Posted June 29, 201311 yr Hi All! I am very excited to be undertaking this hobby again. Woohoooo!! :happy-dancing: I've been away from budgie breeding for 20 years and thanks to my children's interest I am going to be taking up the hobby again, starting with this little one. I am pretty sure she is a female. If I am wrong about the gender please let me know as I am not 100% sure. I had produced Rainbow 20 years ago but they had slight spangle marking on there wings, so weren't true rainbows. A great surprise at the time due to never seeing yellow face blue budgies in person little alone rainbow colours on wings also! I was very sad to have to sell all my birds back then due to moving into a small place on a farm with plenty of cats. I was very please to find 'Violet' at a new pet store - a Rainbow. Her and her sisters and brother had just arrived before we arrived there. I was very impressed with the store actually - very organized and clean and the range of products was huge. the staff were very friendly also and let my daughter sit in with the puppies. Where I live (1 hour north drive out from Canberra) a clean pet shop with adequate supplies was very much needed. Violet is a clearwing opaline yellow face blue budgie - a true beautiful rainbow. I am happy to post some more photos if I get a request. For now I am just trying out posting one photo and see if it works. Any advice to what coloured budgie is best to put her together with to get more Rainbow Budgies would be greatly appreciated. I am hesitant to put her with a barred bird but maybe I am wrong. Do true rainbow budgies have to lack barring? I have also got another bird (fully mine) but I am hesitant to introduce; I think it will cause controversy; but it will make people in the budgie world think - it was at first a very noticeable black striped budgie but then changed. I know why also! I will add a post one day about this bird God Willing. But it was this budgie that my daughter got to breed with that really sparked my interest again. After some considerable amount of research I found it not to be what I thought it was; as in colouring; even though he was so strongly featured. Like I said, I will have to post about it some day soon as it is with other budgies (including Violet) whom seem to like him and I don't know if he is okay to breed with. I don't like separating a single budgie on his own - he has a great personality and is always the first one to fly to me to let me know they need a seed top up. My set up is a big cage each, one for me and one each for 2 of my children who have set up there's near windows in their rooms. Mine is taken outside when I don't feel it is too cold for them. We are going to get a big cage also for the babies when they arrive one day but not when the cold chill is outside are we going place nesting boxes in the cages! All our budgies are let out of their cages on a daily basis and all fly around together in a good sized room. We have 7 budgies altogether at the moment and thinking on adding two more males. One for me hoping I am correct about Violet being a female and one for my poor son who at first had a pair that he thought was male and female ended up being two female then he bought an English budgie to put with his Australian female ( I have his other female budgie now!). We recently have been advised that she could get egg bound with him! Albert the English male, is a big boy with a big heart and very tame. He is an older budgie that my son fell in love with. Albert doesn't seem to be interested in the females what so ever anyway. He can stick up for himself when needed when the other budgies want to push him around. I once had a beautiful English budgie also 20 years ago. He looked after the young as a second dad with no problems at all, so I have had a soft spot for English budgies ever since! One more thing, I do home schooling so the budgies get plenty of attention! They are part of the family :-) . . Anyway, I hope I didn't bore anyone with my big intro! I will be looking forward to anyone willing to say, "Hi!" amum4children
June 29, 201311 yr welcome to the forum, it is a really good place to get info and to learn the dos and don'ts. Very interesting story, and I will make the request of another picture of that violet, it looks to me to be a female, but get some other peoples thoughts as I am not that good at sexing. Just to be clear you aren't colony breeding are you or planning on? as it can cause loss of limbs and death. But sounds like you and your kids are excited about breeding them. I know I was when I started. But hey, how couldn't you be they are so friendly (most of them) and so beautiful. Good luck.
June 29, 201311 yr Author Hi Budgie_Mad, I am sorry to read about your baby budgie that died! I know one or two died of mine years back when I was breeding but I just put it down to them being to weak to survive. It is very sad when it happens. I think the main thing is to never breed before a budgie is 1 year old and still wait till the female cere shows she is readr and definitely give the parents a break from breeding during winter. If you look after the parents correct (nutrition, housing and most of all love) I won't say no young will die just a lot less will. You know there is one thing I think about now since I learnt about it recently is that my budgies may have not have had enough UVB light on them even though they were in an aviary on my veranda at the time. The aviary I built had a wooden roof and I never knew back then how direct UVB sunlight is important to get Vitamin D not only for calcium absorption. If your want to know more about this, google Don Burke and UVB for Budgies. My budgies were pretty robust and healthy but I think now, I could have done better. I remember the eagles were pretty bad in Cairns. They would swoop down and try and tear the avairy wire! No eagles here in Goulburn though which I am glad about. To answer you question about colony/ inbreeding - wow nooooo way! That would just bring disaster bigtime. All my and my children's budgies are from different breeders for that very reason just in case. And as much as my children might want to in the future breed one of their birds with Violet - not happening as none are opaline to start with. Oh! Except Albert the English budgie I mentioned above and that is definitely not happening being to big sadly enough. Here is another photo of Violet. Thanks for the welcome Budgie_Mad! :-)
June 29, 201311 yr okay, thanks for the photo, she is a very beautiful budgie, I have never seen a budgie like that where I live. But I guess no one breeds that mutation here. I breed violets but they are full violets, with yellow heads. The father is a Cream-ino, and the mother is a white headed violet. Excellent to hear you aren't colony breeding, I thought you weren't but just to be certain. Yes I have heard about birds needing to have UVB. Mine are out in the garden and get the sun every morning (If they decide to, they can stay in a sheltered area if wanted. so yeah. Looks like you have everything under control. It was very interesting reading about everything too. Edited June 29, 201311 yr by Budgie_Mad
June 29, 201311 yr Hi and welcome to the forum. You have a beautiful little bird there. She is both my favourite types in one, yellow face and violet.
June 30, 201311 yr Author Violet's sister (I’m guessing Sister) was a real bold violet (gorgeous) and comparing Violet to her I wasn't game to call her colour Violet. Violet was just a name I've always wanted to call a budgie! Good for me that she really is a true violet but I understand very pale. I think very beautiful all the same though! I like all shades of violet. :-) The only male I saw out of the lot was a boy that was a Yellow face light grey - again absolutely gorgeous. The reason I chose Violet was that I thought she was a he at first and she really caught my attention on how friendly she was to the other budgies letting them preen her. To tell you the truth, I hadn't even thought of her as a Rainbow either until I bought her home. Earlier that day, I had gone into the pet shop and saw a lovely pied white bird with very bold blue on his back, but then went home to think about him and get my other two children who wanted to have a look also. When I went back, Violet and her Sisters and Brother had all just come in and for some reason Violet was the only one separated from the others into the older budgie section. She was the only 8 week old there with the 13 week old budgies. As you can see, she has a slight patch of yellow on her front that makes those feathers look a little green. I am guessing the yellow will eventually take over and she won't be so violet any more but that's fine. She will still have the violet cheeks. Those violet cheeks are unusual. I am going to have to post about these as I would love to know if they are characteristic of a type of colouring. My daughter has a lacewing green with the same coloured cheeks but as her budgie ' Sunshine' has moulted she has gained white feathers on her cheeks also. Edited June 30, 201311 yr by amum4children
June 30, 201311 yr Violet is beautiful. I'm not good at sex-ting either. I had a male I called Ruby for a month. His cere was pinkish and he turned out to be a boy, it is now purplish. We don't have any budgies like that in our area for sure. Hope everything goes well for you. Seems like your off to a good start.
July 3, 201311 yr Hi aman I paired my English showbudgie with an Albino American parakeet/budgie. They have had 3 clutches of beautiful colours, I hand-raised 1- Fievel
July 3, 201311 yr Author Hi maz7! What does your English Show Budgie look like and what did the babies look like! Hand raising a budgie is something I never really did by myself as I had Sunny's help if I felt a budgie needed a little more feeding than mum could handle near the end of nesting. One day I would like to do it. I think it is quite an accomplishment to do raise a bird of any sort yourself.
July 3, 201311 yr Hi amun,I'm new to forum so not sure how2 load photos. I handreared him from 7 days with parakeet rearing formula+ syringe+ then with a Herbalife spoon which is perfectly bent up on side. I have reared a finch 2, with a toothpick to feed. They suck food off toothpick, amazing to c. I have an outside AvEry but also cages4 breeding parents.will try to load photos of English showbudgie, mom that's is. White albino American budgie+ offspring maZ7
July 3, 201311 yr Hi I managed to change my profile photo now to the English Show Budgie male i have, that's a close up of him -i mated him with a normal Budgie who is an Albino snow white, and the chic i handraised was from their 2nd clutch. They kept trampling babies to death between mom+bigger chics as she decided to lay 2 eggs then after a few days she decided to lay another 8 eggs!!! needless to say many late hatchlings died, so i decide with her 2nd clutch i am checking daily!. Sure enough she laid another bloody 10 eggs of which 3 died, i rescued the youngest 2 from a sure trampling death. the little one died in 2 days but dear Fievel survived. He is the cutest_ its so much more rewarding when they are tame. How do i post photos?
July 4, 201311 yr Author I followed the instructions from going to the Budgie FAQs then to the Welcome Center. A list will come up - at the bottom of the list is How To Post Images/Pictures. Click on that Heading and you will get the instructions. As far as I could tell. you need to join a photo editing program and hosting service of some sort. I hope this has helped. If you note the image size you would be doing better than me at first, ooops! At least I made the the couple of photos small by 1/2 than what they were!! :-) If you need further help with posting an image I wil try and help. Have I got it right, you put an English male with a smaller female and everything was okay egg laying wise?! Is there much difference in size of the two? If so, my son has hope to put his two budgies together so this is very important information.
July 4, 201311 yr Yep I put an English show budgie (male)with a normal small ,what they call American parakeet/ budgie.she is slender compared to him. English show budgies r big+have wide shoulder+chest spans,and fluffy faces with high forehead+eyes sunken more into head+smaller. That's why I want2 upload photos 2 show you them+their chics they had. Strong fellas. Birds of a feather don't always flock together! Ha ha I have Lovebirds, finches,2 Indian Ringnecks(now that is a challenge), canary+Java Sparrow, 2 rescued Laughing Turtledoves that fell out of nests outside, baby babies+i raised them myself. They r tame tame.I have about 50 birds. I am crazy bird lady. I have 4 cats to keep at bay,2 tortoises wandering in garden-3 dogs+some fish. A veritable Noahs ark shelter. I also feed wild sparrows that come to my Fly-inn poft outside in garden. Watched many generations come+feed their young.well back to photos.thanks4 info
