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simply adorable little violet boy :happy-dancing: and a good catch too !

JB , sorry the only instuctions the vet gave me was how much to mix with the water and how long to treat for . 3 mls/litre made fresh daily for 3 days . in future i think i will just not give them fresh veges during treatments to be on the safe side . thanks for the good advice as usual

i was giving them the medications in the water and theyve gone off the soft foods since i started the treatment . i hadnt thought of the fact they would possibly get enough water from the fresh veges and therefore not drink the dosed water

hi all , ive just got to ask is it okay to give my birds fresh veges whilst treating them with antibiotics ? i ask only because my budgies have gone off the fresh sprouts and grated carrots since i started their baycox treatment for cocci . ive also been catching them to dose them with meds a bit lately and changed a few birds to different cages so im hoping they are just sulking a bit , and taking a bit of time to settle back down again . they used to hoe in but now its going barely touched at all

very nice deb , very nice indeed

yeah princess looks a bit rough , like you said when i got her she was moulting but she got the ivomec dose to the back of the head too so she not very happy with me cant wait to see her when the moult is done

thanks elly , my flock is growing nicely at the moment . but where will it end

just thought i might do a quick update as i didnt post all my birds last time plus i have a couple of new ones now jazz violet mauve and princess yf single factor violet spangle ( thanks neat !) daffodil , yellow dec ? feral , sky blue opaline hen bitey , olive dom pied rain , yf2 skyblue dom pied i think bowe , yf2 sky opaline pied but not 100% sure what else due to the wing markings

photos neat ? where are my manners :budgiedance: i think this is a she ?

hi I've been hand rearing my only surviving chick for 10 days now . it is now 27 days old and doing well . what i would like to know is when do i start weaning from handrearing mix to seed :star: . i have added millet to the nest box and cage and sprinkled around some seed too . but the chick seems to be happy with an EASY feed from the syringe and not very interested in getting its own food at the moment . i did read the faqs about weaning but didn't really answer my questions . thanks in advance .

they are grotty little things , i wouldn't be going through the bin either to finish it off either ! good call not to leave it there for the birds to play with . i don't know if they would actually eat it though or would they ? ringnecks are great too very characterful and they're on my list of birds to get

personally i don't use baits outdoors , too many toxins get passed onto predatory birds and the like causing a flow on effect . my dogs are little ratters too so i wouldn't want them eating a poisoned vermin . i use traps slightly different to kaz's but the same principle . for those smart mice that can take bait without setting spring type traps i use raw bacon rind as its harder to get off . they pull on it then smack its all over :sadsorry:

thanks elly , looks like the crop can hold quite alot . i dont fill up the crop quite that much on my 19 day old chick but not far from it .

tonight i lost chick #2 , to be fair the odds wernt good for it . it was weak and not feeding very well but i gave it a fighting chance anyway . chick #1 has affectionately been named bitey , is feeding superbly and getting stronger and bigger by the day . the bites are starting to get some real nip in them so thats a good sign isnt it ? might go to 4 hourly feeds tomorrow as it will be 19 days old . thanks elly the handrearing information in the faq were really good , except is there a guide to how much my chick should be taking each feed ? im sure bitey would eat til its crop burst

sorry to hear of your loss jodie , sky looked like one beautiful budgie

kaz im in wollongong , about an hour south of sydney . if anyone is willing to foster them id be willing to drive them to sydney if it meant there chance of survivng would be better . theyve taken to the formula pretty well and they are nice and warm in the hospital cage for the time being . yeah neat im treating all my birds for cankers at the moment as a precaution even though i dont have any other sick ones , have been since tuesday when i got jacks autopsy results .

well if your thinking punk MB , you would be hard pressed not to call one cyndy ( lauper ) lol . cant wait to see crested baby pics

adorable ,i think cosmo might have enjoyed that bath just a little bit i wish all my birds would wash themselves like that

kaz im hoping to manage the chicks myself as i dont have anywhere to foster them anyhow . i bought some hand rearing formula and ive fed it to them them 3 times today without too much trouble . they wernt kept warm last night so the youngest chick died from the cold snap i think . the other 2 are okay at the moment( 15 and 10 days old ) , everything is crossed but im not very optimistic about both surviving . heat lamp is on to keep them warm and im feeding them every 3 hours

sorry for the loss of your beautiful little girl

october should be called something else like s***tober .apart from jack my other 2 birds that died came out of my breeding cage , which jack was moved from 8 weeks ago . my 2 patio cages are 180 cm x 75cm x 55 cm ,have pitched roofs , have slide out trays and grate on the cage floor ( the same as the cage bars ) to stop the birds playing in their own mess . the trays are cleaned twice weekly , the water dishes daily ,the seed dishes every few days and the perches removed and scrubbed weekly . i believe the breeding stress probably caused george and betty to be more susceptible to the cankers they were already carrying . i know now to treat for cankers several weeks prior to breeding . the rest of my flock are being treated for cankers since tuesday and once this is finished i will treat all of them as though they are in quarantine . im very tempted to catch each one tomorrow morning and give them a precautioary dose of ivomec

betty died in my hands this evening after a short struggle with cankers . i took her to the vet this morning along with her 2 of her 3 chicks which she had been raising alone since her partner passed last thursday . she had been unable to cope with the stress of being single . the youngest chick did not survive the cold snap last night with betty not on the nest when i found her this morning on the cage bottom . now i have 2 little ones to handraise so im off to mix up some fresh baby bird formula ! , she was my favourite budgie and never bit me other than a gentle nibble :yes: and now shes in a better place

oh NO :fear ! here we go again , lost one of bettys chicks last night and when i cam out his morning she was sitting on the bottom of the cage :rofl: .looks the chicks havent been fed for a bit either . going to the avian vet in town very shortly . dont know how much more of this i can handle . i just dont get it , betty and george have not been in contact with any other birds except jack before he was moved to another cage, and hed never seen birds other than his parents ( george and betty) , so how can they all be dying suddenly :rofl:

MB , im just curious as 1 of my eggs hatched 1.5 days later too , what variance in temperature would cause the incubation to be lengthened ? also how many eggs were in the clutch ? and how many days between the oldest and youngest chicks ? thanks . just trying to get a better idea to compare my chicks with

thankyou , this is the quarantine program i will be using in future :bliss: as opposed to my flawed previous one . now i just need to put together a list of medications i need to have at hand incase .