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Hi thought i'd put some photos up of my hooded parrot pair and their foster baby hoodeds. The parents of the babies are a recessive pied hooded parrot male with a split pied female. Forgot to get photos, sorry They were fostered under the other pair because the hen kills her babies when they hatch, i had swapped the eggs around to give her another try but she did it again. The pair in the photos has one baby left that hatched under a different parrot called a kakariki and is nearly ready to fledge. The male the pair, not a great photo but you can see the hen is a lot duller in colour. the babies pied baby one pied baby two Hooded parrots breed two times a year usually in Feb-March then again in Sept-Oct This mimics their breeding season in the wild as they are from the top end of Australia and breed according to the seasons up there. I have to be careful not to check them to much as the mums don't sit on them for long as in the wild they nest in termite mounds which keep the nest at a constant temperature allowing the parents to forage regularly. After many years of captive breeding you don't need to supply them with a heated box anymore, but an insulated box is a good idea. These birds act and sound very much like red rumped parrots and are quite pleasing on the ear. Cheers Jenny

The rest of this lot. yf opaline violet skyblue dominant pied/cinnamon and greywing cock greywing grey hen dad mum some of the family baby one opaline cinnamon violet dominant pied hen and again having a stretch bay two yf cobalt dominant pied male opaline cinnamon skyblue hen Their other three babies are the last two in the second post and the first one getting fed by the hen in the first post The last pair i have photos of are being used as fosters as the hens eggs didn't hatch. yf opaline cobalt double factor dominant pied male yf opaline violet dominant pied hen male hen Pictures of their foster babies are with pair four in the box Thats it for the moment anyway i'll try to get some more when the others fledge. Cheers Jenny

Lovely lot there, the albino in the first shot looks like she might be lacewing you can see her markings in her mask and wings.

Hi Linda, from the photos there looks to be to much blue sheen on the feathers to be greygreen, maybe he is an olive or violet green. What colour are his tail feathers it is hard to tell in the photos. Nice bird anyway

Thanks for your comments guys here are some of the others. pair four green spangle dominant pied/cin,opaline,yf cock yfgrey opaline dominant pied hen dad mum, who was plucked as a youngster as also was the hen in pair one. being a good dad babies their other two fostered babies pair five cinnamon green/yf cock cinnamon opaline yf sky dominant pied hen dad mum their babies pair six green recessive pied cock greygreen spangle hen This pair was used as fosters as the cock bird is old and hadn't fertilised any of the eggs, the surprising thing is that the hen didn't play up on him unfortunately Their two foster babies Not a good photo Thats enough for now time for bed again cheers Jenny

No worries Dave the young go out into a holding flight as soon as they are weaned and the parents will be rested and replaced with another lot that are maturing now.

It will all depend on what they are both carrying the possibilities are endless, Dave is right if they are what they seem on the outside, except your males will all be split to lutino as well as recessive pied. Chances are that they will both be carrying blue or yf and the hen could be masking lots of colours including recessive pied. The fun will be in waiting to see what you get and then you will know, unless you have information on both their parents to give you a guide. Cheers Jenny

Hi, here are some photos of my breeding aviary and some of the pairs and young. I have six pairs in this aviary and all get on well together {some of them to well} not always do i get the results i was expecting. The aviary first pair yf violet recessive pied/opaline cock yf skyblue cinnamon opaline dominant pied/recessive pied hen dad mum and a foster baby 3 of their young and again another and second pair violet opaline clearbody/greywing cock violet opaline dominant pied/greywing hen dad mum their babies violet opaline clearbody hen and violet opaline greywing clearbody hen violet opaline greywing/clearbody cock pair three opaline clearbody violet green/greywing cock opaline yfgrey clearbody hen and her three babies she has been cheating a little bit i think with dad number one and a picture of five of the aviary boys That will have to do for now or i'll never get any sleep, i'll do the rest another time when i get a chance. Cheers Jenny

The Vet would be your safest bet, an avian Vet would be even better. Have you got her on spark or an electrolite of some sort as this seems to help them with the stress of changes. Hope she is better in the morning.

If the clearbody that you used is the cock bird then your young one will be a male split for clearbody, but if it is the hen bird then it will be as Emma suggested and wont carry the clearbody gene if it is a hen, but will if it is a cock.

Yep Emma's right cinnamon blue opaline red rump. Looks like it may be a young male.

I'm like Chrissy i rotate my birds and breed all year round, the cold is only a problem when the hens stop spending time in the nest but budgies are pretty good, some of the other parrots are not so good Shannon your temperature wouldn't drop down to far where you are anyway would it?

Thanks everyone i love them all. Splat don't mind at all we live near Castlemaine about ten minutes from there.

Here is some photos of some of my young birds.

Shouldn't be a worry most hens just continue to feed as normal, make sure you increase the amount of feed you give them to cater for the extra young

Thanks for the welcome guys will try to post some photos when i get a chance just got to learn to navigate the site first

Hi everyone i've been cruising this site for a little while now and i thought i'd better introduce myself. My name is Jenny and i have been breeding budgies for over thirty years, i also breed many other species of birds but budgies are my first love and will always have a place in my heart. I am a colour fanatic and breed mostly pet type birds and much of my breeding is done in a colony aviary though i do have some in individual cages. I am not the most talkative person but i love to read other peoples experiances and love to look at the photos. Cheers Jenny