**Liv**

Dose = 20ml of cordial to 1L of water (can be up to 1:10 parts cordial to water) daily until symptoms clear.

Thats great news :budgiedance: The raspberry cordial is awesome stuff. I keep a bottle in the cupboard at all times. What i love most about it is, totally safe for the birds and also really good for their general well being. The kids and I enjoy it too ***YUMMMMMMY***

Oh no!! what a horrible thing to happen :fear ***Runs off to backup files*** Is the hard drive being fixed now??? If you are still using it you will be loosing more and more of the data with every thing you do.

I will have to pack up the family one day soon, and make a day trip of visiting your neck of the woods - see some sights and some nice birds too

Thats great that you got it fixed $199 is a great price - prices for hardware drop so quickly these days. I have never had any issues with my drive **touches wood**

NICE BUYS!!! I LOOOOOOVE Aphrodite, she is stunning

I have a 500Gb external hard drive that is atatched to my laptop. I would be lost without it as it holds all my major programs and files. I'd say your harddrive issue is software related. Did you have to install any software for it???

Kaz, TB and LB, I learned something new, Thanks

My understanding is feather plucking is passed down through the generations. If a hen does it that to her chick it means it was done to her as a chick and it means the chicks will do it to their chicks one day too.... If i get a feather plucker, i do not breed with them again, or their offspring.

I'm having de ja vue (sp??) I feel like i have seen this question before, but i looked at your profile and this is the first time its been posted...... weird Chipper is a yellow face, sky blue recessive pied and Abbie is a normal sky blue. Dale is a normal green, but looks like he could be cinnamon in that picture

I normally use raspberry cordial for gastro in my birds - the real stuff with +20% of pure raspberry concentrate. It gives them a boost of energy and helps with the symptoms while clearing the bacteria from the gut Dose = 20ml of cordial to 1L of water daily until symptoms clear. How is he doing??? any improvement/change??

YEAH!!! How many more do you think are left????

I love that kind of animation!! I want to learn how to do it

dont worry too much...just about EVERYONE on here cannot spell QUARANTINE Among other things :D How is Sky doing?? I am so pleased to hear the RSPCA are doing their part

Great advice Kaz I have seen green runny poop before, so is the yellow/beige poop even runnier runny poop????

Awesome photos!!! Makes me want to take a holiday! That picture of the sawfish is REALLY CREEPY

I feel it is the diet change as their little systems get stressed very easily . Diet changes cause forced heavy moults and lots of stress - I sadly experienced this 2 months ago when i (stupidly) changed my birds seed mix brand I didn't change anything else in their diet, just the BRAND of seed and my aviary went into meltdown for about 6 weeks It was HORRIBLE - no birds were lost, but the poor guys were so stressed and may lost all the feathers on their foreheads and I had to pull broken blood feathers galore. - not nice ;( Do they have such an elaborate diet for any health reasons??? All budgies need for good health is a quality seed mix and selection of fresh fruit and veggies each day . Edit.. RE PPPPPOOOP Hmmmm... I have never seen poop like that before... let me look into it

I am not disagreeing with Maesie - we just keep posting at the same time

It would most definitely be the diet change Did they actually eat the new food??? They are acting like birds who haven't eaten for a few days. Have their poops been a spinach green colour and very runny recently??

The 100% blockout cover is to make it as dark as possible while it's her "night". Birds start waking up at first light so even a little light entering the cage could disturb her sleep (especially if she can hear other birds outside). She will need 12 hours of complete darkness and quiet. This is not a cure for her plucking, but it will allow you to enjoy her company better with your night shift hours

Hope you have a great time

Oh dear Firstly get a light on him 25-40watts to keep him warm. Can you please explain the change of diet further; What he was eating before, what you changed it too, was it a 100% diet change etc.

You could possibly alter her body clock by covering her cage completely with a 100% blockout curtain fabric. Cover her about 12am (midnight) and leave her covered until 12pm (noon). Between noon and midnight, keep the lights bright and leave the TV or radio on for her. She should be able to adjust to the time change provided you stick to it and be consistent with her bed times

But thats so LOW TECH!! I was hoping for an excuse to wire up the place with more gadgets hahaha so cabinet breeding has a LOT less issues than the colony breeding so the supervision can be less...???

I have to agree with feather plucking. I have looked at other birds who pull out their own feathers and they look JUST like her I couldn't find any pictures of budgies, but these two parrots have plucked the feathers from the same region as your Matilda. There are heaps of other photos out there were birds have plucked the feathers from the chest area. It's the most common spot It's usually related to boredom which is why i asked my initial question about her daily routine. He routine sounds okay too. You said she did this even when she had her partner??? There are products out there that you can spray on Matilda and make her feathers taste bitter.... But i dont know how affective this is as a bird still needs to preen it feathers daily... I will be very interested to hear what others have to say.