Budgielover13

Love really hurts without you....in my pants (Billy Ocean) Do that to me one more time ... in my pants (Captain & Jennille) Lets get it on... in my pants (Marvin Gaye) How am I supposed to live without you...in my pants (Michael Bolton)

Nothing Compares 2 U .....in my pants (Sinead O'Connor) Constant Craving .... in my pants (KD Lang)

I have my fingers crossed that mum of bub 1 gets her act into gear and works out the feeding thing, I watched my first chick of a first time pair die (wasn't quite up with the info about supplement feeding them then and at the time had no foster parents, it would be a different story now), but she came good by the time her second chick arrived and turned out to be a great Mum raising 3 very healthly chicks :yes: - think it may have taken awhile for her crop milk to come through, so maybe your hen may be the same. Thanks for letting me know about the double yolker .It was a long shot. Hey Kaz, Have you ever had sucess with a double yolked egg and have the twins survived?

MB, I was just today thinking about how much seed I waste because of good seed being thrown away with husks,where do I get one

So happy for you Liv, Doesn't matter how many times you've breed it's special each and every time , and this is your first time cabinet breeding, even more exciting . When are those twins due to hatch, I know the odds aren't great but I can't help but feel excited in the prospect than you maybe able to post photo's of actual twin budgie chicks :happy-dancing: , and all the best of luck with all your other eggs .

Hi Sunnie, Anymore eggs and the first egg you mentioned was laid on the 27th so just wondering if you candle your eggs it would just about right to do it, because its 6 days old, are there any blood vessells running across the egg? I would also like some good quality normals because without these its hard to produce good quality anythings, I've just bred a normal blue cock and 2 normal green hens but not sure about their quality, not great size and blow nothing to really talk about, but sometimes these chick goes through their first moult and turn into wonders. Anyway good luck and let us know of any updates. :happy-dancing:

I know how frustrating it is when a avairy is being built not to imagine how hard it must be for you having to wait so long before you can even start. Hopefully the time passes quickly for you and good luck they can be very invovled and take longer than you think but the end result will be worth it. :happy-dancing:

okay, Budgies are difenately my first love, but when it comes to things of the wild I just love gorillas and when I was little collected hundreds of the things, so I just adore this add.The last thing you expect is for it to start hammering the living life out of a drum set. :happy-dancing:

I absolutely love your photo's, and your babies are just big beautiful balls of fluff, I think I need some added size, and fluff proportions are down in my babies. Would you like to swap . I'll beg :bow: . No harm in trying :laughter:

Hi, Just wanted to say your babies are beautiful, and I can't wait till I breed my first yellow face. :hug:

Well here's the photo I promised of Hobble As you can see his foot is very bad!! I so hope I didn't do anything when I was popping his ring on to contribute to his problem. Anyway I have another problem now!!! I think one or both of the parent/s may be feather plucking , here's a photo could someone give me there opinion please. But they are doing a wonderful job at feeding because here is the baby of the clutch of 6 and even it's crop is that full it's ready to burst. If you do agree with me about the feather plucking what do I do ?

Hi guys, Don't know whether you realize it or not but I am a Family Day Care Provider, and I work with the City of Casey, pity I don't live a little closer to you, but only have great things to says about the small group settings of Family Day Care, in relation to Day Care Centres. I have one little child who spends 3 days in a Day Care Centre and 2 days with me. He has become alot more rowdy since being in the centre, I think he needs to attract attention there, rather than having general attention given to him most of the time and individual attention during periods of the day. Anyway MB if you have any queries about Family Day Care, I should be able to help.

Dear Classylady, I'm very sorry for your loss. Percy must have been very special.

Hey MB, Just wondering was the crested breeder I introduced you to last night any help?

Well, there's good news and bad news, the bad news is almost all the show breeders said to put it out of its misery, more hassle than its worth but the good news is the vet said you can put a (flipper) as he called it on his foot, I would tend to say split, but thinking about it now, he probably says that because its for his foot not leg. So I'm thinking its worth a try! Do they have para-olympics for budgies .

Well I feel dreadful, the foster chick is being fed beautifully and hen and cock are both caring for chicks, so are coping nicely with the 6, but I rung the foster chick 3 days ago and I'm not sure but I think I may have damaged its foot . I have rung 8 or so chicks now, 3 being after this chick and have never had a problem, but this chick I'm sorry to say it seems doomed, it never really sat up properly in the next box, but I never noticed if it had a bung foot and I picked this foot to put the ring on, because it wasn't throwing it around as much so who knows, there may have already been a problem, this is a lesson taught :book: , to observe the chicks more closely, so I have now decided that this will be the bird to bring inside and have as a pet. I'm sure I read somewhere that they don't go so well with a bung leg/foot but I will do my best to give this bird the best chance it has. I have already named it "Hobble" and will post a picture as soon as I down load them off my camera, but I have a budgie meeting to get to now and there's an avian vet coming which I don't know whether this makes me feel better or worse. The orginal parents of the foster chick are birds which I got off one of the club members, so I am going to check with him tonight whether maybe they're too closly related, which is causing all the problems. Promise will post picture soon.

Here couple more for you Elly, Gonna hit the frog and toad - I'm going to leave (frog and toad meaning road) Try that one on for size - give it a go and see if you like it This is such a great topic!

:angel1: You've done the right thing, it's quality of life would have be shocking, and now it's in peace . It's a very difficult thing to do, but just remember we're all here to support you Kaz

Yeah, back to the weight thing, my first Cooper was 6 pound 12 ounces at 5 weeks prem, then came Mitchell at 9 pound 3 ounces, so if I do have a third it scares me to think about the possible weight .

Hi MB, I'm 37 and am thinking about the whole possibly having another baby thing, I now have 2 boys a 7 yo and a nearly 6 yo so there would be a big gap, but I feel with your first you don't know what to expect and it's all a bit scary and then I had my second so soon I felt like I was too busy to really enjoy but if I had one now, I think I would have more time and patiences and get to really enjoy anyway I've decided what will be will be. No protection to speak of and if its meant to be, it will be. I think our meeting is this Thursday and I'm hoping to see you there so we can debate baby or no baby then :hap: .

Hi Neat, Not being rude at all, some beginners may not realise these things, yes I do, I have cleaned out the nest box this afternoon, after the last chick hatched. I don't really like cleaning them out during the hatching period, I clean them before they start hatching and after all eggs have hatched. I don't like to interupt them anymore than I need to during this stressful period. I also think this breeding box is worse because both hen and cock are spending alot of time in the breeding box.

Hi guys, Thanks for all the tips and yep you have got me a bit worried about the aviary being up against the fence, anyway Dad knows some bloke who works in this department at the council so he is going to ring him and find out all the rulings. I worry because I feel if you ring the council directly you then give them a reason to come snooping around :hap: even if you explain your only inquiring for further reference :hap: .

Hi all, I am worried!! I have 4 pairs down. 1st pair Which are in the process of laying their 2nd clutch 1st clutch first chick died (New Mum) but raised the best beautifully 2nd pair Laid five inferitle eggs which I left with the hen for over a month before finally removing them about a week ago and no sight of laying a 2nd clutch, no huge poos etc. 3rd pair This pair produced 6 eggs 1 being infertile 4th pair This hen is a Henry George albino hen who is 4 years old, but was advised during auction that she had been bred from so thought I'd give it a go. Well, I had instant success, with her laying 6 eggs, 5 being fertile. Now you have some background knowlegde this is my problem, the 3rd pair hatch first chick and let it die (very upsetting but I know this is common with first time pairs, taking note from my first pair who lost their first chick but went on to raise other nicely) so the 2nd and 3rd chicks hatch and hen begins to feed but not great, but I feel I need to let her learn so hope for the best, 4th chick hatches and other 2 still O.K. (but just), 5th and last chick hatches but is late in doing so and I find it flattened under hen, then the 4th dies and I start to really worry only 2 chick left. I go and buy some hand rearing formual and try to supplement the hens feeds not easy and I'm not very successful, this was on Thursday, then on Friday morning discover that 2nd chick and eldest of the 2 has also died. So with me at a loss to what is the best for the chick I forster it out to the 4th pair the Henry George hen who is 4 years old, (couldn't put it under the 1st pair because she has only just started laying again, and the 2nd isn't an experienced hen so although she sat beautifully I don't know whether she would have excepted a chick by itself) but my worry is this morning the albino hatched her 5th chick so with the foster she is raising 6 chicks, dad is great and has obviously been helping with feeding and also he is often in the box, I peeked in on them without warning yesterday afternoon to try and check if they were pushing the fostered chick aside and found both of them sitting on all the chicks together :hap: it was a beautiful sight and the foster was in the middle of the huddle. Here is the foster chick in with the clutch it is the one with pinn feathers notice how its back bone is more evident because of loss of condition this is much more noticable in the photo without flash. Now I'd better mention foster chick who was the third in the clutch to hatch, hatched 11/9/08 and the first chick in the foster pairs clutch hatched on the 13/9/08. Anyway is six chicks to many chicks for a 4 year old hen, although she seems to be a wonderful, very experienced mum. :hap: I hope this is not too confusing and I also tried to rotate the photos and it didn't seem to want to work. Anyway any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Well, Frustration has hit yet again nothing has happened since my last post. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, we have a 40th Birthday to go to on Friday night and a wedding to go to on Saturday and also have childrens sporting activities to attend during the weekend but the week end after next - kids on holidays, so no sporting commitments and my husband has promised that the aviary will be No.1 priority. So I will get :devil: if promises get broken. Although I did get to buy a heap of supplies from the UBC on Sunday and my first show cages.

Wow Liv, Getting eggs is just thrilling, but wait till the first hatches and OMG I mean it's better than anything well...... This is just a wonderful time when having budgies (breeding season). Good luck for lots and lots of fertile eggs and beautiful chicks to come.