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its a boy stace hes stated that heaps can you please call it a boy cause if some one finds him and reads this over very quickly they may see your comments refering to him as female and think oh its not the right owner sorry if i sound pedantic

yes but males would be split ino as i stated and the females would be slate their for the cock chicks would be split slate... split ino and the females from these would be ino or slate as both the genes are sex-linked and one would think that being sex-linkage the Alli would be on same position their for both if not they would be / ino and slate giving ino slate hens *** im not sure i even get what im trying to say here lol

yes dave it is as far as i could say its a darkening factor like grey or violet try this so would deepen the yello to a mustard colour and the cocks would all be split ino and the hens would be from them able to be slate ino hens m interesting i must say be good in albino id think http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/rares/slates/slates.html

wasnt sure if beet leaves were okay for budgies but seems they are dave :} also i noticed she was a dom pied first picture you posted maybe id say masking sky blue also i do breed albbys so get use to looking close at them shes got the suffusion lime green so why i say sky blue cinnamon sky blues go pink/ suffusion violet goes pink /brown suffushion cobalt normally masks well as does grey so .... she has a nice pied band too

okay i didnt go back and look at what i first said but here is my say grey normal hen x opaline dk grn /clearbody /cinnamon cock grey normal /unknown x grey cinnamon hen spangle cinnamon hen x blue opaline cock df yellow spangle x cobalt hen violet spangle and cobalt opaline hen and rec-pied id use for pet breeding and colour variety only sorry the reason i changed the cinn sp hen x df yellow sp was due to they are both rather cut off from bum no follow through and i think the head feather on the cobalt as in direction is good for him she seems to be needing a bit more wighth that he has andbeing related to the cobalt cock if you pair the two with the pairings ive said then regardless of out come you can then pair the cin hen with the ydf next time and will have half related chicks on his side to pair in future with his impact as he looks like hes been breed well so would be resonalbly pre-potant as does she adding the two blues should give that tad length to both birds chicks and the direction will be on its way if not fixed enough to keep young and then re imprint the direction at latter time that they can be breed i dont see any show quality in the others i left out but then who am i im just another beginner so dont really know that much but they are in my eyes colour injectors only

put peace of blue paper in show cage first then sticky tape it wont glare back then

she looks to be masking dom pied two :}

i only said what i would pair to try bring out any show quality's that my be their some your hens are very handy but its hard to say when they are not even looking at you lol the cocks however i feel your ydf spangle your yf cobalt that's got the chicks and the Opaline dark green are your handiest birds regarding feather and look any chance you can lend a show cage from a breeder and get snaps of them each better as its hard to really tell your birds could be supper but just look average due to not in show cage show birds is all about the show cage you can have a supper bird but if he or she does not show well then you have nothing as it does pass on down in the generations and best to use the ones who show and put the rest aside unless they have constant outstanding features in the flight my thoughts if you can always veiw your prospect birds in a show cage before buying

okay my bad i just fingered if they are ex-capped and breed their fore making a flock they were then classed as wild which has happened over their also they are but only green so have already reverted back to wild type

a plate how did the plate one work like how did you make that ???

" Wild" budgies are only in Australia. Pops doesnt come from Australia Stace. thats not actually true kaz in Canada their is wild budgies how ?? i guess same as how we got indian minners

im having mouse issues in the house but not in my flights their mouse proof as however im going batty all i can smell everywhere i go is mouse **** n poo the gararge the hallway the back portch everywhere my kids rooms for god sake i woke to chewing and stupid things ate hole in the cubboard to my clean linnen its not the seed bringing them as they dont want that and my seed in bins i dont know what to do or what they want but dad n i are going to war i called him said that's it enough so good luck mate im putting my baits in my cabinets all over yard and in shed on tables extra and im locking them so no animals can get in to it marlee is inside my dog never out of my sight and doesnt eat them anyways and good luck if a cat comes here and eats them may stop my cat issues too barsteds eatting all my breeding ginni pigs right out from under my nose too lucky i have not got them or they would be flying over the fence off my boot

they are a flock bird but i dont see a issue if shes free and decided your home is a good home id just leave things how is in the wild females go find a nest then the males look for them after a month or two not the same as captive breed birds i will admit though if away from flock may be hard to find still if shes happy leave it i say

lol i didnt even see you had chosen the grey x grey cin hen lol see shows you how much i took notice ,,.... not :{ i did but i forgot when i was looking them over what made you think putting nimbus with the violet spangle may i ask because ill tell you something being asked question helps us learn more as both party's gets to express their reasons and it can be discussed much more thorough and a better understanding of it all reached looking at the pied cock is he maybe just from nest does he have barring ??? looks young if so give him time

okay here is my suggestion and that's all it is grey cinnamon spangle hen ...nimbus x ydf spangle cock grey normal cock...gandalf x grey cinnamon hen will find out id hes split cinnamon and or opaline in one breeding and he will help her wings and both got good frontal push above cere opaline dark green/clear-body /cinnamon x normal cobalt... the sister to the normal cobalt cock grey normal hen x cobalt normal again the lifting of the wings and she has better feather than him violet spangle and opaline cobalt as the rec pied is in my opinion not worth breeding for show quality you will just go backwards from the start and last but not least i wouldn't breed the rec hen as to much feather issues and sits weird and hunched but in saying all this thats me

caustic soda works in milk but kills everything so you need to be very very careful where you put the jar lids :} (did i say that no this is not really a post you imagine it is here but its not gb would never feed poor little mice caustic soda that's just cruel )

i agree with kaz i put my chicks back over and over as for the yf my yf chicks didnt come out yf untill first molt with my type 1 dont know if thats odd and i got rid of em all so i was told it was but all chicks did its so lemon yellow real light like your boy i didnt think it worked that way but did with mine theirs a thread some where about it

really kaz it is cause for me its just a picture :{ okay cool thanks @taboo, i have not really been to many shows as i really want to work on my stud i dont feel they are show worthy yet but i have taken a few for test drives to see where i sit in my beginner class results are as follows eastern district diploma show took 10 birds albinos took two young birds ..... came third and second in class these birds stay in my stud :} regardless due to bloodline im working on Grey hen ubc ,..came 3rd and grey hen young bird this bird got best in class then moved on and got best in variety but did not get passed anywhere else but im happy with her result i would have had come home with a trophy only they dont give them out unless theirs more than 4 in a class they dont let you get the trophy if theirs 4 or less birds :{ my grey dom pied hen , young bird and exactly same thing a win in variety and best in class but again no prize :{ cinnamon grey spangle hen young bird , came second in class yf blue cock young bird , second in class df spangle white young cock , first but he was only one their so thats a given and two lacewing young birds one came second in class and the other first in class and then best in variety again only 4 birds so no prize but i did get cards for on my cages :} with all the written info :} then the next was the ubc shields in November i got three birds selected my lacewing chick ....seventh place her brother a grey green ....27th place still 4th from being last :} and a yf grey ....last place but i knew that already as was one my culls already so not shocked their :} then recently i went to united diploma show i took 5 birds i took my albino hen the one i left home last time she placed first in class beginner took the spangle again again same result :{ and no others :{ beginner my sky blue spangle his brother placed first in class beginner then got reserve young cock beginner and my lacewing got first in class beginner took dom pied again and got first in class beginner then reserve young hen beginner so all in all i did better than i thought but all birds bar the two that got reserve came in due to being only one in the class im pretty sure except the albino my clubs diploma is on soon march 20th i was going to take my birds but i stuffed my show cages trying to make them nicer so i may not be taking any now ill have to see if i can get help to fix them first all in all i haven't really started showing as i haven't really got many good birds to take yet and really im bit put off when ive been twice now and all u gets these Dodge little cards :{ NOT INSPIRING ME i did get two platters for my reserve placings but to be honest id have rathered a Rosette or a ribbon seems no one gets them in vic i wonder why people show at all really as unless you get top bird you get nothing not even a encouragement my encouragement was ..... doesnt matter that you got reserve hen and cock as you dont get points for that points dam who cares i got reserve young cock and hen in a diploma like im worried about points after all its only my second show i have been to im actually pretty dam happy with that and my fruit n cheese platters well my mum n sister loved them gave them one each

your hen needs more food each chick needs a cup of seed a day thats a cup of seed per chick my jar feeders empty daily when chicks are hatched and around week on wards i also supliment and some hens still have dificultys keeping crop food up all day so ask yourself this are your supplying at least a cup of seed per chick are you supplying soft protein eg the boiled egg n weetbix with grated egg or even a bit of whole grain bread if no time for that and fresh veg or seedling grasses daliy if the answer to one of them is no then id change that :}

oh he is adorable

any one know how to put video on from photo bucket ??

thanks dean its a lacewing hen mate lol here is a video of my latest pairing i had a really bad two to three days with this clutch new mum and two chicks hatched one day both died not feed both lacewings then second day two hatched and again both lacewings one lived and mum started to feed i was feeding all chicks in hope mum would continue she pushed three aside however and i had to revive them the last one she sat on every minit so .... and its doing great look okay i cant do the vidio thing im still learning ill try again latter

well i felt like sitting down for bit try not to worry about the happenings in everyone else s life's sometimes things are just to sad for words i run through a few pics and came across some the birds i was looking for here is my most beautiful boy he was a cinnamon grey green / blue/lacewing/opaline i brought from nubbly 5 i had him to short a time he sadly broke his neck in his breeding box feeding his young something had startled him and he must of tried to fly before he got out box as hes neck was broken that was only thing wrong he left behind 4 chicks i kept three of them all the cocks and a friend has the hen from him no lacewings :{ as his first round all died bar one chick their was one lacewing in their first chick he fathered both him and my hen were first time breeders he was a 07 cock bird i got with him his half brother a grey green /lacewing /opaline/blue 08 boy just as beautiful but different quality's this cock breed me my seventh place getter in the vic ubc sheilds last november this is her here is mum and dad next to each other here is his son brother two the lacewing and the other hen from the clutch a light green will be a very handy bird i culled the two cinnamon birds a grey cock and a Opaline cinnamon hen they had 4 more chicks one im culling a grey normal very small and a grey green who is getting their has the look so will keep and a small lacewing hen whom at moment i have kept but im tossing up on to keep her or not time will tell i guess ill try get pics the other three ive kept in my flight the small grey is in my cull cage with my albino split culls well when i come back ill move on to my opaline light green cock / lacewing from nubbly 5 and his progress

omg that is so funny i dont think it was a good thing( as in i didn't mean to picture it) but the budgie and your spoon i just saw a quick glimpse in my mind him chatting the spoon up one leg on the handle one on the spoony bit kissing his reflection saying oh yeah baby ,your so naughty ,daddys home very very quiet funny made my day i needed a laugh thanks :}

I did not know they go Barren for a few months out of the year - very interesting is there any average time of the year they do it? or just random for the Area they live in ? every cock bird is different theirs no real time they do it but it is fact many a good cock bird has been tried then retried then moved on in belief hes infertile i have a few myself that were so called infertile cocks also if you have a cock bird that does not fill yet his cere is reasonably blue and he seems in good condition to breed placing a few chicks in place of the infertile eggs obviously when they would of been due and new born-snot week olds will most of the time kick start his fertility by time hes finished feeding his foster children he should be right to fill his own next round feeding the young stimulates thecock into breeding condition again most times