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Ivermectin taken internally treats worms but the jury is still out on whether the spot on version treats worms. Personally I treat with Ivermectin spot on a couple of times a year plus I worm them with a wormer in their water four times a year

But in this case the chick was fostered out early on!

In the sense that if the bird was cinnamon that may have helped, etc yes but I still think it was more luck than anything else there

It is the immediate reason but she may certainly be sck as well. A photo would really help

The thing is you just never know. My two show chick sisters at the oment were both handreared but the older is so quiet and lovely whereas the youngest will try and take your fingers off if you come close

I thought that might have been what you meant

Hmm, could be a DF spangle Yellow face. Can you tell us if the eyes are red or black please?

Her age doesn't mean anything, most show breeders won't cull (send to new homes) show babies until they are atleast six months old and they have assessed their show/breeding potential.

You never know, all it takes is someone to breed the right two birds together and you end up with a new mutation.

Kaz did you mean would or wouldn't breed them again?

For starters her ring means she is an 07 bird, her breeder intitial is CDB and ring number 117. As to the green po it most likely just means she hasn't eaten much. We need more info, what is she eating (if anything), can you feel her keel bone(the chest bone), does she have a dirty bum. I'm sure others will come up with other questions

Not really no, if it's true it would most likely have been a lucky pairing of two birds that both carried the mutation or a point mutation that occured when the egg was fertilised.

Hold on I'll double check my list ;)No he's right, you need an advanced licence for a Major at about $170 a year, that's a bummer I always thought you only needed a basic I had wanted to get one. Ah well, when I'm rich

Yes A basic licenc for a major, it costs about $60 a year

These mutations are the sort of thing which just crop up accidentally, it's what you do with them if they do crop up that makes the difference

It would still have a white face though, you could have a grey greywing which would have a basically all grey body but it would still have a white face like the 'black' one shown above unless it was carrying the other black budgie mutation shown in the second picture but just in the greywing form BUT that mutation has only cropped up overseas as far as we know

Yeah I know, I don't mind the cinnamon but I have a preference for using large normals for size rather than opalines, I just really don't like the opaline spangle marking

Bugger!!! That means the cock is split opaline, I'm trying to keep that seperate from my spangles Ah well, atleast I know to be careful when pairing any male chicks they have in the future as I have a 50:50 chance of them being split for it.

Your best bet would be to visit a fish foruma and ask someone there. (But the main thing is to have plenty of places for them to hold onto with their tails )

Can you take a close up of the cere (nose area) without a flash. It's a cremino and by the look of those pics I would guess a girl but a closer photo would help lots. Also as cremino is a version of albino (it is a albino that also has the yellow face gene) and albino is sex linked it is more likely to be a girl anyway.

They do have people licensed to trap them but there are only so many that can be sent through the pet industry and many of them have to be put to sleep any way because they carry beak and feather. I was speaking to the bloke that runs the local bird dealer a while ago and he said he doesn't buy birds from trappers anymore as of the last lot of 16 cockatoos he bought, 12 tested positive for beak and feather and had to be put to sleep, it's not worth his money to pay for 16 birds and only get 4 suitable to be onsold.

Oh my gosh!! It seems I am obsessed after all

Ivermectin spot on, its a back of the neck treatment for external parasites, much like Frontline for dogs

I agree with Kaz, every bird that I catch to put in a breeding cage gets a ivermec spot on before they go in unless they have had one very recently, I also check their beak and toes at the same time and feel their keel bone to make sure they aren't skinny.

He may be plucking them but it would be unusual, is he a stressy bird or could you catch him and have a closer look. I've never had a problem catching up a bird to checka ring or whatever and then returning it to th cabinet.