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Hi This morning when I woke up I did my morning check on the birds and found chomper dead at the bottom of the breeding cage. He did not have a messy bottom. I am going to see if I can get into a vet to see if they can find how and why he died. He was not sick yesterday, he was energetic as he usually is. He has left behind summer with 4 babies (about 3 - 4 weeks old). Can summer look after these babies herself? Beleive me, if chomper was sick yesterday I would have taken him to the vet straight away. THanks.

Hi I took some pictures of neon and thunders babies, I am hoping that someone can tell me gender and mutation. The pictures are very poor quality, I do not know why but when I do close up shots of the cere it just all blurs up. I think one baby is opaline and the other is normal. I think the normal is female and the opaline is a male. Thanks

Hi The youngest is still developing his feathers, he has not been plucked. Kaz thought the baby cockatiel was a baby budgie and was being plucked, is this what you are thinking of Neat? I dont think the youngest baby budgie is being plucked but I'm not an expert? Thanks for your answer aswell, The nest box is outside the cage and I already have a safe house for the babys with food inside.

wow thanks so much Liv. May I ask which one is the opaline spangle? is it the youngest spangle or the oldest one? Edit: Is it the eldest? He has black tips on his wings where as the younger one does not? Is it possible to get opaline from a yellow recesive pied male and a cinammon spangle dark green female? Thanks very much

Hi The babies are growing up very fast. The eldest is also developing blue underbelly feathers aswell. When they are moved into the baby cage I will take pictures and hopefully someone will be able to tell me the gender and mutation for records. Here are some pictures today when I had to clean the nest box out. My camera is a slow action camera so when I click the trigger it takes 3 seconds to actually get the shot, by then they have moved so the pictures are not very good. It is funny how they all poke their heads out the nest box hole together and start chirping for food.

okay Thanks very much. I am not sure but one of the babies in the nest looks to be getting blue pin feathers.

Hi Is it possible to get blue babies from a grey green female split to blue and a Skyblue male Is it possible to get blue babies from a Grey green female Skyblue male. Thanks

Hi It depends on the size but most babies are between 6 and 8 days old when I ring them, yes their are split rings.

Hi Jimmy Yes their is millet in the nest box and I think you are right, he wants to grow up and leave the cage. I will keep placing him back in the nest box until he is old enough. Thanks for the help

Hi The babies are getting very big and growing very quickly. The eldest ( 4 weeks) keeps escaping the nest box. Can babies eat seed themselves at this age? I checked him for blood and he had none so I highly doubt the mother kicked him out, she is very good. Any comments would be greatley appreciated.

It takes me like a minute being as carefull as I possibly can. I will have to try the three toe forward method and hope it works. Hi This may sound like a stupid question but I have looked in the faqs and could not find the answer. Are budgies colourblind? The reason I ask this is because maybe some hens dont like certain coloured males and refuse to bond with them? Thanks P.S It will not let me make a new post so I am posting it on this one.

No if I do it any earlier it just slides straight off. I will try the three toe forward. thanks

okay thanks Neat

Hi When ringing baby budgies and using the "two toe forward, 2 toe backward" method, is it normal for a baby to chirp really loudly? I am putting the two toes forward through the ring then pull it up abit more and then use a blunt feather quill to pull the other toes through. When the two toes are through and the others are almost pulled through it loses circulation in its foot and it goes red. Am I doing somthing wrong or do All breeders have this? I am doing exactly what a show breeder showed me. Thanks

They are baby cockatiels. The eldest is called jack and the youngest is jill (easy names to remember). This is what they looked like as babys: The photos I take are pretty bad and make the cockatiels look quite small. They are about the size of an adult budgie at the moment. Is the feather loss on the head normal for baby cockatiels? I hope they are not being plucked. Thanks very much for your help

okay I will check now. Beast (the male) is very vicious and bites me when ever I put my hand in the cage... so maybe it is him. I checked both babies. They both have bald patches on their head but I can see little feathers starting out. Their is no blood and both cockatiels dont have any blood on their beaks.

I'm not sure kaz. Maybe he is not up to the stage of getting feathers on his head? Do you think he has been plucked? The other one does not have many feathers on his head either so maybe they are just to young?

Thankyou Maesie. Can I have more than one entry? I think I may have made an entry a couple of weeks ago but I cant remember.

Hi Some pictures:

My birds get a grip on the perch then lean forward and start flapping like mad, it must be how they excersise.

Thanks KAZ Thats excellent. The males in my avairy outnumber the females by far.

Thanks very much everyone. I thought the babies were male because the cere is a pinkish colour and their is no white ring around the nostrils? Maybe they are too young to be sexed?

Hi Can anyone tell the gender of the 2 eldest babies? I think they are both males. Thanks very much More pics.