Squeak_Crumble

Anyone know how much these birds went for? (I agree, Lot 13 or 9 )

My view on the old bird thing. In my mind the breeders of this ilk have kept them for breeding as they are obviously visually good birds. They would probably not sell young birds of the same quality. Me, I have had some great success with 3 year old cock birds I have purchased. Even 4 year old ones. I know someone that got 5 fertile chicks from an 02 hen last year. Good birds also.

Cheers Hopefully I will get both albino cocks and hens. For a split albino normal cock bird, to ino female, you would get: 25% Ino Cocks 25% Normal/Ino Cocks 25% Ino Hens 25% Normal hens But throwing in opaline,spangle and YF, I have no idea

Sorry to dig up this thread guys, But I am sure many are interested to see how this chick turned out. Any new photos?

I am a little unsure, but is seems like some of the chicks quills are coming through as cinnamon. Will need to wait a couple more days for comformation...

Hi All Probably 6 months ago now, I recieved about half a dozen birds from a fellow fancier from my club. Among these birds were a YF Cinnamon Grey, Cinnamon Blue, Albino, YF Opaline Grey Spangle, Cobalt and a Recessive Pied hen. The cobalt and the YF Grey Op. Spangle were both split Albino. The Albino hen is a black ring,YF Grey Op. Spangle blue and cobalt a red ring. I personally try not to breed red ring birds (this year) as some of them, because of the new ring issue date, can be less then a year old towards the end of the breeding season still. I also don't have the cages to waste on birds that can't mate properly (young cock birds sometimes) or won't lay eggs (young hens) I would only pair a red ring bird if it was to a black ring hen, so that the hen can teach him the ropes, and then in the following year the cock bird can teach a young hen. That is my own opinion though. Anyway moving on. I had planned on putting the Cobalt to the Albino hen, to get some ino's. I breed TCB's, so inos are important (I am also planning to use the hen for TCB's). I have just let the blue ring birds mature in the aviary, and I have basically ignored them as far as breeding pairs.When the breeder was here yesterday, he saw the YF Grey.... having a fun time with the Albino in the aviary He reccomended pairing them together, as the Albino hen was one he had bred himself, and the YF Grey came from a good line of albino birds, from a nationals breeder for SA. The YF Grey is about 11 months old I have learnt, as he was rung just as the blue rings came in. So i decided to shove the to in a breeding cage, as I had one free, and just see how things go. I only put them in today, so hopefully there will be eggs within a couple weeks. Here are a couple pictures of the birds: Albino Hen (bit hard to see, white on white...she is a very nice hen) YF Grey Opaline Spangle/ Albino. Note: He has matured alot since then, (older photos) as you can see he doesn't even have his iris rings. He is a very lovley boy.

HE is a she........................Nubbly is female as per profile info to left of post. and I know for sure cos I have seen her in a dress or two Sorry nubbly! I do know she is a female, sorry for my bad typing skills this is what happens when I have cold hands

Recessive Pied, as it's title says, Is recessive This means both cock and hen birds can carry it (unlike sex linked, which only appears in hens as visual) . Both parents must carry the gene to reproduce visuals, but if you put the hen that is split rec. pied to a normal cock bird, you would get all normals split rec. pied.

When he said Dark Green/ Rec Pied, the slash means split. So she is a dark green split for rec. pied

When I said the chick isnt an albino, I meant no red eyes :question: Definetley black. So either way, i will only be getting a visual normal chick?

I agree :rofl:

The cock bird is a normal cobalt split Albino. I know that the chick isn't an albino, so does that mean it is a male?

Any newer pictures of the violet?

To get squished

Hi Dean. I know post is a while ago, but now that the breeding season has come around, how have things turned out?

I like it... Girl crying " maybe he can borrow your good cinnamon hen" !!! haha, cery funny and job well done :haha:

I dont think mum is split blue.... Her previous clutch was with a grey cinnamon and she got out 4 grey-green cinnamons and one grey... whoops I just realised she must be

Hi all! I currently have a chick growing up. His parents are a Cobalt Cock / Albino X Cinnamon Rec.Pied Grey-Green Hen Just wondering what i can expect from these two? Chick is white based Thanks in advance!

Every hen is different, and different things in the setup can make this vary. I find that my hens tend to lay very early morning or midday time.

My biggest tip would be to lay concrete. We didn't, and the place just stinks like mice. It also makes it easier to clean, so you can just give it a sweep every couple of days.

The lacewings are absolutley stunning! Very pretty colours, looking very vibrant. I was also going to comment on the 2nd ones performance of his lovely blow, but someone else beat me to it EDIT: also, I was just wondering how you get the air out of a birds crop? I have had one of my chicks with a crop full of air, but I don't know what to do! He was acting a little off yesterday (not moving much, a little unresponsive) but today his crop had less air and more food, and he seemed a bit better.

More photos soon please I love seeing the bubs grow feathers, come out of the nest, first moult and grow up into a beutiful bird. We sure are lucky people to be blessed by such little pretty things.

Lovely birds GB! You should be proud of your budgerigars (<<< ) I like you dom. pied greys, very nice. Some of those chicks will moult out beautiful.

My monitor is showing quite alot of white around the nares, so my guess is female, but as was said before, more pictures please Very pretty bird also, Violet Opaline Spangle?