Merry Christmas, very nice pictures they are looking good. Your journal is so long and informative you should be proud.

Thankyou very much Elly.

 

Second baby hatched today from bullet and sumos nest, I hope atleast one is yellowface.

The birds got millet, hulled oats and lots of other vegetables for christmas, and the calcivet has arrived.

The good thing about having more than 1 breeding pair at a time is:

If any parent dies or they neglect the chicks you can transfer the chicks to another nest and they will be protected and fed, its so much easier than hand raising the babies.

 

I have another question and it may seem stupid but I honestly have no clue.

Can a budgie tell the gender of a cockatiel? or another bird species?

Edited December 25, 200816 yr by pearce

Hi

 

The birds are all going well. Summer's babies are all now over 17 days old. They have all been rung.

3 of them looking to be hens and 1 looks to be a male.

3rd baby hatched from bullet and sumo's nest today, all have been fed.

 

Youngest moult bird from neons nest can now fly perfectly fine and will be released into the avairy tomorow. I have got a few new birds aswell I will take some pictures soon.

 

I am thinking about joining a club and getting involved with showing, I will have to look into it first because I have no idea how it works.

 

Thanks all.

Glad to hear everything is going well As for if a budgie can tell the sex of another species of bird, I would not know... possibly though because there are some birds that have cross bred.. hmmm who knows..

Thankyou Jimmy.

Have you succeeded in killing off all the red mites Pearce ?

Yes KAZ they are gone. I used scatta 7 and it killed them all real quick. The babies are looking healthy and are starting to run around and all. One even jumped out of the nest box yesterday and was on the ground eating seed.

Good news Pearce

Yes Thankyou KAZ

 

Its funny because chomper and summers old babies used to always nibble on my fingers when I put my fingers in the nestbox, now the second clutch babies are doing the same thing. when they all see me they all sit up straight with their heads out and start biting, it must be in their genes to bite, they get it from summer.

 

I need some help with somthing if someone wouldnt mind.

 

Neon and thunders last clutch had these problems:

Neon (hen) threw out all the shavings as soon as I put them in their.

She gets crop milk all over the baby and their are always droppings in the nest box.

 

Summers nest is always quite clean (i clean all nest boxes every 2 days)

 

Neons nest box gets so dirty, I think these babies have a chance of getting stress moult like the first clutch because they are not looked after properly.

With nesting material I think this could change, is their anything I can get that she wont throw out? Like rocks or somthing she cant grip onto? I realise some mothers are just like that but i'm worried abouyt the babies, their legs and feathers are covered in droppings.

good question, I am interested to see the answer...

Me too Jimmy

 

Today I went to a breeders place and saw a budgie with no legs. He was born legless because he was bred from a brother and sister or somthing, All I remember was he said they were closely related. The budgie is still alive and is now 1 year old. He has his own cage with a cusion at the bottom where he sits most of the time, he can fly but cannot perch as he cannot get a grip. Anyone else ever had a bird with no legs?

That is bizarre. A budgie with no legs is something that happens i guess.

I have seen a budgie with 1 leg but that was caused by an injury, this budgie I saw today had no signs of legs ever being their.

A few show breeders I know use flaky bran for nesting materials....it is fine and hard to throw out of a nestbox. I have on occasions when I once ran out of nesting materials, used the dark brown sawdust my husband uses for his parrots and that too, is hard to throw out of a nestbox.

Thankyou very much KAZ I will try to find some.

 

Most articlesd I have read say that you should ring a budgie between 5 and 7 days old. If I ring my budgies at that age the ring falls straight off. I need to wait till atleast 12 days old before I can ring them. Anyone else have to wait this long?

Edited December 27, 200816 yr by pearce

Budgies are all different sizes - the bigger ones get rung early and the smaller ones get rung later

Thankyou very much KAZ I will try to find some.

 

Most articlesd I have read say that you should ring a budgie between 5 and 7 days old. If I ring my budgies at that age the ring falls straight off. I need to wait till atleast 12 days old before I can ring them. Anyone else have to wait this long?

The best way to ring a chick isnt to go by the age. A seasoned breeder taught me to go by the length of the back toe. If you take the smallest back toe of the budgie and hold it along the leg...if it reaches the joint in the leg then the bird is ready to ring

okay Thankyou KAZ and Liv, I will test this tomorow.

Just wondering if anyone knows if a budgie can tell the sex of another bird species, eg cockatiel

Edited December 27, 200816 yr by pearce

okay Thankyou KAZ and Liv, I will test this tomorow.

Just wondering if anyone knows if a budgie can tell the sex of another bird species, eg cockatiel

If boy budgies are silly enough to try and chat up each other then I dont think they can tell who is who with other birds

okay thankyou KAZ

Hi all

 

The skyblue baby from neon's nest is not like any skyblue I've ever bred. Are all skyblue babies dull in colour before they moult or is this baby a dilute skyblue?

 

Compare her to bull if you like.

 

Do you think she is dilute?

You'll be able to tell better after the first moult... they do tend to get more colour after that...

okay thankyou very much Jimmy.

 

Hi

I am trying to get my head around some budgie mutations, and I have made a list of reccessive and dominant mutations. If someone could check it and fix any mistakes it would be greatly appreciated.

 

Recesive mutations:

GReywing

Clearwing

Dilute

White based budgies: Skyblue cobalt and mauve

Rec pied

 

Dominant mutations:

Yellowbased budgies: Light green dark green and olive

Spangle

Dom pied

Clearflight pied

 

Sex linked: I am still trying to figure out how this works

Opaline

Lutino and albino

Cinnamon

Can someone send me a link to a site that can explain how sex link genetics work or explain it here?

Somthing else I dont understand:The grey factor adds on to the white based or yellow based budgie right... then they are eitherturned into grey green (yellow based) or grey (white based) is the budgie then dominant?

Thankyou all.

Edited December 27, 200816 yr by pearce

Hi

 

I think I have figured out what sex linked is. It means that the male can be split but the female cant? so a lutino female cannot be split for another mutation but a male lutino can?