb: thankyou so much :ausb:

hi guys it appears we've gotten our first french moult chick... is there any advice any of you can give me on helping him back to health? he's only very young but is missing secondary flights and heead feathers he's got rump and belly and most primaries but the others havent come through.. anything to help would be appreciated as iv'e never had a french moulter before cheers guys libby

okay will do:) the three options for parents are as follows yf2 recessive pied hen x dark green spangle/blue cock (5 other babies produced... 3 normal greens a normal spangle and a yf2 spangle) normal violet hen x sky blue spangle cock.... unknown splits for either grey green normal hen x light green cinnamon wing opaline cock... unknown splits again either way the baby definatly came from one of their nests i just have nfi which one i'll definatly mark chicks somehow next time the egg was marked but once it hatched the same time as 3 other chicks we lost track ah wells doesnt change the outcome still a gorgeous bubby thanks for your help nerwen

hmm that still has me in a pickle then because the offspring is a type 2 haha

hi guys i'm trying to work out the parenthood of one of my chicks from the incubator... in the process of fostering out this chick it went to 2 different mothers with a possiblity of 3 different parents... long story short... can a blue bird carry the yellowface gene without showing it? then i can pin point the parents thanks any info will help

thanks he's definatly a favourite in my book or she

they're absoloutly gorgeous birds princess jnr is very pretty i like your cinnamon dominant pied too

hey guys i thought some of you would like to check out a few of the chicks that hatched from our incubator and what they look like now. i'm very excited about the first chick it appears to be my first opaline but not only that my first violet too i'm over the moon about him he's a yf2 violet opaline possible cinnwing can't tell yet but he is absoloutly adorable the next one is my first normal blue type spangle and i'm pretty impressed with him too didnt expect it there's a few others but only greens here's some pics of the little cuties http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT1038.jpg http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT1047.jpg http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT1048.jpg this is them snuggling up in pooh bears crotch

bluey's a grey/mauve opaline... greeny is a light green spangle.... murray is a normal sky blue... the blue in the wings happens to all of them... ed in a normal green...bunny is a YF2 grey cinnamon wing opaline maybe YF1 not too sure:S.... and last but not least luna is a skyblue spangle recessive pied i think i have them all right but i'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong i like bunny the best:P he's gorgeous

congrats what a tiny bubba they're so gorgeous best of luck

thanks guys glad we sorted it out :ausb: all the pictures are of the same birds pie so no, no spangle and the darker one isnt grey green either throat spots or cheek spots or which ever they're called are a royal blue colour instead of grey but thankyou all for your help and i'll remember to breed them to blue birds when they'r eolder norm thanks :dbb1:

hey guys here are the pics of the bubs... :dbb1: #1-(two bubs next to one another) Left: darker baby with less yellow and less blue - Right: lighter baby with more yellow and more blue http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT0891.jpg #2- darker baby with less blue and clearly green http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT0892.jpg #3- lighter baby with more yellow and blue and lighter green http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT0903.jpg images to large - turned into links

*YAWN* your captions are boring me!!!!!!! p.s. thats from birds point of view for any confusion haha :dbb1:

hi guys one of my recent nest of 5 are fledging and i was wondering if you could help me out the mothers a yf2 recessive pied and father a normal green spangle split to blue.... of the 4 chicks with enough feathers to tell i have one yf2 spangle 1 green spangle 1 normal green but the last feathered chick is confusing me he appears to have alot of blue in his feathers around his lower stomach and legs but yet appears green on the feathers on his crop... his other sibling the normal green had a small amount of blue near his stomach and legs but no where near as much as this one... is it probably a normal green maybe split to blue or a yf2 but yet to develop fully? also in comparison between the two normals the one with more blue appears to have more yellow through his wings and the green colour that merges with the blue is alot lighter than the other normal green. let me know any thoughts on it i'd really appreciate it :dbb1: thanks guys :ausb: i'll try to get some pics later to upload for you

cocks a YF2 opaline spangle i have one exactly like him hen i can't see clearly but looks opaline spangle too

i can't really give you advice because i'm not an expert but i once had a hen who's partner died when she had new born chicks she looked after all well as they hatched and kept them all fed up until about 2-3 when she abandoned the nest and chicks and didnt feed them... one died of starvation before we'd checked them that day and the others were close to it... but we rescued them and hand reared them the rest of the way.. i've been told a hen can look after chicks on her own it just makes it harder... but i'd definatly say keep an eye on her and them so it doesnt happen to you what happened to ours good luck with it though and let us know how it goes libby

thanks guys i'll stick her in a cage for now then much appreciated help

yeah we have taken her eggs kaz the ones we've taken are fertilised and she is still in her nest but everytime an egg is laid we remove it... i'm sorry i took so long to get the pics of her image shack wasnt working and i didnt have any on the computer so had to get a new one these are as good as i can get them for you:) http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT0860.jpg http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/1libby/PICT0856.jpg

yeah but no real point showing it she looks exactly like a baby aside from the fact she's in breeding condition and has laid and not lost her bars over the months i've had her she's a cinnamon wing clearflight... not sure whether grey or mauve looks grey on belly but slight blue tinge to her rump which makes me say maybe mauve i dont have a picture of her on this area of the comp but i'll get a new picture tonight or tomorrow when i cantch her out of her nest to show you all p.s. her laid eggs are fertile

hey guys i was wondering if you could help.... a while back i purchased a budgie( few months ago now)... she was fully grown then but still had bars on her head... she's since starting breeding but hasnt moulted her bars in the few months i've had her... is it possible it wasnt actually a baby at all but a bird that won't lose it's bars? as a precaution all eggs have been taken off her incase she may indeed be still a baby... but i dont think so because she's been here for a while and not lost them... any thoughts? oh and incase ur were gonna ask yes she's gone trhough a moult before

thankyou macka once again haha gonna have to get you to teach me the tricks of the trade to outcomes

hi one of my young couples in the breeder cabinets has jsut laid their first egg hens a sky blue greywing and cock appears to be a yf2 recessive pied... but might just be a normal recessive green..... could you tell me the outcomes of both so we can roughly know what we'll get:D thanks:)

is it definatly just a yellow faced normal? looks really cinnamon on it's wings to me:S? then again i'm no expext :dbb1: either way they're gorgeous and i love them :ausb: