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Thanks everyone for your advice.... Renee....would you suggest me fostering the chick to another nest, which I have never yet done but am able to do? The chick this morning seems to be the same...

Can anyone help me with this???? The legs don't seem splayed......should I be concerned?? Legs are not out the side but out in front......is this still classed as splayed??

Congratulations Naomi!! that is the coolest photo.......she really looks like she's smiling at you !!

She even has the "attitude" look... I think you should name her "Diva"!! She is beautiful isn't she....

Thanks LindaS...... I wonder why some are really dark like the first one??

Please help with sexing these 3 chicks that are 8 - 9 weeks old.... Thanks! Chick 1. Chick 2. Chick 3.

Hi Linda, Yep...she is a dilute, not a DEC.... This is my DEC... and my dilute...

Beautiful budgie Barb......

Thanks Kaz....

I have 2 clutches with chicks hatching at the moment, and 1 clutch with chicks at 6 weeks. Th clutch with the chicks a 6 weeks mum has gone for a second round with 3 chicks still in the nestbox. I removed the chicks to the floor of the cage on Saturday as they are all feathered and eating seed/millet/egg biscuit, mum has 2 eggs in there and I really didn't want her to go a second round as it will be too hot, but I don't have the heart to remove them.... My question is for the 2 clutches I have where the chicks are hatching, can I remove the nestbox once the chicks are feathered so this doesn't happen with them? This is the second time it has happened to me...is this the "norm" when it comes to breeding? Thanks in advance.. :laughter:

Kaz....I learnt this off you a few months ago and the last lot of chicks I had were eating seed before leaving the box so it's great...thank you... I put a millet spray in the box as the chicks are hatching for mum....is this okay?..., I need to change it every other day so she is eating it...once all the chicks have hatched and are starting to get pin feathers I put oats as the nesting material and add millet every day and put in a cup of seed....

Splat....she is a STUNNER !!!!

I looked very closely at the chicks, for tail colour and cheek patches... This chicks tail is black and cheek patches are purple.. This one is the same - black tail and purple cheek patches. Does this help?

I will go out this morning and look at them and post the answers to your questions GB.... :rofl:

Thanks Dave and Finnie.... I was thinking that yesterday but as I had already had her sexed as a him I just went with the flow.... So...Ive gone from a Albino cock - to a lacewing hen... :rofl: Budgies....I love em!! This is the picture we all thought was a cock.....sure looked like one then....

Yes it is GB....specially for a mutation dummy like me.....thanks for your time.... :question:

Thanks GB.....So if it's a lacewing do they have red eyes?? His eyes are still red although he now has iris rings........I just answered my own question GB....did a search on Lacewings and yes he is looking like a white lacewing.....will watch the cheek patches.....

WOW Dean......they are beautiful....

I bought this "albino" on the 22nd of Oct. This first picture is the day I bought him home....... Today....getting wing makings and throat spots - and has 2 light brown (cinamon) tail feathers, and a blue cere, I thought albino's cere's were like recessives and a bit harder to identify....????

Dad... My friend had to hold him she couldn't use my camera.....she wanted gloves - 10 sizes too big.... Mum and Dad I put them in a cage for the pictures.... chick 1 chick 2 - (green) chick 3 chick 4 chick 5 Kaz....I have in my notes that I put these two together on 23/09/09 and the first egg was laid on 04/10/09......

No definatley not colony breeding guys... These guys are cabinet bred, but mum was colony bred chick in July 08.. .....will get better pictures today.

HI Krosp......maybe a kingfisher??, I'm in Brissie and I found one in my front yard....

I'm sorry Kaz....that was silly of me, I should have explained that photo....

Thanks Kaz and Nerwen....

okay.... Dad...JT... MUM....Can't see her wings but she is spangle. BABY NO: 1 - WOW These guys would not keep still for 2 seconds...... BABY NO: 2 BABY NO 3: BABY NO: 4 BABY NO: 5 Sorry Nubbly...I just read your post re the cheek patches after I had taken the photo's...... :fear