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Its all down to your budget If you fight over them and have plenty of $$s then the price will go up Well, lets just say two months of my pocket moeny are going into this..... considering I just payed my dad off for an aviary I bought at the start of the year, I am happy to be able to finally use some instead of it all going into the bank for him. My budget wouldnt be more the 60, and I would like 2 birds, maybe 3 if I can get them for $20.

Not interested in yf's, or cinnamons and I have enough clearbodies to work with for now to not buy more just for the sake of it. I would like a couple of blue series dom pieds and something violet, but Im not looking to be spending big money - now if there were fallows...... lol Only a flock of 100? pity... She puts everything into those birds. You would be battling out the fallows with me

These breeders have one of the largest studs in SA, I am fairly sure they had this auction every year. I am looking for inos, so I hope I can pick some of the hens up! Not only his birds (I think). Just been through catalogue and highlighted....a couple As I said, top breeders here. I think ( someone correct me lol ) they have more then 400 chicks a year with over 600 adults. Great birds, I love the style of them. Someone correct me if I am wrong as I am not toally sure the info is correct, somwere along the lines through.

Some pictures Oldest: Funny Leg: It does bend easy though: Green Violet? Wings: Body: Second Oldest/Middle: Youngest: Lovley black and white contrast, pictures are showing up (on my moniotr) nearly the same violet. More pictures to come....

The yellowface sky is mine and the cinnamon violet, clearbody violet/blues ooh and the violet sky. It's a pity we have the same taste. It's on....

I will be attending, I hope there will be some good birds there. We will always remember John in the Budgerigar Society of South Australia. Anyway else wriggling in excitment bout the clearbodys and yellowfaces???

okay Update: All chicks opaline and clearbody of course Oldest: Is looking slightly splayed, toes not gripping properly. I am moving the legs 3 itmes a day. It seems like the left leg(rung leg) the joint seems a bit funny. The ankle (I think that is what you call it) is locking straight, I can bend it, but the chick automatically locks it straight. This causes the chick to lean on that side, and then other siblings squash it in that position. It doesn't seem to have as much body fat as the others. Green Series. 2nd Oldest: Very plump and healthy, standing well. Is larger then the oldest, but feathers aren't as grown in, as it is younger. Green Series. Youngest: BLUE SERIES!!! Looks violet?? Slight splayed legs, growing nicely though. Any attempt of makeup sponge or string is chewed by momma. Foster: Some type of opaline/spangle grey or blue. Nicely growing chick.

Fantastic advice Splat :thankyou: I have a hen that laid 5 clear eggs and 1 egg was DIS. It would have been due about now, so I was going to give her a couple of foster chicks. I gave her a 1 day old chick but she didn't feed it, so put it back. Will it be okay to give her an older chick like you mentioned? That is a great idea, but I only have one pair on chicks right now and they are feathered. ( I prefer to leave the colony chicks by themselves) Well, Here are pictures. Chick is alive and well still. I was worried, I couldnt see her but I couldnt see a body either. So I shifted some bodies, and saw her little bum sticking out. I am going to say girl. I dub thee, Miracle (Little bum stickin out)

I will get some pictures of mine.

Last time I checked ( this morning) chick was fed and happy. I am just about to go out and check. I did end up feeding him/her last night, and I have been checking every moment I can. News in 2 minutes!

I am mixing up some food now, I am going out in a 10 minutes though. I didnt want the chick to die in my hands like last time, I was mixing the food and the chicks just drifted off.

Hey guys I have a hen with a chick that hatched this morning, and she hasnt been feeding it. This is her second of two fertile eggs, the last chick dying from not being fed. So when this chick hatched this morning, I fed it. I follwed the directions on a thread on here. Mix food and slowly feed chick until crop fills (about 2 or 2 drops). This was fine, but then I had to go to school today. So I fed the chick at about 8.30am, and when I got home it was empty so I fed it at about 5pm. The chicks crop emptied in about 30 minutes. So, does this mean the mum must have fed it sometime in the day? When I put the chick in the nest and checked it 5 minutes later, the crop looked SLIGHTLY fuller, which makes me wonder if the chick was fed a tiny bit by the mum just after I put it back. The mum is only a blue ring hen, cock is red. I have considered fostering, but none of my hens have chicks that age (apart from my colony bred birds, which I only just realised but I am slightly unsure of putting the chick in there). It seems like the dad goes in the nest and disrupts the mum a bit. If I took the dad out and left the mum in there, would that intice the mum to feed? It is like the cock is distracting her. Urgent answers needed please. Chicks crop is currently empty, should I feed again? Sophie Update: Chick wasn't being fed again, and was squeaking alot. I didn't want to run out of time like the last chick, (that is a reason why the last one died, I was making the mixture as it died in my hands) and it was cold. So I put it in my colony aviary in a clutch of 3 (now 4) They are reasonably young, the youngest being 2 days old, oldest about a week. I suppose there is nothing more I can do. The chick was cold, and I blew on it a bit. I just hope the mum will feed it. It is getting dark now, so I will need to check it tommorrow morning before school. I can only pray.

Ah okay, this is what I get for skip readig lol

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Congratulations on the new bird. But, Quarintine is important. You should have kept the bird seperate from Molly for 30+ days, in case the new bird carried a disease. Readin some of your other posts, This would be why your birds have lice. Chances are that he carried lice/mites, and has now passed them onto Molly. This is why quarintine is important. Hope you and Molly start to enjoy the new budgie, and lesson learned with quarintine.

I agree with Matt

No, it wouldn't hurt them. Otherwise the people who make it, wouldnt make it haha.

Use the mite and lice spray :rofl: They will preen themselves, and hopefully it will come off.

I love the second picture, cuteee. Exciting! It is like egg, chick, egg, chick, egg haha.

Congratulations! :rofl:

So is this a ( I can't think of the right word....) like history/parent gene passed through to relatives, that we are dealing with? Possibly, and it would likely mean a genetic trait that causes a bird to ovulate irregularly since that is the main reason for double yolkers. Good chance it is inheritable, or at least repeatable for a hen thats done it once. By the way, my double yolker has two little embryos visible as of today. One is appearing a tiny bit more developed than the other - uneven heat distribution related to yolk location in the egg perhaps. Ah, yes genetic was the word! Any chance of one chick hatching (the bigger one) and the other chick being to young to survive?

I find all commercial (Trill, Whistler etc.) for breeding birds to be c***. One of the top breeders here was only talking to an interested person (wanting to breed budgies) about how it is bad for the birds that are breeding. Birds need proper seed with high enough protein and food that is good for them. For two birds to breed and have healthy chicks, the birds must be healthy themselves and be apple to supply protein, fiber and calcium to their chicks. This is a personal opinion, also based on a reliable breeder.

So is this a ( I can't think of the right word....) like history/parent gene passed through to relatives, that we are dealing with?

Kaz, I am very sorry. I was only thinking about how one of my hens looked like Omelette, thus leading to how she was going. I am so sorry kaz. I suggest planting an apple tree. Apple trees symbolize magic, youth, beauty and happiness. The apple has long been associated with the symbolism of immortality

I have started giving my hens hulled oats, and I think that has helped. The toher hens are still laying, but one pair has hatched 6 chicks and got 4 females, one cock and one undetermined.