amum4children

Thanks Birdlove :-)

Hi Budgie_Mad, I am sorry to read about your baby budgie that died! I know one or two died of mine years back when I was breeding but I just put it down to them being to weak to survive. It is very sad when it happens. I think the main thing is to never breed before a budgie is 1 year old and still wait till the female cere shows she is readr and definitely give the parents a break from breeding during winter. If you look after the parents correct (nutrition, housing and most of all love) I won't say no young will die just a lot less will. You know there is one thing I think about now since I learnt about it recently is that my budgies may have not have had enough UVB light on them even though they were in an aviary on my veranda at the time. The aviary I built had a wooden roof and I never knew back then how direct UVB sunlight is important to get Vitamin D not only for calcium absorption. If your want to know more about this, google Don Burke and UVB for Budgies. My budgies were pretty robust and healthy but I think now, I could have done better. I remember the eagles were pretty bad in Cairns. They would swoop down and try and tear the avairy wire! No eagles here in Goulburn though which I am glad about. To answer you question about colony/ inbreeding - wow nooooo way! That would just bring disaster bigtime. All my and my children's budgies are from different breeders for that very reason just in case. And as much as my children might want to in the future breed one of their birds with Violet - not happening as none are opaline to start with. Oh! Except Albert the English budgie I mentioned above and that is definitely not happening being to big sadly enough. Here is another photo of Violet. Thanks for the welcome Budgie_Mad! :-)

Hi All! I am very excited to be undertaking this hobby again. Woohoooo!! :happy-dancing: I've been away from budgie breeding for 20 years and thanks to my children's interest I am going to be taking up the hobby again, starting with this little one. I am pretty sure she is a female. If I am wrong about the gender please let me know as I am not 100% sure. I had produced Rainbow 20 years ago but they had slight spangle marking on there wings, so weren't true rainbows. A great surprise at the time due to never seeing yellow face blue budgies in person little alone rainbow colours on wings also! I was very sad to have to sell all my birds back then due to moving into a small place on a farm with plenty of cats. I was very please to find 'Violet' at a new pet store - a Rainbow. Her and her sisters and brother had just arrived before we arrived there. I was very impressed with the store actually - very organized and clean and the range of products was huge. the staff were very friendly also and let my daughter sit in with the puppies. Where I live (1 hour north drive out from Canberra) a clean pet shop with adequate supplies was very much needed. Violet is a clearwing opaline yellow face blue budgie - a true beautiful rainbow. I am happy to post some more photos if I get a request. For now I am just trying out posting one photo and see if it works. Any advice to what coloured budgie is best to put her together with to get more Rainbow Budgies would be greatly appreciated. I am hesitant to put her with a barred bird but maybe I am wrong. Do true rainbow budgies have to lack barring? I have also got another bird (fully mine) but I am hesitant to introduce; I think it will cause controversy; but it will make people in the budgie world think - it was at first a very noticeable black striped budgie but then changed. I know why also! I will add a post one day about this bird God Willing. But it was this budgie that my daughter got to breed with that really sparked my interest again. After some considerable amount of research I found it not to be what I thought it was; as in colouring; even though he was so strongly featured. Like I said, I will have to post about it some day soon as it is with other budgies (including Violet) whom seem to like him and I don't know if he is okay to breed with. I don't like separating a single budgie on his own - he has a great personality and is always the first one to fly to me to let me know they need a seed top up. My set up is a big cage each, one for me and one each for 2 of my children who have set up there's near windows in their rooms. Mine is taken outside when I don't feel it is too cold for them. We are going to get a big cage also for the babies when they arrive one day but not when the cold chill is outside are we going place nesting boxes in the cages! All our budgies are let out of their cages on a daily basis and all fly around together in a good sized room. We have 7 budgies altogether at the moment and thinking on adding two more males. One for me hoping I am correct about Violet being a female and one for my poor son who at first had a pair that he thought was male and female ended up being two female then he bought an English budgie to put with his Australian female ( I have his other female budgie now!). We recently have been advised that she could get egg bound with him! Albert the English male, is a big boy with a big heart and very tame. He is an older budgie that my son fell in love with. Albert doesn't seem to be interested in the females what so ever anyway. He can stick up for himself when needed when the other budgies want to push him around. I once had a beautiful English budgie also 20 years ago. He looked after the young as a second dad with no problems at all, so I have had a soft spot for English budgies ever since! One more thing, I do home schooling so the budgies get plenty of attention! They are part of the family :-) . . Anyway, I hope I didn't bore anyone with my big intro! I will be looking forward to anyone willing to say, "Hi!" amum4children