*Nerwen*

okay the picture works now :ausb: I added the other picture to show his back I hope you don't mind. I haven't seen a cheek patch that purple before and wonder if it's from the flash. But he does look violet.

It's not getting the ferilte eggs to worry about with new mums it them looking after the babies correctly when they hatch. I'm glad for you Kirby I check egg three tommorrow.

well I don't think the Yf is I meant to add that before, but the sky blue has the signs of opaline, you can't really see the v shape in the pictures for him. The blue running up the back of the head is one sign also the thin lines on the wing look blue to me not black.

YAY great to hear

Here is the link: http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=10993 When Daz showed me the picture all I could remember was "reverse spangle" Daz I forward the email about the dusk budgies to you, karen sent the info to me at the same time back in May.

the sky blue looks like an opaline spangle to me. the yellowface could be a violet his cheek patchs seem dark enough.

aww my lazy boy

gah this is bugging me I know i've hear or read the name dusk budige before But I can't remember if it was for this mutation or not now. oh and Daz showed me when I met up with him trying to trick me

aww cute I heard give us a kiss a few time in the second

love the names, yes they are both opaline cobalts.

heh that was the show I was thinking about when I posted before thanks for the link. maybe simply becuase of their smartness?

no not often and normaly they die in the egg. Before I forget this is tooties picture of three: Gee I'm glad I uplaoded that last picture becuase: Suddenly there is FIVE! and it's only 3pm the others have been laid closer to 4-5 pm. To help you out a bit: I only know this becuase I had to pick them up to find the new egg. She has teken in the spare one wonderfully.

she is having so much fun

Well Tootie now has a foster egg thanks to Daz And her second egg is fertile as well. As we spoke about Daz I removed the first two if Ringos since both are clear and now she is having 1/2 hour no nest time She isn't that happy about it either. Both egg where nice and warm so she is a good sitter and later if she is still interested in breeding I might move the foster egg to her. I havn't yet check to see what Tootie is doing with her now four eggs but she hasn't come out of the box again. I'll leave her so she doesn't get mad with me nosing and throw them all out or something, I'll check again around 5 pm and see if her due egg is there as well.

yep I can see them in the email. The pictures a on a small side. Are you sure the eyes on Nibbler is bright red? she is a recessive pied as well and they have a plum red eye. From this picture I can't tell if she has brown wings or not. As to Lemon it's really hard to say. But she doesn't look bright yellow and I can see cream on the wing soe YF ino seems like a safe bet to say

Walford looks opaline to me as well. But I also see what you mean with the head bars Lovely...I think I would still vote opaline. Seymour, Manny and Seymours daughter ( i like Meygen from the two you picked ) are greywings as lovely stated To get all these colours in a clutch Moss must have been a green spangle split for yellowface blue and greywing and your Berry needs to be split for greywing as well. And Toes looks lacwing to me as well and lovely is again right with what the babys should be.

aww What a sweet Idea I hope they all settle now under their new mum.

I know it's always a surprise to see how much the first one as grown in such short time.

I see it more as they learn from each other in the wild how to sing correctly to win the girl and such, but in the house their 'flock' is us and the one that talk have accepted that to a higher degree than the other scared ones that don't want anything to do with humans. There are birds in the wild that will mimic other birds in the area and I believe the lyrebird is one of them, these sort of bird with even mimic sound made from humans if they live close by.

I'm not at all sure, maybe becuase they have a bigger problem with the mites that the sickness is the cuase of the lowered infertiility rather than the treatment.

good girl Macey

well he isn't just a pied either he has other genetic showing as well. But just the pied bit: A dominant pied only needs one pied gene and one normal gene to appear as a pied. But if the bird gets two dominant pied genes (one from each parent) then the pattern of colour on the body changes a bit, the patches become smaller is the major one.

well it depends if Sky and Fran are bonded already or not, once bonded it takes a while to break the bond and start forming another with the new partner. Dark blue and dark brown cere (male and female) are a good sign to know they are in breeding contition. Flirting for males is another good sign and hens ripping into things is another.

It's a one (I know one looks like it is saying IT) Becuase I have two laying hens I added the first letter of their name just to be double sure if I had to move any around that I knew who's egg was who's. I also used different coloured pens. The 'T' is for Tootie and the 'R' for Ringo. I have three eggs now :budgiedance: and the first of Tootie's is fertile, so it seems I will be able to use the name I have lined up :budgiedance: I was a bit worried since on friday afternoon (day 5) I couldn't seen anything, but checked this morning and there where strong lines starting to snake out. Ringo's of cuase is completly clear as I thought it would be, but she is still on time laying her third as well. OMG!!!!!!!!!!! Did anyone know you can see the baby's heart beating when candling the eggs at this stage??? I almost droped the egg in shock! It was like a pin head sized dot blinking on and off!!

WOOHOO so now the count down can really start