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Has anyone ever encountered a budgie with crossed flight feathers before?

Hey shannon. Post your grey green pair so everyone can comment aswell.

She is a spangle rec pied, not sure if she is a yf??? cobalt.

Thankyou liv and kaz Ive never had neon in a avairy situation before but when I released her todya, I noticed she cannot fly very well. She cannot fly up, when she flys she always sinks down, she cannot get up to a perch in the avairy. You know a budgies flights, how they go straight down, neons dont, they cross over, and I'm just wondering if this could be why she cannot fly??

okay thankyou very much KAZ.

okay Thankyou kaz I have another question about fostering. Could 2 5 day old chicks be fostered to a nest with 3 16 day old chicks?

Yes your right KAZ. The eggs are heavy so I'm not sure if they are definitly infertile. Will the hen smash the eggs because they are not hers? I dont want to break the eggs and find babies inside...

Hi I have 2 babies in one nest (2 weeks) and 3 babies and 2 eggs in another nest (2 weeks) Can I move the 3 babies and 2 eggs from the nest and put them in the nest with 2 babies? Will the hen know the eggs and babies arent hers? Will she feed them?

I use millet for babies in nest boxes, that is it.

Personally I think it is a hen. Could he have french moult? He is still growing feathers so that is good.

okay Thankyou KAZ. I will check out bunnings to see if they stock it, for backup.

okay would any hardware store sell A.I.L? What about coopex, would bunnings sell coopex?

Thankyou very much liv. As long as its warm tomorow I will try exactly what you said. Also, do you think bunnings would sell A.I.L? For future reference.

That is such an awesome avairy Kazzy. Its like an outback cottage for budgies. They are very lucky

Thankyou KAZ Yes the coopex is water soluble powder and I made it up as instructed. I havent put it on the birds yet, as the hardware store bloke told me not to.

Thankyou all. Disected everything today. Pulled everything apart. Bought coopex from mitre 10. Put it in between every crevice I could find. So far Their is no sign of the red mite. But I doubt I have got rid of them... YET

okay I will use a spoon. I have been to every hardware store, stock feed store and pet shop in my area and none sell coopex, they just sell the stuff I'm currently using that will not work.

Go to this site: http://www.geocities.com/budgerigarprogram/ Scroll down till you see FEATURES in blue writing on the right hand side. Keep scrolling down directly under FEATURES and You should see DOWNLOAD YOUR EVALUATION COPY in blue writing. Click that. It will come to a new page that tells you how to install it. Click the DOWNLOAD INSTALLATION FILE that is in blue writing. You cannot miss it. Then their will be a popup leading to megaupload.com On megaupload.com it will say please enter the 3 letters into the text box then click download. What ever the 3 letters are type them in then click download. You will then have to wait 40 or so seconds and then a windows download thing will pop up and you can just click run. If this doesnt work for you I can send the file to you by email or msn or somthing.

Hi all Red mite are getting worse. They are caked around the eyes of the birds and are coming out from everywhere. Im putting them all in a fish tank and Im going to hand raise them with an eyedropper. Im not experienced with handraising so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I do not have a choice. Thankyou.

I licked a ninja because I need some serious help.

whats wrong with youngsters breeding my only mummy is under a year old and she has had no problems and my mates birds all started under a year and still the same no problems. Hi Young budgies can neglect their chicks, attack the chicks, smash eggs, feather pluck. If the budgies are over a year old their is less chance of these things happening. When I colony bred my birds I had young birds breeding, and I lost alot of birds but I thought they all died of natural causes. But if I had of been a member of this forum at the time I would of stopped colony breeding instantly.

Thankyou very much for all your help KAZ. The red mite are very hard to spot, I wish I had noticed them earlier and I could of got rid of them without losing 4 budgies. If I cannot find coopex or some other treatment tomorow I think I'm going to move all budgies out of wooden cages. Then put them into steel cages and put the babis on the floor in an icecream container. I dont see anything I have to lose by doing this. I will never be using wooden breeding cages again either. I will also make sure I have ail in my cupboard constantly.

okay Thankyou KAZ You know the iverctmin spot on, how long does it take to come into effect and is it meant for red mite? I thought it was just a cure for scaly face but I've read articles that say it gets rid of all mite. I put it on parents and babies yesterday 1 drop to the back of the neck, but their are still red mite. The red mite are very small, quite hard to see. They seem to come in and out of the budgies ears and feathers. I've been looking up scatta-7 online and its a tick remover for cats and dogs... but the breeder I got it from used it to treat red mite, I hope it isnt deadly to birds.

okay I will ring up the hardware stores and see if they sell coopex. Currently the steel cages have no signs of red mite, but they will spread to them if the red mite arent killed. I have ordered ail but it sadly will not be here for 7 days so hopefully I can find somewhere that will sell me coopex. Are red mite deadly to budgies over 3 weeks of age?

Hi munchie welcome to the forum.