Nadene

Hi and welcome to the forum

Hi and welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy reading through the all the info and asking questions

Hi, welcome to the forum. I'm no expert but I would give them a antibiotic like Triple C and follow it up with a probiotic, short term use wont do any harm.

Hi and welcome to the forum. It sounds like a lot of fun at your house

Hahaha you are a stirrer JimmyBanks. We need some of the original members to comment like Kaz, although I think I know what they would say.

I WISH!!! I can't wait to see the live feed (if they do it).

Hi and welcome to the forum You have some lovely birds. If and when you breed with them you should split the pair up into a separate cage to stop any fighting. I can't really see what the string toy is in the middle of your cage but I would be very careful with it and probably would take it out because budgies have been known to hang and kill themselves on rope and string toys. Nadene

What a great find. Just goes to show that budgies have always been great birds to have Thanks for sharing

We call them Exhibition (Show) or pet types not English. They got called "English" because of the changes that were made to the birds (size, Feather etc) when they where exported from Australia.

Hi JimmyBanks, welcome back I wish some of the others would come back! How long have you been a member of the forum for? 10th Feb 2012 so 2 years How long have you kept budgies for? I've had budgies for about 7-8 years but show type about 18 months What is your favourite mutation? Any type of pied and I have to add yellow face Blue or Green Series? I have to say blue even though I seem to have an aviary full of mostly green How many birds do you keep at the moment? 23 at the moment after loosing a few to illness What do you prefer Pet or Show type? Hmmmm I have both so it's like trying to pick a favourite child, but if I really had to pick I would say show What got you into budgies? I had one as a kid and wasn't allowed to get another so when I grew up and got my own house I got more and more and more. Thanks Jimmy that was fun, Nadene

Fantastic photo's. He's a beautiful bird

Hi and welcome to the forum

Plum eyes and brown pins means it is cinnamon and if neither of its parents are cinnamon it means the father is split for it. They are beautiful chicks and I love the white one. Keep the pics coming as the grow

Hi Gunny and welcome to the forum. Firstly you should NEVER put new birds in with existing they should be quarantined for at least 4 weeks in case they do have a contagious disease. It could be a number of things, it may have or had mites and chewed its feathers or it may have a bad chewing habit (or another bird with it did), it could be a really unfortunate moult I would keep him by himself in a smaller cage and see if they grow back.

Being summer in Australia at Christmas it's always beautiful to see lights and snow and that is REALLY beautiful

Hi and welcome to the forum. Sorry about the loss of your little friend and I hope you find another one soon.

They are great cages and it is fine for 2 budgies but you need to change the perches so they are running front to back not side to side so they have more flying space.

Hi and welcome to the forum. He is really beautiful

Sorry I can't help you with the mutations but they are beautiful

Hehehe she is just tooooo pretty to resist

Some clever people (not me) can sex them at 3 days old. By 9 weeks you would be able to tell. To me yours looks like a boy that is starting to change, they tend to go a bit purple before they go blue and being a dominant pied it may not go completely blue. Others might have another opinion.

Young hens or hens out of condition their cere will be pale blue to white and will turn brown, young cocks will be pink and turn blue except some varieties they will stay pink. You do get the odd bird which can trick you, I had one that I was sure it was a boy in the nest and it ended up being a hen.

Kaz this is what I read, Any bird can have any two of these genes simultaneously. The implications for AYF breeding are as follows:- 2 green genes = Green 2 blue genes = Blue 1 green gene 1 AYF gene = Green / AYF 2 AYF genes = AYF (double factor) 1 AYF gene 1 Blue gene = AYF (single factor) 1 AYF gene 1 EYF1 gene = AYFEYF1 (a combination bird) 1AYF gene 1 EYF2 gene = AYFEYF2 (a combination bird) You will notice that a green bird cannot be split for both blue and AYF at the same time as that requires three different alleles and a bird can only have a maximum of two alleles. You will also notice the AYFEYF1 bird which is a combination of both AYF and EYF1(with the AYF features being slightly more dominant). I suspect that many of the birds on the exhibition bench today in Australia are this combination and this represents a significant issue of identification by both judges and breeders.

They are soooo cute!!!

Sorry Paulie I can't find were I read it and I know they were debating it on FB, all I can find is where it says they can be split for Australian YF. I'll keep looking. I must be going mad I'd love to see a picture of this birds flights and tale