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Yes DEC's can be had in all the yellowface mutations. As for the sex of the babies I would rather like to wait and see more photos when they are older.

Damn nice Lacewings you got there Gina. Hope you produce a champion from them and that your breeding season goes off like a frog in a sock.

Normal Texas Clearbodies will always have more suffusion than and Opaline Texas Clearbody. You can reduce suffusion through selective breeding with Ino's and Lacewings. Suffusion is a natural occurance in this variety.

Yeah dave go right ahead and thanks for aknowledging the source. Thanks Kaz for posting the links to my page on Brownwings. As far as them becoming a class I reckon personally it won't be easy drawing up a standard. I did breed them for a few years prior to leaving the hobby but did not do sufficient pairings with dark fator birds. The birds I orignally had were Grey Green in double factor and it was hard enough just getting birds without the grey factor so I could then see effects on the other body colour range of birds. I did eventually breed a couple of Sky Blues and a hen that although was a Brownwing did not show the brown markings, she appeared more black. One of the main ways to distingish is the eye. When hatched they are red and they do fade like a cinnamon but if you look closely they will appear a deep plum colour. The iris at first glance appears to me missing but is in fact present but is not a nice bright white like in other mutations but rather a brownish white, non-distinct you might say. My plan is to try at some point to obtain some Brownwings and hopefully continue with my research.

I don't know about my fellow Sandgropers but I sure as *** don't want these critters in our state. Today kicks off the annual Cane Toad Muster and ends on 12th Octber. More information can be found on the link below. http://www.stopthetoad.org.au/main/muster.php

Reading through the Sunday Times today and I came across an article about Jack. Passed away from a heart attack two weeks ago. This Corella was with Ida Gallop for 42 years. I remember seeing him on Burkes Backyard and A Current Affair. Corellas are not my favourite bird at all but he was such an awesome well behaved cocky that I have shed a tear for him today. Below is a youtube link and will show you what Ida used to do with Jack and how well trained this bird was. RIP Jack

Congrats DrNat. It is a fantastic idea and I hope it catches on.

Just trying to catch up on some threads and came across this one. My question is....What is the program you have been using. The term split for Yellowface is correct. Yellowface (all mutants) and blue are recessive to Green and so are designated split. Everyone excepts the term Green/Blue, right. So since Yellowface and Blue are alleles (variations of one gene) it therefore follows that designation Yellowface as a split is indeed correct. If you insist on saying that Yellowface cannot be designated as split then you cannot also use that designation for Blue!

Daz you might need to go back to the drawing board. Two greens cannot produced a visual Blue and a Visual Yellowface in the same nest. Since Yellowface and Blue are multiple alleles a bird cannot carry both a Blue and a Yellowface gene at the same time. So one parent would be split for Blue and the other parent split for Yellowface. So the following pairing can only produce: Green/Blue x Green/YF 25% Green 25% Green/Blue 25% Green/YF 25% Yellow Face Blue Now if one of the Greens was a misdiagnosed single factor Yellowface Blue then it would be possible to produce Blues.

What are the parents of the Grandparents in the pedigree?

If by Clearflight you are referring to a Dutch Pied otherwise known as a Clearflighted Pied or Continental Clearflight Pied then it is quite possible for the pairing to produce a youngster that appears to be normal with a few "pied" feathers on the back of the head. Some years ago when I was breeding Dutch Pieds I found the pied markings to be quite variable and below is a photo I have posted on this site before of a Dutch Pied Olive cock. Both his parents were Dutch Pieds with father a double factor Dutch Pied Mauve. You'll notice an opalencent bloom but no pied feathers except the couple on the back of his head.

Looking great renee. Just one question. Why are you using square perches? I know lots of people have done this past and present but I don't see the benefit. A birds foot has evolved over thousands of years to the design of today. The foot sits in an un-natural position on square perches and causes pressure on the parts of the foot coming into contact with corners of the perch. After all, trees don't grow square branches.

I just love the work you've done on that Caddy. Photos are great and I bet it attracts a good deal of attention from the show goers.

I was driving there Pilot vehicle a Mercedes Wagon. I did not get pics of it though. Didn't think of it. Would rather of taken my ute though, much more comforatble than trying to sleep in the back of the Merc when it just does not have the length. On the way back I co-drove the Freightliners, both the Century Class and the Argosy cab-over.

I just don't have the time to resize them. Here is the link to photobucket though so you can look there. http://s359.photobucket.com/albums/oo40/RI...dge%20sections/

Well I am back on deck. Unfortunately the job did not put me in a better financial situation but I did enjoy it. I just love going into the red dirt country. Downside of the going away was that the breeding fell in a hole, so I discontinued it. Will pick it back up again later and will expand in the breeding journal thread. Here are a couple of pics to show you what I was escorting (DrNat - shame on you. lol). This picture shows a Kenworth from another company loading up at Pacific Industrial. This picture shows a Freightliner (Century Class) loading up at Pacific Industrial. On the return trip the pilot vehicle was loaded onto the trailer and the driver and myself switched driving duties so we could get back without having to pull over at all to sleep. This picture shows the rear view of the bridge section on the trailer. It is 4.8 metres wide at the top. This section of the road was quite good but other sections were a tight fit for passing traffic. This photo shows the brake down. We were 20kms south of Meekatharra at the St Barbara mine site and the two tyres decided to depart from the dolly. Sheared a bolt clean off and made a mess of the thread of a couple more. Chained up the axle and limped into Meeka at 40kms/hr. Just pulled into the parking bay and the belt let go on the pilot vehicle. It was a long day/night that one! This picture of the Freightliner Argosy was taken in a parking bay south of Munjina George as the sun was coming up. I got to drive this truck also. Hope you enjoy the pics. Have others if anybody wants to see more.

Hi folks. Have not been around lately picked up a bit of work escorting oversize vehicles up to Port Hedland. As far as I know a new railway bridge is being constructed over Turner River and there is over 100 Bridge Sections going up. Each one is 4.6 metres wide and weighs around 31 ton. A couple of companies are doing the moves and I was lucky to pick up a job with one of them as a pilot and because I am using there pilot vehicle and one of the trucks is theirs it goes on the back of the truck until we reach Pithara or Wubin and I get to drive the Freightliner (Truck) in shifts with the other driver back. Gone for 4 days at a time. Home for 1 day. I will post some pics when I get time. I am so having a great time. I just love being out there camping where ever we pull up for the night.

First look it looks like a Hakea but I can't confirm that cause I don't have time to hunt down the info. If it is a Hakea it is safe.

Why is there still the persistance that these birds die young. It has been shown on many occasions with proper care they can last for quite some time. I bred and researched them for a number of years. It is most likely a genetic defect as stated in this thread and as far as I know that has not be proven scientifically but it may well be a good guess. It is not a disease!

Baby 2 is a Grey Opaline Spangle. Baby 3 and 4 look like Grey Green Spangles and the one on the left appears to be exhibiting signs of French Moult.

Or you could try a colour coded version of the Dark Factor article found here http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2761/ar.../dkfactors.html

Pair 2: First chick hatched today. Nice and pink and well fed. Looks a treat. Pair 4: Laid five eggs, four fertile. Pair 1: Still interested in box but still no real activity in laying. Pair 3: She finally come to the party and has cleaned out the box. Now wait for her to lay.

Last I heard in the late 90's he was still around and still breeding. But as I said that's what I heard and is not to be taken as fact. A few phone calls to the right people will find you the answer you seek.

Just a little side note to this diccussion. It is illegal to decant a product to smaller containers for resale even though the intent is just.

Queensland was split into two due the fact they have many more clubs than Western Australia. There population centres are along the coast and a few inland as well. They can support the numbers of clubs currently in operation. Western Australia's main center of budgie activity is Perth. The state body in WA is made up of only three budgie clubs.