Denise

Great to see you back around Bea

That is the most adorable photo

You're not having a very good run at the minute. Hope things pick up for you and your budgies

She is such a gorgeous color. Top marks to Deb you've done an excellent job with her.

Here is an updated photo of our little girl. She is about 8-9 days old now and almost got her eyes fully open. (sorry to those that are members of Liv's Cockatiel forum as I posted it on there too).

I'll go with hen too, but I don't think it's a creamino. Eyes look black and the belly looks grey to me (on my monitor anyway)

Congratulations girls

Your daughter looks gorgeous all dressed up. Major Mitchell's looking pretty cool too

Sorry I should have stated that I have used a crop needle before (it's just been misplaced after we had a big clean up so I've ordered a new one). Spoon was a catastrophe but the little fuzz ball took the formula straight from the syringe with no problems :hap: This one was supposed to go to my sister in law but after having to hand feed it I don't think I'll be able to part with it Forgot to ask will it be warm enough by himself in an ice cream container with cotton wool under a lamp? Or would something else be better?

WHAT IS YOUR NAME: Denise BOY NAME: Derek 4 LETTER WORD : Door GIRL NAME: Delilah OCCUPATION: Dentist A COLOR: Denim SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Dress BEVERAGE: Dry Ginger FOOD: Dumplings SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Dirty towels A PLACE : Darwin REASON FOR BEING LATE: Driving slow SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Da Da :hap:

WOW they are gorgeous Sunnie :anim_19:

On Saturday we discovered our first cockatiel baby, I'm thinking it's about 5 days old. Hadn't seen it on daily checks as the father is very grumpy and I didn't want to move him out of the way to check the eggs. The chick had a full crop and looked very contented. The father has sat on the egg and been in the nest most of the time, the mother doesn't seem interested in the box after she laid the eggs? I know it was the father because he was on the top during mating This morning I noticed that both parents were out of the nest box for quite a long time, so I went to check on the chick and it was frozen with only a little food in it's crop. I cupped it in my warm hands and blew warm air on it and it come back quite well. I have placed it with a good budgie mum for the time being until I can get a crop needle (having trouble finding one anywhere near me, everyone has sold out). The budgie has been feeding it with her other chicks and I know this is not a permanent solution but hoping it will do until I can get a crop needle expressed posted to me off the internet. I have some plastic tubing would this be suitable to use as a crop needle?

We have had none of that we had 2 small showers yesterday morning and that was it. We just seem to get the big winds here without the rain

Gee I'm beginning to think my boys aren't so bad after all although I did have my 3 year old in the hospital ED on Thursday night as he had swallowed a watch battery about the size of a 5 cent piece at daycare

All chicks have fledged now and this is the result: Chick 1 Chick 2 Chick 3

An update of chick photos Chick 1 - Violet Opaline - sorry couldn't pick up the color properly in the photo Chick 2 - Colbalt Chick 3 - Cobalt Chick 4 - Cobalt Chick 5 - Still to young to tell

I'm boring, mine is just my name.

This little one isnt show size either I can still hope then

We find them all the time in our backyard. Don't you need a licence for blue tongues?? That's what my boys were told when they told a really big one to school for show and tell that we found in the yard, they have them in an enclosure at school and were hoping to add theirs to it but the teacher said he only had a licence for 2 and that's what they already had? Maybe it's different in different places?

I have no idea on the mutation but 'he' looks more like a 'she' to me and not very old?

Mmmm I certainly wasn't expecting normals??

Are you sure this one is a spangle ? I was just going by what 'the pie' said that if the centre 2 tail feathers were yellow it was a spangle?? Can't really tell in this photo but they were yellow.

Beautiful birds

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I have used them for breeding before and no what they produce.