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Lady (below) laid her first egg off the perch during the night It has a small section of shell missing, but the membrane is still intact - can it be fostered/fixed?? I knew from the moment i bought Lady, she would be trouble How do i teach her to lay in the box???

WOOO HOOOO!!! Congratulations Dave!!!! Well done!

Hello and welcome We are a specialised budgie forum, but there are a number of members here who have cockatoos and should be able to answer your question Cocky sounds lovely, even without "pants" - perhaps someone can knit him some

Congratulations Elly and Maesie They are both adorable photos

okay. No rice bag then :nest:

Brilliant MB - Thanks

Would a plastic rubbish bin with lid be okay or will it need to be air tight?? I will open it up tomorrow and air some out ready to put in the boxes

I bought a large cube of compressed pine shavings today from the fodder store. Its about 10kg and now i am wondering how to store it as it will take me AGES to use it and when i open it it will expand out heaps - shame they didn't sell it in smaller sizes How do you keep your pine shavings clean and dry???

Thanks Pippi And Thanks Guys It is really exciting and the weather felt like it was going to blow our roof off this morning I love extreme weather! The bird room shuts tight so they have been dry and warm (unlike me who has had to run erinds all day ) Now I am just waiting on Lady to lay as i got an Egg from this pair today :nest:

((Hugs)) I hope she is feeling better soon.

I am so sorry about Roxy Well done with fixing Jack

PPPPHAHAHAHAHAHA :budgiedance: :budgiedance: :budgiedance: OMG!! that is soooooo hilarious!!! :hap: :hap: :hap:

They are lovely paintings!! I Love local landscapes :budgiedance: Mine, can't get more local - painted by my multi-talented hubby

The thought of using fly spay around the tiny respiratory systems of budgies seems wrong to me. If i spray the room to kill flies or something i cover my face and run out of the room because its so strong and yucky - how can it be safe for birds :budgiedance:

WOW They are all adorable :budgiedance: "Uh Hum! The only adorable one is me, thank you very much!"

Congratulations on your eggs :budgiedance:

What adorable photos!!! :budgiedance:

CONGRATULATIONS ELLY!!! 15,000 posts!!! :budgiedance::budgiedance::budgiedance::budgiedance::budgiedance:

WOOO HOOOO!!!! Congratulations Maesie!!!!!

Lady has the HUUUUUUGE poos now, I have everything crossed she will take good care of eggs and chicks.... good thing i have 3 other foster parents to choose from just in case My Yellow DF spangle is still fine this morning. She mustn't have been stuck for too long. She has a small graze on her leg, but otherwise fine. Her mate is moulting though so bye bye nest box

Teflon??? or household chemicals, scented candles, incense, perfume, vinal, carpet, pain etc etc could have caused it.

To me the blue budgie on the right looks female Perhaps she is infertile, or like Kaz suggested, over age

I agree - double check the gender. budgies breed like rabbits if they get the chance, so having budgies with boxes for 3 years and not one egg is surprising.

She looks like a yellow version on luisagol's hen.

Could she be a Yellow Face grey/mauve cinnamon dilute?? cinnamon = 50% dilution of body colour Then dilute gene reduces body colour further....