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isnt colony breeding just what birds do in the wild???? it would be the same thing in thw ild if two related birds mated right?

thanks Nerwen and Nubbly so sounds like he is a dutch pied, and not opaline, but probably spilt. iwill inform you if he gets iris rings. calling RIP.... calling RIP. please come and help me, i hope you can hear me. okay fine i will just send a pm

what was the approx. temperature today down your way??? if it was cold, maybe the did freeze a little, and are still cold, keep them warm, and bring the other one in side just incas this is the reason. wait a day or so and if they still seem sick, then you will have to take them to the vet. try and make a booking ahead of time, to prevent having to wait. let us know how it goes, ps it is a bit hard to diagnose there problem over the net, so maybe the best thing to do is to get them proffessionally checked. pictures might help?? is there any other sypmtoms? hudling usually means they are cold and are trying to keep warm, by body heat from one another. good luck ratzy. alpaca boy.

so nubbaly, what defines a dutch pied and a aussie pied? what are the differences, visually? thanks for your info

what is a dutch pied?? i have heard of recessive, dominant, and australian but dutch? so are we all adiment that it is opalescence, and mortimer is split opaline??????

mortimer has NO iris ring.... YET as he is still a baby only 4 months old i will post a picture of the front, to help you all figure out whether he is a receesive or dominant pied. N.B he has a white tail and white flights if that helps bu the rest of this feathers as you can see are black here is his front and his side profile hope it helps

okay dean from nz, your saying he may be split for opaline, and he is just showing this split. so if i was to breed him with a hen with NO opaline, would there be any chance that the chicks may be opaline as i have heard somewhere that is is sex-linked. so a female cannot carry it unless it shows opaline, and a male can have it (split) and not show it due to chromosome xx and xy so if i did a punnet square it would be (with xy and xx and o= opaline) ....... X .....Xo X.....XX.....XXo Y.....XY.....XoY which would meant that i would receive; -25% male with no opaline -25% male with split for opaline -25% female with no opaline -25% female with OPALINE. is that correct??? so if i bread him with hen with no opaline, i would get 25% of chicks opaline. if gnetics paly out well.??

bye bye mr nibbles. i didnt even know you. but could tell you were very special. love alpaca-boy.

keep posting pictures, i love to see them when there just fledging out of the nest!

THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOO CUTE, GOOD JOB JETRICK!!!! how old would this one be?????

okay. so the situation is that my budgie Mortimer, was opaline 1.5 months ago. But... now he is not! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :hug: what is going on?? can someone please explain? Here you can see the opaline present on the wings. taken about 1 and a half months ago. Here is the NOW picture taken last week. so what are your thoughts...?

yes kaz i know, i1 year, before start breeding. i got alfalfa on the 12th of december so that is when i am going to start trying. as she was atleast 8 weeks then. so by that time she will be over a year old.

i send my condolensces to you Hannah. may lovely Mr Nibbles be happy in heaven, and may he fly freely with all his bird friends i know you will miss him dearly, but im sure he is saf where he is now. i will be sure to read the funeral post when it is up he was a beautiful budgie. lots of support to you and your family, Alpaca-boy. :hug:

Yes nubbaly this is that same discussion. so a dark green, see that the thing is, i thought it was definately not d/green, i thought it must be olive or light as it doesn't have that emerald green intensity that d/greens have?? i will try get some new pictures in good light! umm definately. i will definately post a breeding journal, i am so excited to do so. it will be my first time breeding. but i have to wait til the end of the year as they are still young, i have to wait for Alfalfas cere to go brown and crusty that means she is ready right? and then i will put in the breeding box! :emoticon112: but if i do breed her will that give us extra info on her colouring the bird that i am pairing her with "mortimer" is a cobalt blue, y/f not sure which one i think ty2, and he is opaline, i think as he had blue on his back before, but as you can see in the picture on page 2 of this forum he has lost it?? dooes anyone know why? thanks alpaca boy

that doesnt look bad at all. i dont know what your worrying about.

haha ill wait then. well when your next on camp at school, take a pair of scissors with you and in the middle of the night someone my accidently get their hair cut. hahaha. maybe you could say that an astewroid flew from outer space and when it was flying towards earth it flew past your head and just missed but singed your hair. lol

ahahha houman, dont worry too much. that used to happen to me, and youd sit there at the hairdressers thinking in your head when is she going to stop cutting? "god stop cutting already", but you dont say it for some reason?? you just let them keep on going and then the guys at school tease you, "ahahh look at his hair". oh well they get over it by the next day ooh post a picture, show us your great hair-do, please!

Hi i was once again wondering what colour she is. as she has now fully completed her moult, and i think she is either light green or olive green i will include a couple of recent pictures. what do you all think?? thanks in advance, A-B.

photography class? cool. i wish our school had that what school do you go to houman? and what year are you in at school? houman put some of your pctures up!! what does dslr stand for sootie? yeh alfalfa just came to me when i saw her, and that was that. thanks for your comments, i will continue to practice umm yeh her colours as a baby were beautiful but then she moulted and now she is just a light green digital something lens something?? lol

well the decision is up to you. but im sure what ever decision you make your little friend will totally understand as you obviously love him, and any decision you do make will only be for his best. sometimes these decision are hard to make, but we sometimes have to make them let him know your there for him, and enjoy his compant for as long as it is there

oh i am so sorry hannah. i have always admired nibbles, he looks lkike such a happy and friendly bird and i am sure you would have been the best friend that was ever possible from what it looks like you have done everything you can. so lets just pray and hope to god he pulls through

ahahahahahaha that is pretty funny ive just watched your conversation, hayden is asking question, and then people are answering joels question as if he is hayden and then houman thinks it is hayden but its really joel and it all just too funny well i hope you both figure it out, joel, or is it hayden? haha

thanks houman didnt read that. lol looked it up on google images looks like a good camera! wish i had one like that well here are the photos. oh and how do you pronounce django atm i am thinkin dango with the j silent?? or d-jango lol sorry if thats wrong, very cool name thouhg, sounds south american. mortimer alfalfa and mortimer alalfa being cheeky mortimer preening baby alfalfa baby alfalfa baby mortimer there alright but noting like yours your photos are so much more clearer! and the colours and composition is much more sophisticated

awwww ceeky is my favourite i have always... always, wanted a green pied budgie, but i find them really hard to find it is so cute sorry for your loss.

wow wow wow what can i say? extraordinary photography there sootie! i too love to take photos, i like to think myself as an amateur photographer but when i compare my photos to yours you make we look like someone who has only just picked up a camera. i love using macro too! it highlights, and focuses on your subject, and then the background just becomes a beautiful haze of colours what camera do you use By The Way?? i am only using a digital snap and shoot, sony cybershot DSC-t77 what model is yours? i wiill put some of my amatuer photos up and show you,