September 7, 201014 yr It's a shame about the YF chick. Was it the glass sliding door from your older post? Who would have thought a budgie could push that hard to open it. :rofl: No...it was the sliding door on the nestbox :rofl: Oh. :rofl: Can you put a clip or something on it? I might have to. The new nestboxes I just had made have lighter weight doors. ( Not my choice ) If a budgie wants to play around with them they can lift them up. Oh dear. Well now you know, you can prevent it from happening in the other ones.
September 8, 201014 yr Author Today brings a whole lot of new pinkies in nestboxes A chick hatched a day early yesterday from a damaged egg but today looks well I put my first purple legrings on chicks. A pair and their nestbox
September 8, 201014 yr Aww so sorry to hear about Andre's chick Kaz keep it up though, I hope he gives you lots more!!!
September 8, 201014 yr Author Aww so sorry to hear about Andre's chick Kaz keep it up though, I hope he gives you lots more!!! We have a sibling to the chick who died
September 10, 201014 yr Author I missed a really good photo Took a photo of this hen with three chicks and one of the chicks under her wing poked his head through the feathers on her wing....just as I took the photo he pulled his head back again Mark Hawke hen
September 10, 201014 yr I missed a really good photo Took a photo of this hen with three chicks and one of the chicks under her wing poked his head through the feathers on her wing....just as I took the photo he pulled his head back again Mark Hawke hen Awww. That would have been good to see.
September 10, 201014 yr Author You have some lovely chicks there Kaz, I love that sky blue hen of Marks She's a lovely hen.sweet natured,easy to nest check. calm, preens my fingers and is a very very good mother
September 10, 201014 yr Remember my crazy sky blue hen, the one that attacks. Well has started again . It's funny you know, She will lay the eggs, hatch them raise them up until the oldest is about 2 1/2 weeks and she will be as pleasant as moving out of the way when I check the nest ect but once they get to taht age back, her instinct goes in protection mode and bang Attack attack attack!!!!. But I am not copmplaining as she is a great mother her her chicks are well fed and big babies. Oh yeah once the chicks get to 5 weeks she stops her attacking, Lets me do what I want .....strange.
September 14, 201014 yr Author Chicks from the spangle greywing hen and her skyblue greywing cock are starting to leave the nestbox Mum Dad and a couple of the babies out and about An opaline grey in a nest.. odd seeing such a clear mantle like that some others Edited September 14, 201014 yr by KAZ
September 14, 201014 yr The last chick is cute, and I think that clear mantle on the opaline looks cool!
September 14, 201014 yr Author I put some babies from the kindie cage out into the aviary today as well. Weather has been great and they were doing so well, so they were ready. Here's some kindie cage babies taken earlier today
September 15, 201014 yr Author Some of the greywing and dilute babies newly released out into the aviary yesterday
September 15, 201014 yr Yeah............looks like the cock was hiding cinnamon Does that interfere with any of your plans? I know a lot of times I've read that some of you don't like cinnamon turning up where it doesn't belong. I just realized that a cinnamon chick from this pairing will have to be a cinnamon and greywing. You probably don't remember when I asked a long time ago if this was a possible combination, and what would it look like. Well, now we will find out! Cinnamon and greywing ? NO. The cock is dilute. The hen is greywing. The chick isnt greywing at all based on what I can see. Anything else we will have to wait and see. I did this pairing aiming for dilutes. Sorry, I meant 'greywing' in the loosest sense of the term, not differentiating between greywing, clearwing and dilute. So, all these chicks will be either greywing/dilute or dilute/dilute, to be more specific. Did I get that right? And then if there is cinnamon thrown on top of it all, that is a separate gene. So I will still be interested to see what this chick ends up looking like. Some of the greywing and dilute babies newly released out into the aviary yesterday Is this the plum-eyed chick we were talking about before? I've been waiting to see a photo of her out of the nest.
September 15, 201014 yr Author Yeah............looks like the cock was hiding cinnamon Does that interfere with any of your plans? I know a lot of times I've read that some of you don't like cinnamon turning up where it doesn't belong. I just realized that a cinnamon chick from this pairing will have to be a cinnamon and greywing. You probably don't remember when I asked a long time ago if this was a possible combination, and what would it look like. Well, now we will find out! Cinnamon and greywing ? NO. The cock is dilute. The hen is greywing. The chick isnt greywing at all based on what I can see. Anything else we will have to wait and see. I did this pairing aiming for dilutes. Sorry, I meant 'greywing' in the loosest sense of the term, not differentiating between greywing, clearwing and dilute. So, all these chicks will be either greywing/dilute or dilute/dilute, to be more specific. Did I get that right? And then if there is cinnamon thrown on top of it all, that is a separate gene. So I will still be interested to see what this chick ends up looking like. Some of the greywing and dilute babies newly released out into the aviary yesterday Is this the plum-eyed chick we were talking about before? I've been waiting to see a photo of her out of the nest. Yes
September 15, 201014 yr Author All four chicks out of the greywing spangle hen to skyblue greywing cocks nestbox now This baby also out of another nestbox Thundra doing much better Found a baby budgie stuck in its egg partway through hatching and heres some of the others Edited September 15, 201014 yr by KAZ
September 15, 201014 yr Author PAIR FOURdilute dom pied hen and greywing green cock ( second round ) That pair had six eggs but the hen just sat and looked at them. I transferred some eggs to another nestbox and got one chick out of it this baby has gone out into the aviary now The greywing to greywing spangle family newly fledged chick and its dad Edited September 15, 201014 yr by KAZ
September 17, 201014 yr Author Shifted some chicks and eggs around today. Put the spangle greywing chicks into the kindie cage as the parents were getting a little peeved with them flapping about in there. Mum has gone back to the nestbox. SLIDESHOW......CLICK ON PICTURE Edited September 17, 201014 yr by KAZ
September 17, 201014 yr Author Great pics of the little ones Kaz. particularly fond of this one.... A pretty budgie Dave. Started out pretty small and runty, but has features and is gaining some size now flying about in the aviary The mother kept breaking back into the birdroom from the flights, repeatedly by shimmying under the gap at the bottom of the door so after several attempts to break back in, I gave her a dom pied cock I have never used to pair up with. Edited September 17, 201014 yr by KAZ
September 21, 201014 yr Author Have a few chicks in nestboxes, out of nestboxes, in kindie cage, out in the aviary and new ones hatching every day as well. Have had a few issues as a lot are first time Mums. Two in a nest have all their down plucked off. I euthanased a chick with severe leg issues Had two eggs in one nest each with twins in that died at a later stage. Egg #1 Egg #2 and have a very good new Mum in one nest ( she is Omelettes daughter ) 5 chicks and another to hatch. This is another good Mum
September 21, 201014 yr grat pics, but the twins ones are not my cup of tea Have you given Ommie's daughter a name?
September 21, 201014 yr Author grat pics, but the twins ones are not my cup of teaHave you given Ommie's daughter a name? NO....but if it helps she likes to gently nibble and preen my fingers ..........she's really soppy
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