here are some chicks from my breeding journal, out and about in the aviary and starting to moult!

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=31000&st=60

 

 

The opaline family is the best, they have dirty backs but quality HENS. I think all 6 are hens! two dark greens, two light greens, two grey-greens. Then I have some opaline clearbodies (5 grey/violet/blues, one yellow) , spangles, a lute, a few normals (green,grey and violet), 2 fallows,another opaline with a lovely clear back, and a cinnamon blue

 

 

here's the little yellow clearbody, if anyone remembers him. He has a thumb print on his wing, but a lovely bright yellow...

 

 

Violet opaline clearbody hen to sky blue opaline split clearbody cock. Their chick is the one with the darker melanin BUT more suffusion. Compared to the chick from two clearbody parents (and grandparents) with quite light wing markings, but less suffusion

some prettily marked birds there S.& C. love your yellow clearbody, the black and yellow look lovely. Mine are moulting like mad as well, thought they would be over it by now.

You breed some real nice birds this season squeak, love the clearbodies, mine all turn out with suffusion so annoying.

Thankyou both I did have some pictures from inside a show cage that I was going to post after someone commented, I can't seem to find them though...

You have some very nice birds there Squeak

got any more pictures Squeak??? Cuz those are very nice birds you've got there

I went out again and got some new pictures I only got the four birds though, I had others but none of them wanted to sit proper... all of these birds are pictures above

 

I went through the 6 opalines I got (two grey-green's, two light greens and I believe two violet greens OR dark green's...) and have 5 hens and one male (a grey-green) the two grey-green's aren't special, I believe the light green's were the nicest, so I put them both in the one cage, and got the better hen....so the best sibling I believe.

 

opaline sky blue spangle

the one time he blows, It isn't focused...

 

here's some more I took the other day when I was playing with some camera functions.

 

dark green spangle (sister to above)

 

light green normal (sister to other two spangles above)

She keeps her blow quite flat and doesn't sit nice, then I caught her blowing once in the aviary so I figured I would snap some. I KNOW her father has killer width and blow.

 

She was regurgitating (I think I am starting to get canker, so I put some ronivet in) and I got her just as she did....you see the blow a bit though.

 

She finally called down and sat kind of nicely...

 

Just an add-on....This bird isn't pictured much, but was another clutch-mate of what I refer to as my 'spangle clutch' The sky opaline, the two dark greens, the normal hen, and then this opaline...she is beginning to look half-alright

 

 

And I got two new birds...Well, I bred them. There mum (of course she was my best bloody bird! Mother of all my gorgeous spangles I got out) was put to a very nice spangle cock bird, better then the father of these chicks. These were going to be my chicks of the year, I was hoping. She only got two, and the mum escaped from my cage. I am looking into getting 2-4 pairs of related birds, I know this will be the best for my stud...anyways, I didn't have a foster pair, so they were given to a friend to look after. I got a violet spangle, and a violet green opaline spangle. Quite tiny, but my fingers are crossed the hardest ever, once they moult...Woooah. Already, the little violet has markings to die for.... I am thinking about going half-brother to half-sister with on of the last 4 birds pictured above...

Edited December 28, 201113 yr by Squeak_Crumble

nice budgies... pretty budgies... AWESOME BUDGIES

Beautiful budgies sophie!