Everything posted by GenericBlue
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Another Sick Budgie
If a baby budgie is in an aviary with nestboxes and 3 months old they will mate and they will get eggbound. While this may not be happeneing in this case, it CAN happen........so never put it at the bottom of a list if they are in a breeding aviary. yes birds will breed at 4 weeks of age and up it is important to have a flight for all young hens up till 1 year if you are going to breed colony style or you risk them getting egg bound
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Scalyface On A Found Bird
you did right by taking her to vet she now does not need to suffer 25 dollors was good anesthetizing my bird cost me 44 and then the rest for the lab tests and corrier to city ect poo smears autopsy which i find out on monday night about both birds and will let you all know out comes that hand stuff is good i also wear the gloves doctors were when cleaning each breeding cage as not to spread poo from my hands to next cage hens big fat ones are messy yuk lol but these are cheep for pack of 100 or so in safeways i have new pair each cage and toss other pair out one box lasts me a fortnight
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Another Sick Budgie
may i be a tad rude and ask why you are trying to save the bird with god knows what illness and have not given her the best chance and taken her to the vet but also adding that you are doing all you can but i think she is past the pull up stage he needs medication to actually win this battle only a vet can say what one
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What Is This Budgie?
or it could be due to genetic cross over in the genetics thats way out of my league though sorry but yes cinnamon opaline sky regardless of that fact
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Shannons Blog
light camera action lol love the red behind the green bird beautiful contrasting their shannon
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4 New Pairs Down Today
okay i went out to my birds to feed clean and cheak hens are okay in boxes and to my suprize a baby in my dom pie x violet clutch well its only a suprize as my birds usually 21 day incubation this hen 18 day on dot then i check her sister the cin opaline dom pie and their is another chick 18 days to dot so i will write that down as to know next time their length of sitting both chicks healthy one was feed very well the other not at all i couldnt remember how long chicks can go with out feed but think its 12 hours mabe 8 but what ever it is i wasnt chancing it on such a cold and stormy night i swaped the chicks as so the un feed one would be fed i will swap back in morn if anyone thinks i should just put both chicks in the nest were feeding is happening let me know as i was conserned the one who didnt feed could actually still not feed rezulting in the death of the chick if that makes any sence i will try explain again if it does not cheers oh df dom has 7 eggs now splat has 5 eggs and lacewing 3
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My First Show Pairs Down ,
thank you he has had better days i cant wait till he finishes his molt he will look beautiful
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Show Birds And Pet Type Whats The Diffrence
thank you all for your replys i was wondering how do you do a fertility test ???? yes kaz gary armstrong has got great fertility in his birds i have seen birds from his stud have massive fill rate and birds lovley also one day i will get some but first i will try breeding what i have im hopeing my lacewings eggs are firtile this time round she has three eggs at present and i let her and grey cock raise and hatch someone elses chicks as to try incourage their next rounds success so im glad to hear that can work i did it as i didnt want her to sit for nothing and wanted her to experiace being a mum not wonder why no babys hatch i know that sounds dumb but to me its just like being pregnant and no baby in end would be disappointing to say the least
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Cook Or Not
Considering these posts seem to have been made around midnite last night.......maybe noone much was ONLINE ???? Before bagging members for "not answering " posts look at the time they were posted and how many members were online at that time. To be considered. was not bagging anyone out kaz sorry if it looked that way im not that way inclinded yes it was late and i wasnt talking about her post in general just posts that i have often seen lots of veiws but no responce they could just be pics but i didnt mean to sound all like i was being all ....how ever it seemed SORRY ANYONE WHO WAS AFENDED BY THIS COMENT and i did consider who was on and knew their was only few members really sorry to of upset you was not intended to be read like that and dave i agree their
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My Aviary....start To Finish
love it when a plan comes together looking great kaz
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Cook Or Not
do you mean the lavendor you grow in the garden with purple flowers heads i have that if it same one that would be good for me what part of it would you put in can you use chicken frames from supermarket raw i know you said cooked but i have been wondering for a while about getting those but dont know for sure rather someone that feeds their birds meat to tell me for sure not off a web site thank you for answering my posts gb your welcome i hate seeing posts that no one bothers to even Agnolage they have read when its such a simple thing to respond to fair enough if they have no clue but you know what i mean as for the ones from shops i only give them chicken from the roasts i cook for my family ones i have seasoned and thats so i know what they eatting yes English lavender from garden the whole stem and flowers they pull it apart mainly i read it and tryed it here what i read Greenfeed is a very important item in the diet. Spinach, silver beet or English lavender is very good, chickweed is excellent, and another item we use is Lemna. Any green feed fed to your birds should be thoroughly washed before you give it to them. Suspend it from the wire using a plastic clothes peg if possible, and they will enjoy it more. pm me i will send you the whole article
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Another Sick Budgie
nice offer libby you should remove any sick bird from flock soon as its spotted i remove birds that stay just a slight bit ruffled if the bird has not moved in 4 to five hours even if it pulls together and creats a chase just to remove it then it is housed in a cage in shed for up to my descreshion depending on other behavior and if im not sure as it looks good but still ruffled it gets moved to a bit bigger cage and sits for two weeks their in case my birds rearly get unwell but by staying on top of them i lessen chances of spred through out flock
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Scalyface On A Found Bird
oh thats good i thought they died i will do some more reseach on the web as well then its suprizing her breast bone isnt really thin i checked thats how i found the vent was affected as well ive never seen anything about vents before just beaks legs she seems to have been breathing all right earlier after oiling havent checked for awhile its outside bring her in the warm house or she may die from cold she could be tyed and stressed from her flight is she on a perch or the ground dont worry about the oil od lol just dry her feathers well with a tea towel has she eatten are her eyes bright and clear or closed cheeping even soft all things to consider place her in a box shoe box would be good for warmth bring inside and cover with a towel put breathing holes in it lol just leave her till morn if she lives take to vet you may stress her more worrying and fussing over her put seed in bottom of box and some green with water on it so she has moisture not water to tip over good luck thats what i would do
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Cook Or Not
i use frozen mix veggies from safe way (Woolworth) tin should be fine just rince well(peas corn carrot diced ) my birds love green grapes manderines ,thin sliced banana ,pineapple, water melon,weet bix with milk soked up in it the way i hate them yuk english spinach english lavender ,water cress ,and the odd leg lamb bone and roast chicken cakus cooke(meat only ) but if feeding the meat items be sure to remove in an 2 hour time frame
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My First Show Pairs Down ,
yes i hope but i doubt i will my membership still needs to be tabled what ever that means im guessing weather they want me or not then once im excepted then i get to register for rings sucks really as i being wanting rings for ever now and could take to long for these chicks so i wont be able to show them (at club i mean) but can breed with them when older was not going to start breeding till i had rings but when the birds are ready their ready they dont wait for me to be ready lol
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Found Very Sick Bird
im going to get photo tomorrow but by the time i found something to put it in and place ect i dint remember in fact only just remembed the bird again when went to check on her doesnt look good shoved in wooden box on top of rags for heat because there is no light on it as power is not possible have done my best but most certainly dont want my others getting anything will take to vet if she lives did put pariffin oil on legs and vent and beak as she has it there as well have you ever seen sface on vents of birds beak brittle trimed a bit not much funny end on it yuk i thought scale face only went to beaks faces legs is she able to eat do you need to feed her a soft mix mabe ??? rasing mix can fill her for night offer in small codiale bottle lid can she crack seed could just be sick due to hunger is she thin
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Scalyface On A Found Bird
yes very bad cases can go to feet vent eyes beak put some spot on the neck ivomectom on it and use parafine oil sparringly to vent and other afected areas this kills the mite and it suffercates them as they can not breath do morn and night for a week then again in three weeks to kill any that may of hatched from eggs layed in the cavitys as this only kills live mite not the eggs repeate this one more time three weeks after this that and the ivomectom should inshure all mite are gone also the oil helps heal the skin you see rezults in days try not to let it get in mouth will cause runs
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Cook Or Not
i cook my rice for my birds but i dont know i cook fryed rice for them boiled rice with mixed peas corn and carrot scrambbled eggs then i toss it in pan feed warm they love it specially the feeding cocks
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Another Sick Budgie
she may have chill or anything ... but to see if she is egg bound take a look under her tail and if their is a bump looks like her bumb is going to explode then chances are she is if this is so i suggest you give her a half teaspoon of cod liver oil in her seed this will clean her out egg and all if this does not work then a vet trip is needed birds catch draft really easy specially in this weather so im guessing she is sick with cold or she is really sick with illness is she thin can you feel her keal bone ? when birds get to the floor stage it is hard to bring them back as the dehydrate themselves as they dont have strength to do anything not even drink they die shortly after have you wormed your birds latley ? birds should be wormed every 4 months their are so many things that can make a bird sick but mainly they have been not good for a while ,they hide it well as so others dont pick on and kill them the vet really is the only one who can give a true awnser relying on us the people of the sight is not a good thing many of us can help with certain issues but none of us are able to give a true diagnosis so really its always best to go to the vet soon as your bird looks sick as it wont get any better only worse with out a real diagnosis and the right medication you also may save other birds by picking up a illness that may be hiding in your flock so many illnesses have similar sighs but some are as simple as a few days in side warm others are not so easy only a vet can tell the diffrents if a vet is not open keep warm i teaspoon of cold black tea to 1ooml boiled water and offered to bird on a spoon may just help till you can get her their i took one same symptoms to vet today she was euthanasized and sent for testing how ever i caught mine while still active just with stained bum removed in morn to cage in home and by lunch she was on the floor hardly moving i figured thats 4 birds dead in 1 and half months so even though symptoms a bit diffrent their has to be underlying issue so two birds sent for autopsy now answers on monday night so vet vet vet vet vet is all i can spell out and thats not being nasty to you this is to every one behaviour questions are one thing but defenent sighns of illness need vet
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My First Show Pairs Down ,
five eggs as of 600pm tonight and sitting
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Show Birds And Pet Type Whats The Diffrence
hi as you would know i have decided to go and try my luck with show breeding so first off i was wanting to know the egg to hatch rate of some of you breeders of the show type size birds i know with my pet types pretty much what ever they lay hatches and is raised too easy and most not all of my pet types are show size but im wondering why it isnt that easy with the show birds and around how many eggs should i actually expect to hatch out of each clutch when do you give up on a hen or a cock and class them not breeder bale whats is the best and quickest easiest way to tell who is the problem ???hen or cock is and how and what is the awnser to infertile birds if one at all and i know cocks dont have sperm all time so how do you know when he does just not have any at the time or if he doesnt have it at all cheers this really interests me to hear some responses thanks
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4 New Pairs Down Today
okay we now have dom pie x violet still 7 eggs and sitting well due first egg on 10th aug cin opaline dom x sky norm/ cinn/opaline/recpie with 7 eggs sitting well first due 10th aug df dom opaline cinnamon / rec pie x yf opaline sky spangle / rec pie on 6 eggs still laying so didnt look up hatch date but few days after the doms chicks start hatching everything starts hatching so.. mauve dom opaline x sky norm/opaline/rec 5 eggs sitting well think thats it will see splat hen x clear flighted pie 4 eggs today lacewing two eggs albino 4 eggs cant wait sooooon ....
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Pairing Two
not sure but think its 25 percent of each
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My Other Birds
do you keep them all with the budgies as i was wondering do they get along
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Pairing Two
kaz he is very dark cinnamon darker than any i have ever seen he is lovley you will get lacewing cocks and hens split lacewing cocks and normal hens but im sure you knew this already