Daz

Boy did I get it wrong.. Up to 4 chicks with one egg to go. If all goes okay it should hatch on Monday. Yes i'll get some photos today

Becareful Chirpy here is not a dilute spangle. He is a skyblue spangle with under developed wing markings.

uuummm eterri I think you missed this Post I believe the study was carried out with the World Budgerigar Organisation involved. That was the findings. Protien information in regards to Budgerigar Diets

She wanted me to start a pellet diet but is is too high in calcium. I have altered my Budgies diet to include different vitamins. I have had no other problems since.

Thanks Hath, I read something similar here in Australia. Here is a post regarding this.

I candle my egs at a week and just before hatching. The last is a certain check to see if the eggs are fertile and alright. On saturday I candling the latest clutch that was due to hatch on tuesday. I found that the eggs looked like this Forth Egg Picture down. Alan was there when we checked them and confirmed my thoughts that they were dead in shell. I decided to be safe and leave them till the end of the week rather than throwing them straight out. They were due to hatch on Tuesday gone. I wasn't surprised when they didn't hatch on Tuesday or Wednesday. I checked them Wednesday night (Late afternoon after dark) to find nothing. I plan to throw them out on Saturday, which is my day of cleaning. Late Wednesday night a friend came over and wanted to see the aviary. I went to show him what Budgerigar eggs looked like and ended up showing him a newly hatched chick. 1 hour old. Thursday morning two more eggs hatched and currently (Today is Friday here) I have three health chicks and expect the next to hatch tomorrow(Saturday) and the last one on Monday. I have candled a numbr of clutches and this is the first ones that looked like this. I am glad I didn't throw them out. Here is Dad (Bob) and Mum (Lisa) Karen's birds. Also one of the eggs were fostered from Greeny wh is resting after 2 clutches and Huey This is their Last Clutch So I suppose the lesson here is don't prematurly throw out eggs that you are not 100% sure of. Leave them 5 to 7 days after the due hatching date to see what happens. Baby Photos to come.

Well there's no Shimps to put on any Barbies but there are some prawns.

From what I can see he looks like a yellowface (Type 1) Skyblue. Have you got a better shot of him?

ummm I think Nerwen is right. I see a dark green recessive Pied and a Light green Dominant Pied. With Recessive pieds. they will be either bkue birds (White base) or green birds (yellow base) so you call them the off colour. Your recessive pied is green (yeloow base) with the off colour being a dark green. As a dak green bird she carries a sigle factor dark factor. The babies will either be light green or dark green (Unless split to Blue) All will be split to recessive pied and 25% will be Dominent Pied.

Golden Face is associated with Parblue birds where the yellow bleeds into the blue body giving it a green colour. The goldenface is more "Buttercup" than the yellow face.

Boy..

I can see the remaining effects of scaly face. the beak is beginning to over grow. If you have some calcium perches, they will help to grind his beak back.

ummm a light green budgie with a yellowface is a light green budgie. Budgiebird is the bird club a Budgerigar Society?

Ummm a new fledged chick has full grown wings... You have me curious as to the origin of your question

I'd say Sky Blue Opaline hen.. Looks like an opaline hen.. Good shoulders.

Read again Daz ........."Also have some seed, a load of drinking bottles and four budgies if you want them all in the price" Thats not right...ebay says it doesn't sell live stock ... Is this different in the UK?

Ebay must have change it. The link now goes to breeding cages.... and they look pretty good... UMmmm might bidon them.

I feed the parents on hi protein food. They then give it to the chicks :0

I use Baby oil to keep the mites away. When handling the birds and quick wipe of baby oil on the legs and the cere does the trick. :hap:

Hi jenene283 i don't think the link is correct. Do you need some help?

Patches is isn't that cold here in Brisbane Queensland. I got 9deg on wednesday but thats fine. Where abouts are you?

Breeding cages are the way to go. It helps control the breeding better as Nerwen said. Plus it looks more organised.

I was diagniosed as a kid with Blue Green Blindness. I can see colours but some shades look the same. I have problems with Reds and Browns and fawn colours... Don't ask me to pick a colours for painting the house.

I use a solar light too...