Posted April 6, 200619 yr Ariel is letting Chico mount her, but he never does!!!.....He steps on her...but doesnt actually mount! so im frustrated! WOOOWOWOWOWOWOWOW....AS IM TYPING THIS!!!!...THEY WERE IN THE POSTURE FOR LIKE A MINUTE VERY CLOSE TOGETHER...TOUCHING BILLS, AND CHICO JUMPED ON HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....BUT FELL OFF!!!!....I SAW HER CLOACA PULSING, AND HE FANNED HIS TAIL OUT TO BREED...BUT FELL OFF!!! MANN!!!!...So this is good news now! Shes been in nest box A LOT lately!!!...so maybe he has successfully mounted her when i was at school!... :hap: MAYBE!!!....(Laughing out loud) Kirby :hap:
April 6, 200619 yr He is getting there, this is all I saw of Marine and tootie and you know they turned out. Now as they are getting redy for round two they don't care who is watching and I can see he has better balance now. Give them space and few time tries I'm sure something will good right.
April 6, 200619 yr Author YAY!...your right! I remember when he kept loosing his balance! Right now, i have them in with my other ones (Kirby and Belle) in the big cage with the nest boxes (theres 2...so no fights occur). They loose interest in one another when they are seperated from Kirby and Belle...so i figure, what the heck, as long as no fight break out, ill keep them int the big cage all together! Kirby and Belle are paired up, so they are always courting aswell..but Belle only like 5 months old...so i cant breed her...although Kirby wants to now!... So....i hope they do breed successfuly Nerwen! Are you saying that Marine would step on her, but would fall off?....thats what Chicos doing...but i have only seem him get on once...and that was the time he fell..... Kirby UPDATE!!!: They were just going at it! Chico mounted her like 5 times! None were actualy matings though. He jumped on sideways, backwards, and the one time he jumped on the right way, he fell off! (Laughing out loud).....so this is great progress!!!!...YAY!!!..... They are fedding eachother right now...and preening! Kirby
April 6, 200619 yr Author yuppers!....i hope he figures out how to soon!.. im impatient! : Heres Toby!!!....Dont mind the baldness! Hes 100% weaned, and eats seeds better than Tango can! (I tried to get shots of Tango to, to see if she is really a dilute spangle...shes the green one) Then theres a shot of Chico and Ariel, the happy couple who are 'learning' how to mate http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e104/pet...cal&media=image Kirby Edited April 7, 200619 yr by Kirby
April 7, 200619 yr Yes he would step up and then fall off. He would also try to mount her the wrong way around. That was funny to see.
April 8, 200619 yr Author So...did you see him do it successfully before she laid her 1st egg...or you only saw him fall off everytime?..then the egg(s) came? Im thinking when she lays the eggs, if i have not seen them mate 100% successfuly, then it might be like your case....unless you did see Marine mount properly before she laid eggs!.....please say you didnt!....(Laughing out loud) They were at it again tonight...and who knows how many times during the hot, warm, day! One of the sunniest, hottest days so far this year!..so my mom said she could hear them clearly in basement all day!!! Which means they were VERY happy = matings!!! Kirby
April 8, 200619 yr He got a bit better but nothing what I thought would be successful. Even by the last egg it didn't look like he was doing anything correctly. But I believe now there were mating correctly early in the mornings.
April 8, 200619 yr You know, your boy could have stage fright - might not want to 'perform' to an audience.
April 8, 200619 yr Author hahahah...thanks guys! YAYAYAYAYAY Nerwen! Hes gotten A LOT better now! Hes mounted again about 5 times this morning from when i woke up (8:30am till now 10:38am....and i was gone from about 9:30 walking my dog....so im saying 10:38 becuase who knows how many times he tried when i wasnt there). So, its VERY sunny, and mild in my room right now...so they are all happy! YAY! Ariels cere is getting darker brown...and Chicos os BRIGHT pink! Their rutine is for Ariel to play in nest box, come out, get courted by Chico, Let him mount her couple times a minute...then they both shake as if they are relieved. She runs b ack in the nest box, Chico sticks his head in, and she comes otu again...to repeat steps 1 through 3 ...hahaha....SO hopefully!...they are like Marine and Tootie!!!... YAY! :P Kirby
April 9, 200619 yr Author ARIEL JUST LAID AN EGG!!!.... :ausb: I HEARD A SQWUAK, AND EVERY OTHER BIRD WENT QUIET! THEN ARIEL WAS MAKING NOISES...FOR LIKE 5-10 SECONDS...THEN I LIFTED UP LID SINCE I DIDNT KNOW IF SHE WAS HAVING HEART ATTACK OR WHAT, AND I SAW A LITTLE EGG! SO I WITNESSED OR SHALL I SAY HEARD A EGG BE BORN! NOW LETS JUST ALL HOPE TO GOD HES FERTILE!!! THE PROUD DADDY CHICO IS ON TOP OF THE NEST BOX...SINGING TO HER, AND I THINK IM GOING TO DIVIDE KIRBY AND BELLE OFF FROM CHICO AND ARIEL NOW....THE THING WAS THEY ONLY 'MATED' WHEN THEY WERE IN SAME CAGE...SO I THINK I WILL DIVIDE CAGE NOW, SO BELLE DOESNT GO KILL EGG SINCE BELLE AND ARIEL HATE EACHOTHER.....MEANWHILE THEY LIKE EACHOTHERS COMPANY!!!...YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYA YAYAYAYAYYAYAYA YAYAYAYAAYAYAYYA!....SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW :ausb: kIRBY :
April 13, 200619 yr Author UPDATE: Ariel has laid 3 eggs!!! YAY! I have numbered them with non-toxic kids markers.... I HOPE TO GOD THEY ARE FERTILE THIS TIME!!!! Kirby
April 13, 200619 yr Great News Kirby! I hope that you get at least one healthy chick (more would be great) out of this batch. When is your first egg due to hatch?
April 13, 200619 yr Author (Laughing out loud) thanks Shawna!!!... He *should* or shall i say hopefully hatch on the 27th of April!....Which i hope he does! When should i start seeing viens in the egg...was it 5 days, or 11 days?.... Tomrrow he is 5 days old...so im going to check..if its right? Kirby
April 14, 200619 yr Congrats! :ausb: You must be so excited. I hope everything goes well! Keep us updated. Cheers. :ausb: Edited April 14, 200619 yr by BudgieLove
April 14, 200619 yr Author Thanks budgielove! They 'tried' mating this morning, but fell off....so im kinda getting worried again.... When should i see viens in the egg, when i candle them in the near future? Is it at 5 days, or 11 days i should see them?... Kirby
April 14, 200619 yr When should i start seeing viens in the egg...was it 5 days, or 11 days?.... Tomrrow he is 5 days old...so im going to check..if its right? Kirby I don't know the answer. I'm sure that someone will be along shortly that knows. Good luck.
April 14, 200619 yr Author Thanks Shawna... PLEASE PRAY WITH ME THAT THESE EGGS ARE FERTILE!!!!!......(Laughing out loud). Im getting a bad feeling about them, and this happens to me regularly. If i feel this weird sense about something, or if i get an unusual feeling, i get physic feelings, and can predict if something is good or bad. Dont ask me how/why i am right now, but to me its not looking good. Kirby
April 14, 200619 yr How is she treating the eggs? Is she sitting on them? Is she leaving the nestbox much? I haven't experienced any of this before except with my mom's baby. She only hatched one chick of the eggs she laid - I think there were about 5 or 6. The rest of the eggs were duds. Some she tossed out of the nest, some accidentally broke. I think the last two she sat on dutifully and one was a dud and one brought little Emmy. So, hang in there. There might be a few duds in there, but you might just get lucky and get one little baby. I know it is hard to wait but that is really all you can do.
April 14, 200619 yr Author Thanks again Shawna..... Shes very good to the eggs! Shes on them a lot...only comes out to flirt with Chico, or to poop. Or to eat cuttlebone. Her last clutch was of 5 eggs, and none of them hatched. I NEVER saw them even attempt to mate that time, so i was doubtful either way. This time however, i saw them 'mate' (as in he would mount her, backwards, sometimes correctly but then would fall off, and none of them looked successful) about 5-10 times per day..and i was at school the rest of the day, so who knows how many times they 'mated' while i was gone. Both are being EXCELLENT parents...so far, and whats really keeping me going is Nerwens pair Marine and Tootie, who were exactly like my guys, and Nerwen never saw them mate successfuly, yet she still had several good, beautiful, healthy babies....so im hoping! Kirby
April 14, 200619 yr I'm praying for you that the eggs are fertile! :(Laughing out loud): I'm almost as anxious as you to see if there are going to be any chicks. I guess it just takes time and patience. We'll just have to wait and see! Cheers.
April 14, 200619 yr Author (Laughing out loud)...thanks Budgielove! Us budgie owners are soo pathetic! Theres hunger in the world, racsim eveywhere, and all i'm/were worried about is if little eggs are fertile or not? hahahahahahhaha ps-I have called my 6 week old violet spangle male Bubbles now...This way, Bea or Blinkie wont get mad at me since his name was Blinkie for a whole 6 hours...(Laughing out loud) :) Ill get new pics soon! Kirby
April 14, 200619 yr You can start to think about candling them to see how they are going. Candling eggs - Information Don't worry too much at this stage. Out of the last 7 egg I thought 5 was clear but they were late starters. Only two were.
April 14, 200619 yr Author YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!! I just candeled them all (all 3) using the link Daz supplied.... and the eggs look like the 1st and 3rd diagram(s). All 3 of the eggs have a small air bubble in the wider side, that are all the same size, and are even. The bubble isnt off center on any of the 3 eggs! Unlike last clutch Ariel had, i remember the air bubble(s) were HUGE and uneven! So thats a good sign! Egg number 1 is 5 days old today, egg 2 is 3 days old, and egg 3 is 2 days old..... so so far its looking good right? Egg number 4 should be here tomorrow..and i should notice veins by the 7th day then right?... My flashlight is losing batteries, so its not the best, so im going to go get better batteries, and even maybe a better smaller flashlight! Kirby :)
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