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I think it's a cute idea especially if they are going to kids as pets. By the way AV as I suspected I have an egg today so Buddy is going to have some little brothers and sisters

I think the main thing is to make sure that the chick is still getting enough food into it's crop. If their is food in the crop as well monitor it, if the chick doesn't seem to be able to fill it's crop because the air bubble is too large then you might need to try and get some of the air out.

Someone a while ago was talking about how they gently squeeze the air out but ony a few days after that post I had one with air and tried but couldn't get it out so I left it and the chick was fine, the air bubble dispersed on it's own.

The tell that your hen has an egg imminent is that she will get an egg bum, her bum wil look swollen as the egg moves down, it may look like this for a day or two. One of my hens started looking this way yesterday and I knew and there was nothing this morning but tonight when I got home there was an egg The behaviour they are exhibiting is promising but I would guess no egg yet, you will find the hen may disappear into the box nearly permanently for a few days befor she lays an egg.

Oh my gosh that was mean! I was freaking out since half of those birds were my babies, I was ready to cry

After you scan them in you can always use an editing program to write something across them so no one will want to copy them. Alternatively put copyright on the bottom of all of them and sue the pants off anyone who does copy them

We share here SW .... Sorry I think I was channeling the mum in me then

It may well have been the injury AV, especially if it was nasty leg injury which would impact on his ability to mount the hen. I would have thought it would actually help if anything, get the blood going to the bits

I wish I did know all that sort of stuff Neat. It's all a bit hit and miss in the end but given the concentrations will be much lower I don't see any issues.

The chemical is highly concentrated in tablet form. I don't think there would be any problems in it's natural form.

Kaz has moved them with no problems sitting in an ice cream tub of warm bird seed I'd stick a couple ofm the fakes in too. Let her take it out on them before she lays another real one.

Your blue bird is simply blue, a blue bird cannot be split for green

Shhhh don' tell throwback you bred an opaline spangle he'll be grumpy

Had a thought is your cock arrying opaline? She could be an opaline spangle. SNAP!!

Unless your adults have pied or clearwing in them I would say she is a DF spangle but with blue suffusion on her chest, does she have any colour on her rump? I love that second one! Defnate spangle markings down on the wing tips but that blue on the wings is weird!!!

My spangle hen in the kitchen has eggy bum at the moment AV incase you need back up :hap:

But if you are selling birds for $3000 plus and buying birds for $10000 it's going to cancel any income out isn't it? Unless you never buy any of those expensive birds and just sell your chicks.

You know lemon will sit for ever I'd go with the old girl :hap:

I don't dispute that selling those excess birds may bring in a lot of money but when you have seed bills that run into the thousands and you may be purchasing new birds to add to your breeding base plus supplements, etc. not to mention the thousands of dollars spent on aviaries and breeding cages and flying to shows, I seriously doubt they are making a whole lot

Thanks guys, as much as you have to try and detach yourself from them it still hurts when one doesn't pull through.

Clutching at straws TB

I would say Norm that even those that do sell their birds for large amounts of money are probably only recuping the thousands of dollars they spent on their birds when they were starting out.

That's great Jodie, I actually like that style but cant draw it. For some reason it has to be true to life for me or it just doesn't work when I try and put it on paper. And a couple more I just did then, I'm a little bored tonight I think

They might enjoy tearing the bark off just like any other branch and take in some of the chemical that way. Not sure they would actually understand the significance of it though.