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all i can say is lots of ventilation is a must so windows on frount and back i stuffed up in that area and if i was you a roof on your roof type thing at one in half foot height paint it white or a shade sail if that seems cheeper same hight but make sure it doesn hit roof and is tight

all good comes in time kaz i know you will master your bird room flights as you can afford them

i get a gosh hawk here every well this time of year best thing is double wire and strawberry netting leaning on a diagonal from roof to ground if it gets cought you just need rig fishery and wild life they come remove them

ive always rung them at that age and only maybe twice in the whole time ive been breeding have i had to re ring a chick they are not that young your chicks are probably just much bigger than mine macka lol

lol ill send some hens your way for him to serves then hee hee been after a violet dark green for ever maybe i could get one via your boy lol that size things a mith if you ask me glad things getting better grey chick looks great

your birds are looking great i miss my pets your spangle marks are beautiful as with your clear mantles on your Opaline's would love to see your whole flock in pics

lol yes splat i remember your killer hens hee hee just add the eagle look and your hens wallah the start of a new line of nasty birds

wow that last pairing you mentioned sounds promising splat violet green x dark green great pairing

ba ha ha ha love it if you dont feed them just be for your mates come over then as soon as you enter flight with feed they will swarm onto you, you could pretend your fighting them off hee hee and then come out with your line to talk em into how manly they are phh ha ha ha or you blokes could get over your manly man i eat meat and drink beer images and deal with the fact that at least you dont live your life behind a lie of fast cars in footy just to make yourself fit in i think its called stability and happiness besides i know some pretty bloke blokes whom breed budgies and if you ever suggest they were less of a man i think you'd wish you'd kept your mouth shut who gives a dam what its called fancy shmansy bird breeding hobby when it comes down to it anyone whom looks at you or suggests your less a man well truth be known they are more likely to be insecure about their own self

here are few my birds in the holding cages taken today skyblue/ino and a clearbody cock sky blue again bit of everything cin grey green young /lw boy my albino cock his brothers daughter breed by me okay something different a egg addled at starting of development what it looks like notice the red travels totally around the air bubble this is a sure indication the egg as died okay op light green mp1 chick with foster mum in clutch mates okay its other clutch mates still under mum these two their heads are so big they can lift them its as wide as my thumb i had to ring it today first chick from lacewing sr1 hen woot woot im happy jan more soon

well to be honest i don't see to many woman breeders in the exhibition show arena and most breeders are men not only that i dont think ive come across more than two in my whole two years that are not woman originated if you ask my opinion most people who breed budgies have either had a accident of some sort preventing them from working ( like myself ) or have some kind of injury be it physical or mentally after all these little feathered friends are quiet relaxing and time consuming so gives you something to do i know not everyone that breeds is injured or mental like me but majority of them are seems they are good hobby for people whom can not do physical sport or such i still cant remember what i call it when referring to my hobby but its not hobby either it will come to me oneday

here is few snaps my cages the sand in tray has helped

i was vacuuming every day splat my bird room was cleanner than my house i just i guess im over it and now vac once every two weeks i do clean cages every second day or if i see poop i just clean it out as i do feed and water it doesn't become a job then just a routine

hey hun i think you miss read rens post grey green has nothing to do with this light green into lutino will eventually drive the vibrancy out of their color its okay for few rounds pairrings so on but as a base its not a good thing to get use to for lutinos you need to be (for best color rezults ) be trying your hand at breeding some DARK GREEN BIRDS and or OLIVES olives are the recommended top colour to retain a spectacular colour in your lutinos and once the lutinos are 100 percent all masking dark green or olive then thats when you can be safly putting them into you visual clearbodys also of a dark factor even cobalt as you will still be achiving dark or double dark factor birds weather in blue or green series if i was giving you the heads up id be saying to you regardless of colour so long as its a dark factor bird cobalt , mauve or dark green or olive id get the best hen you have with wigth across head and good shoulders even if the directions their in the feather above the cere but not high (so long as its got right direction and shoulders and head wighth to that kk light green this will give you some dark factor chicks do the same with the other cock bird but obviously use a hen with the characteristics he needs but again a dark or df dark bird of blue or green series what you need to do it be sure NEVER EVER TO USE GREY OR CINNAMON all cicks that come out cinnamon just use else where or cull im trying to breed a normal line and still trying most birds are split cinnamon or opaline the best start is try fine some one whom has a existing line of normals any color so long as the cock bird is guarantee not split op or cin your on your way good luck hun its not as easy as you think so far i have few good normal hens however nocock i can be garenteed normal only my only best bet aftr 10 normals nothing else even after being paired to a cinnamon twice the other day paired to a lacewing through a cinnamon so you can but do your best to wean everything out but in the end genes are carryed hidden in some birds for years and years then bang pop out it comes dont get to hung up on it it will do your head in if you go test breeding all your normal cocks be fore useing them how you want you are just wasting them in a sense so use them and if cinnamon pops well ....all i can say is good luck but hun dark or dd is way to go for lutes n clearbodys no grey factor

okay that is messy but can i ask why is their news paper on the bottom of it finnie in obstructing the cages natural design of course its going to get mess the news paper i put in is in the slide out tray bit and you just slide out the tray ever few days and wrap up and remove the paper you have turned this cage into a disaster i have 18 out back all the same as that none ove them has ever been that dirty even if not cleaned for two weeks yes a bit of seed comes out the front but not much i find the mason jar feeders are great to prevent the lose of seed only a few of my birds do the scrapping out thing i think its as i offer thee jars with three different seeds they eat what they like then finnie do your self a favor take th e papper out and put it in tray bit just get a pot scrubber to wipe floor over with ones every few days it will remove the poop i use a knife but still o is good also gb

yep i tryed last year to give them some when kaz brought out the meat protein thread you can buy them dried as a powder its easier my birds also shat themselves yet i see them chasing the moths and eating them if they catch them they are good for them

your thread is lovely i enjoy reading keep up the beautiful work and pics gb

well i use wire cages the only issue i can see with them but i figger would be same with wooden is if you had an out break of illness im guessing wire cages close to eachother would be less able to prevent it from going through your whole breeders personally this has not happened to me thank goodness i just use a knife to clean poop off and remove clumps dayly or second day i put news paper on bottom on the tray so i just take first few layers away when gets too many seed husks advantages water never dampens floor if ever leaks out they fold away after breeding season to clean just place them all out in the rain for few wet days cover with bleach and give a scrub rinse off with gerrny dry them off and done (although im lazy and i stack em in shed and then wait few weeks before breeding to clean them all in which i undo them all to flat pack status and scrub down with bleach in the outside bath tub (this year was inside one but out side one is ready now for these jobs ) i recently put sand in bottom instead of news paper im going to see if feather dust sticks to it rather than sits on the paper as it does now they are also portable if something happens and you need to remove a pair for any reason just lift with the handle like two day i moved 6 nests and removed 5 cages to make more room as they were now out of use also they hang by three screws screwed into wall very handy as my breeding room can trance form into baby flight after breeding well thats the plan when i get a safety door wire for me all the way only ever had the birds on the flight side play up and i just clip cardboard their and fixed i brought some really good melamine ones but i couldnt move thenm and cleaning was like omg as they are all joined i ended up giving them away to a beginner whom had none not a show breeder but the smile i got was worth it

thanks taz my albinos and my lacewings are my strongest birds lucky as thats what im trying to specialize in lol that hen is the second best hen from three sisters her sister came 8th at the young bird shields in albino class the grey cock is son from the half sister of her father she just layed 4 more eggs i fostered them all out shes had two clutches already only two chicks but still two so they are going to rest for few months then see what weathers like may squeeze one more clutch latter from them but right now i am more aiming on getting the flight birds up to peek health as as i said i believe that they are not as good as i know they can be their weight is less also so im goingto stop breeding raise whats their and fly everything for a while birds and me take a break from breeding

here are some snaps my op sp on the two cin cock bird x lacewing gg house chicks she also hatched her first own chick today these next three are one foster from albino 3653 and two fosters fro opaline light greenmp1 sky blue hen as foster here is light green and her share of her chicks yf hen x albino nest df yf x lacewing nest should be chick in morning their this boy these eggs three his this chick was my breed op light green hens only one not fm afected dom pieds fostered eggs as hers were infertile mixed clutch this one albino hen and grey / ino foster of the green chick mids of giving flight good clean out and will fix few teething issues birds sorted in cage keeper sellers birds i pulled from nesting they will stay their until few weeks to unwind my pop out thats it for now

i just say to my girlfriends im a bird breeder i breed exhibition style budgies and that if u like cocks you should come for a look hee hee ...no i dont was just being bad lol not sure ive called it the fancy pretty sure i say something else but fancys stuck in my head now so hee hee cant think what it is i say when i remember ill let you know

yes things happening alright today i took apart all pairs that have not got eggs i decided im really not in breeding mood im also not happy with my birds health all over they seem thin and im just not sure they are all getting enough nutrition breeders are fine these are the flight birds im talking about so i caged birds today i looked through them also seems i got birds im not useing so i think im going to move them on before they become to old for anyone to use nothing over 09 but no point sitting here specially the o10 birds i dont think ill use im going to up load my pics soon of bubbys

okay update and-pictures latter today or tonight to come nest one light green opaline mp1 hen x grey normal/cin/opaline posably split lacewing 5 chicks hatched and well .....one died pipping death no pink eyes no cinnamon's nest two albino 3653 hen my breed x grey normal/albino /cin/op jg2 1 chick alive and well 4 dead two pipping deaths one twisted neck pipping and one death at one week signs of food poisoning (chick died full crop) nest three grey op spangle hen my bred x spangle skyblue/cin my breed 3 live chicks all fosters so far the two chicks fromthe cinnamon that blow out his balls hatched 20th under this hen fed perfect YEA his death was not for nothing and a chick fromthe lacewing sri hen and the grey green normal /cin/op my breed 2 eggs of her own left under her nest four dom pied hen my breed x sky cin spangle my breed all eggs clear 5 all up these were tossed out and replaced with fertile foster eggs due any day this week nest 6 grey normalmy bred x albino cock 06 jg2 1st chick hatched today WHOOO WHOOOOOOOO its a bino 3 left to hatch fingers crossed nest 7 grey cinnamon rc6 x op dom pied mp1 this nest has few fosters but its also got its own fertile eggs 6 eggs in nest two fosters i didnt want to disturb this hen alot so last i looked 3 eggs were becoming fertile they are due earliy next week so ...im hoping the dopm pied has filled all eggs this time if so i will be very very happy i have tryed thisboy 4 times with only one two eggs ever fertile both hatched but one lived it was a molter so ... nest 8 yf op spangle violet cinamon s1 x albino cock jg2 6 eggs in nest mostly fosters three of their own due when they hatch lol i have no clue i got slack righting my lay dates im really not good at recolds now ibreed show birds dont know why as with my pets i was really good i think its got to do with as they dont have lots of hidden mutations i dont bother as i know my family lines nest 10 lacewinghen gg house x albinocock my breed 3 new eggs this pairing is only as she lost her partner and this cock is her flight mate as i didnt want to stress her as she really wanted to nest and i didnt want to lose her by putting into flights i put him with her so far one egg showing fertile pair 11 lacewing hen sri x df yf grey rc6 4 fertile eggs due any day pair 12 lacewing hen sr1 x grey green my breedcock no eggs as yet re starting after eggs being moved nest and scrambled pair 13 cobalt cf1 x light green cin op mpi one egg fertile out of five i moved it and they are starting again no eggs yet pair 14 lacewing cock gg house x sky cin splat hen a big stuff up lol took all eggs and hopeing to restart this hen is a really **** sitter so all eggs will be exchanged for infertiles as she lays pair 15 grey hen x grey green cock /cin/op possably split lacewing my breed 3 eggs all infertile and shes tossing them id say to start new nest so ill let her go pair 16 skyblue hen my breed x df dom pied 06 mp1 this nest was all clear 6 eggs she has three foster chicks with hope to let her re lay after raising clutch if shes fit this is this cocks last chance she has the albino hen 3653 chick and two the op light green mp1 chicks pair 17 opaline light green my breed x sky sp mp1 /cin one egg layed yesterday pair 18 the chicks are out two fosters and hr own her own was fm aflickted so i took out thefosters one i managed to save from getting fm but the other got it sadly so one good usable chick two skankys shes relaying and eggs being moved and then shes resting before being returned to flight pics of chicks latter

thanks taz just wondered i know a few going

put a drop of ivomectom on bum end of the not affected chick and back neck for some reason i believe this helps prevent it i do it to all chicks in nest when i see fm as a issue and sometimes it stops it why dont know i was told this and i do it with good results oh when their around two weeks not before okay