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Thank you Dave......I will get better pictures tomorrow afternoon...

had a feeling you would say that Kaz :fear

Hi Krosp.... I do not consider myself a "expert" in budgies by any means....but what you are feeding your birds is excactly what I do....a good seed.....(at a guess yours would be better quality being Trill as I know it is quite expensive).....veggies every other day or daily.....egg and biscuit, a bit of apple and orange and a bit of millet spray....fresh cool clean water daily, love and attention..... :fear Cosmo has been unwell of late so maybe he is making up for lost time...?? I don't think you are doing anything wrong....I don't think you can get much heathier than what you are doing....

This is a photo of my new "kids".... First picture from left to right..... 1 Normal green - (can't see the head) 2. Green Opaline 3. Green/Yellow Spangle 4. Normal Grey/Blue? 5. ????????????? :fear Sorry...I know pictures are bad, will try for better ones if you need them.... PARENTS: Dad - Normal Green - (don't know if split??) Mom - Cobalt Spangle - (her mum was dom pied)

okay....Thanks everyone :raincloud:

Your welcome.........you should be VERY proud of your birds because they are all beautiful.... :raincloud:

You have beautiful budgies Splat............ :raincloud: :raincloud: :raincloud:

Thanks for the reply LBB.....I'll see what the others say.... :raincloud:

Great ladder Splat.....even I could manage that....(I think.... :raincloud: )

GREAT idea DrNat!!! will be doing this!!

Well.....not sure what I have her can anyone help...???????? Sorry.......not the best pictures but I'm pretty sure the green ones are..... 1. Biggest - Normal green like dad - (vertical, can't see head) 2. Spangle - in right hand corner.... 3. Opaline - Squashed between 1 and 2 4. Normal blue/grey?? 5. White - blue tail feathers coming through??? recessive????

Not really great pics, but these are the latest ones of the babies...... 1 DEC and 2 recessives.....??

I'm sure this is on the forum somewhere, I have done a search for "safe foods" etc....can't find watermelon....is it okay?? Thanks

Thanks for getting back to me on this Renee..... My birds didn't go into a major moult either, mainly pin feathers around the head and neck area, but it was all my birds, I know this cause I was waiting for a few to be free of all pin feathers for a few months before putting them in the breeding cabinets, a few weeks or so after thier "normal" moult....when I did pair them up is when I changed seed and a few weeks later the pin feathers were coming through again.... I got the same bag as I did last time and made sure they would have the same brand in a few weeks time so that should take me over the last few that have chicks/eggs now, I won't be breeding over summer as its way to hot here in QLD...I don't have a proper "bird room", just outside and it's WAY too hot..... So I guess the jury is out for me as well......

Charming..... The experienced members on this forum pass their knowledge and time for free, they don't have to be on 24/7......The time it took you to write this uncalled for post you could have phoned/gone to an avian vet....

Thanks Kaz, will do that today....

Thanks DEAN, LIV and KAZ... I kind of knew that this is what I was supposed to do but needed reassurance, after what happened with Cricket I was very scared to move mum dad or babies...... This is my kindy cage....

TOTALLY agree with Maesie......

"shaggy had a better life with you than anyone else I could imagine".....That is soooo lovely... Nothing I can say would make you feel any better, but you were his angel.... :rip: RIP sweet Shaggy...stay strong Cirrus and Liv......

Purchased 8 more birds on the weekend, totally stoked as I can now "hopefully" breed some TCB.... Here is what I got....not in order.... 1. Grey spangle hen - split blue. 2. Dark green normal cock - split violet 3. YF Opaline texas clearbody hen. 4. Dark green normal cock - split TCB opaline blue. 5. Olive normal cock - split recessive. 6. Recessive pied olive cock - split TCB YF blue. 7. YF Cinnamon opaline violet hen - split recessive. 8. TCB Violet skyblue hen. :rip:

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Thanks Jen!, I think they are beautiful as well......Will try for some close up's of the ceres..... Thanks

I have a clutch that are still in the breeding cage together with mum and dad, the first chick hatched on the 30th of September and the others a day or two after so the eldest is about 6 weeks old.... Mum has now gone for a second round with 1 egg in the box. I think I should take the babies out now and put them in the kindy cage as they seem to be eating on thier own okay now. Is this okay to do?

G_B, this is probably what you don't want to hear, and I don't mean to make light of a bad situation for you at all, but these are the sweetest little poppets I have seen.....

Thank you G_B and Ellkeiremi!! I had a bad last clutch where only 1 chick hatched and she ended up passing away, so I am over the moon with this lot!!