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Do you mean soaking them and feeding them to the birds when they are soaked or actually growing them? I throw my hulled oats in the garden and they grow, they are just like a grassy thing at the moment, no seeds or anything has been produced. I will be interested to see if it is safe for the birds. My other bird seed I throw in their also and it produces different grasses, the birds love it.

Thankyou very much all. Im so lucky that both parents happened to be split greywing. I've never had a greywing before so I look forward to seeing him/her grow. Thankyou.

okay that is probably correct shannon, thankyou.

Hi. I have a chick that I am not too sure what the gender is. To me it looks like a skyblue greywing, but neither parent is greywing, so to get greywings both parents must be split greywing. They have never produced greywing before so I am doubting that this chick is actually greywing. Mother: Yellowface type 1 blue Faher: Cobalt normal split Cinnamon chick:

I think 2 males. Congratulations on the babies Jimmy.

Shannon what I would do is wait atleast until the birds first moult before culling. they may look really terrible at 8 weeks old but once they moult through into new plumage they may suprise you. You do not want to sell a prize winning bird do you. If you cannot decide for yourself whether to keep or sell the baby you can ask someone on the forum if it is a good show bird or if it should be culled. I do the same thing, I ask a few friends which birds should be culled and which are good.

Nice babies shannon.

I would take Barrie shutt's word for it. He is a very knowledgeable person especially when it comes to mutations.

Emma, with your photography skills we would be able to pick a newborn feather mite on the eyelash on one of your budgies........if there was one there :rofl:

Is it one of them grit perches for the birds to grind their feet on? I've read cement perches are bad so I've never used one personally.

I would remove it from your budgies cage and into another room. Seen as though it is a wild budgie it could have countless diseases that could spread to your budgie.

I dont think it is a budgie, but it looks quite similar. The wing markings are not budgie markings. Need a better picture.

I use a non toxic marker or a pencil.

Ill take this cock. This cock. This cock. Both of these. Nevermind Ill take them all splat. Excellent birds as always.

Oh okay I see, Thanks kaz.

Libby on this forum has a topic on making your own hand rearing formula. I've also used plain yoghurt as a saver until I could get some hand rearing mix. I've also been told honey or calcivet can be added to the babies beak to give him energy. So yeah, Try some plain yoghurt if you are unable to get any hand rear mix.

Well done splat,

Is that called opalescence?

Wow hes a really pretty budgie. My favourite mutation.

So is this an opaline tcb? Because that is what the site says.

I think you would be able to transfer the eggs. I've transfered 1 day old eggs to a nest with 10 day old eggs before and it went sucessfull. Aslong as the chicks hatch at roughly the same time (every 2 days) you should be fine. I would get 5 fertile eggs from fertile nest. Put them in infertile nest and remove ALL infertile eggs. Then all eggs in infertile nest will be fertile and they will all be hatching around the same time.

Yes you could do that. Keep 1 or 2 of the infertile eggs and then add the fertile ones from the other nest to the infertile hens nest box. That way she will keep incubating, you can move the infertile ones once you replace them with the fertile ones if you want. YEs the other hen will lay as many eggs as she wants.

The site says that bird is an opaline.

I pay $20 for a 25kg bag of seed mixxed by a exhibition breeder, all the best seeds and none of those big filler seeds. I went to 3 pet shops today and for a 5 kg bag of seed the average price was $15. What a joke.

okay so she is an Opaline Texas Clearbody Greygreen So that must be what your bird is. Perhaps she flew from england to australia?