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Awwww that is too precious! Great shot (and yeah I am finding it hard too to post pics lol)

Hi Hilly my first thought when I bought him was that he was a greywing spangle but the grey is really really light and the flights and tail feathers are yellow? I thought they "had" to be grey as well in that case? I guess we might need to wait till his first moult to see what happens with his colours, I think he is pretty in any case :-)

Hi tried that but it just doesn't want to let me "copy" It worked but the smilies are still only words for me, not pics, weird! Anyway, Kaz has replied on FB not sure what this little guy's mutation is but it doesn't look clearwing to her and perhaps too bright to be dilute. He is definitely a spangle I suppose. His yellow is quite a lemon yellow and the green.....well not sure what you would call it lol, not bright green though. His name is Ozzie by the way ;-)

It has been ages since I've posted on here and for some reason I can not seem to do copy and paste links from photobucket??? [/img] Sorry I don't get it, I think I need some help Can't seem to post smilies either ???

My friend is after a tame budgie boy, preferably green or yellow or combination. She is located nor Perth Thanks all

Flip-Trainer how??? Have never heard of a bird breaking their neck in a happy hut??? Poor bird :-(

Jazzy will run around the carpet and occasionally she stops and "scratches" the floor (like a chook does in sand ;-)) Is that typical female behaviour or do male budgies do that too?

Yes I just heard today we now have an avian vet "north of the river" lol ;-) Awesome :-D

wow Jaime, that is one gorgeous chick, love her colours (in that one piccie I could have sworn the cere looks boyish lol) Awesome when you get surprise like that :-D I have had that in the past with my cockatiels :-) By the way, your name is lovely :-D (my daughter's name is the same but with double E)

thanks Robyn :-) Actually, after reading one of Kaz's posts on here (don't ask me which one it was lol, it came up after Googling) I am pretty confident my boy is a sky violet. He has the purple hue especially in sunlight. He has quite a bit of obvious purple underneath his cheek patches and the blue seems to get darker the lower you go on his body. I would not call it blue blue, but a baby blue/powdery blue but closer towards light purple lol

Lol she is inquisitive enough, just not keen on either the swinging motion or the beads perhaps so might remove them (they are on the sides of the swing) Yes she gets a bit of fruit, apple so far. I have never had birds keen on fruit so always forget to give the newbies the opportunity to try some ;-) Cockatiels are not normally keen on fruit but I know a friend who has a budgie that absolutely adores strawberries so I guess I will try a few different kinds of fruit on my budgies :-) Thanks BJ

My little girl Jazzy is about 2 1/2 months old, have had her for 3 weeks now. She is good with her food, not fussy and not scared to try new things. The thing is, she is such a skinny little runt! I can not get any weight on her and she is only 32 grams. Has anyone got any suggestion as to why she would be so small? I assume some budgies are just small(er) but she is skinny, not just small in stature..... She gets seed, has access to pellets and eats them, egg and biscuit mix, some bread a few times a week, greens every day (they vary). Have not tried her yet on whole egg and pasta/rice etc On another note, I did not want a female budgie and was a little disappointed when I fairly soon after getting her realised she really was a girl but boy, she is so adorable and so entertaining :-D She loves her toys and looooooooves taking baths :-D The only thing not-very-budgie-like lol is, that she does not like her swing ;-D

Hi thanks so much :-) The post had not been up too long but most of the time people seem to respond a bit quicker but I think what happens is another post appears and then yours kind of "disappears" ;-) You got me really confused on the violet thing now hahahahha His colour is to my eyes (I am a female) purple but to my son (male! Lol) it is a shade of blue. Don't they always say males and females see colours differently hahaha Ah well, he is gorgeous and yes I was thinking he would indeed be about 3 months old according to the breeder (why would the breeder be making up an age anyway ;-) Mind you having said that, I had a look at a couple of birds yesterday and there was one in there that had no baby bars and full iris rings but that lady is elderly so I reckon she just took the wrong one out of the aviary hahaha)

Hi I find my budgies are keen to investigate the larger birds (I own both as well) but the cockatiels are not normally keen but I have heard of tiels and budgies happily living together though so it is just mine that don't get along haha I feed my budgies the same seed mix as the tiels (which is budgie seed mix with small oats) but don't give the budgies sunflower seeds though. All the greens you feed your tiels you can give this little guy too and they loooooove millet :-)

Anyone? Kaz?

After having had our new baby Jazzy for not even 3 weeks yet we decided to get her a friend. This little one (as yet unnamed) is a beautiful spangle but is he a cobalt or violet and what exactly is a violet cobalt?? He still has baby bars but has already got the bright blue cere, when do baby bars normally disappear and at what age would the cere colour start to deepen and when do the iris rings develop? The lady I got him from said the breeder said he was about 2 months old and she had only had him for about a month so he should only be about 3 months. In bright daylight I can see the iris ring developing though. Anyway, this is him, I love his colours :-) He is in a borrowed cage for now and luckily I am able to borrow this cage for as long as I need it but hopefully Jazzy and this one will get along and will be able to go in the same cage eventually :-) Arrgghh I have no idea what the problem is at the moment with stupid photo bucket but am having heaps of issues with photos not downloading properly and not rotating :-( Hope this works By the way, outside in the sun his colours are definitely more a purple then a blue

Apology accepted. You have the birds well being at heart, that is great :-) but please don't judge people you don't know the first thing about. I love my birds, they get spoilt rotten. I am still devastated I lost Dash. All of those who knew him, know what he meant to our family. He was amazing. Our new one will get there, I'm sure. I just don't think I will ever get the "conversations" Dash had with his toys and our cockatiel out of her lol

Sorry Dillster, the inexperienced kid comment was not directed at anyone in particular on this forum ;-)

HELLO!! What makes you imply I do not have enough interaction with my bird!!!!!!!!! How dare you imply that! I lost my previous bird, he died as he was very very ill. I know it was NOT because I did not clean his toys often enough thank you very much! This NEW bird has only been with us for two weeks and is NOT regurgitating yet as I wrote Please do not reply to my posts if you are going to be one of those I-know-everything-you-know-nothing type people! I am 39, not some inexperienced kid! I have had pets ALL my life and have had cockatiels for quite a number of years too. My questions were relating to differences in female budgie behaviour to male budgie behaviour. I do not feel the need to read your bonding tricks as I have already been through a bonding process with my previous budgie and various cockatiels.

hmmm fair enough Thing is, read somewhere that birds that regurgitate a lot on toys etc are more at risk of getting crop infections as they swallow most of it as there is no other bird to take the regurgitated food. I do clean their toys obviously but not religiously every day or anything that often. I would obviously like to have this bird around for a lot longer than Dash was :-( I must admit, I freak out when I see Jazzy bob her head or even yawn :-/ So far she has not regurgitated yet but then again, she is only a baby ;-)

thanks Forgot to ask if females are less likely to regurgitate on their toys??? Dash used to regurgitate on pretty much anything he was "in love" with lol

My previous budgie, Dash, was a male. A very inquisitive, smart, talkative bird. He was not handreared but came from a breeding cabinet. When we went to have a look at the budgies that day, Dash spotted us and hopped on the wire and followed us around. It was love at first sight :-D From the moment he came home, he hopped on our fingers and would hop on the wire when he saw you to ask for attention. He was unclipped and learnt to dodge windows, walls etc very very quickly. He responded to my call and would fly down onto my hand within two days! At 5 months of age he knew about 10 words and sentences and continued to pick up new ones very easily after that. He would talk non stop during the day, scream if he was upset but never made those cute little warbling budgie sounds ;-) He was loud and would talk to his bell, food dish, toys, honkey nuts that were part of his playgym :-D, a clothes peg (he would mate with the clothes peg too lol) etc etc In other words, highly entertaining and never shy. Our new bird is roughly 8 to 9 weeks old now and the cere is a colour that indicates female inside the house but male outside in bright sunlight. This bird is very very quiet (still) and scares easily, not inquisitive at all, does not hang on the wire to greet you (yet) and makes mainly the normal budgie calling sounds with the occasional screeching and occasional cute warbling (I want more of the latter haha). I am starting to suspect she is a female so I have some questions as I have never owned a female budgie before. - She does not bite (at this stage), most stories I hear are about females being nasty and nippy, is this as they get older or are there indeed some sweet girls around? ;-D - Are females indeed less curious, bold and inquisitive as the males? - Are females not as keen on human contact or does it all come down to each individual bird? I know I have only had her for two weeks and need to have patience (not my strongest point lol). This little one was not handreared either but parent raised. Mum was going for the second clutch and our baby was the only baby so the breeder decided to take her out of the aviary and had started handling her. How long does it normally take for a new baby to be completely confident around his/her new owners or does that once again totally depend on each individual bird? I guess Dash was a unique little fella and I need to really try not to compare the two birds :-/ Thanks guys

Very pretty birds

What will the colour do, you reckon Robyn? Go more greeny or go more grey? Will the yellow bleed more into the feathers? I like this mutations actually even though I wanted one with more "pastel" colours ;-D Yeah (s)he is very comfortable sitting on shoulders, does not like to be petted though (everytime my finger goes near his/her body (s)he steps up hahaha)

aw what a sweet baby, how old is he?