Everything posted by Finnie
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G & G 2010/2011 Breeding Season
Oh, Nubbly!
- Egg Hatches Early
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Scaley Face Treatment
I find this a bit ironic!
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G & G 2010/2011 Breeding Season
I'm sorry about this guy. I hope he gets better.
- Finnie's August 2010 Pairs
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Finnie's August 2010 Pairs
They feel smooth, as far as I can tell.
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Members Violet Budgies
I agree, Splat. Someday I will have one.
- Budgie Game
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Today's The Day!
He's very cute! I like to clip the veggies to the bars of the cage using a wooden clothes pin. That way you can put them near his favorite perch, and he is likely to get curious about them sooner, and try them. For foods that are shredded, chopped, or otherwise not clippable, I use a flat saucer on the bottom of the cage. (I try to find a clean spot where the least poop falls! )
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My Latest Babies....
On my monitor, the chick on the far right looks like it has a red eye. But it could just be the photo...
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Fast Worker!
Dave, I'm told we have a singles thread somewhere around here....
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Hi Everyone
Hi Riles, welcome to BBC! I have a budgie named Riley! He is in my avatar and my siggy (for now).
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Members Violet Budgies
Aveline Cinnamon violet dominant pied hen As a baby (on left): Adult: Alaina Cinnamon violet recessive pied hen: The cinnamon washes out the violet I don't think I have any normal violets.
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Breeding Update
Hi Kramer! Okay, so each parent has one dark factor. So you can get 25% two dark factors, 50% one dark factor, and 25% no dark factor. If that last baby is looking darker than the others, it could be a mauve. All your babies should have normal colored wings, UNLESS Kramer is split for cinnamon. To get grey wings, Kramer and Hedwig would both need to be split for greywing, which is always possible. But I think the spangle pattern often makes normal black wing bars appear lighter, so they might seem grey from a distance, but they could really be black. Just look closely. If they are actual grey bars, you should be able to tell. I don't know if this helps. You can basically get any shade of blue and violet possible!
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Newby Here
It could mean that they wish their perches were as high as those toys! Seriously though, is this where they sit all day, or just at night for sleeping? I have a lot of birds that perch normally during the day, but at night they have a favorite toy to sleep on, or they prefer to hang on the side of the cage. Budgies do like to be high up, though, so it is normal for them to go near the top of their cage. Chirping and chattering all day sounds like happy budgies!
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Breeding Update
Hey Tomlou, do you realize there are no pictures of the parents in this thread? I remember Hedwig from your other post, but I cannot remember what Kramer is. If we can see photos of the parents, we can help you work out what colors to expect. Going by what I remember about Hedwig, these babies are all split for recessive pied, and if they are boys, they are split for cinnamon. And they could have violet factor. (I can't say about dark factors until I know what Kramer has.)
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My First Absolute Disaster Breeding Season
Knowing what can happen in a breeding season, I would expect anything. Go on, buddy, spill the beans. We will understand what you are going through Whatever it is, I'm feeling very sorry for you.
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Finnie's August 2010 Pairs
Thank you, ladies. Kaz, I will check those bloody eggs for rough shells during this morning's check. I hadn't thought of that. And yeah, Finnie's eggs look pretty fertile. I've only candled once, back when there were only four. Because every time I open the box, I can see a lot of white ones, and just a couple of pink ones (which I assume were the most recent laid.) My concern with Finnie's is that they might not all hatch. She had a large clutch before, and I think the later eggs got addled by the firstborn chicks, because only 4 hatched. If Finnie hadn't rushed in and began her laying weeks before the other hens, I would be planning to foster some of her chicks to the other nests, to minimize the jostling. All I can do now, is to foster some of her later eggs, if it gets to the point where I think they are in danger. Guess I'll be keeping an eye on that, too.
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Finnie's August 2010 Pairs
Well Teagan and Aveline both did lay eggs today! I'm a little concerned about Aveline. Her first egg had blood on it, and I thought maybe it was because it was her first egg ever. Now her second one is also bloody. She seems healthy enough, flying around okay, but my thoughts now are that she either has a hard time getting her eggs out, or that she has a small tear or wound that was reinjured during the second laying. As long as she is acting fine, I'm inclined to just leave her alone and see how she goes. Maybe that is the wrong aproach. Here are some pictures of the eggs, in case anybody wants to give their opinion: Here are some pictures of the other nests: Donovan and Finnie's (Finnie wasn't going very far!) Kevin and Teagan's
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Violet Clearbody X Grey-green Clearbody
I've always understood that the grey factor is a color adding gene (like violet), and that it is separate from the green/yf/blue series. So whether the gray gene is there or not, has no effect on whether the bird will be green series or blue series. The same rules still apply in that the green birds have to be split for blue to produce a blue offspring. I think the confusion comes in when we start to think of the grey bird as something other than just a blue bird with a grey factor (or 2).
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Finnie's August 2010 Pairs
Good news! At first I was alarmed, because when I went down to turn on the lights this morning, Teagan was on the floor of her breeding cabinet. But when I approached, she flew up to the perch. That's when I noticed she had a serious case of egg bum! (And on the floor where she had been sitting was a HUGE egg poop.) She looks okay, so I'm expecting to find an egg later today. Hopefully she will be smart enough to lay it in the box, not on the floor! And the best part is, after a few minutes I saw her and Kevin mating. So there's hope that there will be fertile eggs, even if it's not the first one. Aveline's 2nd egg is due today, and Finnie now has 8, with pinkies expected later this week.
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Egg Bound Hen
I'm so sorry about your hen dying. :laughter: Do you have another hen who can foster those 5 eggs? I hope you can save at least some of them.
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Finnie's August 2010 Pairs
Thank you, Nubbly. I'm hoping there will be enough babies to shed some light on Teagan and Aidan, especially. Teagan has been letting Kevin feed her, so that is good. She goes in the box a lot, but the tan on her cere is still very pale. I hope she's not planning to skip the mating and go straight to the laying. She is the one who I used to find laying random eggs in the main cage. (And she used to be bonded with a different cock in there- those eggs may have been fertile, but she was too young, and I just threw them away as I found them.)
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Late Life Father?
I actually do use bleach and water. Once it evaporates it is perfectly safe. Of course, I make a weak enough solution so as not to fumigate my bird room if I'm using it indoors. But with the things I can take outside, I make the solution a little stronger, and then I can hose that stuff off and let it dry in the sun. There are other products available. Other people might be able to say what they use. Bleaching and disinfecting have been hot topics in the past, so I hope we aren't setting this up to be re-hijacked! :laughter:
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New To Forum And 2 Baby Budgies
I'm thinking both boys- no white on the cere that I can see! And Charlie looks like either greywing or dilute. They both look very nice! :laughter: