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a co-worker went back to tas to visit his father who is a bird fan in tassie. apparently there was an auction in the past week, ive been told Mr. Mysterious picked up 15 birds for abit over 2k. wow! also a pair of young opaline violets for just over $400 co-worker and father are working together to send a few my way

as i refill shavings total of 7, enjoy folk

nice work maddy

7th egg is in the process of hatching right now. probably started cracking about 10 mins to go. pretty exited on my end

thanks for the heads up blue. youre awesome! taking aboard your advice

i now have 6 babies [= ill post pics whenever i can i got probs 10 of each? i have a cage ready for them when they are ready to fly.i was thinking about removing the boxes and maybe bring them back in in a few months.

Now 5

not sure how to pm pics to you generic, but these are my girls my apologies for the blur

i actually went into the local this arvo, the nice feller gave me a good decent amount of egg n cookie mix for the pinkies (for free) its not like i begged for it, i would of happily paid whatever oh and hey! look what i found! must of only hatched within the past 1-2 hrs =D

The 3rd hatch today, the second oldest hatched 2 days ago, and the first hatched a day before the second. I got a bad feeling 2-3 of the eggs shown are infertile, but that's life. I managed to keep 3-6 eggs from 2 different pairs because they got abandoned, hoping for atleast 1-2 babies from the other 2 pairs. The mother in the picture only gave 4-5 eggs, with all of them being fertile? I'm not too sure, but guaranteed 2-3. This is my only active pair atm. Hope all goes well.

hello there little #3 must have popped out sometime early this morning [= hope you enjoy these baby pictures [= n these are the males im HOPING to pair up with females which im currently shopping for.

good luck with your pairings nerwen [=

5th egg laid on sunday, 6th egg laid today

me too GenericB, hoping for anywhere from 5-8, its been nearly a week since she last laid her first egg. this week has been heaps exciting for me and i still cant get over it =p im hoping this hen here will produce me something nice down the track. shes one of my fav hens at the moment and here is a cock i purchased not too long ago to replace the other yellowface i had lost, one of my fav males

introducing to you; egg #4

you speak the truth Generic and thanks for the heads up. i just may need to attend these club meetings sometime in the near future [= here is a picture of the pair i lost recently. i bought the lady off a breeder and i was heaps excited for the colour. the male from the local. i considered these 2 my best pairs, reason? colour and size. i have never owned a female of that colour and line, and i have never owned a yellowface that size. i bought a male the same colour as her, but she wasnt interested. till i put her in the box, then introduced the male. they hitted off, straight to preening. i could of sworn that i was going to be lucky..unfortunately not. i hope these birds are safe in the wild...where ever they are im still pretty down from losing this pair, but life must go on. on a lighter note, guess what i found today??! [=

Excited for you

I love my birds gernericblue =p I'm spending $300 because I wanted to fill up the cage, silly, I know. Real breeders are rare to come by and no one sells pairs, but that's understandable. I lost my best pai (which ill post pics of at a later note)r, I got heaps upset losing them, not by death, but by escaping. my fault. I felt like I was patient enough to wait for the perfect pair which I had, but by losing them, I felt the need to replace the love lost. nerwin; I am definitely looking to get into the show side of things, this site gives me the inspiration. That grey..his been eager and nice with the ladies since he arrived into the clan, he was eyeing the yellow female but she never was interested with him. she was interested with another male that was already bonded to his lady, but he knows better because she loves him. when I put this girl in the box for 3ish days, I put the grey in there with her and instantly, they bonded, started feeding her, preening and all the rest. I was stoked as, as I never saw them interacting outside with the others. I couldn't tell genetics if you had a gun to my head, but I do fall head over heals for a goodlooking budgie lol thanks for having an interest in my journal ladies n gents I hope I have a happy ending to this story for me, and for you members.

not as pretty as everyone else's, but im trying [= ive spent over $300 in the last 2-3 months trying to find the perfect budgie. god, the headaches

thanks for advice kaz. will take a replacement lid to the workshop tomorrow and cut the lid in half. thanks for reading my journal guys

generic lol, 'yay another something to read' annnd here we go here i have egg #1 egg #2 i was pretty shy showing my pair in fear of being discriminated for whatever reasons lol.. but here is father and mother, both with no names =p i will keep posting updates when ever i can. thanks generic and dave im excited to be here with you lot sharing this amazing experience

I've been scouting around the site for weeks/months, learning, reading. I'm not sure if I can post pics on my phone, but if it doesn't work, I'll jump on the pc tomorrow and do the upload from there. I'm heaps nervous and very excited. This is my second shot and hopefully this time round will be some what a success from 3 years ago when I last tried, only to receive 3 infertile eggs. Oh well, live and learn. I've been reading other members journals and found it heaps interesting and exciting at the same time. I've read a few post from the regulars saying it's a bit quiet around here lol, so I thought I could share this amazing experience with me. My goal, to successfully help produce a healthy clutch. Anyway, enough from me it's getting late. I'll upload pics as soon as I can tomorrow and share some pics with you all. By The Way, lol, story is; my first breeding pair in 3 years, this pair just laid its first egg on a saturday, did the routine check in the morning, nothing. A late afternoon check led me to find another egg in the box. Wooo