I am totally heart broken, I am really having a crappy year for breeding. Can't beleive what's happening I have this rotten little yellow double factor spangle, sorry for calling her rotten but I am so upset. Well I had her on her own in the breeding cage for 7 days, then put in my very favorite grey spangle (that I bred last year and both parents are dead now and I got 1st at the bird show out of 6 other birds), Well they were getting along like a house on fire for 3 days and I went out there before to give them their soft food and to my shock she was covered in blood and find my boy on the floor near the gate trying to excape, DEAD.

 

This is him hear is in my signitue photo also.

Mate.... I am so sorry How terribly upsetting for you to find like that. You hear of things like this happening and hope it never happens to you. But this is awful for you. I know how I would feel. Biggest hugs, buddy :angel1:

l'm so sorry for your loss

Oh my gosh, I am so sorry you have been going through so much. HUGS

Kas I am so p.. Off I have been so upset all morning, with everything else going on.

I just can't beleive that hen, she is going. I do not trust her anymore. Last year a nice lt green spangle cock died in her breeding box, He had a tiny bit of blood on his head, it looked like a blood feather but she had a bit of blood on her beak, So I wasn't really sure. BUT yes she probably did murder that one too.

It seems she goes done for her first clutch and then when you try to seperate her and it doen't matter how long because she was out in the avairy for a while, she just mustn't like her new partners. but they were doing it yesterday (I was purving) They looked fine, BUT she must of got the shits up last night or early this morning and Bang.

 

Thanks for your hugs etc really need them at the moment.

I really truley loved the cock and I was really looking forward to showing soon.

Splat, it sounds like that particular hen is high on hormones and extremely territorial about the nestbox and breeder cage. I wouldnt use her again for breeding either. So sorry, you have experienced this

I'm so sorry about this Splat. How horrible. I would get rid of the hen too. He was a really nice bird.

Edited August 10, 200717 yr by Nerwen

I even put her in a different box and everything, But there is one thing could coming out of this Greg wanted to put her with that really nice cock he brought me a while ago, Gee I am glad he didn't or I would of lost him.

 

 

this one

 

 

 

This him the grey spangle romancing and ready to do the deed with his former lover but she ended up being infertile.

 

Thanks Guys for your concern it is really great when I am feeling so down.

So sorry you had to find that. It must be a horrible feeling, hits you in the pit of your stomach. :sad:

So sorry to hear the bad news.

I'm so sorry too, hope everything goes well from now on :sad:

Hi Julie,

 

I am really sorry to hear about this :sad: I had a similar disaster a short while ago when a hen killed a cock of HUGE sentimental value, as well as being a cock with good features. Seems he was a bit too gregarious for her liking. With great caution I recently paired her with another cock, who, while I would hate to lose him, I wouldn't be as upset over and watched them closely. They have gone on to produce 5 fertile eggs so far and seems to be getting on very well.

 

I'd love to give you a hug in person, however am only able to offer a virtual *hugz*

 

 

Feathers.

Oh no.... what a shame :dbb1: i'm so sorry, he was stunning

Splat I’m so sorry to hear this news, I can’t believe the bad luck & troubles your going through at the moment. One would be enough without two at once. Everyone was telling me recently in one of my posts, of the risks that I took putting a new cock in with a hen, straight away after taking one away. I know hens are grumpy & often vicious, but “touch wood” I have never had this experience so far. It’s like I have said before, it’s amazing how something seems to happen to birds you have a special interest in…I have had that happen so often, that I’m often scared to start thinking “that’s a good bird”. Hope things are ready to turn around for the best for you, pretty soon.

Splat, This is terrible news. You have all my support. This is one of the bad side of what we do. It takes a strong person to be a breeder, especially a show breeder. There are many down falls to this hobbie and just when you think you are getting through it some thing else hits you.

 

But this is what formes the stronge bond between Show Breeders, this is what gives us the strength is knowing that we can rely on other breeders to help us because they have also been through this.

 

It a pity we are so far apart.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts, it is helping. Yeh Feathers would love a big real hug, but cyper hugs are cool.

Daz thanks and yes wish we were a bit closer, like in the next town. (Laughing out loud)

Norm I would really becarefull with you changing your birds around, Because it really hits you when iy happens and what hurts me the most is that I did everything right. You just never know what's around the corner.

Greg was really upset last night when he came home from work and I told him.

Hr reckons he would of rang her neck if he had discovered him. :ausb: I really don't know it he would of or not. Beacuse I felt like it. :dbb1:

Knee jerk reaction and we would have all felt like helping the hen "go to God" but I guess we wouldn't have done it. There's no telling with budgies. Like Norm says...everytime you get your hopes up about a particular bird something horrible goes wrong. They certainly keep us on our toes, thats for sure.

Yes I know Kas, but I did chuck out in the flight a few hours later. She is now on the for sale list.

It is a shame because she is a nice hen and throughs really nice young, but I am not going to risk her again so I don't care.

You know what hurst the most the cock she killed had matured beautifully, just admirering the day I put him in with her thinking well you are really nice, he had his head rolled and had filled out since those photos were taken. The pics are 6 months or more old. He was looking really good and I was really proud of him.

NOW HE IS GONE. and what a horrible death. Poor little boy. :sad:

See Splat I was right, it’s dangerous to have thoughts like that…just joking, but it’s sort of right every time I think “that’s a good bird can’t wait till I get some chicks from that” it’s fatal…so many times something happens. The heavily buff Cinnamon Grey cock that I put a picture on here a couple of months ago about, I was waiting for it to get old enough to pair it up see what I got, now it can’t even take off from the ground any more, just climbs up the wire. Maybe it’s just while it’s going through its adult moult. These things are sent to try us, we just have to battle on remain strong & hope we win in the end.

That rotten hen even attacked another hen in the flight hat night. She is a so and so. A nice sky blue spangle hen with really good markings and she throughs those good spangle markings too. Well the double factor attacked her face . Blood all over her cere and left eye. Can't see any really bad injurys. But *** there is no cocks in that flight. She is a total cow.

What's her problem.

That rotten hen even attacked another hen in the flight hat night. She is a so and so. A nice sky blue spangle hen with really good markings and she throughs those good spangle markings too. Well the double factor attacked her face . Blood all over her cere and left eye. Can't see any really bad injurys. But *** there is no cocks in that flight. She is a total cow.

What's her problem.

Hormonal do you have a separate cage for her to "cool off" in for awhile ?

Yes Kas , i put her in a cage after the attack and she is sulking now , BUT I DON"T CARE. little brat.