Taylor

You seem so organized!

Sorry, my screen resolution had darkened and it made the head barrings different. I can see it clearly now... LOL

I feel for you. RIP fly free...

Beautiful, I love greenies. Is the the first one opaline, I'm looking at the head markings and they look like two of my adult opalines. It's young though so may just be that...

Good idea bout the steel wool. I learn something new everyday!...

Update time!!!!! I think there may be an egg in the back box, Sugar and Spice. I will check tommorow arvo, as I'm at the royal Melbourne show... Saw them mate yet again. The last time he was more on her right side. This arvo he seemed straight on top, so I hope it's more successful... Will keep you all updated. I am so ecstatic. Hope there are some eggs...

I am so sorry. She will be missed. Any idea how she is dying, or just unfortunately old age? Sorry

Good luck

haven't replied in a while... Put the boxes in Saturday gone and about 30mins later Sugar and Spice were breeding like crazy!!! Sugar has been staying on one of the boxes for hours at a time, but still no eggs. Spice goes to mate with her but either she pulls away or Poppy interrupts... Will post back soon with more details.

He he! Silly hens...

Yeah I'm stoked. Can't wait! Sunny and bing seem eager to breed!

I really like lutinos but can never find them! Unless I wanna pay nearly $50 for one at a petshop. Yep, they don't know how to price, I would pay $10 for the one down near me, it's in such bad shape I would never pay $50 for a sick bird.

Some VERY nice looking chicks to be precise!

I really like opalines, got two! Can't wait to see the outcomes and chicks! Good luck!

I have got some pantry cupboards... Huh mm I'll check with mum, Shame we actually use them!!! LOL

Fingers crossed Dave! Good luck

I know I can't wait! I put in some strawberry yesterday and they have hardly touched it. Normally anything I put in their is eaten in the first ten minutes. But I guess budgies all have different taste just like we do...

I am crossing my fingers too!

I've never seen so many bikes in my life! Over 1000 bikes, wow!

They are some good tips! I always thought it was best to use the wooden made ones, but using a pantry cupboard is a great idea!

okay so here is what I've been up to... NOTE: things in red are not my writing, but those of others. I've some how managed to write about my antics in Moglet's Journal, so sorry for any confusion. I found out what a budgie air raid shelter is: LOL!! An air raid shelter is a little box or hidey hole for babies who have jumped out of the nest but are still hanging around on the floor of the cabinet and being fed a bit and watched over by Dad and Mum. Some of mine have an upturned big yoghurt tub with an arch doorway I have cut into one side, some of the others have a tiny cardboard box I cut a door way into. It's basically for them to cuddle up together into at night or for security since they have only just come out of the shelter of their nest box. Most babies love to still hide somewhere and when feeling brave will venture out of the shelter to explore their new world. I also found out not to use cardboard, as it gets scruffy and tattered easy... Mum and I got rid of the office supplies stored in there (I had lots of pencils when I was younger). All spiders and cockroaches are gone it's just a matter of taking out the desk, dad making some benches to put the cabinets on, applying cat proof flyscreen and putting some waterproof tape on the laser light. Gonna do some on the sept holidays, I go to a private school, the Knox school , so instead of curriculum days, we get an extra week of holidays (3) instead of (2). Trying to find some cabinets is proving difficult but I've gone for the 2nd hand idea now. Dads got a anti bacterial germ wash to soak them in when we get them to get rid of previous germ. I just keep looking on trading post, gum tree etc. We've found a place in Nunawading that sells breeding cabinets but the breedings boxes inside lot shallower than the ones i've seen on here. I mean shallow as in / / / downwards Not, / / / across I'm gonna ask the guy if he can take them down so I can have a look as i don't want to buy them if they aren't right. Anyway, Attached some wood to the bottom yesterday to make the breeding boxes sit straight. One pair sugar and spice, aren't likely to breed. He is in condition, she isn't, sugar had gone out a few weeks ago and yesterday mum had to catch them and put them in a hospital cage. Spice doesn't know how to feed her properly and is getting regurgitated seed and beetroot all over her. She now just sits there sneezing everynow and then. Also her head feathers look ready to molt but haven't for weeks. Hopefully she gets better. I don't want them to breed if he can't feed her properly and then she has no seed to feed her chicks. EVERYTHING IS GREAT NOW! She is 100% better, climbing upside down, running around like a complete idiot. Moglet has helped me through this small bump in the road and I thank her for doing so... Sugar (hen), is getting all the signs that she ready to breed, even though her cere is still bluish... In the hospital cage, I laid down some newspaper as the bottom is mesh, and now its all ripped to shreds by Sugar. Apparently that is a sign... I ripped open part of the paper bread bag and she crawled in and had a great time. I think the warmth of being in the house, and being away from the others and only have her partner spice in there helped her. If sugar is ripping up paper I would think she is ready to nest. The girls get frantic and chew anything to bits when they are ready. Make sure she has access to cuttlebone and grit. Very important for egg production. When she is in season she will chomp a whole cuttlebone in a matter of hours or days. If here cere is going very brown then let her go with spice. They will sort it. I tried to beetroot thing after you mentioned it, but no one was into it. They ate around it! Little rats. I even tried peanut butter in their morning egg and biscuit with no luck. They loooove celery and apple and corn, and every weekend I collect eucalypt leaves and fresh seed heads. They go insane when they see me coming with those. They know I clean out their cage and then they get a heap of fresh leaves and seeded grass. We go to the beach every 1-2 months and we get cuttlefish fish to clean and give them, massive pieces too, even two hands in length! Only once we clean it though. I also have a container of shell grit which I noticed Sunny was digging in... Such a dork, but then again, she is the youngest and friendliest. I've learnt some tips about taming for future reference too. Again, thanks to Moglet... So thats about it up to now. I am putting the boxes in next weekend and then I'll post back. Sorry this was such a long post, Tay.

Thanks moglet but you've answered my taming problems. I've gotta prove to my rents that I am responsible to take in a budgie from one of my clutches. I never really, properly hand tamed my 2 insiders and would like now that I'm older to hand tame one. I know they haven't even bred yet, but i've decided once I know which one is my fav, (gonna be a hard choice mind you!), when they become fledglings I'll take my chosen one outside every now and then and handle him/her.

I love them all, but I especially love the chicks and lacewing. Are you going to an avian vet to get his wing checked out? Avian vets are of course way better and have more knowledge than normal 'every pet' vets... But sooooo extremely cute all of them, especially the lacewing

I saw some pics, can't remember which one, but they were sitting on a branch outside... I'm guessing it's wings were clipped?

I know those are old photos but I can see some pied, maybe dilute. I can't tell whether that blue or green, if blue then maybe yellowface type1 or 2