Pearce

2)He also opens and close beak. It looks like he is talking without a sound or chewing something. What he is really doing? I know when my birds do this it usually means they are too hot. They open their wings, and open and close their beak constantly. They are hydrating themselves I beleive. 23 degrees is not hot so I do not know why yours would be doing it.

Elly can you please remove the picture from my post. Also the link to another forum aswell please. Thankyou.

An amazing breeding room. Look at the size of it. Something I hope to achieve one day.

wooohooo I was right.

Thanks very much for that Nubbly5

Going to the beach tomorow with some mates so Happy easter to all.

Avi-cal is also a good calcium supplement from birds. Calcivet and avi-cal can be bought from vetafarm. I agree with dezdemona, I wouldnt use reptile supplements for budgies. You could cook some eggs up for the birds if you wanted to... Or even egg shells. Just as good as calcivet in my opinion.

Can a lutino mask spangle? Or any other dominant gene?

Im just going by what I was told. It may not be canary seed. You may be right dezdemona it will be good if it is millet, my birds love it Their is millet growing in the garden now at its full stage and its browning up and dieing. I will plant some more and see what its first stage looks like

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Is her cere compleley gone? Is that what you mean. If it is as bad as it sounds I wouldn't breed her.

It's half a feather duster so I wonder if it has a shorter lifespan

I've never seen it in my life but it would be funny to see. I guess she likes to be different:D

I'm very sorry to hear that bird haven

Yeah It had chicks so it must be able to see, I hope.

okay so an ino and an ino will pass on all genes but the ino gene will mask them all? so all chicks will be visual ino's?

Ino, When refering to Heath do you mean Heathrow the member of this forum?

Give ivermectin and put her back in the breeding cage. Aslong as the case is not too severe.

Okay.. that just confused me ..So if they result in a green shade of color they are green series birds!? even if they start as blue!? I'm new to this I get confused very easily.. No they are still blue series birds. The colour is a mix of blue and green. Which is seafoam green. Its not a true green colour like light or dark green but its not cobalt or skyblue either. when yellow mixes with blue it makes a greenish colour very similar to what happened to cosmo. He started blue but the yellow went down into his body colour and changed the colour from blue to seafoam green. He is still a blue series bird and if bred with a blue bird you would get all bird birds.

It would be good if it kept making new seed heads wouldnt it. Infinite seed.

You take excellent pictures Emma I really love the yellowface grey cock.

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Yellowface 2's start as blue birds and cannot be told apart from type 1's. When they moult the yellow bleeds into the body colour resulting in a seafoam aqua green colour. They are still green series birds. I've seen early pictures of cosmo and he definitly looks blue series to me.

I am sure Kaz will look here and be 100% accurate. She is the person to talk to with regards to sexing young budgies.

Here is a half sider. One side is normal grey and the other side is skyblue with feather duster gene. Its quite amazing and he has actually had babies. I will not post the picture directly for copyright reasons but it can be viewed here. http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=15673