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GenericBlue

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  1. okay so this update is well and truley over due i ended up with 19 pet type chicks all 7 of the dom gf cobalt hens hatched 6 of the cinn opaline gf dom hens hatched 6 of the df dom cin opalines hatched none of my fostered show eggs hatched and i killed my lacewings two chicks woops :offtopic: i wont put up pics as they will be in the for sale soon anyhow just thought closure is always a good thing
  2. im so glad you took the others advice these things can happen but sounds like you delt with it really well its nice to see when we listen and learn from one another what this place is about do you have pics of cricket now ???? would love to see
  3. thats so lovley sorry bout the lost youngin hope to see pics soon
  4. saved another cold discarded but fed chick today it pays to get up at 530 am and check nests early another dompie and grey hen chick that the egg had been fostered ,two chicks hatched at one time and my first real albino :offtopic: :grbud: from my jg2 cock bird albino and a albino hen i moved it just for safe keeping as i had 3 chicks hatch this morn its with a reliable safe mummy now i dont loss it my bird room is cold temp gadge says 10 degree so night must be half that :dbb1: a few breaths of warmth and a little chirp was all i needed and the little grey hens chick was fine she is also with a really good mum and her saved sister (they could be boys lol ) but they are alive through this method :rip:
  5. everyone is right keep very warm i just saved 8 birds who came down from a draft in aviary i thought they were sick with what ever but before i got to take to vet they all came good in warm house i have a room that i have a heater in on a regulated heat of 28 degree when my birds come down over night fluffed up and slight or bad poo bum if no improvement in few hours and they become worse off to vets if vet not open up with heat to 32 and vet straight in morn i was lucky this time they were just all cold and slight draft got them unwell be sure to keep them warm for till weather becomes fine if you do this with outside birds as i do be prepared for a messy room for some time hee heater stays of when birds are themselves again but birds stay inside and during day window open on nice days to get use to outside again not many would sugest this but i have saved many birds like this hope lemon is well and nothing happened to her birds get sick so quickly sometimes
  6. rares show do we got one of them down her kaz ????
  7. honestly i am not sure what could be iritating him sexually frustrated male mabe lol how big is the cage on a serious note ? i would suggest mabe getting one thats at least a meter high by 90 acrossed and and around in a square 90 each side hope that makes sence im didlexic so its hard to explain basicly a square cage one meter high and your whole arm length long on each side deck it out with fresh gum leafs on a new branch and have a scuwer with 3 diffrent fresh fruits on it a day cut into cubes and pushed onto it hang it from the side walk put a cork on end but be warned he may eat that chew should i say put a cocky ball in their one that has the big holes in them and hang it from roof he will go in their and out and in and just chew it and be mental on it but possably wont screech id interduce a older hen on thats got a bit of grunt about her and is quite active her self and i would place the cage out side under cover or on wall of house and cover it nightly with a tarp to protect from wind and animals put green shade cloth around it also for sun and wind protection during day he sounds pissed off and cooped up to me oh and the hen thing only actually get one for him if he doesnt chill out over a period of a month thats my sugestion if that does not cut it find some one who will place him in an aviary do a swap mabe for a quiet one that actually does the sweet little chirppy sounds good luck let us know what gives k
  8. yes a winner :rofl: :rofl: df doms look like rec pies so its hard to tell when young but after their second molt you can always be sure because sometimes even after first moult the iris rings do not come in birds maturure diffrently as do we humans as for dom pieds a good indication is their full wings from the v down cut short at the first or seconed flights rec usually have more spasmatic markings its the mixed pieds that are a pain in the ...... also spangles with the pied mark that are not pied that one gets me everytime they look like they could be spangle doms with full wing markings bar the flights but..... not grrrrrrrrrrrrr
  9. i say its a young hen dom but im not always right i go with dom to young for rings
  10. that it does also putting birds down on same day and then stagering a few cages gives opatun for new hatched chicks to be saved also eg un fed or discarded ect i save my first chick from a lovley pairing yesterday by having a nest of infirtile eggs ready to hatch on same day i just take a egg replace with new hatched chick and replace taken first chick with second hatched from another nest due on same times then when chicks all safe and fed and more hatched and fed replace to original nests no mixing as size of two day old and 4 day old clear and chicks look diffrent also so u just remember a certain caricteristic more pairs the merryer
  11. yes they go into shock and coma before dieing as do we humans i think im experiencing this as i write this wish i had some warm hands to keep me alive about now :rofl: :rofl: my com room is like ice age at moment i use this method all time if i find a dead looking chick, if not flat / white ,mmmm,sounds like a coffee lol sorry bad humor its very early and i can not sleep have been unwell with pain in back i get a bit weird and bad jokes to keep mind off pain rather than painkillers heeee
  12. im very wasteful i just toss out the seed into the bin or out on the lawn infact i put fresh seed on lawn for the dimond doves i have seed growing instead of lawn pretty much lol but it all gets feed to the breeders dayly and the aviary birds also i change my seed dayly in breeding room and aviary so i go through loads of seed but i also go through loads of bread and veg rice ect so... im going to buy hanging feeders again i had them once but changed back to floor but im going to do both soon but i clean aviary weekly and all floor stuff goes in bin
  13. sunshine i got a one and its a easten also i have proper out door pond and filtration ect the up keep is alot and they can get sick fast they also dig and they need to be hibernated properly mine just came out of hibanation i will help u if you need any just ask me if you want dont release it as its illegal to do so and dont just give it to a random it needs lots of care
  14. very cute and very typicall of babys the lacewing chick will it be yellow or is mum and dad split blue ??
  15. GB, if you're after something to give you genetic percentages, want something that's free and you can play all you want then I may have a solution: The Genetic Calculator. It's a web based application developed for many species of birds including budgerigars. Here's the address: Genetic Calculator wow my goodness im lost just looking at it im dyslexic lol so um ...mmmmmmmmmmmmm would need to be shown how it works but looks very good i cant see lacewing on it though or am i blind Best just to spend some time playing with it to get the hang of it. However, two tips to get you started: 1. If you select nothing this is the equivalent of a Normal Light green. From here you add factors (eg Dark, Wing Variety, double factor etc) to build up the variety and colour you're after. 2. You will not see "cock' and "hen". Instead these are replaced by 1.0 and 0.1 respectively. It generally works pretty well but I'm still unsure about the yellowface expectations thank you im not to good with understanding things like that very well but will have a play if i do stuff that i know defenant out come of i should be able to grasp it cheers ps love the worms :rofl: oh is o.1 the cock or hen ????
  16. its not that exiting darl but well worth trying out to see if we may be having some weird thing going on after all one the breeders from my club saw the chicks as babys and as they were getting their yellow face and he told me pet or not to keep as he had never seen before personally i just couldnt be bothered testing theroys but you can have lots of fun and stuff keep recolds and pics of each bird breed from these two males and their partners as well as dayly pics of chicks till after their full moults i have some from last clutch so and some notes i will give you personally i just think that their type one yellow face and that the yellow must come in with them braking their caps as faces defenently white till pins come in with moult i did do i half **** post on these chicks but had heaps going on at time so didnt finish it theirs pics of chicks their before and durring this weired change im going to call u in next few days if not tonight will chat then
  17. well hamish i took your advice i sold my split fellow boy my opaline grey diluted hen is gone the little dom gone i kept the two split rec cock birds father and son and i have put a very large masked cock bird with normal ,cinnamon wings ,split blue and lacewing to my small but bulky opaline cin sky violet hen so lets see if i get thoughs crackers :rofl:
  18. you go liv its great to hear people achieving things im a bit of an underachiever myself but am achieving personal day to day things and i find that hard enough you give me inspiration to see all the things in your world that u take on as do many people here in budgie land :rofl: good luck and im thinking of you
  19. its n t that funny lol :sad: i have two lacewing hens and seven split lacewing cocks :hap: :rofl: :rofl: mind you i do have 5 eggs with one hen and only just paired my serious pairs on the 14th this month so.... finggys crossed be looking for picture morrow :sad:
  20. be sure to picture her growing for me kaz it will be hen as its sexlinked lol u got one before me :sad: :rofl: :rofl:
  21. defenently white as were my chicks when it happened to me the yf didnt come in untill they broke their caps as with littlebudgies and the birds all came from same aviarys so.... i was told by one the members of my club back in dec that it was very odd that i should not get rid of them only they were to small for me and i wasnt going to breed them weird or not keep them all littlebudgies dont sell them next year we will get to bottom of this i have a plan as you have the father of my first weird babys and his weird offspring we may as well experiment see what the story is as for the two fathers well i got an idea for them
  22. well i must say i love reading your thread its layed out with such explanation and extra teachings as in the requesting us to note the eye coloration of the chicks this really does help all the beginners im glad to hear your lacewing boy did produce for you and also that he filled almost all his eggs congrats cant wait for more pics as i really want to see a lacewing growing in nest and learn what to expect from any young i may get as in how to tell if their laceing will be good stuff like that glad to see your season started off well
  23. what a little fatty your birds are so lovley kaz im hopeing i can achive simular things with time
  24. what gave me away ..... lol got to say macka the book sucked most of the info is older than my grandmother and i knew it all anyways whats the ken york breeding program im wanting something basic like me lol how much and where im really after something like the binks book but i really think that i got told the rob m book was better buy im wanting something that can explain for me genetic inheritance like percentage of blood ect really and give advice on bird management when it comes to what to give your birds as in medication minerals and all that stuff when how often and which ones are nececity whats just cause if u get my drift im open to peoples rageams if their willing to spil
  25. If you mean this picture GB they are Daniela's birds. okay i did thanks kaz

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