melbournebudgies

I'm pretty early, so it will be a September baby :fear

Well my computer is still causing problems and I haven't bought more birds

If you end up comingto Melbourne for a vet and need help with any of the babies let me know, I'm happy to handraise them for you so you can take the logs out of the aviary alltogether if that makes your life easier.

:rofl: That wasn't me news Splat, I was just saying I'd check back on guesses tomorrow :rofl:

MBs news!!! I'll be back tomorrow :rofl:

We went up to a friend's house a few towns away yesterday and stayed the night there and then came home via Splat's today. It'ds about a 2 1/2 hour trip

We are all home safe and sound and the birds are all tucked up in the cage that will be their home until they move to the aviary They look so good compared to my scrawny little show birds I managed to get access to the site just now by downloading a trial program off the net but it only lasts for three days so if I disappear again you'll all know why!

The top line of each month is the lay(or first sat on) date and the next line down is when it should hatch

I am just getting to the point now Lochlan where I know what I want and don't want in my birds. Until now I hadn't culled a single show type as I needd the numbers but despite only having about 15 show birds(atleast until my new lot arrive on Saturday) I have culled two which I felt were actually not even worth keeping as stock birds. It's a tough thing to cull your first show birds but t's the only way forward. Incidentally both those birds are actually opaline, but they have lovely clear heads wthout any dirtiness which is why he probably doesn't come across that way n the front on photo. As I said they were just an experimental par anyway so if they thrpow somethng nice it will be a bonus. I actually don't like opaline in my birds at all and long term I hope to breed without it completely but at this stage a nice bird is a nice bird even if it is an opalne

It went white because it had no blood but on ice would still last a fair while. It depends how big the bit is whether they'll bother to put it back on.

I just sent a violet hen with similiar marking to GenericBlue. It's one of my favorite markings. I have a pretty little skyblue n the nest at the moment who will hopefully look alot like your baby, it's my favorite marking :thumbs_down:

Ooh what sad news, she's so beautiful. Hopefully it is just a sprain and it will heal in the next few days.

My doc won't give tetanus needles for kitchen gadget mishaps, he doesn't see them as a risk for tetanus as they are kept so clean

This is a mandolin slicer (a fairly fancy one) http://www.kitchenware-manufacturers.com/m...lin-slicer.html

The holder for my one has huge guard to protect your fingers and the spikes are on kind of a push through piece so they are always the right length. I'll bring it along and if you decide you want it you are welcome to it. I used it for chopping the birds vegies as well much quicker :thumbs_down:

Ouch Splat!!! I have a slicer like the one you are talking about I think but it has a little holder thing for the food. Actually my mum got a new one for me for chrissy do you want the holder off the old one?

Unless the green cock is split blue you will get all green series chicks

I am finding that too Liv, at the very least I hope there might be a few nice babies to be held over as future stockbirds for next year.

THe cock is Tweet Tweet who has used to be Maesie's boy and has moved here to get a bit of 'action' Sorry for the bad photo but this is the hen who was Angelic Vampyres, unfortunately she wouldn't sit still in the breeding cage for a photo. She is a skyviolet cinnamon opaline (the photo has washed out the violet) I did have the hen with the infamous Ozzie but he wasn't doing anything so I thought I'd test the hen with another boy and give Ozzie some aviary time. They have seven eggs, three are candling fertile, two are too young to tell and two are clear. She may still lay more eggs as she only layed the last one yesterday I'd love to know what others think of them as a pair, I wasn't thinking much about showness when I paired them but now I'm starting to think they aren't too bad as a pair.

Well we have had victory!!! We are pretty sure there was only one pair and they produced a single litter (they weren't around long before we became aware of them) A few weeks ago we caught the adult male he was the first to go) which is probably lucky as of course without an old enough male the female wasn't going to produce anymore. Over the past week we caught 4 babies. Then on Sunday morning we woke to a horrible smell in our entrance hall. I spent the afternoon pulling apart the hallway cupboard and eventually found the adult female(the stinky one) and another baby dead from the poison we had put out. We have left the traps and poison out for now but we have seen no new evidence of mice since then so we are hoping that was all of them

I agree with Lochlan's advice here Antibiotics shouldn't damage the bird physically however they will damage the population of healthy gut flora

That's a good way to do it Renee, I'll have to remember that for when I have enough birds to have to worry about breeding cage space

Budgie breeders work on more of a financial year when they speak about wrapping up for 'this year' JB as the main breeding time is spring-early summer and then maybe again in autumn for some

They sound like the same cages used for breeding by myslef and Kaz as well as many other members here so I'd say they would be fine

okay, that shouldn't be a problem as I suspect the eggs under the other hen are infertile but she seems to be a great sitter so it would be nice for her to have atleast one bub to raise