September 9, 200915 yr Author renee is giving me a hen to kick off my show breeding so now i dont have to bid for one but i am still going to the auction to meet, greet and sign up here are some pics of my new bird i am getting her name is Keiko (kay-ko) shes a beauty! ive already said thanks... but thanks renee!
September 20, 200915 yr Author well,well,well. today i went to the annual swbc auction. i got the pleasure of meeting and getting to know renee and kaz, and renee introduced me to other people of the club. i got to meet nubbly5,budgiebum and nana . the breeders there to me are very inspiring and seem willing to help me with my budgies in thee future too and are all very nice I signed up to the club as a junior and i ordered coded rings with DB on them now, renee and kaz, i have to give another thanks to you guys , all of them are very nice and i look forward to breeding them the birds are happy chaps and are in quarrantine. here are the birds.... all 7 of them are very special to me so i decided to give them names: Snickers- a very handsome grey spangle split recessive pied from kaz Alouetta- from kaz, a nice recessive pied hen a preetty budgie named Keiko from renee. she is a greygreen cinnanom dom pied a stunning cock also from renee. he is a nice size too and is a light green opaline. his name is Chipper kaz bought me this handsome budgie there and he is from henry george line. a grey normal cock named Twix also the other two i got grey green normal. i bought this one for fifty dollars of a nice chap there as no one bought during the auction and i liked him because of the head width. his name is cullen (from twilight) and the same nice person didnt wont to bring his birds back home so he said i could have this yf as well for the 5o dollars i gave so, it was an awesome day and i got to meet many new people ( and join a club). thanks again to you guys im another step closer to becoming a proper budgie breeder. p.s renee, could you please give me the link for the recepie you were talking about on the forum... soft food?
September 20, 200915 yr You have taken some beautiful pictures of your birds........and it was so great meeting you today and your Mum and brother.
September 20, 200915 yr SOFT FOOD MIX FOR BUDGIES 1. Chop up 3 CARROTS, add to Blender 2. Chop up 2 APPLES, add to Blender 3. Set Blender to 1 and blend for 1 minute, or until mixed well 4. Add 3 heaped Tablespoons of MILK POWDER or MUSCLE XL or WHEY POWDER 5. Add 2 sprigs of MINT, a handful of PARLEY, and BASIL 6. Set Blender to 1 and blend for 1 minute, or until mixed well 7. Tip mixture into large bowl 8. Add 1 cup of SUNFLOWER SEEDS, mix in thoroughly 9. Add 4-5 cups of HULLED OATS, mix in thoroughly That basically does all my birds but you'd need to make just a little bit of that to do all your birds, so maybe divide by 4- or make that amount and keep it in the fridge. Edited September 20, 200915 yr by renee
September 23, 200915 yr Author cool i gave them the reciepe today to see if they would like it... in the babies cage the violet is starting to moult so once they have all moulted out they go to mexico (the avairy) Yes its almost school holidays Edited September 23, 200915 yr by KAZ
September 28, 200915 yr Author what have you taght your birds kaz? the other day alouetta was STICKING HER HEAD OUT OF THE CAGE VIA THE DOOR..... i had it pegged properley, but she managed to take it off 3 times and lift the door up....my brother heard them and ran out to save the day...apparently Snickers was standing guard... lol they are allright and still in the cage. talking about escapees... in my avator there is a budgie sticking his head out of a ahole in the wire . Well, my baby DF spangle, decided it was funny to escape. i was outside then and i saw a yellow (i supposed then it was a lutino) baby budgie hanging around... i wet it with the hose but it flew off... and the last time i saw it it was getting chased by a crow :ohmygod:
September 28, 200915 yr And the moral to the story is - SAFETY DOOR to your breeding area That way if they escape the holding cage/breeding cabinet they don't keep on flying onwards and upwards into the big blue sky (full of hungry hawks, crows and magpies)
October 9, 200915 yr Author well today i spent about a hour and a half sorting nout my birds.... those i wish to keep, those i want to sell and the few i would offer to my family. very tough decision thorughout the whole thing. with the pet types i only want to breed for colour, mainly rainbows, so i kept the ones which had a bit of a mixture of varities in them...obviously i kept all my showtypes to, including bushbug and boofy who i havent mentioned in this thread but in others before..i thinklol (FYI bushbug is a very large light green normal and boofy is a greygreen opaline) well anyway i have 16 budgies for sale.... going to be advertised in the newspaper. so i have 5 for family and about 25 budgies for my own....its very empty in the avairy now... if anyone is interested in my budgies for sale, they are pet types ages ranging to very young babies (2 months) to 2 yrs old.. boys and girls and there is a very great mixture of colours.....PM me if you would like
November 11, 200915 yr Author well obviously i ahvent been on lately....by the time i finish my homework half my brain is already in dreaming mode.... but this is still going... recently at the markets i sold 11 (!) of my pet type budgies that werent needed..that was good... my quail quincy died and one of my other birds but its okay... on a happier note, today i received a folder in the mail with my new stuff from SWBC I was so excited! there was a membership card, some boooklets on club rules, the constitution, and show rules, a magazine just explaining thouroughly club information, and mating tables etc, plus a 18 day breeding chart which im going to photocopy tonight i will read thorugh it thorougly... also im getting some sort of breeding cages off ebay im a happy chap now
November 11, 200915 yr well obviously i ahvent been on lately....by the time i finish my homework half my brain is already in dreaming mode.... but this is still going... recently at the markets i sold 11 (!) of my pet type budgies that werent needed..that was good... my quail quincy died and one of my other birds but its okay... on a happier note, today i received a folder in the mail with my new stuff from SWBC I was so excited! there was a membership card, some boooklets on club rules, the constitution, and show rules, a magazine just explaining thouroughly club information, and mating tables etc, plus a 18 day breeding chart which im going to photocopy tonight i will read thorugh it thorougly... also im getting some sort of breeding cages off ebay im a happy chap now Theres a SWBC meeting on this Sunday too
November 11, 200915 yr well obviously i ahvent been on lately....by the time i finish my homework half my brain is already in dreaming mode.... but this is still going... recently at the markets i sold 11 (!) of my pet type budgies that werent needed..that was good... my quail quincy died and one of my other birds but its okay... on a happier note, today i received a folder in the mail with my new stuff from SWBC I was so excited! there was a membership card, some boooklets on club rules, the constitution, and show rules, a magazine just explaining thouroughly club information, and mating tables etc, plus a 18 day breeding chart which im going to photocopy tonight i will read thorugh it thorougly... also im getting some sort of breeding cages off ebay im a happy chap now Excellent! If you haven't already got it, don't forget to ask for your refund on Sunday
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