Hello i have been breeding budgie for a long time now and just came across this great website but i have a question, one of my females has a crusty type nostrel i just noticed it today and i think its to do with breeding just making sure so just tell me if this is the case.

 

Thanks, Daniel

females in breeding condition do develop lumpy ceres. However it could also be scaley face. Could you post a picture, so that we can judge it properly. :ausb:

welcome to BBC and I agree if you can post a close-up picture that would be wonderful.

okay i will try but she doesn't like photo's and the others will get in the way but i will try as hard as i can. More info on beak it is gotton smaller all the lumps.

 

Well It was all good luckily my neighbor is a expert with budgies and she said that it is not scaly mite it was just because she was ready to breed because it was her bird and she said that always happens. But thank for the help. :angel1:

good to hear

One of my older females, Happy, gets a buildup of a waxy substance on her cere from time to time (but actually not much in the last couple of years), which my avian vet adviced me to peel off, you don't have to injure her or use force, it just easily peels off.

Hello i have been breeding budgie for a long time now and just came across this great website but i have a question, one of my females has a crusty type nostrel i just noticed it today and i think its to do with breeding just making sure so just tell me if this is the case.

 

Thanks, Daniel

 

:ausb: Daniel in your 40 years of breeding, with over 500 birds, I would have thought you would have seen that many times.

Edited July 17, 200718 yr by Daz

Hello i have been breeding budgie for a long time now and just came across this great website but i have a question, one of my females has a crusty type nostrel i just noticed it today and i think its to do with breeding just making sure so just tell me if this is the case.

 

Thanks, Daniel

 

Daniel in your 40 years of breeding, with over 500 birds, I would have thought you would have seen that many times.

:ausb: yes i know it does sound bad but because i have a large aviariy the birds are afriad of me but no one else but me so when i go near they fly right to the top of the cage and i did know that there beak goes crusty when ready to breed but never seen this with my other birds. My daughter noticed it last week.

Yikes budgiedude, you really do have a problem with 500 budgies not liking you. Again, it all sounds very strange, most of the larger breeders here have budgies bordering in the 100's but a lot of their budgies like them, sorry that you have problems! Again, any additional information about your budgies and pictures of your setup would be helpful. :ausb: