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Sorry but Barrie appears to have plagarised this information from another website. If you think I am wrong then check this link out. http://www.herbalextractsplus.com/cayenne.cfm This site contains the article found on Barrie's web site. He has omitted certain paragraphs. The photo he has used to represent Hippocrates is also pulled off another website. Which one I am not sure. If you do an image search on google it comes up a few times but the original can be found here. It also states clearly the images on tha page are copyrighted. Link to this site here. Scroll down to the third line of images, look on the far right. http://www.janleighton.com/index_new8.html He seems to have a habit of plagerising others work or just using photos etc for his own website. I speak from experience as he pulled photos off my web site without my authorisation and I chatted him about it. As for Cayenne pepper. All I have to say is that the article and the research into Cayenne is for human physiology. As far as I am aware birds do not produce gastric juices the same way we do. They do not have a stomach like us. They have a crop and a gizzard. The crop stores food and does secrete a juice of some description which aids to soften the food. The food then moves down to the gizzard where powerful muscle action takes places to grind the food. The food then moves through the intestinal tract where particlar nutrients are removed and finally excreted. At which point, if any, Cayenne is benefical to the bird is not known. I am not aware of any studies into Cayenne uses for birds.

AB please read what I wrote carefully. I did not say all pieds have frosting. Only Dutch show this characteristic in the normal version of Dutch Pied. Normal Aussie Dom Pied markings are exactly the same as normal looking birds. I never bred Opaline into my Dutch Pieds because I did not want to lose the uniqueness of that variety plus also not make identification harder due to 'opalesence'. Here are some pix for you. This guy is a double factored Dutch Pied he is also a single factor Violet Mauve. This photo shows only the back view but you can see a small amount of frosting. This picture is a son of the bird above. He is a single factor Dutch Pied Olive. It does not come up on this picture well but he showed only three pied feathers on the back of his neck. If you look at the barring on the back and side of the neck, down through the V area and the wings you see the amount of alteration and a small amount of frosting evident. This some people confuse with Opaline in these pieds. This hen is the sister to the above bird. She is a single factor Dutch Pied and also single factor Violet and a Dark Green. She shows only a small amount of pied markings. A small amount of pattern disturbance and frosting. This bird is a single factor Dutch Pied Cobalt. He is not related to the others above and showed no. From memory he never produced any chicks with it. He was also a hugh bird something like 9 ins long. The last bird I had purchased and never bred from. A single factor Dutch Pied Grey. He shows a great deal of frosting. This picture does not do him justice.

They are Dominant Pieds with very little penetrance of the pied factor.

If you look at the orignal post provided you'll see the Sky Opaline Spangle is also a Pied.

Sorry this post slipped away. I will answer your query but not today. I am about to head off to the races. I also have a ripper of a flu come kind person gave me so the brain is in fog land right now. Nerwen good try to describe but it isn't that simple I'm afraid.

We're off again. Belmont Park Race 3. CRIS details as follows: http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris/racefield.aspx...4606&race=3 Here is a little clip of her before she went out on the 1st of April to break a 20yr old track record. The field tomorrow is not a strong one by any means. Problem will be getting some pace going. Even the guys who do the selections (The Box Seat) for the WA Turf Club queried this race for a pace setter. If she doesn't get a bit of pace she will pull and over 1400m it may be her downful. Shaun does do a better job though of keeping her calm, hence the better results of late. Alan Kennedy (Chikky's previous jockey) is riding Lo Wu. Kennedy knows how Chikky races and Lo Wu is not known for early speed and so could well sit back and try to block our girl in. We'll have to wait and see. If anybody is interested in her last run it can be seen on part two of '"The Box Seat" here http://www.perthracing.com.au/ On the left of the screen is a box which features videos. Scroll to the one mentioned above.

Assuming the following: PARENTS Cock := Aust YellowFace (df) Sky Blue Aust Dom Pied(sf) Hen := Light Green Aust Grey(sf) Aust Dom Pied(sf) Opal Cinn PROGENY PERCENTAGE DESCRIPTION 12.500 % Light Green Aust Dom Pied(sf) / Aust YellowFace Hen 12.500 % Light Green Aust Dom Pied(sf) / Aust YellowFace Opal Cinn-I Cock 12.500 % Light Green Aust Grey(sf) Aust Dom Pied(sf) / Aust YellowFace Hen 12.500 % Light Green Aust Grey(sf) Aust Dom Pied(sf) / Aust YellowFace Opal Cinn-I Cock 6.250 % Light Green / Aust YellowFace Hen 6.250 % Light Green / Aust YellowFace Opal Cinn-I Cock 6.250 % Light Green Aust Dom Pied(df) / Aust YellowFace Hen 6.250 % Light Green Aust Dom Pied(df) / Aust YellowFace Opal Cinn-I Cock 6.250 % Light Green Aust Grey(sf) / Aust YellowFace Hen 6.250 % Light Green Aust Grey(sf) / Aust YellowFace Opal Cinn-I Cock 6.250 % Light Green Aust Grey(sf) Aust Dom Pied(df) / Aust YellowFace Hen 6.250 % Light Green Aust Grey(sf) Aust Dom Pied(df) / Aust YellowFace Opal Cinn-I Cock Total Number of Progeny Types (including sexes) := 12

size of a finch :rofl: :rofl:

Ditto

You have to be careful when you are questioning others that you do not type something that makes you look bad. White-wing is a term that was once used for a blue-based clearwing. If they had excellent wings, with no markings, their wings were white, thus they were called whitewings. Do'n't know about saying that the term was 'once used', as in the UK and those who subscribe to there way of thinking the term 'whitewing' is still used today. In fact it was the English that coined the term originally. They have a tendency to split certain varties into there respective green (yellow) and blue (white) series.

Do you have any visual or split par ino's in your colony system?

Has this bird got an Iris ring or not? Cause it is looking very typical of a Dutch Pied. They show an 'opalesance' of sorts usually referred to as 'frosting'.

Like pie said a Charcoal Zebra Finch. I use to breed and show them. I disagree in part with not keeping budgies and finches together. It will always depend on numbers of budgies and Finches. Types of finches involved. I have kept quite succesfully 3 pairs of Cut-throats with 400 budgies but the flight was large. I also had in there about a half dozen cockatiels and a Red-capped parrot. Some Finch species are actually quite aggressive and will do more damage to a budgie. Sometimes you can house different species together as long as your not breeding. Breeding will bring out the aggression and territorial behaviour more.

Isn't that right though? A Clearflight paired to/combined with a Recessive Pied produces a DEC? I thought I read that somewhere, can't for the life of me think where! When I think of I will let you know! A Clearflight/Rec Pied paired to a Rec Pied does give you a DEC. However it should be written as a Continental Clear Flight so as not to confuse with people calling the 'Clearflight Pied' (mismarked Australian Pied) Eric peake does some great drawings but I sent him an email back in the 90's about that article, also about the colour of a Fallows cere (he had painted it blue) in one of his pics. He came back with some excuse that simply didn't cut it with me.

Just curious but you don't tell how your vet came to the low iodine conclusion. Would you like to tell us why you took Opal to the vet. Might be something we could learn from.

No she will be staying in work and may have another run before that big race. Shaun loves her. He usually rides Copper Reign and got of that horse to ride ours. He said he would ride her anytime. I did have a little dabble this time but the odds were so short it was hard to get a good price. Best I could get on the bookies was 2.20 a win and 1.40 a place. Tote faired slightly better.

She Won!!!! :bliss: :bliss: :bliss: :bliss: :bliss: HAT-TRICK :bliss: :bliss: :bliss: http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris/raceresults.as...&photo=true Is she awesome or what. Finally after all this time we have a workable combination. Chikky and Shaun. Champions So exicited yesterday. Hugged everybody except the jockey (that's a no no). Let the track singing Queens' - "We are the Champions". Back to Tezza's place watch the demo DVD a few times. Then relive all past wins. Awesome! She has now qualified for the $60,000 Provincial Series Final over 1400 metres on May 22 at Belmont. I reckon she'll start at pretty short odds. Don't know who the runners for this race yet. But she will definately be in with a strong chance.

Chikky is racing today. I have just checked the CRIS website and here are her details for those of you who are interested. http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris/racefield.aspx...4884&race=6 She is in line for a hat-trick so fingers crossed. Race Review by Grassroots Racing. Geoff puts her as Best bet of the Day. How cool is that. http://www.grassrootsracingwa.com/bunbury-preview---204.html TABozbet has her favourite. https://www.ozbet.com.au/UISecure/ToteUI/Ra...contestNumber=6

All right but I have issue with question 9. Also some of the varieties I plut in for question 6 are not listed but I know I'm right cause I bred all but one of them. Question 9. I did stuff up putting in ...... but then you get that with only 3-4 hours sleep a night over the past week. One of the varieties they list I consider a recessive given the newer information available on the subject. Aslo with the Dominant ...... sorry but I don't accept that as a double factor form is a variation not a complete change same with the ........ double factor and the ...........double factor.......... They are still ...... and .......... it is only the double factor form of ............ that is a complete change from the single factor form. Gee looks like my post is a bit of a quiz in its self. Trying not to give away answers I think I've created a puzzle. Whose gonna try and work that lot out? Anyone.

Just need to clarify something here. I only use a night light in the shed, it is pitch black in there. The aviaries are going with what ever nature throws at them during the dark hours. When I had the big shed up and running it was dark too like my little shed (current breeding room), even nature doesn't get that dark.

That looks a little like my Engel one.

I have always used blue globes as this is as close as I can get to simulating a night time environment.

RACE MEETING ABANDONED Guess it was wetter down there than in Perth. Oh well. Adam nominated her for Ascot on Saturday too but she is the 9th emergency runner so we need a lot of scratchings for her to move into the field and improve her damn awful barrier draw.

Well 14th April 2010 Chikky is going for the hat-trick. Unfortunately Shaun was not available so the Jokey is William Pike. This will be his second ride on her. Details of the race are to be found here. http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris/racefield.aspx...4591&race=7 The weather will be wet but the Verglas progeny like the wet. She has raced before in the rain but it wasn't as bad as it is forcast for tomorrow. Cross fingers, there is only one horse in the race that will worry her, Copper Reign.