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A cheap cure for scaley face is vegetable oil. Everybody got it in there pantry. It is a bit messy but works. Vaseline will also do the trick.

Opaline Lacewing and I wouldn't be surprised if she was a Dark Green.

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That is a seriously beautifully marked spangle. The oplaine markings are great also. For show purposes the markings are but a small percentage of the overall points. If the budgie is a good budgie I would show it. There are to many Spangles getting around these days with markings that are almost invisable. I personally would be breeding better marked spangles if I could get hold of good stock to start. Right now I would settle for a decent sized Clearwing hen. I have a split cock left from my preious stud at my mates places. He a bit old but he just bred with him.

I watched the movie Paycheck tonight. Good movie, nice story bit of mystery. The bit that lost its credibility for me was a couple of birds in a cage. Never got a real good look but they looked like male and female Mulga Parrots. What I found quite hillarous was the soundtrack for the birds. Instead of the proper track for those birds they used budgie sounds. :hap: They also used another bird sound but I was not sure what it was, maybe canary. Not the first time I have heard the wrong sounds for animals used in a movie.

Quote Kaz: I use seasol...a seaweed fertiliser. Seasol is a tonic a fertilizer. I have used it for years when ever planting new plants or tansplanting plants. It contains no nitrogen or phosphorous. Therefore is not considered a complete fertiliser Quote **Liv**: I agree with kaz, that using a sea weed solution is great for firtilising the garden. Never use any chemical based ones or chicken poo etc when feeding the veggies to the birds I disagree with no using chemical based fertilisers as I have used them all my gardening life. Fertilisers are chemical or organic based. Ultimately they all break down into their respective molecules. Everything you buy in the shops for your birds has more then likely had a chemical on it while it was growing. Wash it before feeding to your birds. Chicken Poo is great stuff. Properly composted it is a fantastic organic fertiliser. High in nitrogen so perfect for leafy veggies such as spinch and silverbeet. Quote melbournebudgies: If you have a problem with caterpillars there is a great product called Di-pill which is organic and is bacteria based, it affects the caterpillars but is safe for consumption for animals/humans practically straight away Catapillers most likely the Cabbage White. Easy cure. Collect the catapillers and crush them, add water and strain add a little bit of detergent and spray on garden. Cabbage White deposit a pheromone whilst laying eggs to deter other Cabbage Whites from laying eggs on same plant. Someone mentioned Marigolds. They exude a chemical from their roots which repel nemotodes as does sugar.

Best in Show by Gerald Binks Hard Cover 175 pages in very good condition. Weight 346 grams. I have one each of 1974 and a 1983 copies. $30 + P&P If anybody is interested just PM me and I'll give you my bank details.

A Guide to Colour Mutations and Genetics in Parrots by Terry Martin I have a few copies of this book which I need to sell. Hard cover Retails for $80 + P&P I will sell for $70 + P&P Soft Cover Retails for $70 + P&P I will sell for $60 + P&P I have done a quick scan of the contents pages. Contents 1 Contents 2 Contents 3 Contents 4 Contents 5 If anybody is interested just PM me and I'll give you my bank details.

Do you know of any plants that have high omega 3 levels? An easily obtained source for the birds is Flax or otherwise known as Linseed as seed oil or whole food. It is 6 times richer than fish oils. Other plants are Chia, Kiwifruit, Perilla, Cowberry, Camelina, Portulaca, Black Raspberry in the seed oil. Other plants such as butternuts, walnuts, pecan, hazel in whole foods. Personally I would just stick with the linseed. Budgies do not readily take to it. Provide as a tonic seed along with Niger and Red Pannicum.

Don't be scared of big names. They always sound worse than they are. Basically fish oil contains what is known as omega-3 fatty acids the big long names listed are in that group. Surfactants are wetting agents. Yeast will be for Vitamin B. Starch is a polysaccharide carbohydrate. Gluten is protein. Colours.Well as the name says. Sweetners. Thats becuase some of the other ingredients are down right awful to taste. Dairy. Have no idea. If you have had them around for about a week and a bit and they have been in a fairly cool place they will be fine. I personally would not feed my birds fish oil for any length of time. I would rather a plant based omega-3 fatty acid source.

Thanks splat for the update on Geoff Lowe. Glad to hear he will be hanging around for a while longer yet.

You'll find that they have a basic ingredient. Plaster of Paris Calcium Sulfate) is because is does contain Calcium and once rehydrated it becomes a solid but is still able to be filed down by the birds beak. Calcium carbonate on the other hand once wetted down will not dry to a hard compound it will just disintergrate back into powdered form. The blocks will not harm your birds. It is a good way for birds to exercise and trim beaks.

Guys I think your getting it. If you have a Green bird who you think is also a Yellowface then simply mate it to a Blue bird (3rd pairing below). Green (2 green genes) X Blue (2 blue genes) = 100 % Green/blue (1 green gene and 1 blue gene) Green/blue (1 green gene and 1 blue gene) X Blue (2 blue genes) = 50% Green/blue (1 green gene and 1 blue gene) and 50% Blue (2 blue genes) Green/Yellowface (1 green gene and 1 YF gene) X Blue (2 blue genes) = 50%Green/blue (1 green gene and 1 blue gene) and 50% Yellowface (1 YF gene and 1 blue gene)

Well seems like ya missed the point. I will try to put it as simplistic as I can. Original bird is Green. Green feather = Melanin, yellow pigment, structure This gene mutates and you get a Blue bird. Blue feather= Melanin, NO yellow pigment, structure This gene mutates again to Yellowface. Blue feather = Melanin, SOME yellow pigmant, structure This green gene has mutated 4 times and produced the following: Blue; Goldenface; Yellowface M2, Yellowface M1. Each if available in single or double factor. A bird can only carry two genes. A Green that carries blue cannot be yellowface. A Green that carries Yellowface cannot carry Blue. A Green cannot be a double factor Yellowface and split for Blue at the same time. I too have heard many people say that a Green bird who is also Goldenface will show a brighter face. No one has yet put a bird in front of me to prove that. Any birds that I seen that were questionable have turned out to be Light Green with a stronger yellow pigment with no YF in background. Beware the myths and ledgends. They just don't go away. All life on this planet exists with VARIATION on the basic model. Without it life would not have evolved. I was going my photos last night to see what budgie ones I had left. I came across a photo sent to me by Pantcho Tomas in NSW. It is of a composite Yellowface and Goldenface. I will post it once I have it scanned.

I am still researching and writing. New Years Eve got in the way. Decided I will expand it and make it an article on Calcium but will include the blocks within.

A Green bird that is carrying Yellowface will not show a brighter yellowface. The yellow pigment on the Green bird is the pigment in its full intensity. On a Yellowface bird the pigment is reduced by varying degrees depending on which mutation it is. Remember that in all budgies there are verying degrees of brightness of the yellow and black pigments. This is due to "natural variation". The structure of the feather shows variation also and this in turn will ensure the green birds vary in colour. Line up a bunch of Light Greens and if you look very carefully you will see that no two indiviuals are exactly alike.

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Green, Yellowface and Blue are alleles of the same gene. They can only carry two of these genes at any one time. Only dealing with single factor here. Each gene is separated with a hyphen followed by the visual result. Green-Green = Visually Green Green-Blue = Visually Green. Carries Blue gene Green-Yellowface = Visually Green. Carries Yellowface gene Yellowface-Blue = Visually Yellowface. Carries Blue gene Blue-Blue = Visually Blue

A very late HAPPY NEW YEAR I celebrated the new year with my neighbour and his mate. A few Cruisers, the Bear and Sambucca showed up. Got to bed about 5am and slept the first day of the new year away. Was it any good?

Well this I must say surprises me. Don Burke of all people. The Garden Guru keeper of budgies like since forever. I moved into the house I am in, in 1995 and up until 2002 when all budgies were sold off I had an enclosed system. No sunlight entered the birdroom from any scource. I never had a single problem associated with the birds being devoid of sunlight. Why? Because since day one full spectrum flourescent tubes were installed in the birds flights. Problem solved. I have bred tropical fish and like Don Burke I was also some years ago right in everything horticultural. Dabbled a fair bit at one time into hydroponics too. I fail to fathom how a person with the gardening knowledge that Don has didn't figure out it applies to other organisms like budgies too.

I put bay leaves in the pantry a couple to each shelf. I keep my flour in the fridge.

Don't matter what leg the ring is put on. It comes down to personal preference. If you get to Warrnambool see if a guy name Geoff Lowe is still there. Nice chap very knowledgable.

:anim_19: An the winner of the aviary of the year goes to.........KAZZY

I guess I will jump in here and say yep there is definately a Swordtail swimming around in there.

He is a Sky Blue so I looked for names in other languages that mean Sky. Spanish = Cielo French = Ciel Portugues = Ceu