Finnie

I think it's absolutely amazing that this is possible! :emoticon112:

As we are talking about flowers, how about mustard green flowers and spinach flowers? Sometimes mine go to seed before I can use the greens.

The breeder told me he is eating seed and to put the seed on the ground in the cage, i did that but he is not eating when he is the cage only when he is outside... I put him seeds outside the cage on the floor and he eats, i mean i'm happy that he eats but if later he wont eat from the cage and he only will eat from outside, i'm worried Here's what I think: The important thing is to make sure he eats enough. So if he will eat outside of the cage, do that several times a day to keep up his strength. Eventually as he gets older and more used to his cage, I'm sure he will learn to eat in there, too. In the mean time, if you're the one feeding him when he's out of his cage, he will see you as his source of food, and it will help him bond with you all the more. Also, I agree with Squeak, he was probably sold too young. In one of your posts you said the breeder took him straight out of the box to sell to you. He wasn't ready to leave his nest or his parents. They need a week or two after they come out of the nest box on their own to learn how to feed themselves. At this age, he is still very dependant on his parents. And since I'm already writing here, I will answer your question from your other thread about his freaking out in his cage. Think about it, he had never left his nest box before, so he has no idea what in the world a "cage" is. He will get used to it eventually, but he would probably be happier if you could give him a small box-like home inside of the cage to hide in. Something we use a lot for newly fledged chicks is an ice cream container turned upside down on the cage floor, with a small hole cut out of it for a door. Here is a photo of the one I used, as an example: He might feel more secure if he can hide in something like that. Just make sure you take him out of it often enough to feed him and give him a cuddle. He's also never been alone before, he would have been used to cuddling up to his nest mates.

I agree :emoticon112: I'm happy for both of you that your hens are better! And especially that Kaz did not put hers down when she might have done. (Now if only there was an emoticon for "Whew! That was close!")

Thank you, Snoopy! :emoticon112:

Your flock is really pretty, Snoopy! You're lucky that your husband is interested in them, too. It makes a big difference!

I've been going back and forth between this thread, and the one where you're selling them, Mirren, and I keep thinking their ceres are so purple around the edges, that they seem to me to be males who have flash washing out the fronts of their ceres. A few times at home I have noticed that when I grab up a budgie, their cere turns pale, almost as though the blood is draining away from it due to stress. I'm wondering if that's what's happening in these photos, since you said there was no flash. Since you are the only one who can see them in person, you will have to judge: Is the overall cere color a pinkish purple, or is the overall color white? (Disregard the area around the nostrils, because that can be pale, even on a male budgie.) Or, you can try for photos at a different angle or different lighting, and we can try again on here.

okay, I admit it, this is me to a "T". I recently learned that I was way off the track as far as the pied genes are concerned, and when they are combined, I am totally at a loss. (Apparently, I am also at a loss when they aren't combined! ) I guess I just thought it LOOKED like a recessive pied, and since the parents weren't, I figured they must have been split for it. I guess I will go back to the drawing board to learn what a recessive pied looks like.

Finnie has had two chicks hatch two days in a row! The new one actually seems larger than yesterday's chick, so I'm afraid I will lose track of which is which. Actually, I could tell before the second one was fed, but now that they both have food in their crop, I can't. Well, swapped at birth doesn't really matter in this case- no birthright hinging on it! Whoever fits a leg ring first will be dubbed "the oldest". This one seems to have a lot of air in its crop. I hope that resolves itself, because I really don't want to have to interfere.

Nubbly, of course you are right about the spangle! I'm surprised Splat and I didn't notice about the parents! Also, if the cock is opaline, then the daughter is automatically opaline, too, isn't she? Good eye, spotting it visually with so little to go on! Well, these parents are certainly a cocktail of mutations, aren't they? Tha'ts a lot of fun for you, Snoopy. I can't wait to see what the next batch of eggs brings.

I guess you can never get very far away from those normals, can you? Always needed to bring the other varieties back to snuff!

Yay! A good one that made it!! She looks great!

Well that is too bad, cuz it sounds like you would be, in a way, ruining your dilutes. If you take good ones to get the splits, and then further down they pop back out with that modifier, and they aren't showable.

Wow, I think that's a beautiful chick! I don't know anything about Texas Clearbody, but I was thinking it must be one, only in recessive pied. Obviously, both of the parents must be carrying the recessive pied gene. I actually think the chick looks like a boy in spite of the lightness around its nostrils. What you need to look for in order to tell if it's female is whether there is an overall white color to the cere. If TCB is a sex-linked gene, then the chick would have to be a girl. But I don't know about TCB, so someone else will have to say about that. Well, I feel pretty stupid! I just did a search for TCB, and found my own post referencing a chart on Wikipedia! Apparently I knew this, and then forgot I knew it. It is sex-linked, so forget everything I said about the chick being a boy! Welcome to the forum. You and I have been around here the same amount of time, based on lurking first before joining! :hi: Reason for edit: Oops! I just saw what Splat wrote while I was typing! I didn't even notice the spangle part! Reason for second edit: fixing my own stupidity!

Oh what a good dad!

So before that happened, you would occasionally use a normal to improve your clearwings, and their body color? Also, when using the dilutes, does that get you a nice line of dilutes going at the same time, since with the /dilutes, you will sometimes get a nice visual dilute pop out?

From what I've been reading in the other thread about the downfalls, it always seems to be the good ones At least it sounds like he has siblings with good potential.

I like the spangle cock, too. And the dilute cock, I don't know what his finer points might be, but he sure looks BIG to me!

I'm sorry to hear this.

You should enter it anyway. I think part of his appeal is that he's the only one in the crowd who's looking up at us.

Awwwwwwwwwwww Look at the little chick on the right, standing up and waving :hi: I saw that! So cute, little Miss Personality!!

Yay!! :question: (Now we need a picture, you know.)

We have....... A Chick! Yay! (Hatched on day 18, by the way.) Not fed at the time of the picture, but I probably caught it too soon after hatching. Finnie's a good mom, so I'm sure he's been fed by now. Just look at his cute wing, and his big eye, and his cute little egg tooth! (Guess I'm just a proud grandma!) Judging by his cere, he must be a boy. Oh, and Finnie laid a 9th egg yesterday. I'm hoping she's going to stop, now that she has a little one to feed. :question: Aveline has laid a 3rd egg, and this one has no blood. I'm very relieved. And Teagan's 2nd egg is right on schedule:

Splat.......this is the fella I told to die if her was going to............he wouldnt eat for the longest time and I was crop feeding him to keep him alive. He turned the corner one day after I dared him to die. That's awesome! Congratulations

Maybe he will get better. How old is he?