This pair

:rofl:

This pair is Lutino cock and dk green cin hen 2 fertile eggs out of 4 so far

 

GB 6 fertile eggs out of 7

Edited August 6, 201014 yr by KAZ

Wow, awesome birds and pairs!

 

I love the dark green cinnamon pair <3

 

GB 6 fertile eggs out of 7

 

GB....8 fertile eggs out of 8 gosh I wish that others would breed like these two, , he is fertile like his dad and the hen lays eggs like his mum

 

GB 6 fertile eggs out of 7

 

GB....8 fertile eggs out of 8 gosh I wish that others would breed like these two, , he is fertile like his dad and the hen lays eggs like his mum

Terrific news !!

Thanks Kaz but it's a nest I didn't care about, it's always the way. The ones I want to fill eggs aren't or only a couple

Thanks Kaz but it's a nest I didn't care about, it's always the way. The ones I want to fill eggs aren't or only a couple

You may find some from this nest surprises you though mate.............its meant to be.

But it worries me as her head is to narrow for my birds. and I know what's in the background of the spangle, even though Gb got her hen and there were some really good birds in the nest with good feather and size but there were also some crappy little ones too.

Thanks Kaz but it's a nest I didn't care about, it's always the way. The ones I want to fill eggs aren't or only a couple

You may find some from this nest surprises you though mate.............its meant to be.

 

 

hey great news

sorry i been down an out and unable to be online last few days

 

i think you will be very suprized what you get from these birds i told you i think they good pairing in pm mate he is a good bird with good background and the dilute is nice hen with what he needs you have pairred well

chicks will be nice in my veiw

good luck them all hatching hun

ill take a / dilute if your not happy with them lol :happy-dancing:

but mate i will say it again

keep all your chicks for 8 months at least 18 if possible,,...all chicks

yesterday afternoon checked them again and I thought **** that one has a hole in it and yep looks like the hen or the cock chipped a fairly large hole in one and anyway I thought I would chip away too as I could see the chick and yes it was dead, probably died the day before or that day it still had a day or 2 to go before hatching so now 7 eggs left but none have hatched yet, have my fingers crossed.

I have lost 3 chicks from one nest that I transfered the eggs, the first one just died at hatching the second one died trying to hatch and the third the hen squashed. And I was really counting on these chicks as they were from my violet cock. Really annoyed.

yesterday afternoon checked them again and I thought **** that one has a hole in it and yep looks like the hen or the cock chipped a fairly large hole in one and anyway I thought I would chip away too as I could see the chick and yes it was dead, probably died the day before or that day it still had a day or 2 to go before hatching so now 7 eggs left but none have hatched yet, have my fingers crossed.

I have lost 3 chicks from one nest that I transfered the eggs, the first one just died at hatching the second one died trying to hatch and the third the hen squashed. And I was really counting on these chicks as they were from my violet cock. Really annoyed.

 

 

yea i only transference eggs before they are incubated if im going to unless its a real necessity as theirs always the risk of infection from germs on our hands even if washed first and the eggs addling as we place them differently to the hens rotation and they dont get turned right leaving chick to addle in shell

sorry to hear splat hope for good out comes from now on in

Ist baby hatched today and so far so good 6 to go

yea i only transference eggs before they are incubated if im going to unless its a real necessity as theirs always the risk of infection from germs on our hands even if washed first and the eggs addling as we place them differently to the hens rotation and they dont get turned right leaving chick to addle in shellsorry to hear splat hope for good out comes from now on in

I agree

Ist baby hatched today and so far so good :glare: 6 to go

Good news

Thanks Kaz, gee I hope they turn out nice.

Thanks Kaz, gee I hope they turn out nice.

 

they will you wait in see it was a good pairing splat truly i think it was

Time will tell but then I need to remember that it is an outcross pairing

You're not the only one with 'budgie luck' (I.E BAD LUCK!) at the moment splat. I am currently putting an old foster hen who gives me good 'colour' babies that I hand tame - her eggs seem to be porous and they are drying up only 2 days after being laid. I swapped 2 of her eggs into another nest and they seem to be doing fine so im wondering if its somehow the hen drying up the eggs??? She is also a great foster hen but now im afraid to put her eggs or anyone elses under her! She is currently sitting on 2 clear eggs from another nest (to test if they dry out).

 

I am trialling a maiden hen and she had an egg bum for 3 days. On the day I knew she was going to lay with 90% certainty, I checked the box and found a damp yellow patch of shavings... hmm..

 

Egg bum again the next day, so on the second day I checked again. Couldnt even find a damp patch! Two days later I find a monstrous egg and transfer it to another nest (swap it with a marble). I was home again 2 days later and transferred out her egg again about 10 mins after it was laid (I checked a couple times around 2pm when she lays).

 

Today I was working and came home to get her new egg only to find it was already eaten So I checked the nest box with the remaining two eggs and found the hen in there HAD EATEN THOSE TWO!!! She had left her own alone but they were covered in yolk so i had to clean them. They are the only surviving eggs from her clutch of four as she is also a maiden hen and she chipped 2 of her eggs with nails.

 

So now I have 2 maiden hens eating eggs, two yolk covered eggs I had to transfer out of that nest or risk them getting eaten to. The first hen is a violet to dark green violet (split blue) pairing and I was REALLY wanting some double factors in green or blue from that pair. The second maiden hen who ate eggs is the best hen I have bred to date and I felt SO SO sad when I saw she had eaten those eggs.

 

Now since I only breed on a small scale (7 nests) I have 2 egg eaters and one foster hen who cant sit on eggs (until i know she isnt drying them out). The fourth pair the hen didnt lay - she just played around.

 

Fingers crossed the third pair saves her egg eating sisters eggs as well as her own two. Pair number 6 is a reliable violet hen (mother of my best hen - who is now an egg eater and mother to my violets) - she is on 4 eggs and likely to lay 11 like usual. Pair number 7 is my best cock and a cobalt hen. She laid 4 fertile eggs, and just the other day started laying again after an 8 day gap. She isn ow on 6 eggs with the first due to hatch a day after she lays a 7th if she does.

 

Its insane here right now :glare:

Well Dean I can really see that you know what i going through because it is basically the same here. My best double factor cock (yellow) and his son(white) which I have done well with both and they have both thrown me top babies last year and throwing blanks but I am starting to think it is the hens not the cocks. BUT REALLY ANNOYING as I WAS COUNTING ON THOSE 2 BOYS this YEAR.

Sucks because Kaz has the brother to the white one and son of the yellow one and she is getting babies and I am NOT BUT I am PLEASED YOU ARE KAZ DON'T GET ME WRONG but I wish my boys would do the job for me :glare:

My Yellow boy is 07 so I really want some more out of him this year and I was hoping from different hens but I may have to put him back to his old father mother of all my good birds too and hope and cross my fingers.

I hope your breeding season improves Dean and I do know how you feel

The baby that hatched yesterday was dead this morning and she has hatched another one, yesterday I put a 4 day old chick in with her to in courage her to feed but still the chick was dead, so in the last week out of 2 nest I have lost 5 chicks and one went missing, so now I think I have yellow belly. well I guess I do have yellow belly. :angel:

I really hope this one that hatched today makes it. I have put the infected nest on moxyT.

I am seriously thinking of finishing up my breeding for the year as everything is going wrong.

And if I take them all out of the nest and treat them they will go into a moult and then that will take 8 weeks to complete and then it will be too hot to breed anyway.

So I am bred 32 young and I have 7 little chick so I may end up with 40 for the year, bad really.

BUT what is so dissapointing is that I have got only 2 out of my yellow DF sp and nothing as yet out of my white one. :doh:

what makes you think you got yellow belly ?

could just be the birds really weren't in proper condition sometimes were to quick to pair anything looks in condition

sometimes they look like they are they lay mate and all but if they just are passed or bit to early they dont feed or the eat eggs and dont sit they pluck all stuff we just randomly blame on them is truly our own fault 98 percent of the time

 

before i breed my birds i pair them up marry them off and then once mating has commenced i add a box three days latter

another method i do is i just pull out the pairs that are matting in flights pop them in the pairrings i want leave a week together then add a box

cleaning out commences virtually simultaneously

eggs with in 3 days two one week

only prob with the second method is i need to be aware of the partner from flight as some hens have been known to have 3 eggs all fertilized by first mate even after a week away from them

i found that out recently

 

 

but i do know you know your birds but that is a option also

Because Gb all the ones that haved died have a yellow belly, looks like egg yolk inside them, I didn't want to admit to myself I had a problem but now I am doing something about it, the baby that hatched today has been fed well so I will see how it is tomorrow. I am not really sure if this nest has yellow belly but the baby that died did have yellow egg yolk in it's belly but not as bad as the other nest where 3 died. I have 2 other nest with babies hatching and all is good.

But I know what you are saying GB.

Goods NEWS, chick that hatched yesterday is stiil alive, well fed and thriving :yes: fingers crossed that the next five make it

Woo :yes:

I am really excited. last year at our meeting I got a bird from Ian for nothing as she was iffy in the breeding cage, she is a very nice grey hen. 07

Well i put her down earlier and she had clear eggs then destroyed the nest so I put her back into the flight for a couple of months.

I put her down a couple of weeks ago with a grey green cin cock with nice feather.

Well she has laid 4 eggs and so far 2 are fertile but I have transfered them to another nest from advice from Ian.

I rang him today to see how she was iffy. and he said she doesn't always fill the eggs and she is not a reliable mother. But he was rreally pleased that I have 2 fertile eggs because I said she was a nice hen and he said no she is a top hen. She placed 11th at the uncapped shield.

The best thing is she is my breeding 100% Watson. Related to all my birds. So now I am dying to put my violet over her because if she takes to him I think they will click.

bUT she still has a couple more eggs to lay with this cock yet and then I will give her a little break.