Posted November 26, 200915 yr Hi all, I'm new to the site but I have used it before when researching for my beautiful birds. I have a flock o eighteen in an aivary. I started with a pair in 2004, which my parents got me for my birthday. They were supposed to be two boys but Sunshine ended up bein a girl while Blanc at least stayed a boy! We moved from QLD to WA the year after I got them and we sent them over on a plane. Sunshine, my beautiful girl, was a lutino and Blanc is a recessive pied. Sunshine was the worst mother in the world but one of the sweetest tempered budgies I ha ever met. My brothers were given a pair each for their birthdays that year so we had three pairs. One of my brothers' pairs had chicks that year and we ended up with four chicks from that clutch. Spots, the mother is still our most successful hen to date, even managing to produce twins in her second clutch! We still have Wonka (one of the twins, his back was twisted by not having enough room in the egg) and Pippin (the eldest of the first clutch). Pippin looks exactly like his moyer except that he has a white spot on he back of his head. He is not a pied budgie is just a normal blue. Another one of the babies from that cock had a similar spot while not being pied. I was wondering if anyone knows how they got this spot, as my understanding is that only piers have clear spots on their heads? Sunshine died early last year. She had developed a hernia and the vet performed a historectomy successfully. However she developed a secondary infection and died the next week. It broke my heart. I was holding her when she died and her partner, Blanc, was perched on my wrist. He entree a stage of depression and even now, almost two years later he is still a very solitary bird. We currently have a range of colours and mutations in the aviary. We hand raised a splayed chick last year and she is now only partially splayed. Suprisingly she is not bullied by the others, but is instead the dominant female. If anyone can shed some light on how Pippin has a spot on his head I would be very interested. I have yet to convince my computer that it is possible to put pictures on here but when I do I will post plenty.
November 26, 200915 yr Hi and welcome The spot on the back of their heads means they are split for recessive pied as per this former topic.................. http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....mp;hl=pied+spot Edited November 26, 200915 yr by KAZ
November 27, 200915 yr Author Thanks everyone. My computer has decided that it's going to let me put up pictures so here goes! This is my Blanc, he is a little worse for wear after an encounter with Spots where she bit off two of his toes, but he is still my gorgeous boy: Here is Sunshine, as I mentioned, she died in January 2008. I wrote a poem about her for a school assignment soon after and I really recommend something similar for anyone who has lost a friend, bird or otherwise, because it really helped me. Also I mentioned we had twins hatch at one stage, well here is a picture of Wonka, the twin who obiously didn't have enough room to grow. His spine is twisted but it isn't a disability. He has gone on to father many clutches. Notice his interesting looks (shape). This is Pippin, he was a scrawny chick but he's turned into an enormous bird who never stops eating. You can see the edge of his white spot in the second photo. He won first prize and Champion Bird in the Dalwallinu show about two years ago- we were so proud! I just thought I'd put these pictures of Pippin and Wonka's sister who we gave to my aunty. She was a vicious bird and murdered two other hens before a hawk attacked her through the aviary wire in Dalwallinu. This is Bobo. He was abandoned by his previous owners. They moved house leaving two red-tailed cockatoos, twenty-two budgies (plus seven clutches of chicks) with no food, water or care of any sort. A neighbour heard and called the RSPCA who said they could take them after they had collected evidence. Sadly all but four of the eleven hens died trying to keep their chicks alive (only eight chicks of twenty survived). The neighbour gave us Bobo and eight others, we gave four to our aunty and kept foru ourselves. Bobo is the best looking (sorry to say it) of all the ones we kept. Anyway, I've introduced a few of my birds, I hope you enjoy seeing them.
November 27, 200915 yr Lovely pictures of your beautiful feathered family...thankyou so much for posting :thumbs_up:
December 27, 200915 yr Author Just adding some more recent photos (and babies!) This is Boof with his partner These are the two most recent babies to come out: This is Star, currently in quarantine: These are the most recent photos (I'll put some more recent ones on soon) I have of our two young opaline chicks. The first is a normal cobalt opaline and the second is a skyblue opaline spangle:
