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did read somewher about using a mix of cornflour and something else to attract them, maybe that'swhat you nan used?

Oh yeah should have said I've bought some pantry moth traps which seem to be really effective, I caught about 10 overnight after we'd already got rid of most of them!

If she sat straight awy then it could be as early as in three or four days time. Have you candled the eggs to check if they are developng?

My hubby has removed the kids from the house today while I undertake a mission to try and rid us of pantry moths. I started last night removng everything from the pantry and sorting through it. Anything which was clearly infested with moths already has been chucked, anything which does not seem to be infested has been put in the freezer(dry goods) to kill any unseen eggs or stacked on the bench to be washed before being put back (tin foods, etc) The cupboard will be cleaned with a vinegar solution then sprayed thouroughly with a surface spray (making sure to get it into the cracks) then left for a few hours before a wipe out of the flat surfaces (there should still be a residue left in the cracks which should take care of any eggs which hatch there). Then once cleaned or packed into snaplock bags inside plastic containers everything will be put back... Anyone have any other suggestions?

My crested baby from my other clutch is the same beautiful shade of violet as this boy (totally unexpected since dad is light green and mum is mauve and didn't look to be a violet carrier) so I think in years to come I will have lots of violet crested :rofl:

I agree, platies are also shorther in the body. They are very pretty though

It takes 18 days from when she first sat on the eggs (not necessarily when it was laid)

My cat managed to get her paws on a young mouse in my kitchen just then but she's not a very good mouser and she lost it and recaught it a couple of times. Finally after running all over the place tryng to catch it wth a towel I saw it run into my pie of clean washing into one of my little sons jumpers. Quickly I folded the jumper in on itself and ran out the front door and threw it onto the road. Out ran the mouse across the road where it was pounced on by a magpie before it even got to the gutter!

She is a GF2 (SF) as I understand it. She s Goldenface type 2 but as she only carres one gene rather than two she s a single factor. hope someone can confrn that for me

GF is a dominant gene so you only need it from one parent

I agree Rainbow, I call my Rainbow Lorikeet just a lorikeet or a lori all the time but that's not her species just a generalisation I guess the issue ere is just ensuring that people realise it is a generalisation as I think it causes alot of confusion at the moment

Sorry I only used GF2 because that is what you said the parent was, yes it is also single factor asit would have only got the gene from one parent.

I call most of my birds 'chook' when we are having a smooch but it doesn't make them chickens Names like Parakeet are often used for the most common member of a genus or group of similiar animals. Cockatoo is not infact a single species but a collection of many species of cockatoos so you have infact commited your own mortal sin there SW Cockatoo is commonly used to refer to the sulphur crested cocky but doesn't actually guarantee that you are talking about that species. Lorikeet generally refers to the Rainbow Lorikeet, etc

If she is masking it she carries it either as a dominant characteristic or she has two recessive genes(so it would be visual if she wasn't ino) for it but it can't be seen due to ino. If it is a recessive gene and she carries a single copy of it (in other wods it wouldbn't be visible even if she wasn't an ino) then she is split for it. Does that make sense? These are the parents yes? Opaline Mauve Hen and the Sky blue GF2 Greywing Split Receissive and Ino Cock So she is GF2 albino masking opaline and split greywing or clearwing, possibly split recessive

Anyone else had problems with babies regurgitating handrearing mixture? It seems to be worse with one of my babies this time around and he dribbles it all over himself and his little brother and generally makes a mess of himself for about 5 minutes after he is fed. Any advice?

YES!!!! The only way they could be split for something else is if one of the parents is split and passed it on in recessive form without the other parent passing it on to allow it to be visual. In this way a gene could be passed down 100 generations without just happening to meet the correct partner for it to be seen in a chick. There isn't much you can do about this and no way of telling though

He will be split for opaline possible ino like his brothers. When referring to hidden genes carried by ino birds it is referred to as masking not split. Dominant pied is dominant to normal so they are either visual or not carrying it at all they can't be split to it.

Yeah, just the finances are tight at the moment and by the time I add the cost of freight it's a bit much so I think I'll have to look more locally I'd love to get my hands on someof Daz's birds, so maybe when he does his next cull I'll be able to

Perfect Do as I said above and they should be fine, if it gets cold at night cut a little door inthe icecream tub and turn it over at bed time so they can stay warm underneath it and then flip it up and sit them in it again during the day

Are they in a breeding box or are they in a flght with other birds? They still need atleast their father at that age but you can take them out of the nestbox and put them in a little icecream tub on the bottom of the cage so dad can't still feed them but the nestbox is empty for mum to start her second clutch.

Hey Munchie if you ever need some in the flesh type advice I'm a bored stay at home mum so I'd be happy to come for a stickie and chat budgies for a while (as ong as you don't mind my pet friendly kids tagging along). We are hoping to organise a get together for Melbourne members over the summer holidays so stay tuned for more info.

Red

I don't know much about their bloodlines. Wayne isn't a registered show breeder, he does keep good records but sources birds all over the place, he was able to tell me about the known history of most of them, he thought off the top of his head that the grey opaline spangle is the daughter of the cinny grey spangle so I will keep that in mind when I pair up their respective offspring. Not unhappy to have some nice spangle hens it's just that now I have way more hens than I know what to do with Ah well a good excuse to buy some cocks I actually said to Wayne that she didn't look great in the picture he posted of her and I hadn't planned to take her but when I saw her in real life she was much nicer so I snapped her up. In Wayne's picture she looked very long in the flights which she isn't... I'll keep you in mind when I pair her up maybe we could do a swap, I'm hoping to breed her atleast once this season before I pack up to move next year so hopefully soon I might have some bubs from her

Well I aspire to breed spangles but my entire show type spangle list consisted of one DF spangle who won't breed I went and visited Wayno today and came home with 3 adult spangle hens a adult DF spangle cock and a gorgeous spangle baby who I think is a hen but is in that stage where it is a little hard to tell so it should become clear in the next month or so. As usual more hens than cocks but I couldn't pass up the spangles So here they are skyblue opaline spangle hen grey spangle hen cinnamon grey spangle hen (the one that looks like a clearwing in the photo just because her markngs are so pale) blue series DF spangle cock (he's small but I saw his parents and they were big so hoping he'll throw bigger babies) green cinnamon spangle baby (pretty sure it's a hen but hopng it turns out to be a cock)

Can you swap her before you get attached?