*Nerwen*

so have you changed your mind now bea

yes Bea they can, I'm sure Rainbow can show you at less ONE shot of her birdies again :ausb: Now where is our updated picture?

SO very very cute What is the nesting material you are useing? There is no way you can keep it spotless :ausb: the hard round ball of poop are good it means it isn't soft enough to stick to feet or beaks and cause problems. If they do get any on they beak or feet uisng the q-tip or normal cotton balls with warm water would work too. Can you just throw the nesting material away and add some more?or it is trapped in the box?

aww a budge heart how cute

you really notice it when it's a budiges first molt for that is really heavy.

since you spoke of nothing about white or whitish areas, and spoke of pink all over I would say male. But picture would help heaps

Budgies are normaly easy to pair and breed compaired to other types of bird. Your two sound like they arebonding well and happy to resived each other as mates. Pictures would help to work out just what they are and so what sort of babies you would get. As to hand rearing, that would be something you would have to make up your mind up about area geting all the info. Sorry I cant help there since i havn't done so. But many say (and I argee) leaving the chick with the partents to raise and handling them,once fulyl with feathers, for small amounts of time many times over the day you get tame babies.

Well the size I found was around 590 X 350ish. It a big big for the size stated of 450X450. Thank you for trying to fix the problem. :hap: If you have a phot programe you could resize it before uploading it to photoshop, or use the link like you have for poeple to view your pictures.

sound like she is in need of a vet care, when young the beak can be molded back into shape. But some one with knowledge would need to do it. No another note you hen sounds like a yellowface type 2. (which is what the fourth is in my picture) That means you do have a Creamino. This is a bird that is a yellowface albino. Yellowfaces are blue birds but the yellow is not fully taken away. let us know about the baby and what care she needs.

a water base non toxic marker will work, I think a pencil mark will get lost after a while (rubed off from moving) They are marked so later with five of them clustered together you can tell which one laied first and if it is over due for hatching. You don't have to, it will not stop the parents from doing what is needed :hap:

Wonderful shots I love the third one too, almost like a mirror :hap: "I dare you to look like this!" "What this?" *click* "oh no we will not live this down."

:hap: Great picture and great story.

well I have seen pics that do that but not in all opalines. Tootie looks like it but that might be for the clearbody gene not the opaline one.

as rainbow said (great to see you still ) df pied nornall have less marking than sf factor ones.

opaline makes the bars on the head look fainter.

Nope Just plain odd :nest:

:nest: Yep Bea it's great. lovey when every one person revamps their siggies others jump on the wagon I thought it time to remove the new year one from mine.

:nest: gee mine are the other way around, don't give them some for a whie and they go nuts when I put some in.

:nest: and the look of bliss on their faces while they get a grooming (as I call it )

Aww that is lovly to hear Al dad will do is eat and eat and eat, he needt o eat to keep himself feed, mom feed and all the bubs feed, that's a lot of food. At this stage he would only be feeding mom since they babys need crop milk, something special that mom can make. But lin told you all that But I would think by week 3 both are feeding the babes. Go for it Bea a member here once named her eggs :nest: You can take a leaf from her book and change the names later on

It not really mutual feeding per say since only the male will feed the hen. If the hen is feeding the male it means he his sick and need to see a vet. As all say above you need to wait for the male to become one, so another three months where they can bond strongly and you can gather as much as you can :nest: By the sounds of things you have two pied, by the placement you spoke of your older hen is a recessive pied and spangle, the upside down bit on the wings. In my sig picture the one on the left is a spangle. To check if your male is a recessive or dominant type have a look at the eye if it had the white ring called the iris ring all the time (not just when excitingly bonding with his mate) and his cere is blue then he is dominant. If his cere is still pinkish and there is no sign of ring he would be recessive and his markings will be in the same sort of area as the hens. Whisper sounds so cute Welcome tot he place I hope we can help with what you are after and more. Names are hard with out seeing them but here goes - (hen)queeny, vixen, mustard.(male) Timmy, Digger, Jake.

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good for you :hap: it's wonderful to see them eat greens for the first time, they nibble at it and stop for a second then it seems the think to themselves 'this is good stuff' and dig in

:hap: trying to top me with the sig notices Daz : edit- oh wait it's gone now

me too Lin, I thought something had gone wrong with the site :hap: made me wonder what I fist posted about, then I remembered I had just caught my too "lovebirds" at it and needed some help.