Megan M

Thanks so much, they will be beautiful! Thanks Megan

Thanks for the answers what kind of colors will i get in the chicks then do you think?

Here are some pics of the cock, and you can only half see the hen in the box but i am almost certain that she is a grey cinnamon wing.here is the hen in the box here is the male you can see here that spots of him are just plain white like a pied Here you can also see the mother sitting on an egg and one of the babies

I can't find it? How to Post Pictures < CLICK ON THE LINK okay thanks i found out how to do it but i am having troubles with my computer so i will do it soon

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Cocks are males ................can you post a picture as there is different kinds of pieds. I'll post a few pics soon, having a bit of trouble putting the pics on. woops sorry about caling the cock a she, it's kinda confusing because he always used to be a she, also can someone please tell me how to put pics on the post? i have no idea

He is so gorgeous!!!!! and i love the name!! Megan

Ohhh, I'm very sorry for you, but atleast it didn't seem like it suffered, R.I.P. Megan

Cocks are males ................can you post a picture as there is different kinds of pieds. I'll post a few pics soon, having a bit of trouble putting the pics on.

you should use a small but bright led torch so it doesn't put out any heat on the egg. Go into a dark room and you will see a very clear image in the egg. In a couple of days you will see veins if the egg is fertile. When i was candling once i saw a spiderweb of veins and a tiny little beating heart, it was amazing! also look out for bacteria rings that will kill a chick in the egg.

Hi, If the eggs were in the nest for 5 weeks and hadn't hatched then they wouldn't have hatched anyway. It is possible that the hen had abandoned the eggs and it had died from being cold, or there was another reason that it had died in the egg. Anyway if the egg was going to hatch it would have hatched before that, it usually takes about 18 to 20 days for an egg to hatch. I wouldn't blame yourself. The eggs usually hatch about 2 or 3 days apart so it would have hatched by now if the others were that old. A good way to see if the eggs are fertile is to candle the eggs where you shine a light through the egg to see the chick, that's how i could tell which of my eggs would hatch. Do you candle your eggs? Good luck with future chicks! Megan

i can get some pictures of the dad easily but i might not be able to get some good pics of the mum because she is always in the box but i can try. The box has a concave. I will upload some pics soon

Hey guys another question, the cock of the clutch is what seems to be a pied sky blue because she has patches on her that are just white, and the hen is a grey cinnamon wing. I was wondering what color chicks i would get.Thanks! okay so should i put anything on the bottom of the nesting box? also when do they start to get feathers? at the moment the oldest has a few tiny little spikes but i was wondering when they will start getting proper feathers?

I have just transferred the little family into the smaller cage, by the way the bars are the same size as the ones in our budgie cage, i could easily move the breeding box with the hen in it to the cage because the hen is quite tame, but the cock has never been handled and had a bit of trouble, but in the end he was fine besides being a little shaken up. The hen is out of the box at the moment preening with her mate. we have them on a little table in a room with our cockatiels in a cage and right next to the budgies is an Indian Ringneck, so they have heaps of company, also the budgies cage iss only about two meters away in the next room so they can see them and talk to them. So far there is 3 babies and 2 eggs left but 1 of them is infertile so the last one should hatch tomorrow morning. They seemed to have no trouble moving, and they are all sitting in the box happily. We have put fresh food and water in the cage and cleaned it out and after posting this i will put some fresh apple and carrot grated up in a dish on the bottom of the cage next to the breeding box. The box is about where it was in the other cage so they should be fine. Thanks so much for the advice and i will keep you posted!

Hi, thankyou so much for your reply! We do have the babies in with the other adults in a big cage inside, so we think that we will move them into a small cage that we used to have a cockatiel in. Will moving them bother them at all do you think? Also how exactly should i feed them the fresh fruit and veg because they are about 1 and a half to 2 years old and i'm not sure how well they will take to having new food. We are also going to feed them a mix of a boiled egg and a arrowroot buiscuit mixed together to help with the babies growth. Also what if the adults get distressed from being away from the others since they have been with them their whole life?

Hi I'm Megan, I'm 12 years old turning 13 and the proud owner of 6 adult budgies and 4 chicks. Up to about a month ago me and my sister thought that our budgie Peebo was a male and our other budgie Sweat Pea was a female. But we bought a breeding box, and Peebo spent almost all his time in the box just sitting in there. One day i took out the breeding box to clean out all the seed inside, and i found an egg nestled among the seed. We found some information on the internet and started to candle the egg, by the way only one was layed. After a few days we still couldn't see anything in the egg and a couple of days later we found the egg smashed on the bottom of the cage. We figured it was infertile anyway. But about a week or so later we found another egg in the box, that Peebo the newly found girl layed. We found that the father is Sweat Pea the newly found male. The eggs were layed every 2 days until there were 5 eggs. We candled them several times and found that 4 out of 5 were fertile. a few weeks later the eggs started to hatch and now we have 3 chicks, and the next one will hatch soon. Peebo the mother has what looks like birthing fluid all over her face and i was wondering if there was anything i should do to help clean that off her? Also i was wondering if i should feed them anything different to help with the chicks and the parents. At the moment we are just feeding them normal budgie seed from the supermarket. Sorry for the extremely long post but i thought it would be best to tell you everything. Any advice would be most appreciated. THANKS!!! :yes:

Hi robyn I'm new at budgie breeding and i don't know a lot, but i do know that budgies ceres can change A LOT when they are young so until they are older it can be very hard to tell if they are a male or female. Me and my sister have a budgie that is about 2 years old and until only about a month ago we thought that it was a boy, however it had a greyish blue cere so it was hard to be sure. But about half a month to a month ago it had it's very first clutch of eggs which proved us very wrong!!! And the father of the clutch was believed to be a female until we witnessed it mating with the mother of the clutch! :yes: Anyway i hope you find out for sure what sex it is. Good luck!