Hi my name is Rachel and i have been a budgie owner for about two months. I own 11 little feather friends, one is a baby yellow face who is hand tame and i am trying to teach to talk. The others i want to breed with. I am moving house in two weeks and have set up two big avaries, one for breeding and one for non-breeding. I have been doing lots of homework on this forum and i am so happy that i am now a member. All advice will be appreciated. I am starting to learn how to sex budgies but i am still clueless with mutations. My dream is to one day own and breed show birds. Heres my flock.

http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab249/r...56/IMG_4020.jpg

more photos

http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab249/r...56/IMG_4022.jpg

http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab249/r...56/IMG_4024.jpg

Edited April 24, 201015 yr by Dave_McMinn
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Hi my name is Rachel and i have been a budgie owner for about two months. I own 11 little feather friends, one is a baby yellow face who is hand tame and i am trying to teach to talk. The others i want to breed with. I am moving house in two weeks and have set up two big avaries, one for breeding and one for non-breeding. I have been doing lots of homework on this forum and i am so happy that i am now a member. All advice will be appreciated. I am starting to learn how to sex budgies but i am still clueless with mutations. My dream is to one day own and breed show birds. Heres my flock.

http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab249/r...56/IMG_4020.jpg

more photos

http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab249/r...56/IMG_4022.jpg

http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab249/r...56/IMG_4024.jpg

Edited April 24, 201015 yr by Dave_McMinn

ohh and im guessing the budgie perched on your hand is the tame one very cute budgie is it a boy or a girl i cant really see the cere from here

Hi, Yes the little yellow face is a boy. I think he is about 12 weeks. Not entirely sure because he was bought from a pet shop.

looks fairly young

Hi, welcome

hello welcome i know im tad late but better late than not at all

do you know what mutations you have

or were you asking members help with them

 

also your going to be able to breed a very large amount of variertys their with the mutations you have

and the colours

best of luck

for a really lovley out come in your second year breeding

try pairing your albino hen with your yf cobalt male

depending on what shes masking depends on colour out come but what you really wanting is the chicks from this pairing all males will be split to albino

so if you get a yf cobalt or skyblue cock bird then it will be split to albino

 

what you want to do is keep the males from this pairing to use in youe next years pairing once birds old enough

 

also pair your yf colbolt rec pied hen to the

last bird the texin clearbody

this will give you hens and cocks split to rec pied and all cocks split to clearbody get rid of all these cock birds and keep hens

 

you will get also if lucky clearbody hen or hens if your lucky and posably yf ones both pairings will give you 50 percent chance of yf chicks

 

if you then pair your yf cobalt to the rec pied hen

and the clear body to the albino

(swap partners )

you will get

rec pied /ino cocks and hens/ rec pied this symbol / stands for split :rofl:

 

and in the othr pairing you will get

clearbody hens and albino cocks / for clearbody i could have it backwards

it may be albino hens and clearbody ./ ino cocks

not sure i have gone blank

 

but how ever

put thoughs split rec pied / ino cocks to the split rec pied hens from first pairing you will get lovley rec pied chicks normals and inos of lovley colours depending if you pair yf and norm or two norms depends on if you will get yf

but chicks will be beautiful and suprize colours and mutations every time

you can just keep adding mutations by knowing whats recesive and whats sex linked

 

 

have lots of fun hun its a great hobby

:rofl: you will enjoy this forum it has a lot of knowledgeable people on here who are more then willing to help out.

Edited May 6, 201015 yr by Taboo

Hi Rachel, welcome, I hope you get years of enjoyment from breeding and caring for your birds Cheers Clearwing

Hi Rachel, welcome and enjoy all aspects of the hobby. Just from my personal experience I want to add that you mustn't get negative or despondent. I'm busy with my 1st round of breeding and have made a ton of mistakes. I unfortunately only found this forum after I had started breeding and the birds had already laid fertile eggs.

 

I have had 4 hatch in my 1st nest of which 2 died so I only have 2 left there.

My second nest had its 1st hatching this morning actually.

What I'm sharing with you is that I was quite negative about my loss of the 2 babies and thought to myself why am I doing this. So my advice to you is to gain as much knowledge as possible from this forum and all the lovely and friendly people here so that you don't have the same heart ache that I have had to endure. At the end of the day though, I'd do it all again, just with more thought and planning is all.

You said that with your move you have 2 aviaries set up. You're going to use the one as a flight and the other one to breed in, did I understand that correctly? Are you going to colony breed or do you have breeding cages that you're going to use?

 

So best of luck and as I said, put thought and planning into what you want to achieve.

Hello! Welcome! To me your little tame one looks like a girl as its cere looks quite pale with a tinge of blue. Can you post a better picture of the cere?

Hello! Welcome! To me your little tame one looks like a girl as its cere looks quite pale with a tinge of blue. Can you post a better picture of the cere?

Ratzy could be right too based on this photo

 

Have you got a cere photo taken with no flash and natural light ?

Sorry for late reply i have finally moved house.

 

hello welcome i know im tad late but better late than not at all

do you know what mutations you have

or were you asking members help with them

 

also your going to be able to breed a very large amount of variertys their with the mutations you have

and the colours

best of luck

for a really lovley out come in your second year breeding

try pairing your albino hen with your yf cobalt male

depending on what shes masking depends on colour out come but what you really wanting is the chicks from this pairing all males will be split to albino

so if you get a yf cobalt or skyblue cock bird then it will be split to albino

 

what you want to do is keep the males from this pairing to use in youe next years pairing once birds old enough

 

also pair your yf colbolt rec pied hen to the

last bird the texin clearbody

this will give you hens and cocks split to rec pied and all cocks split to clearbody get rid of all these cock birds and keep hens

 

you will get also if lucky clearbody hen or hens if your lucky and posably yf ones both pairings will give you 50 percent chance of yf chicks

 

if you then pair your yf cobalt to the rec pied hen

and the clear body to the albino

(swap partners )

you will get

rec pied /ino cocks and hens/ rec pied this symbol / stands for split

 

and in the othr pairing you will get

clearbody hens and albino cocks / for clearbody i could have it backwards

it may be albino hens and clearbody ./ ino cocks

not sure i have gone blank

 

but how ever

put thoughs split rec pied / ino cocks to the split rec pied hens from first pairing you will get lovley rec pied chicks normals and inos of lovley colours depending if you pair yf and norm or two norms depends on if you will get yf

but chicks will be beautiful and suprize colours and mutations every time

you can just keep adding mutations by knowing whats recesive and whats sex linked

 

 

have lots of fun hun its a great hobby

 

Wow thank you Genericblue. Fantastic info. Still unsure about which mutation is which. I had no idea i had a texan clearbody. I bought him because i thought he was pretty and hadn't seen one before. I will definitely be taking your advice with the pairings when i start breeding. Still have so much to learn before i start.

 

Hi Rachel, welcome and enjoy all aspects of the hobby. Just from my personal experience I want to add that you mustn't get negative or despondent. I'm busy with my 1st round of breeding and have made a ton of mistakes. I unfortunately only found this forum after I had started breeding and the birds had already laid fertile eggs.

 

I have had 4 hatch in my 1st nest of which 2 died so I only have 2 left there.

My second nest had its 1st hatching this morning actually.

What I'm sharing with you is that I was quite negative about my loss of the 2 babies and thought to myself why am I doing this. So my advice to you is to gain as much knowledge as possible from this forum and all the lovely and friendly people here so that you don't have the same heart ache that I have had to endure. At the end of the day though, I'd do it all again, just with more thought and planning is all.

You said that with your move you have 2 aviaries set up. You're going to use the one as a flight and the other one to breed in, did I understand that correctly? Are you going to colony breed or do you have breeding cages that you're going to use?

 

So best of luck and as I said, put thought and planning into what you want to achieve.

 

 

Hi Colin, Sorry to hear about the loss of your babies and best of luck with the surviving 2 from the 1st nest. And i hope all is well in the second nest. I want to set up breeding cages so i can selectively breed but might try a season of colony breeding first. What type of set up do you have? Here are my aviaries all 10 birds are in aviary to the left.

before birds went in

Hello! Welcome! To me your little tame one looks like a girl as its cere looks quite pale with a tinge of blue. Can you post a better picture of the cere?

Hello Ratzy and Kaz. If 'Ned' is a girl, we will have to re-name her 'Nell'. Do females talk? I have been driving myself bonkers repeating "hello Ned" about 1000 times a day for the last month. Here are some photos. Some with flash because it was getting dark.

No flash

No flash

http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab249/r...10/IMG_4248.jpg

With flash

With flash

Edited May 8, 201015 yr by KAZ
photo not edited so changed to link

I'd say female but for the last two pics. With flash looks male. I'm going with female. I think females can talk, just not much if at all. It really depends on the bird. Most females don't talk. I'm not 100% accurate on that because I've never actually tried to teach a budgie to talk. Nice aviaries! If I was you I wouldn't colony breed. It often ends in disaster, hens eating other hens chicks, attacks ect. Of course I have no experience to go from this, but a lot of other members will tell you the same thing.

Edited May 8, 201015 yr by Ratzy

I think females can talk, just not much if at all. It really depends on the bird. Most females don't talk.

 

This is incorrect information. Females do talk. Its just that most people assume they dont nor cant and dont bother trying to teach them.

That was what I was trying to say. Looking back I didn't word it right.

Hi, So he is defiantly a she. Thats okay because we love her. I will preserver with teaching her to talk.

I am not going to colony breed, thankyou for your advice. I will set up second avairy for breeding, with separate breeding cages, one cage per pair. Is it okay to breed only 2 pairs at once or should i breed all 3-4 pairs in case i need to foster?

Hi, So he is defiantly a she. Thats okay because we love her. I will preserver with teaching her to talk.

I am not going to colony breed, thankyou for your advice. I will set up second avairy for breeding, with separate breeding cages, one cage per pair. Is it okay to breed only 2 pairs at once or should i breed all 3-4 pairs in case i need to foster?

i like to breed no more than less than 3 or four pairs incase fostering needs happening

but in saying this ive wished lattly i have had more birds on hand as nests been full and no where to put extra chicks

so foster mums n dads are best to be birds with infertile eggs unless you replace eggs with fake ones so you dont have their own chicks hatching leavig no room for fosters