looks like your very organised well done.

looks like your very organised well done.

Yeah, my mum likes being organized as well, that's where I get it from.

 

If only my locker was organized...

I know what you mean, my locker is a mess, at the start of the year i had these divider things made out of cardboard and i was trying to be organised, now they are crushed and stuff always falls out of my locker.

I know what you mean, my locker is a mess, at the start of the year i had these divider things made out of cardboard and i was trying to be organised, now they are crushed and stuff always falls out of my locker.

Our lockers suck cause they're wood!

Anyway, back onto budgies.

LOL

When are you planning on putting the breeding boxes in.

I'm planning on putting them in around the end of august. Can't be this weekend because I'm doing a 40 hour famine sleepover. Gonna do the week after.

 

The three pairs are already bonded and Sunny, the youngest one is real inquisitive. I use this bamboo rod to pull and push toys around as it's easier to do than to get in the aviary and scare them. Anyway, Sunny thinks it's great to sit on and hang upside down on the rod.

Taylor they are gorgeous. I'm so glad someone else calls them all by name and knows their silly quirks! My mentor in our club delightedly told Henry George on our visit to his huge aviary recently "She STILL NAMES her babies!!" and everyone rolled their eyes and had a good chuckle at the newbie. I was slightly mortified!!! I can't imagine having a bird and not naming and knowing it. Even when we were kids and had 50+ birds, my sister and I knew all their names and who was related to who.

 

I'll have to try the beetroot thing. Mine love everything else (except peanut butter apparently). I mixed up some grated carrot and peanut butter into their morning egg and biscuit mush one day on advice from a breeder in my club. Boy did I get evil budgie looks! NO one ate it. The chooks gobbled it up the next morning though.

 

I hope you get some awesome babies.

i know waht you mean moglet, ive heard them being called by their ring numbers and that makes me think of them as just material goods, but as pets they deserve names and to be love.d

Sounds like a good table you got going.

Maybe add variety too so that you can see what birds you get mostly out of each pairs

And if you have club rings, don't forget the ring number.

 

 

On mine I also have a line for the eye color they have on hatching, and a line for their down color, when it comes in.

Can understand when you get to 100 plus birds, but I've got 8, and they all have such personality that it would be cruel to not name them!!!

Hey Taylor how did the 40 hour famine go, also have you added the nest boxes yet.

It went well I raised $120

The school raised a total if just over $1800!!!

Not yet, next week end.

 

Also I realized I haven't posted a lot lately, and have been posting in moglets journal, she had been helping me out, so I'll copy and paste my posts tomorrow.

okay so here is what I've been up to...

NOTE: things in red are not my writing, but those of others.

I've some how managed to write about my antics in Moglet's Journal, so sorry for any confusion.

 

I found out what a budgie air raid shelter is:

LOL!! An air raid shelter is a little box or hidey hole for babies who have jumped out of the nest but are still hanging around on the floor of the cabinet and being fed a bit and watched over by Dad and Mum.

 

Some of mine have an upturned big yoghurt tub with an arch doorway I have cut into one side, some of the others have a tiny cardboard box I cut a door way into. It's basically for them to cuddle up together into at night or for security since they have only just come out of the shelter of their nest box. Most babies love to still hide somewhere and when feeling brave will venture out of the shelter to explore their new world.

 

I also found out not to use cardboard, as it gets scruffy and tattered easy...

 

Mum and I got rid of the office supplies stored in there (I had lots of pencils when I was younger).

All spiders and cockroaches are gone it's just a matter of taking out the desk, dad making some benches to put the cabinets on, applying cat proof flyscreen and putting some waterproof tape on the laser light.

Gonna do some on the sept holidays, I go to a private school, the Knox school , so instead of curriculum days, we get an extra week of holidays (3) instead of (2).

Trying to find some cabinets is proving difficult but I've gone for the 2nd hand idea now. Dads got a anti bacterial germ wash to soak them in when we get them to get rid of previous germ.

I just keep looking on trading post, gum tree etc.

 

We've found a place in Nunawading that sells breeding cabinets but the breedings boxes inside lot shallower than the ones i've seen on here.

I mean shallow as in

/

/

/ downwards

 

Not,

/ / / across

 

I'm gonna ask the guy if he can take them down so I can have a look as i don't want to buy them if they aren't right.

Anyway,

 

Attached some wood to the bottom yesterday to make the breeding boxes sit straight.

 

One pair sugar and spice, aren't likely to breed. He is in condition, she isn't, sugar had gone out a few weeks ago and yesterday mum had to catch them and put them in a hospital cage. Spice doesn't know how to feed her properly and is getting regurgitated seed and beetroot all over her. She now just sits there sneezing everynow and then.

Also her head feathers look ready to molt but haven't for weeks. Hopefully she gets better.

 

I don't want them to breed if he can't feed her properly and then she has no seed to feed her chicks.

 

EVERYTHING IS GREAT NOW! She is 100% better, climbing upside down, running around like a complete idiot.

Moglet has helped me through this small bump in the road and I thank her for doing so...

 

Sugar (hen), is getting all the signs that she ready to breed, even though her cere is still bluish...

In the hospital cage, I laid down some newspaper as the bottom is mesh, and now its all ripped to shreds by Sugar. Apparently that is a sign...

I ripped open part of the paper bread bag and she crawled in and had a great time. I think the warmth of being in the house, and being away from the others and only have her partner spice in there helped her.

 

If sugar is ripping up paper I would think she is ready to nest. The girls get frantic and chew anything to bits when they are ready. Make sure she has access to cuttlebone and grit. Very important for egg production. When she is in season she will chomp a whole cuttlebone in a matter of hours or days. If here cere is going very brown then let her go with spice. They will sort it. I tried to beetroot thing after you mentioned it, but no one was into it. They ate around it! Little rats. I even tried peanut butter in their morning egg and biscuit with no luck. They loooove celery and apple and corn, and every weekend I collect eucalypt leaves and fresh seed heads. They go insane when they see me coming with those. They know I clean out their cage and then they get a heap of fresh leaves and seeded grass.

 

We go to the beach every 1-2 months and we get cuttlefish fish to clean and give them, massive pieces too, even two hands in length! Only once we clean it though.

 

I also have a container of shell grit which I noticed Sunny was digging in... Such a dork, but then again, she is the youngest and friendliest.

 

I've learnt some tips about taming for future reference too. Again, thanks to Moglet...

 

So thats about it up to now.

I am putting the boxes in next weekend and then I'll post back.

 

Sorry this was such a long post, Tay.

Looks good "Tay" hope all goes well when you put the boxes in next week.

I know I can't wait!

I put in some strawberry yesterday and they have hardly touched it. Normally anything I put in their is eaten in the first ten minutes. But I guess budgies all have different taste just like we do...

Yeah I'm stoked. Can't wait! Sunny and bing seem eager to breed!

haven't replied in a while...

 

Put the boxes in Saturday gone and about 30mins later Sugar and Spice were breeding like crazy!!!

Sugar has been staying on one of the boxes for hours at a time, but still no eggs. Spice goes to mate with her but either she pulls away or Poppy interrupts...

 

Will post back soon with more details.

Update time!!!!!

 

I think there may be an egg in the back box, Sugar and Spice. I will check tommorow arvo, as I'm at the royal Melbourne show...

 

Saw them mate yet again. The last time he was more on her right side. This arvo he seemed straight on top, so I hope it's more successful...

 

Will keep you all updated.

 

I am so ecstatic.

Hope there are some eggs...

No eggs!!

damn, I was looking forward.

Maybe soon though...

how long do you think it takes for eggs to be layed once the nest is put in place Taylor ???

I've read somewhere that it can take 7-14 days. But I don't know whether that's true. I'll just have to wait as she likes 2 breeding boxes now.

 

She can't make up her mind, lol.

if you are colony breeding

you may never get an egg or a chick live

how many hens and cocks in your flight

and dont you think you should study up on it all more before you breed specially if your not cabinet breeding as way more will go wrong

youd be the exeption if it did not

 

if i was you id read up on everything pre breeding pereperation and egg formation

egg laying

egg incubation

chick hatching

chick care

saving lives

and after clutch care

and rest

sounds like your just another ill learn as i go casualty

no afence just please read learn then breed we are able to help more if at least most knowledge is known if something goes wrong but if you dont even know minimal safety care or basic what to do whats happening stuff then please remove boxes intill you do for your own breeding susses and enjoyment and for the birds sake

please

im not being rude

please do not think i am

but theirs so much more that sticking boxes in and eggs being layed chicks hatching so on

gb

None taken, but I have read up, it was just that almost everyplace had a slightly different answer.

 

I know the casualties and next year I'm doing cabinets.

I am not a learn as I go casualty.

 

And to answer your question, 3 cocks, 3 hens. All are doing fine.

 

Like you said,

I, myself am not being rude. Tell me if I am...

LOL

None taken, but I have read up, it was just that almost everyplace had a slightly different answer.

 

I know the casualties and next year I'm doing cabinets.

I am not a learn as I go casualty.

 

And to answer your question, 3 cocks, 3 hens. All are doing fine.

 

Like you said,

I, myself am not being rude. Tell me if I am...

LOL

no not rude at all

three cocks tree hens in how big an aviary hun

i have breed colony myself with no casualty's i had no less than two nests per hen

and all placed at same height

this is important

also all nests to be one and half foot away from each-other no less this is the proper way to set up colony breeding

when all hens have paired off place in nests after few weeks of solid bonds

then put in thick nesting materials into each nest two big handfuls of shavings

each nest

then when all hens have chosen a nest and stuck to it (this could take few weeks ) you need to remove the extra nests if you do not do this your hens will just move from nest to nest laying everywhere

(you will know which nest your hen has chosen when she stays in it for up to three days consecutively )

first sign of a hen or cock being aggressive you need to remove this pair not just the aggressive bird as if you have an extra cock or hen in the breeding zone your asking for deaths to accure

any other questions just ask

if hens dont lay reasonably close together ( no longer than 8 days apart from first hens egg layed to last hens egg layed ( does that make sence have i got that so you understand all hens need to be laying at aproximatly same time 8 day being the longest day apart)

also remove pairs with no eggs or definitely trouble will be had

its all eyes and constant watching when breeding this way

 

good luck

gb

if you follow this advice you should be reasonably safe that all should be okay but its not to say all *** will not break lose in one night or day regardless how good it is all going

why can you not just get 3 cages and cage breed now

cost of cages are but only $37 each will cost you more to replace any birds lost

from territorial hens or cocks

Edited September 29, 201113 yr by GenericBlue

Picking up cages is not that easy for me.

I have already followed that advice.

 

Thanks for the advice gb