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Hmm, in that case anymore I catch in the live trap that haven't succumbed to the poison yet might go in a disposable tub in the freezer for half an hour to 'end' things quickly and more humanely.

Was the wound still bleeding? If it happened last night it can't be bleeding that badly by now :bump: If h sits on his perch can he wrap his feet around the perch? If he can and the wound is no longer bleeding then just keep an eye on it incase of infection or it starts bleeding again

I caught a mouse in my live trap yesterday morning and it had been having a big ol'e chew on a bait block as it's poops were blue so I know it ate it. Thinking it was not long for the world anyway I let it go in the green rubbish bin and figured it would be dead pretty quickly. Well imagine my shock when just now I went to the bin and there was a little mousy face peering up at me :sad: Are my mice supermice resistant to tjhe poison or does it take a long time to work? The little guy looks perfectly health :bump:

gave them another feed this morning, babies seem to be doing well

A little scary doing the first one Jodie but once you can see how it works it's not so bad. The best bet is if you wait until the crop is completely full it's easy to see the tip of the tube/needle in the crop so you know you've done it right :party0011:

Well I decided to bite the bullet and try and crop feed the babies using the rubber tubing as they weren't getting enough food any other way. Wow I can't believe how easy it was!!!! The tubing was great and quite easy to use. Also very cheap, costing about 30 cents a metre! I have heard of people using rubber tubing before but as I couldn't find any specific instructions I follow Ross Perry's video and just adapted my technique to account for the fact that the tubing is more flexible than a syringe. Any way I really like the tubing and I think I will stick with it for the moment as I found it very simple and effective

I used to work at a pet shop in Glen Waverley and spent about 6 hours a week just bagging seed from 40kg bags in to 1 and 2 kilo bags. The seed is sold quite quickly so it's always fresh

It needs to be a heated a bit, you could try putting it in a dry pot and heating it up for a minute stirring it around to keep the heat even.

Not at the rate I use it Krosp!! I use a 30kg bag in about a month. The ones the pet shops buy don't go stale as they put them in smaller bags and sell them with their own labels on

Unfortunately this season there seem to have been more downs than ups after the loss of some of my best chicks and the two cocks that injured themselves. I feel like I have learnt alot though and I have made some changes which I hope will increase the chances of more successful clutches in the future :yes: Currently I am topping up babies in the pied clutch as the parents only seem to be giving them about a half feed, ah well, I only need to get them through the next few weeks and then they should start to pick at seed a bit more

Now now Jess that wasn't a plug was it It's a little far from here unfortunately

I can get one Neat, I'm going to mail order one from Vetafarm I just needed to do something a bit quicker than mail order. I have managed to get them to take a top up direct from the syringe to their beak. Managed to about 1/2 to 3/4 fill their crops so I'm hoping that the hen will get her butt into gear and take over properly, in the mean time I think we'll be fine :party0011: One question, how empty should their crops be before I top them up? Do I need to wait until they are completely empty?

I just can't get a needle at the moment, I'm going to have to order it in as none of the local vets keep them in stock I will try and see if it will take a feed from the syringe without having to tube feed it.

Should an older chick just take it straight from a syringe rather than having to crop feed it?? The chicks of concern are a couple of weeks old

I think I might need to top up my green clutch babies but I haven't got a crop needle yet or had a lesson on crop feeding. AV and I are trying to organise a lesson with the local avian vet but he isn't available for a couple of weeks as he is on leave. I do however have feeding tubing from my wildlife care. Has anyone used this for crop feeding before or have a link to how to do it? Also is there a good link that shows you how to crop feed, preferably with a tube but even something that shows you how to use a needle would be good and I'll adapt it to suit.Thanks all Should add I'm currently downloading the Ross Perry crop needle video

I think if you pack it within a wrapping then in the dry ice it doesn't freeze it The main thing is to not have it in contact with the body as you then get cold burns on it. I know people who have easy access to dry ice so they use it to cart food places when they go on holidays to keep it cool

Well the hen that lost her green mate wasn't feeding the chicks so I've taken them out. I put them with the pied pair just while I figured I'd get some food ready and they seem to be looking after them at this stage so I'm going to leave them and see if they'll foster them. So that means that now all the surviving chicks from the three pairs that succesfully hatched chicks are under the care of the pieds. Two pied chicks, two chicks from the green pair and one crest bred chick I'll give the green hen a short rest and then I might pick a new mate for her, I have a gorgeous grey boy that might go well with her. The inos have layed again and this time the hen is actually sitting so hopefully they'll hatch something this time around. The dilute hen who's cock broke his neck ages ago I decided to let back into the aviary so I had her in a flight cage within the main aviary and left the door open when I left for work and figured she'd go into the aviary when she was ready, got home and the flight cage door was shut, she was still in there and so was the dead cocks brother! They are having a lovely smooch so maybe I'll let her breed after all with his brother instead

If this has been an ongoing problem maybe it would be worth having her autopsied by the vet. The vet that came and spoke at our club said he has even had bodies posted to him with dry ice so it might be worth talking to the vet about what options you have.

jwancia and I have just been talking by PM and discovered that we not only did classes together last year but we went to Heron Island together!! Just goes to show us crazy budgie peoples stick together

Great post Neville and Pie I think you are right, I must have been having a blonde moment

Jodie did you get these two from the same place? Makes me wonder if they are related

Yep, both split recessive pied and george is also split opaline and the chick will be a hen

Probably pretty similiar yes. If you were to breed them together in the future you would get ones just like them ples you would also get ones which didn't have the yellow. However this is where it's tricky, these white face ones can actually be double factor yellow face which means they look like a normal white faced budgie but they carry the yellowface gene and will pass it on to their subsequent chicks

Maybe an opaline recessive pied ...

The colour will change because the yellow faces are yellow face type two. The main thing that distinguishes this from type one is that the colour bleeds into the body feathers. As they go through thier first moult you will notice that the new feathers grow in with the yellow tinge to them