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Jess I reckon you should convert that picture to black and white and print it out and frame it. It would make a great picture for on the wall of your future breeding room

As a baby they are very accepting of being handled anyway,much moreso than larger parrot babies. You will find that as long as you handled babies for about ten minutes a couple of times a day until they get close to fledging that's more than sufficient. Handrearing can be a fairly stressful experience for a baby to start withplus can come with it's own set of emotional problems. Have you read Deb's account of raising Roxy as a lone baby? Her experience confirms a decision I made quite a while ago to never raise a baby on it's own unless absolutely necessary. You may find that being a bush budgie it will have a more flighty temperament to start with which might be hard to get past.

I still have three of the babies I handraised from the first round. They all got an equal amount of TLC. The oldest is fairly quiet but happy to be held and cuddled, the middle one would tear your fingers offif she got the chance and the youngest is a snugglepuss...

It really doesn't make any difference with budgies, it's all down to their individual temperaments

Geez I wish I was closer, opportunities like that don't come up very often around here and when they do the long term breeders tend to get them before the beginners do.

My budgie aviary is inside my garage so I suppose that I do have but my outside aviaries don't. I reckon this was written in the days before every house had a cordless phone, my cordless goes everywhere with me

Hey there used to be another Budgielover13!!!!! What's going on Carolyn?

OMG I am so jealous!! I haven't even be able to get my hands on ONE show cages yet, they are sooooo hard to find!! Oh and I'll still take that little one that Greg doesn't like

You should have put that dream thing in a whole new topic JB, that way you could have made it closer to your posts

60. When friends and family no longer comment on the large number of birds you have now, they just roll their eyes

If it helps at all, if you decide to give it a go and then realise it was a bad decision I generally have aviary space available for almost any species either in a currently inhabited aviary (if species are compatible) or in an empty aviary so i don't mind being your back up plan Most of my medium-Large aviary birds (except for one galah and the IRNs) are tame so I spend alot of time with them even though they are in the aviaries, sometimes I just sit in there while they snuggle up I do a lot of wildlife rescue and bird rescue work for almost any species so if you decide not to take the bird I'd be happy for the lady to contact me

I know that Angelic Vampyres cousin (?) was looking for an opaline one, I can't remember if it was a cock or a hen he wanted as it was to be a mate for one he already had. Maybe PM her and see if he is still needing one Let me know what she wants for them

No licence needed for red rumps :laughter: As long as they haev their own aviary they would be fine

either way you couldn't put them with the budgies confidently. Regardless of whether they have nest boxes they still get hormonal in breeding season and MAY be aggresive to other birds.

They can be aggresive during the breeding season so I wouldn't house them with budgies :laughter: I do know someone who was wanting some though so let me know if you decide not to get them as I may know someone interested

They are going to be such a good team, you can tell already :laughter:

Did you just feel the need to talk about poo then Neat?? :laughter:

How long has she had them? That whitish blue cere is an indication of a hen out of condition and is a common cause of confusion for new budgie owners.

Mauve recessive pied and YF1 skyblue opaline spangle, both hens

:laughter: I bet your wife saw that on the TV yesterday morning We did one too elf yourself

Is she fluffed up or anything else? You could give her a drop of calcium to the beak to help her out just in case

Anything I stained used food I had planned to put in a low oven to dry out

Actually I think he's just given up If you can't beat em join em as they say

The chunky cameras with the big lenses

Hey all, I want to dye some cotton rope and wooden beads to use in some toys I am making and I am planning to use some home made food dyes(beetroot juice) but for blue, etc I was wondering if food dye would be okay? I plan to dye it and then wash thouroughly until the water runs clear and then dry before using it to make the toys...