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He doesn't even scare the kids! That's why mummy has to be the scary one :rofl: The kids know who's in charge...the dogs on't even listen to Leigh

A clever person can tell the sex of a budgie at only a few weeks old, you just have to know what to look for!

Also you can sometimes get aviaries with a metal base or you can put a false floor of bricks in them so that they are portable

Spoke to my OH and he reckons the guy's trying to take me for a ride. If it comes to it and I can push pick up back a week or two I might be able to organise it for when he's in town and he's over six foot tall and built like a brick sh*thouse (there's one for you Elly :bliss: ) so he'd be good back up

Ebay said I could open a dispute and they would force him to accept my offer or he would risk repurcussions from ebay BUT I still have to make the scary journey to Geelong and face the bloke to pick it up

Ah, I see so the board has actually had lots more than 1000 members, just not all at once ?

Can I ask, if we are nearly at 1000 members, why am I member number 4233?

Not likely many here would be able to answer your question Timbo, might be best to ask on a general parrot forum

Can my sign my little boy up as a member He thinks budgies are just great

AV said she would go with me if I could organise it when she was free, but, hmmm.. I'm still a little scared

The thing is if it was something I could get posted I would happily fight it but I'm gonna have to go and pick it up off the guy, which is kinda scary as he may get kranky with me He is probably a builder or something and he would have got this all for FREE as it is used to protect building wood during shipping so he should be happy with whatever he gets for it

okay so the long and short of that article is: Natural light is good and sunlight similiar lightglobes/tubes are good but too much of either is bad

I certainly won't be paying it, I'm waiting for a ebay live help person to talk to now

Can you guys have a look at this ebay item. I bid on it based on the assumption that it was for the stac shown in the photo and nowhere in the ad does it say the price was per sheet, is that the impression you guys get from it? Now that it has ended the bloke has sent me a message saying "I hope you realise the rice was per sheet " I certainly won't be paying that per sheet, I could buy new for that price :yelling: Item incase it doesn't work, item no: 290262540220

Issy that only applies in adults and also in certain mutations it is not true.

Hey AV, my crested cock has decided seed as bedding is a great idea, he's picking all the millet out of the seed bowl and dropping it in the nest box

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Awwww, that's so cute

But they don't need UV light to warm them up, that's why we can use a normal lightbulb as a basking lamp, they do need a UV light though for exactly the same reason as birds do, for vitamin D. In my reptile set up I use a flourescent UV tube(which doesn't release much heat) and a normal light globe for warmth Those snazzy Arcadia flouro tubes recomended by some of the big breeders are I believe similiar spectrum to sunlight, so they would include a UVA and UVB component I would imagine

Can anyone tell me why a UV light won't work? We use a UV light to mimic the sun for reptiles to allow them to generate vitamin D so why are birds different? Thanks

Actually Clancy you should have MORE nest boxes than pairs, preferably about double the number

Yes Once they are eating it that way I put it in a shallow dish on the floor for them and then take that away so they only have the regular dish

I'd love to go have a look but can't afford to for a few weeks so I'll have to see what he has left by then

Yeah daddy budgies can be letch's (sp?) If they are eating but them in a kindy cage and just keep an eye on them, they should be fine

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