July 27, 200618 yr OMG Karen I'm so glad you checked on them in time Poor little ones. Now that they are in a box you will have to get us better pictures :fear
July 27, 200618 yr Author OMG Karen I'm so glad you checked on them in time Poor little ones. Now that they are in a box you will have to get us better pictures :fear I actually had a funny feeling about it, and had intended to search for them first thing this morning.....it was when I saw Amara out of the nest and looking a bit disorientated that I felt there may be some urgency so I broke open the wall section and found them. I will check them again later when Cheeta gets here and try and get a photo. I can take photos when the Mums are out feeding around 4:30ish.
July 27, 200618 yr ****Happy to report*****The babies that were cold and unfed are now pink, wriggling and happily fed by foster mum Spice. So far so good. Â That's awesome news Karen, it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside when you save chicks like that. Â GOOD ON YA Â Cheers Paul Edited July 27, 200618 yr by Nerwen
July 27, 200618 yr Author well where are the pictures! *taps foot* Well here's the photo of Spice with a nest full of unexpected babies. She has one of her own. I put four babies and a couple of eggs in there belonging to Amara so that makes 5 babies. BUT this afternoon another baby hatched so Spice now has 6 babies in there and only one is hers. She seems as pleased as punch about it all too. All babies are healthy, happy and being fed. Please excuse the messy nestbox as it has been raining and things got a bit mucky in there rather suddenly. Will clean tomorrow as I check all is well. Â ** A new baby born today to Princess and Prince. Princess is not a very good mother and this newborn was unfed with the cold night closing in and Princess nowhere near the nest. This baby has been put in Swifts nest to raise. Edited July 27, 200618 yr by Bubbles
July 27, 200618 yr Great news! Glad she is being a good adoptive mommy! Edited July 27, 200618 yr by Shawna
July 27, 200618 yr Author ****Happy to report*****The babies that were cold and unfed are now pink, wriggling and happily fed by foster mum Spice. So far so good. Â That's awesome news Karen, it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside when you save chicks like that. Â GOOD ON YA Â Cheers Paul I seriously thought at least two of them would die within the hour...they seemed to be breathing their last gasps when I found them. I cupped them in my hands and breathed warm air on them for awhile trying to raise their body temp, before I put them in with Spice. I am thrilled they have made it so far. :fear
July 28, 200618 yr Author All of the babies is Spice's nest (5 adopted babies of Amara's and 1 of her own) are doing well. A new baby today in the nest of Pickles and Tart. But Tart is fostering eggs. Until I check the mark on her discarded eggshell, I wont know who's has hatched. Hers or Kermits. The huge babies in the nest of Slinky and Bloo are colouring up nicely. One that has pin feathers is a definite spangle, two others look normals, other two yet to feather. Cheeta can check those for me and give you a rundown on the genetics side of things. :budgiedance: A baby in the nest of Butter (creamino) and Chucky (dom pied) seems to be all yellow so far, dark eyes. Another cinnamon baby in Izzy's nest, two others yet to determine. Ciara has seven babies, interesting colours there. I will be doing a large batch of photos through the week towards the end of the week as feathers start to show colours. Edited July 28, 200618 yr by Bubbles
July 28, 200618 yr good to hear did you see how many views and replies you have on this one post (Laughing out loud) :
July 28, 200618 yr Author good to hear did you see how many views and replies you have on this one post lol : :fear Bit of a shock !! Ken didnt believe me till I showed him. I thought a daily blog would be easier and less confusing than a pile of separate topics and posts
July 28, 200618 yr I don't always reply, but I look forward to reading the updates a couple of times a day.
July 28, 200618 yr Hmmm Karen, I better bring a long a pad and pencil to jot things down as I check them. I surely will forget who's got who by the time I get home from your place!! :fear
July 30, 200618 yr Hey guys!!! Â My internet is still not workng.... on my computer that is, so im on my moms. How are you all...? Karen thats great about all the birds!!! Poor Amara But YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY SPICE!!! :bluebudgie: Look how many tini babies are there :ausb: What a crazy nest full of adorable babies! Â Karen- My msn will be working soon... I miss our lil convos. And i almost died guys! I have not talked to anyone about budgies in over 5 days! Im dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Â Anyways, i love the birds Kaz How are they diong now? Â Kirby
July 30, 200618 yr :bluebudgie: Glad everything is going well but like I said a few posts back, have lost track of whose who's who. Maybe you should start a new post afresh, we will all get straightened out and then get confused again after several hundred posts. :ausb:
July 30, 200618 yr I agree, Karen when you come back from visiting your dad would you do that for us very confused members
July 31, 200618 yr Author okay...I'm back I will do an update for you on babies and pairs in the aviaries later tonight. Cheeta was a godsend to look after my birds as she did. I am really very grateful for that. I would not have felt easy about leaving them unless someone who knows birds was watching over them. We have new babies in the aviary as well and lost a couple to aviary disputes while I was away. Poor Cheeta for having to find the results of that. I visited with the mother of an old schoolfriend while I was away. She breeds SHOW budgies. Has around 300 or so. Beautiful birds every one of them. Specialises in Fallows and other rare types. Had a double factor violet Goldenfaced boy to die for !! He has won prizes when shown. All birds were big and healthy and absolute stunners. I may have convinced her to try out our forum. I was fortunate to be shown a few things of great help....closeringing of budgie babies, and another way to tell breeding condition besides the cere, amongst other things. A very knowledgable lady. I came home with 5 new hens, not show standard budgies but brilliant for me just the same. I will post pikkies tomorrow if I can get some good ones. More later tonight as I list some of the Mums and Dads you may want to know about. Cheers karen Edited July 31, 200618 yr by Bubbles
July 31, 200618 yr Author Interestingly enough we have a few albinos in nests right now. Casper (YF2 cobalt normal) and Cookie have two albinos amongst their four hatched babies. Casper fathered an albino baby with Spook before (Sugar is her name), and now another two which obviously means Casper carries the ino gene. SugarOther ino babies are in the nests of Laila/Curry, Swift/ Rocket and one other as I recall. Laila and Curry have 6 babies Kaya  and Sonny have 4 babies plus 1 adopted baby Sasha and Stumpy have one baby and 1 adopted Spot and Precious have 5 babies Slinky and Bloo have 5 babies Swift and Rocket have 4 babies plus 1 adopted Ciara and Tiki have 6 babies Pepper and Spice have 5 babies ( 1 theirs and 4 adopted from Amara and Merlin) Harley and Rose have 5 eggs Misty and Chucky have 2 babies Pie and Molly have 4 eggs Bogie and Carmin have 10 eggs Clyde and Bunny have 4 eggs Vix and Sherbet have 4 eggs Rocky and Fluffy have 1 egg Chips and Rufus have 3 eggs Melon and Jonas have 2 eggs Radar and Angel have 5 eggs Moose and Pretty have 8 eggs Kiwi and Honey have 2 babies and 4 eggs Cindy and Sam have 5 eggs Pickles and Tart have 4 adopted babies and some eggs Jade and Goliath have 5 eggs ......and much much more Edited July 31, 200618 yr by Bubbles
August 1, 200618 yr Author Spot and Precious lost 3 of their five babies through the night, seemingly from the cold. One more baby from Spice's nest died too. She now has 1 of hers and 3 of Amaras. Kaya and Sonny have their four babies plus one adopted from Kaya's sister Izzy....Babies seems to be 3 cinnamon greens, 1 sky or cobalt spangle, and a yellowface cobalt. Slinky and Bloo's babies seem to be maybe a sky normal, a grey? normal, a sky opaline spangle, a YF cobalt and ? another. Swift and Rocket have a yellow recessive pied, a lutino and unsure of others, plus one adopted baby from Princess (who is not a good mother). Ciara has two very white babies, looking eithwer rec pied spangle and dom pied ? plus others. Curry and Laila's 6 babies all have yellow feathers so far it seems....one is a red eyed albino (lutino?). Will try for better photos later in the week. Edited August 1, 200618 yr by Nerwen
August 1, 200618 yr Wow what a log and so many babies and activites happen it could be a creamo (ino yellowface) or a lutino
August 1, 200618 yr All those eggs Karen!! Â I ended up with 2 chicks out of 30 eggs Edited August 1, 200618 yr by Nerwen
August 1, 200618 yr Aww poor Spot and Precious Curry and Laila's 6 babies all have yellow feathers so far it seems....one is a red eyed albino (lutino?) Very Cool Not sure if you remember but I was wondering if he had the Ino gene becuase of his cere colour.
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