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Congrats That picture certainly deserves budgie of the month, its simply adorable :bliss:

My breeding room window faces onto the back yard and I often "spy" on my birds from outside when I am walking past, cause I find it a good way to check on their behaviour etc without them being interrupted and knowing I am there. Anyway, I had camera in hand and had to take a picture of blue baby being adventurous on the little ladder I put in there. Darius is preening behind the water feeder, Grace is perched, baby 1 is in the corner napping, baby 2 is foraging and baby 3 is finding out about the world of climbing :question:

Good luck with your natural remedies Neat. I hope you get results :question:

From my understanding, and I am sure I will be corrected if I am wrong, all the eggs remain fertile for a week from when they mated. Good luck with your little hen :question:

Sorry to hear your news Neat. I hope you do well at the Auction. As a friend of mine constantly says, "buyer beware". I have also learnt alot from my auction experience too, though so far, fortunately, most of the birds we have bought are going down and I have had a couple of results so far *hugs* Mind you, I have a couple of cocks who, so far, seem to be useless as far as breeding goes. They looked great in a show box on the day, but you always have to wonder why a bird is being sold

YaY!! Good to hear

You cant touch this in my pants

Yes, Im just hoping with all fingers and toes crossed that they feather up with cinnamon on their wings!!

Thanks guys. Yes Neat, I am hoping for lacewings. I would like to focus mostly on lacewings and tcbs in my breeding. I have another pair of white lacewings down. Once again, they markings on this pair are not great either, but I know there have been genes in there that have thrown lovely birds, so hopefully with some breeding, time and patience, I will start to get well marked birds and build size

Congrats on the 2nd bub. I really dont know about the first, I keep reading on the forum that sometimes it takes 24 hours before the hen starts to feed the baby. Maybe you could put it in with the other newborn for tonight, and transfer it back after its mother has had the 2nd in the clutch? Thats just a guess, not knowlege or experience

This is Lily and Jack. She is a badly marked lacewing (but a lacewing nonetheless) and he is lutino split lacewing. I have been trying to get some pics of them and their babies for a few days now, but they seem to keep coming out blurred and I havent been able to get any good shots of mum, so I posted a couple of old ones of her from when I first got her. They have 5 babies. 2 yellow, 2 white and a beanie just hatched 4 days ago. I nearly missed him when he was hatched! But mum and dad are looking after all babies wonderfully Lily in the aviary and the day I brought her home, still in her carry cage, I only included this so you could get an idea of what I meant by "badly marked" Jack, her doting partner The babies, unfortunately I had to use the flash to get it bright enough to take pics in the box and they look like they have red eyes from the flash but they all DO have red eyes lol Mum decided to get back in the box and was mobbed, you can barely see her at the back And then dad wanted to have a look and check out what was going on too! Oh you can also see him in the picture above checking one of the younger babies Hope you enjoy my little gems

YaY!!!! Congrats Liv!!!! Now you have to wait a couple more days for the next one lol *hugs*

oooOOoh hurry up chickie!! My tcbs are due tomorrow, so no doubt I will be obssessively checking haha

I am no expert on any of this, but if you are worried about him not getting enough water, maybe feed him a little lettuce.

I looked in tonight and they have 5 eggs. The first is due on the 12th

It looks great. We did a similar thing for our Regent hen who has feet problems. We turned the box on it's side and put it on a ledge far enough back that she would be able to sit on the ledge in front of the box but it also still has the perch, so the cock likes to sit on that.

I missed these updates! He looks absolutely gorgeous, so happy and vibrant - he looks like a new bird! Still waiting on the hen updates :happy-dancing: As everyone has already said, good for you for helping these unfortunates. They are blessed to have "found you"

Eeeeeeekkk!! Baby jailbirds! lol That is such a great idea, thanks for sharing :happy-dancing:

Last time I checked in, they had 3 eggs, but I try not to look in on my hens too often, once they start laying, to lessen the chances of kicked or addled eggs. Sometimes I take a peek when I havent seen the hen for a while just to make sure she is okay, but I have seen this hen poke her head out often enough to know she is fine. I also dont have a decent torch for candling.........yet. Mind you, I usually just wait until they are due and wait, and wait..... lol Will keep you updated :happy-dancing:

I do too, as I have front slides on my nest boxes and they are in a room that promises to get quite warm during summer. Thanks for the suggestion! :happy-dancing:

Thank you My guess on sex (on personality) is 1 hen, 2 cock, 3 hen. Baby 1 is the spitting image of her mum and screams just like she does lol

Maybe she has "naughty hen" fantasies

Just thought I would update the pics again Baby 1 Baby 2 Baby 3 (was a wiggle worm and hard to get a picture of)

The princess babies are so cute!!! Our's are flirting, and the hen is begging her man to feed her, so fingers crossed we might have some luck this year too

That's what I thought, but I just wanted to check Thanks for that.