Daz

okay yes be worried. Firstly are you realy to hand feed the chick, do you have a hand raiseing mixture, if so start to read the instructions for a newly hatched chick and get an eye dropper and start feeding him. If you don't have hand rearing mix mix egg and bisciut very very dilutely with warm milk (not hot). get an eye dropper and start giving small dropps of mixture to the beak. he will eat it. If you don't have egg and biscuit use milk and glucose. If you don't have glucose just use warm milk. As you feed him you will see that his crop will fill. Keep feeding him until he either takes no more or his crop looks full. Feed every hour until the mother gets the idea and starts to feed him. Hopefully it won't take long. If he is calling for full, that worries me because it should stimulate the hen into feeding him. This mix will give him strength, but you will need to get him onto the proper formular by tomorrow morning. Good luck and let us know how you go.

Hi Alan... can't help bad luck. There was a good roll up and quite a number of birds. We have a new web site Pine Rivers budgerigar Society There is information regarding the next meeting and events through the year. Hope to see you there.

There is definately spangle there. Spangle Cheek markings are discribed as Violet Suffussion Silver tolerated. which means Violet with silver edges...i think. I would say a yellowfaced opaline skyblue spangle. Nerwen your thoughts ?????

thanks Budgie bird that one I didn't know.... I still stay clear from MDF but you have me thinking about the ply wood now.

Just make sure they are not made of MDF. (medium density fibre) This is poisonous even to us.

It's my poor old colour blind eyes...

Alan if you are having trouble with Butcher Birds you will have to put up double wire on the aviary. Space it abour 25mm between the layers. The Butchers can pull the smaller budgies through the wire or at least try to. As to deter them ... I don't know. :bluebudgie:

Shawna from those photos I believe they are YF1 type 1 Here is a type II A type II has a "Bleed" that changes the blue to a green. In fact Chime here is a golden Face the yeloow is more buttercup. But it will give you an example.

yep it looks like it. As nerwen said get him to an aviarian vet and while you are wiating give his cere and feet and legs a wipe with some baby oil. The mites hate it and it won't hurt him. :bluebudgie:

You'll have to post photos as you go so we can see the development :bluebudgie:

Wow welcome back... Good collection. I was waiting for the Partridge in the Pear Tree at the end :bluebudgie:

Metal Mesh is a good supplier of aviary mesh. Good Strong Mesh. They supplied mine.

It looks good Nerwen...ust remember I post in the other post that if you need some extra wire or angle or stuff let me know. I have some left over from my aviary.

ummm if you cross a male lutino with a female lutino you get.....ummmm little lutinos ..

oooppss your right. . I think the normals are blues but we will wait to see. I'll post more photos next week.

The Four birds are having a ball. So much room to fly around in.I don't think they want the others back so soon :grbud:

Sorry about the Double post but it is 99% finished.... Night Shot.. Been working on it all day. Side Shot...Half the shed is the flight the other half will be the Breeding room I cut through the back of the original flight to double the size. From a different angle. Left is the internal flight...right will be the breeding boxes.. Looking through into the old flight from the new. From a different angle..... All I need is to set up the perches.. tomorrow's job. The holders are in just got to go bush to find some gum branches. Oh and for those that don't have pets... Here is Queenslands most well known hated tourest.. The Cane Toad. They poison the water and eat the feed.... wheres my 2 wood... anyone for golf!

Sorry all okay to get recessed Chicks from a mating of Recessed and Normal the normal must be split to recessed. So the Cinnamonwing is split to recessed pied. If we cross a normal/recessed x Recessed pied We should get 50% Normal/recessed pieds and 50% Recessed Pieds. As the female is a cinnamon wing We should get cocks that are split to cinnamon and normal hens. So unless the Recessed pied is split to Cinnamon we shouldn't get Cinnamon Hens...... But this is Phoebe. A female from the first clutch.... A Cinnamonwing recessed pied... The male was split to cinnamon. So the final out come should be Cinnamon Reccessed Pied Hens Well I have 5 chicks from that pair. The oldest is 17 days with the youngest being 8 days. The oldest is a recessed pied. so is the next oldest but the others I am not sure of...yet Oh the possible outcome 25% - Cinnamon, Recessive Pied, Split Blue 25% - Recessive Pied, Split Cinnamon, Split Blue 25% - Cinnamon, Split Recessive Pied, Split Blue 25% - Normal Green, Split Cinnamon, Split Recessive Pied, Split Blue

I always try to handle my chicks. I try to check tosee if they are okay and also being feed..... plus they're cute. :hap:

Boomberry I did some reseach and found that Citus acid (Citus Fruit) was a cure for Mega bateria so it goes that oranges will be good to help restrict Mega.. :hap: Well Done

I've just got a soft kead pencil but I like Nerwen's Idea. So long as it is Water base and non toxic it will be okay. :hap:

I'd take them out for a week and then retry.

Shann This is what I feed my birds. -Diet When they have chicks I increase it. Hope this helps.

Now a grey bird has grey patches and a grey wing has violet. What is the dominent gene going to do?

great Set up Hommer... Up here we can easily breed through winter. Don't get the snow like you guys