Everything posted by Finnie
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G & G 2010/2011 Breeding Season
I like your pairings, Nubbly. I was just going to skim through them all, but once I started, I couldn't help reading every word! :laughter: I kept finding myself thinking " I can't wait to see what babies this pair produces." Eventually I realized that you have more than I would be able to keep track of! So when those stunner babies start coming along, I will need you to remind me which parents they belong to. It sure is exciting to pair them up and then dream of what their possiblitlies can be. I especially like your clearwings. The wing-body contrast is so striking!
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Finnie's August 2010 Pairs
Update: Finnie is now on 7 eggs, and Aveline has finally laid her first one!!
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Question Regarding Chick
And spangle can have a pied spot on the head, too.
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Late Life Father?
These are good quarantine questions, Jack, since we seem to have hijacked this thread into a quarantine topic. And helpful for other people to know. One other thing- when you were done using your kindi cage for a quarantine cage, did you disinfect it thoroughly, so it will be safe for use as a kindi cage again?
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New To Forum And 2 Baby Budgies
Gosh, I must be looking at a different picture than everyone else! I think they both look very male. But I agree with AmyS, front on pictures might help. And to the forum, UK Girl!
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My Birds
Aw, I figured as I was typing it that might be the case, Razzle and Dazzle were too good for you not to have already used them. Well, here's a good idea! The poor bird who lost his name deserves a new one, and I'm sure Macka deserves to have a bird named after him. Then they will both feel special!
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My Birds
- Question Regarding Chick
Oh, she is beautiful!! :question: Are her wing markings cinnamon? It's hard to tell on my monitor, but she reminds me of my violet cinnamon recessive pied hen, Alaina. (Except I just wish my Alaina's flight feathers and tail would grow in as nicely as Hedwigs!) She looks like she could be SF spangle, and also, her flights and tail are clear, so if she is recessive pied, I would guess that she has some other kind of pied going on there, as well. But then again, I'm only guessing, because I'm really terrible when it comes to recognizing the different pieds. :mallet: But I do know, if she is a recessive pied, then all her babies will be split for it. (Did I mention she was beautiful? )- Late Life Father?
Wow, as I have read through this, many thoughts have run through my mind. So hard to be on the other side of the world and come in as an afterthought! First of all, I'd like to thank Zigzagoon for being patient while we use his topic as a necessary medium for educating people about quarantine. We need to talk about it over and over and over, because unfortunately, there are too many bird sellers who just keep perpetuating their buyers' lack of knowledge about it. Ive NEVER NEVER NEVER been told by any pet store to quarantine ANY of the birds I've bought. And obviously, Zig was misinformed by even a private breeder! Secondly, I'd like to point out another aspect of quarantine that I didn't see the rest of you cover. It's also the STRESS of bringing a budgie to a new home, and the STRESS that your old birds experience when you give them a stranger to live with, that could cause them to become ill. GB pointed out that each bird could be happily living with it's own familiar germs, that it is immune to. Then they could swap germs, and each catch the illness that the other carried. But what also can happen is that the stress they experience when they move in together can lower their immunities so that they will each be susceptible to their OWN germs, that they were already used to, but are no longer able to fight off. So the quarantine period allows you to see if stress brings anything bad out in the new bird. Unfortunately, your old birds won't become stressed until after quarantine, when you introduce the new bird, so there will always be a slight risk. But since it is their own home, their stress will be less, and if you're as reasonably sure as you can be that the new bird is healthy, it's a risk we pretty much all have to take at some point. This is why a quarantine period at someone elses house is no quarantine at all. The new bird will still be stressed when it joins your household. One last thing. A dishonest breeder might not want to admit that his or her birds might carry germs, so to make a sale, they would tell a buyer that the birds are all healthy, and that quarantine is not necessary! To give the benefit of a doubt, maybe such a breeder is just plain ignorant. But please! Do they really think they have the world's first sterile flock of budgies? OOPS! After I posted, I just noticed that Zig is female. Sorry, Zig!- What Mutation?
I'd kind of like to take that back, about the opaline. I wasn't thinking about the spangle- doesn't that reduce the barring on the head in a similar way?- Show Bird Prep
How many drops of ACV do you use in a 5ooml spray bottle and how do you stop it from getting into the birds eyes, or is it diluted enough not bother them. Hmm... This has got me to thinking... if this improves a bird's feather condition for shows, might it also improve its condition for health purposes? A lot of budgies LIKE to be misted. Maybe it would be fun and calming, and a stress-reliever. And maybe the preening it would promote would distract a budgie away from chewing herself to bits.... Anything that would promote "prime feather condition" seems like it might be a good idea, even for a non-show budgie.- What Mutation?
I think he has opaline, too. Does the person have his mother? She would have to be cinnamon, in order for him to have it. It's so hard to tell from those few wing markings he has, but if you think they are brown, then he probably is cinnamon. Reason for edit: I forgot to say how pretty he is !!!!- Meet The Newest Member Of Our Family
Ugghh!!! Been there, done that! :yuck: :rofl:- How To Make A Yummy Budgie Salad!
- First Hatchling
Well, Jack, it's probably a case of having a face only a mother could love...- Meet The Newest Member Of Our Family
A red heeler is the same as what we call Australian Cattle Dog, over here, right? Not my favorite breed, either, looks-wise, but this one has nice markings. I'm sure he will be a very nice looking dog. Besides, I hear their personality is good, so that's more important than looks, isn't it. And the name Bear is way better than the name Jake! :rofl: At least he didn't want to call him "Buddy" That was very generous of Greg's sister! And I'm really happy for you to have a dog again.- Jasper.
- Is This French Moult?
I just went off to find that post that had pictures of feather mites, so I could refresh my mind what to look for. I found the post, it's pinned, and Liv wrote it. (Here it is:Feather Mites ) But, rats! Her pictures are gone! Matt W. has some nice pics of quill mites on there, but I was hoping to see Liv's pictures. LIV !!! We need your help! Is there any way you can fix the links to your photos? :thumbs_up: Oops, never mind, Liv. I read your thread a little more closely, and found that Elly has put it, along with the photos, in the Budgie FAQs section. Here it is: Feather Mites, FAQs Those really are awesome photos! (And I checked Alaina with a magnifying lense, and there were specks, but they turned out to be dried blood from her wounds. She didn't have anything resembling the mites in the photos.)- Is This French Moult?
I just went off to find that post that had pictures of feather mites, so I could refresh my mind what to look for. I found the post, it's pinned, and Liv wrote it. (Here it is:Feather Mites ) But, rats! Her pictures are gone! Matt W. has some nice pics of quill mites on there, but I was hoping to see Liv's pictures. LIV !!! We need your help! Is there any way you can fix the links to your photos?- Is This French Moult?
Stress behavior, hmm... Kaz, when you mentioned chewing, it made sense, because it kind of looks like part of her wing was eaten away. Well, it's definitely a separate cage for her, then. Because that way, if some other bird is doing the damage, it will stop, and if it's her doing the damage, maybe she will feel safer and less stressed in the small cage. At least I know she won't be flopping down and crashing into stuff. Maybe it will give her a chance to heal. Thank you for describing what you see about her, Nubbly. I did wonder how it could be French Moult when she had a healthy tail at a younger age, and only seemed to have feather problems at an older age. I've noticed that she is the smallest bird in there, so now I'm wondering if the other birds have bullied her away from the food. I've never really noticed any one actually picking on her, but they could be, and they just stop when I show up. If there is a bird in my flock harrassing her, I hope he or she doesn't move on to a different victim once I take Alaina away. (But that's not really likely, is it?) I will try to keep this thread updated with her progress. Hopefully with a safer environment and access to her own food she will improve. :thumbs_up:- Is This French Moult?
Thank you for the response, Rachel. I saw your post this morning when I was searching for FM, and I actually was going to post on it and ask how your girl has gotten along, now that she's been in the aviary for a while. (I got busy with my thread, though, and I forgot.) But I noticed that your hen didn't have any issues with her tail, and mine has a really ratty tail. Also, my hen's inner wings look a lot more mangled (?), so I'm thinking that if it is the same issue, mine must have it worse. I like the idea of putting her in a holding cage, though. I've noticed that she makes kamikaze dives from the high perch whenever I fiddle around in the cage, and maybe that is contributing to her injuries. From what I've read, if it's French Moult, and it hasn't already devestated her, then she is a candidate to go on to live a healthy life. I just hope it's not something that is going to spread through my whole flock, especially since I am expecting hatchlings, soon. She was already in the main cage before I separated my breeding pairs out, so I hope she didn't give it to them. :thumbs_up:- What Sex Please - My Latest
/////////////////// It certainly does Jack,many people i know determine the sex of young budgerigars using this method including myself. Here is an example of why the "rings around the nostrils" method is not true: He got named 'Ariel', because of the nostril rings, and I didn't know better. But he is definitely a boy! He's very bonded with a hen, and he's over a year old now, and has never had a brown cere, or any change in his cere at all. You can't just look at the nostrils, you have to consider the over all color of the whole cere.- Is This French Moult?
This is Alaina. I bought her on May 2nd, and she didn't appear to have any problems at that time. Even after quarantine, I thought she was fine, or I would not have mixed her in with the main flock. She couldn't fly, but I thought it was because her clipped wings hadn't grown back yet. I've had other babies with clipped wings that had a hard time managing the large flight cage, so I put in some low perches, to help them with their climbing up. That's what I did for Alaina, too. Then I started noticing that all her climbing around on the bars was messing up her tail feathers. I figured once she moulted, new ones would grow back. But that hasn't happened. I thought she was going into a moult around the end of July. She lost her two tail feathers, and she got a few pin feathers on her head. But that was all. She still has an unbroken cap, and it is a month later. There has been no sign of new wing feathers, and her tail feathers are all short and messy. I've had her for almost four months, now, and I've been thinking that she must have been awfully young in the pet shop to go this long at home without going into a moult yet. So today I did a search on French Moult, and I think that is what she has. I went to take pictures of her for this post, and I decided to catch her up to get better shots of her wings. That's when I noticed what terrible shape her wings are in on the underside. (It doesn't show normally.) So if it isn't French Moult, I don't know what the problem is. I hope you guys can tell me. Here are the photos: Right wing: Left wing: Underside of tail: Top Side of Tail:- Breeding Update
Now for the fun of watching them feather up!! :thumbs_up:- Dying Budgies!
Me too. :thumbs_up: I'm very glad to see that there is light at the end of the tunnel for you! - Question Regarding Chick