Well im officially a member of the North Shore budgie club. Soon to be a registered member of the NZ budgerigar society and will then be ordering my first rings and ringing some chicks this year!

 

I have sold about half the birds in my aviary and will use those funds to purchase 2-3 pairs matching or bettering my current best bird and will be interested to see if/what i breed this year.

 

Have a colour pair down at the moment and i somehow managed to put my best bird down with a decent hen (my best bird has a bad wing and is the gentlest LEAST flirty bird i have so its a small miracle). Have yet to see if he has fertilised the eggs (they have two as of today) but i know the colour pair are on 7 eggs as of today. Expect about 8.

 

Exciting times

 

Will keep you all updated and show you my new stock if/when i get them!

Great news New budgie friends, new info available to you, new birds, new focus....all good

Well i spent last year trying to get my head around colour and breeding inheritance / genetics and i feel like i have a real good grip on that. I still have room to improve and im always trying to answer the 'what is my birds mutations?' threads to keep my skills up there. This year i wanted to focus more on the show side, and while i still dont want to pay lots of money for 'amazing' birds since i'll be leaving for canada after i graduate, i still want some good birds so that i can compete as a novice and further my SHOW knowledge.

 

I went to a judge/champion breeder/friend today, and we spent the whole day going over show traits, pulling birds out, comparing them, asking/answering questions. It was fun having him ask me "whats wrong with this bird, whats right, who of these birds might you pair them with to try fix this point? what about that point?".

 

Awesome day After he pairs his 30-40 pairs up in august, he will go through his remaining birds and we will try select some suitable birds for me and my goals

Cool, Congrats!!!

Well Done!

 

But you do realise this is the beginning of the end for you, don't you?

 

I know of one breeder who recently told me he started drinking about the time he started with Show Budgies!

 

Don't be surprise if you start DREAMING about your budgies

I am very happy for you Dean.

Edited July 16, 200916 yr by Pearce