I started as a hobby as I am semi retired, my daughters out of home+ I need to nurse budgies.cutest species ever. I need lotsa help. I started with 2 pairs+1 extra male Midnite(deep blue). My 1st pair to breed was my English showbudgie PoffPoff with an American white Albino budgie. They have produced 3 clutches. No egg binding problems there @all. They need lotsa cuttlefish to prevent egg binding. He is big+she is small+streamlined! I also have Tulip. Yellow with white cheek tufts but she has uniquely red eyesn not black or grey!like a white mouse/rat! I paired her with Pixieblue, who cud be a rainbow:yellow head,blue body,white+grey striped wings. They had 1st clutch of 4. Midnite's in Aviary+had a field day with 4 females, one has 6 eggs+ 1 3, and one has 2 eggs. What am I gonna do with casanova's cluthches? He can't manage more than 1, will kill him

Hi and welcome to the forum. It sounds like you have your hands full. We would love to see some pictures

Thanks Nadine how do i download my photos to forum

battled but now i managed to change my profile pick to my Male English showbudgie picture- His name is Poff-Poff

Yellow budgie sounds like a lutino.

Poff poff is really handsome. You can upload photos to photobucket. That makes it easy to resize them. I take the second link they provide from the top and insert it into the image link on the forum.

 

Sounds like you have some cute budgies there.

Hello, welcome.

Hi Nadine, Aman, Birdluv and phoebe, etc

 

My PoffPoff is an English Showbudgie, and the best bird Dad ever.I mated him with an Ino-she is Lilly a white Albino.They have had 3 clutches. I the first clutch most were trampled from stupidness, 2 survived. The colours were one distict copy of the father, one Pale blue with light blue on chest and slightly darker markings on wings. The 2nd clutch was very interesting, 5 survived and 1 I handreared, the colours were amazing! Yellow, Lilac, RoyalBlue, pale blue,Turquoise. I sold two but the rest i kept and they all turned out to be females who are now mating with Pixieblue my rainbow and Midnite my striped Blue Budgie. one or two are not mated, still fighting. My one yellow spottled brown female has 3 eggs from a male who is now isolated with another female he chose, but she is still sitting on the 3 eggs.How is she goign to manage on her own? Will I have to help? I have only removed young to prevent trampling and have managed to save 1 and raise her on parakeet raising formula?She's now my tamest budgie called Fievel - HELP! Advise please, she has 3 eggs due in about 7 days.

I have photos in Photobucket-now to figure out how to get them on forum????!!!

 

This is the female I am worried about. Daffodil!

 

Sally my Indian ringneck

The only thing I can suggest is to put some seed and a millet spray in the nest box with her so she doesn't need to leave the nest to eat and make sure the food and water outside the box are not to far away from her.

 

It is very rare that a baby will be trampled to death, they usually have died and then gotten walk on which makes them look like that's how they died.

Thanks Nadine, so why have they died? Were they not fed?Were they too many? what is the reason for them dying? If you take 10 eggs and seven hatch, normally 3 eggs don't hatch, then the 2 youngest of the seven die. I intervened and took the 2 youngest ones out last time and I raised 1 by hand, the other 1 died-he looked very small and weak. But they die soon after hatching? like overnight? next day -dead>i am puzzled? How long MUST they be raised by Mom before they are safe to hand-rear?

 

By the way thanks for the advice about the spraymillet& etc Nadine- I did it for her. Noticed only 2 eggs now and 1 looks cracked-not sure if its hatching or just cracked. I think the blighters are due this week so I am going to check in the morning again. They are all in the Aviary. I have some youngsters in a cage with mom and another budgie who i am resting, from /breeding else she will carry on! I also seperated one breeding pair into a cage.

 

My Lovebirds r breeding but they have abandoned their eggs 3 times, and started new, why??? They are young and first timers, but they are past a year in age.

I read on forum somewhere said that an egg still had luckily a heartbeat! How do you determine that? how do you hear a heartbeat in an egg? pse tell pse do!!!!

They can die from not being fed especially in a large clutch because the older, larger more forceful chicks get fed and the little ones (definitely newly hatched) get left out. If you do every breed more than one pair at the same time and one pair doesn't have many chicks you can foster the babies out between the nests.

 

I recently discovered a heart beat when I candled the egg which is when you hold one of those mini led torches on the egg and you can see the heart beating. It is amazing to see

 

Sorry I don't know about your Lovebirds

whau! i look at eggs by placing them above the globe of my bedside lamp. i ll look 4 heartbeat next time

 

nadine your profile photo is amazing!is it a show budgie? he is fluffy.

It's at about 5 days after they start to incubate the egg you can see the heartbeat.

 

The chick in my photo is a show type and was about 3-4 weeks old, she doesn't look so fluffy any more and she's going through her first molt at the moment so not looking her best

Edited July 19, 201311 yr by Nadene

He he but she is birbeAutiful. She lookslike a little owl mix leopard bird.my showbudgie was sold to a pet shop. Whenisaw him hopping in cage al regali immediately bought him.Poffpoff is his name.

I thought she was a he for a long time until all the black pigment went from her cere and I got a shock.

 

Poffpoff is beautiful, I can see why you bought him.

thanks Nadine, I am from Cape Town, south africa. Where in the world do u reside? We've had rain +damp for a whilen at times sunny days. I always worry about this for my Aviary. I hav so many cages too but they r snug in my enclosed courtyard.I hav 51 birds all in all.

I'm from Sydney, Australia. I have about 20 birds.

 

The only thing I do when it is rainy here (my aviary does unfortunately get wet)is I treat them for coccidiosis for about a week as a precaution because it can wipe out your birds very quickly. This summer here was hot and wet and my club members told me to do it.

We only have 1 birdstore that keeps most supplies. What must u give a bird for coccidiosis. We also don't have avian vets here.just general vets.what must I ask the vet for?

Hi Nadine, My 1 female got ill and i had to rush to a Vet, found 1 that had limited knowledge of Avian vetinary, but a nurse at the Vet worked for an Avian Vet, she assisted. My Powderpuff was my first baby budgie ever born , she about a year and a half. She has a fungal infection of the crop which has affected her respiratory tract. You won't beli.eve all the sterilisation etc. i've had to do and to incubate her at a constant temperature!!!! Exhausted and i have 51 birds , some in cages and some in the Aviary. Tomorrow i must wash the Aviary down with diluted Jik and put this special stuff in their water. It is indeed as a result of damp conditions and rain rain rain! Tomorrow we have sunshine-yeah!!!! I'm checking on Powderpuff all the time. She's in the house with me now. So sad. Chat again soon-any advice is VERY WELCOME

 

oh sorry forgot to mention they gave me Baytril drops, crop anti fungal drops for her water, and powder to sprinkle over her food. Everything she eats vomits out most....shame