Hi all! I haven't been in town for quite a while and will be away the day after tomorrow too. In summer we move to the country and we have no Net connection there unfortunately. But this wild place is also a temporal home for my budgies.

 

Our beautiful couple Burbulis(Bubble) and Mango have produced some chicks! They are very good and caring parents. Burbulis is about a year and a half, as to Mango - he's a foundling and we do not know his age. But he looks quite mature and self-confident.

 

Burbulis is a very unusual color - I could not find her in the descriptions here. She is sort of 'normal' as to the markings, but her color is very light soft turquoise blue with a yellow face. The lines are very light grey. Mango is just yellow - not a lutino, with black eyes and some very light green markings on the tail and up. He has some faint black markings under his eyes which makes him look sad and funny at the same time.

 

I really wonder what the babies will look like... But first, of course, they have to raise them. Not all the eggs hatched yet. Do we have to worry about the unhatched eggs - what if there's something wrong - should we remove it? The thing is we do not know the precise time when she laid the last egg. Nor do we know about the first one :mellow: I only glimpsed one tiny naked baby, but we can hear several squeak. There were probably four eggs. We are curious, but we do not want to disturb the parents, so we do not interfere and try to content our curiosity.

 

How much time should pass till we see them come out of the house and what should we be prepared for? I will be grateful for any advice. I will make some pics later, can't do it now also because the Net is unaccessible where we keep the birds now.

Welcome back, if you have pics of your birds we can help work out the genetics. As for the breeding questions I will let our experts answer those :hap:.

I really wonder what the babies will look like... But first, of course, they have to raise them. Not all the eggs hatched yet. Do we have to worry about the unhatched eggs - what if there's something wrong - should we remove it? The thing is we do not know the precise time when she laid the last egg. Nor do we know about the first one :mellow: I only glimpsed one tiny naked baby, but we can hear several squeak. There were probably four eggs. We are curious, but we do not want to disturb the parents, so we do not interfere and try to content our curiosity.

 

How much time should pass till we see them come out of the house and what should we be prepared for? I will be grateful for any advice. I will make some pics later, can't do it now also because the Net is unaccessible where we keep the birds now.

 

Hi and congrats on the eggs and hatchlings :hap:

You really do need to check the babies! - It shouldn't disturb the parents - You need to count how many eggs there are and any egg shells that are in the nest box from hatched chick should be removed incase it covers any eggs and prevents the chick from being able to come out . You will alos need to check that the parents are feeding the babies - Look at the babies throats there should be a yellow colours lump so to speak in there that is a good sign that the parents are feeding the chick - If there are any dead ones in there that are left it can cause the nest to get baterica and you could loose the lot - It is daughting at first with new babies you don't know if you should touch them and etc - But it is very important - There is a LINK HERE CARING FOR BABIES IN THE NEST

Make sure that Mum and Dad have plenty od calcium and fresh food and greens too ....

 

If I have left anything out I am sure that the other breeders with add

If you can get a chance a picture would be great so the Mutation experts can tell you what the chicks will look like also it will give us a lcue as to how old that babies are ...

 

As for unhatched eggs, leave them in until the babies are a bit older or you can candle them to see if they are fertile or Dis ( DEAD IN SHELL ) ....Look for movement and a heart beat

Congrats on your chicks

Burbulis sounds like a YF2 skyblue greywing, hard to say with Mango

I agree with neat, check out that web site it has some very helpful advice. I always check on the progress of my breeding pairs, the hen might carry on abit but she will be fine, check that they are being fed remove any dead chicks quickly, check the chicks over and remove any build up of food around the beak and poop from their feet. You can handle the chicks from day one, they wont break i promise and it helps to get them used to you and being handled that way when they come out of the nest you will have happy friendly birds.

Good luck with you babies:D

Doers this photo help? He sounds alot like a greywing version of my 'Blondie'

 

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x259/er...ax/DSC00728.jpg

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Thank you all so much for the replies!

 

Thanks to Neat for the specifications - I will pull myself together and take a closer look at the chicks as soon as i come back to the country. The parents are feeding them indeed since I did see that yellow throat that you are describing!

 

The bird on the left in Melbournebudgies picture looks very much like the mother - Burbulis. She is a very good bird - she was very active and apprehensive when she first was brought to our house. Then she quickly became my friend and came to kiss me when I was next to the cage. Little by little the foundling Mango won her attention. She was also the first to learn to sit on a human hand. The other one from our flock who learned to do it fast was our splendid albino Pika with blueish wings, but alas! she is gone. I have asked around and advertised but to no avail.

 

I will look for the pictures.

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/M...Year2008116.jpg

 

Here's a picture of them half a year ago.

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I look forward to the pictures -

Just beware cause now they have babies they will go through alot more feed then normal!

They get their normal feed - high quality parakeet mix, plus spinach and fresh grass every day (I know, what's good for birds among the grasses we get here), also we started giving a small amount of minced hard boiled chicken egg from our home chickens. I am not so sure about the egg shell. I think we should grind that too and add to the mix.

In this picture Mango's back is seen.

 

The white bird is our lost Pika with red eyes - gone now...