Karthik

Thanks Kaz and Liv. What I am planning is of wooden rectangle shaped breeding cage of size 30" (long) x 18" (high) x 18" (deep). Front side of cage is of mesh attached to a wooden frame. Door position is at the extreme right or left bottom corner of size 8" x 8" and in the above remaining place (outoff total height of 18") of size around 10" high x 8" long is where I am planning for a opening to attach the nestbox. I was thinking for a door type opening, but I was not very sure whether this works out well and so thought to take all of your suggestions/ideas.

Thank Neville and Neat. Could you please point me to some article/website, where I can find more details about what are all the birds faults we need to look for and also how to know whether the throat spots are good or bad, tail is too short or long or normal...etc

Thanks for all of your responses . What can be the maximum age difference between the receiving foster clutch last chick and the new chickbeing fostered. What is the ideal clutch size that will not overload the foster parents? Some time back I have also read this in some article, but I don't know what is the exact reason behind this. I think because at the third week chicks start showing the feather colouring and Budgies are good in differentiating each other based on there feather colourings, is my thinking correct or I am totally wrong. Whether we can immediately foster a newly hatched chick or wondering whether we have to wait for minimum one or two days before fostering this chick. Assume we have a hen1 with only one chick of age 10 days with NO eggs and another hen2 has 4 chicks with first chick of age 6/8 days. Now whether we can foster one or two chicks from hen2 to hen1. In similar lines, we can also include about fostering eggs in the same article or as another new article. So that finally we will have a complete article about fostering. Sorry for adding some more additional work to you. :hap: Also I have another question, whether we can foster the chicks/eggs at any time during the day, say morning or afternoon or evening or there is some best recommended time for doing this without much disturbing both the breeding pairs. Sorry for asking too many questions.

Thanks for your responses and I was interested about syringe section and not needle section.

Thanks MB and Kaz. So my wild guess of this opening size is of around 3" square or 2.5" (long) x 3" (high), which also includes entrance perch. Is this right. Whether this opening in breeding cage is of type sliding or door opening or completely removable piece and can be placed back once the nest box is removed or how exactly look like.

I have read that we should be very careful while line breeding that we shouldn't double the same faults...etc or some thing. Actually what are faults and whether it is visually visible or exactly what is this all about and could some one please through some light on this. Thanks in advance.

Do we have any important points which needs to be considered before/during fostering chicks to foster parent pairs....like chicks should be within some minimum/maximum age limits, whether more than one chick can be fostered at the same time to the same fostering parent pairs....etc

Is small pieces of dried sweet bread is same as bread crumbles or both of this are different. Also whether we can give normal bread pieces to our birds.

Thinking of building a rack of two breeding cabinets each of size 30" (long) x 18" (high) x 18" (deep) using wood and with a wire mesh front attached via wooden frame. So just wondering for attaching a nestbox of size say 8" (long) x 9" (high) x 7" (deep), whether we need make a opening for size 8" (l) x 9" (h) on the front top or just a small opening in such a way that only for the nestbox entrance hole and perch to fit in. Also whether having just two cup hooks attached to the nestbox in the front side is sufficient for supporting the complete nest box with say 5/6 chicks or do we need to have some additional supporting wood at the nestbox bottom for better support. I tried my best to put it in simple, but if it is still confusing I am really sorry for that.

Whether human injection syringe and Budgie feeding syringe are one and the same or is it different.

Thanks Kaz and Maesie. Just still trying to understand/know whether by drilling too many holes say for example 6 8/10mm holes either side, does this by any chance have any negative impact for breeding pairs during incubation or rearing time. This is just only for my better understanding on this and not intended to do it.

Thank you very much Kaz for detailed info and whether same nest box with 3 holes of 8/10mm either side can be used during colder reason also? Why I have started this thread is that I have problem of common house lizards in my area and my concern was that if I drill a 8/10mm hole, lizards may easily get in and which in turn might disturb the hen or eggs right. So alternatively what I was planning is to drill more number of smaller holes either sides, but I was not sure what will be the drawbacks of having too many holes drilled. Chrissy no need to be sorry at all and that is how I personally learn things. Also on top of that for sure our expert beloved members will correct us immediately when we are wrong :doh: ....so no worries at all and happy posting

After mating I think eggs arrive at around 10 days. I personally think 19 days old chick is still young and usually chicks of age over 4 weeks will start trying to eat on their own.

Thanks Elly and still waiting for other member responses.

Looking for some help/advices from you all on the following, regarding having ventilation holes on the nestboxes: 1) What is the main purpose of this? 2) What should be the minimum size of the hole we can drill on nestboxes? 3) Whether drilling too many or too less ventilation holes has any bad affects? Thanks

Thanks Elly. This is what I have found in our FAQ article Size: Native - 180mm including 95mm tail Show - 220mm including tail up to 240mm Which means that Pet Type: From head to tail tip - 7.2" long From head to legs - 3.4" long Show Type: From head to tail tip - 9.6" long From head to legs - 8.8" long Whether my above understanding is correct? Also what is the ideal width of the both Pet and Show type Budgies.

I am very sorry if this is not the right place to wish our new Administrators Liv and Elly, and new Global Moderator Neat, since we normal members don't have permission to post responses in the thread. Congratulations Liv, Elly and Neat for your new positions. :rofl:

Thanks Neat :rofl:

I am not well experienced breeder, But I think this is a normal behaviour of male mating hen during egg laying time and hen will stop laying eggs when she thinks that the clutch size is good enough. Other members, please correct me if I am wrong.

Could some one please tell me what is the ideal width and length (full length from head crown to tail feather tip and also from head crown to legs and then legs to tail feather tip) for both pet and show type budgies. Thanks

Thanks Ikon and Kaz. I have no experience with line breeding and it will be great if you can tell me how to check for faults in a bird if any? All the best Kaz and hoping to see wonderful outcomes soon.

Really it is a great tip and thanks for sharing this Kaz as always

Thanks Kaz and Ikon. Yes Kaz aviary without nest boxes.......just preparing few personal notes and thought to confirm with you people, so that I have all correct info.

We can tell whether a egg is fertile or not by using two methods, by Candling or by the Colour of the Egg. We have an article on this in our Budgie FAQ section and below is the link of the same: http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...&artlang=en

Below is my understanding on moving fledgling from breeding cage to an aviary, please feel free to correct me if I am wrong or add additional info if any to this: * Chicks are fledged at around 4 weeks from nestboxes. * At the age of 6 weeks, this fledglings are separated from parents and moved to nursery cage from breeding cage. * After first moult at age of 12 weeks, we move fledgling to an aviary and at this stage fledgling is called as juvenile. I have done some research regarding type of aviary to which this juvenile birds are moved, but I got mixed answers that each sex is moved into their own flight/aviary and another one is moved into the common flight/aviary. But personally I am not sure.