Well I can't believe the difference that extra light has made in my breeding room. I added the extra light batton only yesterday and I can already see a massive difference in the behaviour of the birds. Ozzie, who until yesterday had been sitting like a shag on a rock not doing anything (for those that don't know a shag is another name for a cormorant, a sea bird who sits still and waits for fish in the water), now he's chasing his hen around the breeding cage wanting a shag :laughter: I candled the three eggs they had and they're all clear so I've removed them and hopefully she will lay again and we'll get some eggs filled this time.

 

For anyone thinking they might not bother with exra lighting I say go for it, if I can see a difference in just 24 hours I can only imagine what progress I'll make now!

Thats great news. Look forward to hearing great reports :laughter: Do you have it on a timer or just manual?

Edited December 14, 200816 yr by JimmyBanks

At the moment it is manual as I still have to make a guard for it so I only have it on while I'm out there. It will go on a timer though as soon as I have that done :laughter: I also have a divider to build for the aviary so I can have my breeding cages partitioned in there. I think it is going to make a HUGE difference. Shall we test it out on those birds of yours JB

Well I can't believe the difference that extra light has made in my breeding room. I added the extra light batton only yesterday and I can already see a massive difference in the behaviour of the birds. Ozzie, who until yesterday had been sitting like a shag on a rock not doing anything (for those that don't know a shag is another name for a cormorant, a sea bird who sits still and waits for fish in the water), now he's chasing his hen around the breeding cage wanting a shag :laughter: I candled the three eggs they had and they're all clear so I've removed them and hopefully she will lay again and we'll get some eggs filled this time. For anyone thinking they might not bother with exra lighting I say go for it, if I can see a difference in just 24 hours I can only imagine what progress I'll make now!

what did you do to get extra lighting?

At the moment it is manual as I still have to make a guard for it so I only have it on while I'm out there. It will go on a timer though as soon as I have that done I also have a divider to build for the aviary so I can have my breeding cages partitioned in there. I think it is going to make a HUGE difference. Shall we test it out on those birds of yours JB

have you got pictures of your avery / breeding room?if not explain your setup please.

I have installed a double four foot flouro on the ceiling of the large flight which will house all my budgies (including the breeding cages). One of those flouros will just be a standard tube and one will be a sunlight tube to provide UV rays.

 

At the moment it's a little chaotic in there as I'm clearing out the rest of the room(which is actuallymy double garage) and the breeding cages are in the aviary. Despite the chaos of me drilling and sweeping and lugging things around them there seems to be a lot of budgie flirting going on and I'm hoping to go and get the timber for the divider tomorrow and start getting the divider installed so that the ony flirting going on is inside the breeding cages and not with the free flight birds as well :laughter:

 

When I get it finished in the next week or so I promise I'll post a picture

Edited December 14, 200816 yr by melbournebudgies

At the moment it is manual as I still have to make a guard for it so I only have it on while I'm out there. It will go on a timer though as soon as I have that done :laughter: I also have a divider to build for the aviary so I can have my breeding cages partitioned in there. I think it is going to make a HUGE difference. Shall we test it out on those birds of yours JB

 

Anything that gets my birds going MB... I'm sure they'll be very happy.

Atleast it will all be finished by the time your girla move in, I started today and it just seems to have got messier not better :laughter: