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Sorry I can't help you more, I'm still learning myself. Thanks Rachelm. I will check the packaging and see if it has poultry anticoccidials in it.

Hi all! Lately I have decided that if I am going to be getting into showing my birds a bit more seriously, I need to do more then just putting them in a cage with seed and a nestbox type of thing. I am trying to look at reasonably easy options of increasing their diet. Current Diet Cabinet breeding season - Seed, mineral block and cuttlefish. Soft food consisting of 2 boild eggs, some oats, carrot, lettuce and whole grain blended together. Egg and biscuit is also sometimes put in. They also get hulled oats (soaked depending on if I remember ) every couple of days. Soft food is given weekly or so. Aviary breeding season - seed, mineral block and cuttlebone. Sometimes fresh gumleaves/grass. They get the leftovers of above recipe, along with another carrot. Non breeding season aviary - seed, mineral block and cuttlebone. Gumleave and grass a little more frequently (just because I seem to be down at the aviary more) The get the above soft food whenver I am bored and feel like making something. Ideas? I am trying to think of some ways of enchancing their diet. I have decided I will be giving them soaked hulled oats in the breeder's cabinet every second day (monday I serve, tuesday I prepare, wednesday I serve, thursday I prepare etc) but now I am a little unsure on what to do. I don't have ages to be be preparing food (I am a slowpoke and by the time I boil eggs and blend everything, wash and clean bowls and serve to birds, then clean up half destroyed kitchen from soft food) I am not quite sure what else to serve them. So, I was trying to think of what pellets I could offer them in a limited supply in the cabinets all the time. I have heard that you can put guniea pig pellets in? Also, would it be safe to give them chook food? (We have chooks, so I am trying to decide what I can use without wasting the rest of the bag if it spoils quick) The food we give our chooks is this: http://www.lauckemills.com.au/poultryfood2b.html Does anyone else have any idea's?

Are the wings cinnamon? My first thought was clearbody. But if the wings are cinnamon (from the looks of the photo?) it may be a cinnamon clearbody? And opaline of course. Or possibly a cinnamon opaline with some type of suffusion?

Looking good!

Violet Spangle?

Any chance for a picture of her sitting on a perch?

Very Cute! I love the last picture

Aww they are adorable!

Very nice! I love the fallow chick

Looking great Lovley birds by the way

I don't have any finger draws, but I will look into getting some! That is good thanks. Right now, I took her water away for the day, and put it in this afternoon. She went straight to it and drank

okay, I have put ronivet in all of their water. Is there any way I can make sure she get's it into her? She is in a seperate holding cage in the house.

She has been treated for canker, but I may try again?

Hi all! I am just wondering what else I can do. I have a hen who is regurgitating seed. She seems in very nice shape, I was planning on breeding her. But upon expection, I have realised she regurgitats seed every minute or so. She seems fine in every other aspect. I have been told this is a sign of canker or coccidiosis? My flock has been treated for both over the past six months. Does anyone else know? I can't think of anything else. Please some help. Right now she is in a holding cage, but I want to know if I can breed her or not, as she is in THE most perfect condition, I have been waiting her out for weeks. Thanks! PS. I will try and get a short video

No. If I understand your question right, you are only going to get female TCB's. If you cock bird is split, you will get 50% female TCB's not matter what hen you put it to. All of the cocks bird you get ( being 50% left ) , 25% will be male/clearbody and 25% will not be split, so you dont know what to keep. The only way you are going to get clearbody cocks is by putting them to a TCB hen. I think..... Wait until the more experienced people come along

Veyr good cage! Welcome to the forums by the way! May I ask where you are getting the birds from? I would suggest getting them form a breeder at a young age, so that the birds are tameable and healthy. No petshops

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It's looking good

Wow, very nice birds!

Netty, I think you should be willing to just stay confused for a little while longer. I've been going back and forth between your two posts, and I think these two photos are the best of the lot, so far, and I think you've got one of those ones that are hard to tell. I think it looks a little boyish, but I wouldn't want to say for sure. Eventually, if it is a hen, it will get a brown cere, and then you will no longer have any doubt. I agree, it is one of "those" budgies

Looks great!

thats just rued squeek his or her box is not actually unhealthy at all if i remember i remember a thread you did where i though that your whole aviary needed a good scrub down i think you should look in your own yard before telling someone else their place it dirty when quiet frankly i do not think its worthy of such an insult maybe just a blow to clear the concave but thats all I only meant it as a suggestion And my aviary is clean enough thanks.

I don't know their colour, but I think you should give their box a clean

okay, I thought this may be the case Ah, I can't do it Is there any other way....?

What do you guys think? Chick is very skinny. He is about 17 days old, and I can still slip his ring on and off. One leg is bent under him badly, and he has no feeling. I tried putting him under a foster mum, because he is the youngest in the clutch, but she just attacked him. I have tried feeding him (parents are not, only once or twice a day) but he doesn't accept. He is to small to crop feed. (it won't fit down his throat). He has 4 older siblings, all very healthy. I think he may die anyway, but it breaks my heart to see him squashed and dirty from older siblings pooping and trampling him. His right leg is bent up at the join to his body One toe on his rung leg is bent up and outwards.