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Just made my first friend on forum I hope its the first of many this really is a great site so made up my mind when I get to breeding if my birds are really good.I am going to help a young starter my giving them a good pair of birds.its one of the only ways at this stage of my.showbird life I can think of helping develope future members in to this hobby if there are other way I can help this great hobby please people let me know REGARDS DEG

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deg

Ringing

Hi to all well this is the day I put my first ring on the first budgie I have from I started to keep budgies so wish me luck as I dont want to hurt it get this one right I will have 3 more to do over the next few days

eddie1

eddie1

Egg Count

I did an egg count yesterday: The grey pied cinnamon hen has 4 eggs (didn't not check for fertility again). The mauve fallow hen is on 3 eggs again. The older dark green cinnamon is on one egg for days now. Thinking of retiring her for now. The dark green split fallow hen is on its first egg and its sister is also getting interested in the boxes. So hoping those will breed me some better splits.   Bert

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

First 2013 Fallow Chicks And Looking At The New Season

The three baby fallows seem to be: mauve fallow sky opaline fallow sky fallow The first one is from cobalt fallow x mauve fallow so no surprise. The other two are from cobalt fallow split opaline x cobalt opaline split fallow.   In the mean time I've separated the main birds for the coming breeding season in a flight. Very please with the quality in that flight and there are still a few young birds that haven't moulted completely through yet that should also end up in that flight. Ca

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

Set Up And Help

Hi to every one I am new to all of this I have just started to keep budgies I thve a 12X8 shed with 12 breeding cages that I built with nest boxes built in. At present I am in the middle of make an inside flight size 8X4X3 I have a question if any one can give me an answer to it. I have got the hold of 8 show cages but need to touch them up so I am looking for 10 or 12 brass desk turns 25mm also the same in door pulls as I live in Northern Ireland (UK) I am unable to find any here so if any o

eddie1

eddie1

Fertile Eggs

I might have forgotten to mention it but I also have a grey flight. Yes, I don't favour the greys, let alone grey greens but sometimes you just have to look at quality before colour when obtaining new stock.   Anyway, it used to be filled with a grey cock split ino and two grey hens. They were all new birds from last year. I really should take a picture of those three because they all have a different shade of grey. The cock has bred me a few decent greys, the hens haven't bred this season so

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

Merged Of The Fallows And New Birds

As expected the chick with the mauve fallow hen (band 436) stayed alone, so I moved it to the other fallow box that had one normal and two fallows (band 437-439). A few days later the normal chick died (air in the crop), but the three fallows are growing nicely and starting to feather! I can't wait for them to fly around in the flight.   In the flight with the two split fallow hens and an older hen that were accompanied by two main line cocks: I threw away the eggs of the older hen again (unfe

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

3Rd Red Eye

Checked the boxes yesterday evening and the fallow with the fallow hen is still alone. Hmmmm might transfer it if it stays like this to the other box ones it is banded. The other box with the cobalt opaline hen (split fallow) had it's 3rd chick: also a fallow. So 3 fallows so far.   Bert

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

Fresh Start

I haven't been updating this blog as I should. Well, all that has been reported before turned out a failure. But in the fallow flight I now have the old cock paired to his two daughters: mauve fallow and cobalt opaline. When I checked in saterday the fallow hen had a fallow chick and the cobalt a black and red eye.   So I will be breeding a few fallows this year! Bert

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

The Pie Mans Blog

Hiya again   I ve found another way of reading the blogs when clicking on blogs click on options then read latest it seems to work   Hows that working everyone   Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee   Ed    

Ed Freel

Ed Freel

The Pie Mans Blog

Morning   Hiya everyone Im trying something & if it works great   Ive had a few people telling me its hard finding my blog so Im trying something new when blogging   Ok Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee   Ed

Ed Freel

Ed Freel

Fingers Crossed

I've had a late box inspection today and found another pinkie in pair 3 and just the one in the feeder pair 7- that's 4 chicks in three days for pair 3 so I closed the box up and scratched my head as you do- I'm not sure the hen would manage so many so close together as the size differential between them and the feeder chick was quite staggering- but I guess that happens when you have to split crop milk four ways- so rather than leave it until it becomes a "I should have" I transferred the new c

kevin bore

kevin bore

On The Up

It had to happen i felt compelled by one man and his blog to start my own so here goes.   Firstly you may expect me to thank some people but having come from a thankless job i make sure that i say thank you often and regularly to the people whom have helped me, this has ranged from a panic call with great advise, reasurrance that im not doing things wrong, free birds or access to good genes and to some sounding boards and to building great relationships for the future-   However a BIG than

kevin bore

kevin bore

Welcome To My Blog - Alan Bundy

My Challenge (003)         In 2011 I was planning a trip over to the club show and an aviary tour of bird rooms. Steve Holland was helpful in setting up these visits. He decided to write an article about traveling to shows. To my surprise he wrote about me traveling 14 hours one way to Wisconsin, USA to one of the shows they have there. Who would think that I would be in the Budgerigar Society magazine as the feature article. It reminds me of how much this hobby has done for me.   2009

Awbbudgies

Awbbudgies

Welcome To My Blog - Alan Bundy

My Challenge (002)             I started back in the hobby the end of 2006 and I went online to see if I could find one of the old Champion breeders that I bought birds from back in 1990. He wasn't around but I was able to connect to a club and through email found someone very helpful in finding good stock to start with. I was invited to a Club meeting and drove down with cages to the meeting. It was a 2 hour drive. I brought back 4 pair of birds from 2 Champion breeders and this is wh

Awbbudgies

Awbbudgies

Welcome To My Blog - Alan Bundy

My Challenge (001)           Dear Forum friends, thanks for checking on my 1st post. I have decided to call this blog My Challenge. I think I stole that name from Gerald Binks book but in fact isn’t that what we are in? I write a blog on blogspot that you are welcome to check out where I write about my travels over the last couple years to some of the top bird rooms in England.   I am in fact from America but have had the benefit of growing up in Rhodesia, Africa before it was called Z

Awbbudgies

Awbbudgies

Eggs

I don't do that many nest box checks in the flights. Yesterday I went through the boxes:   The cobalt opaline hen split fallow has 4 eggs, 3 clearly fertile. Hopefully a few fallows will be born here in two weeks or so. The normal sky hen has two eggs. Hopefully these will be fertile, unlike the many ones she laid the past 6 months. The main line hen with the main line cocks is spending more and more time in the nest box, but no eggs yet.   Bert

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

Wrong Pairing (Reprise)

The same split fallow cock that was with the wrong hen was now chatting up the normal sky blue hen. Not the mating I had planned: she was meant for one of the fallow cocks. So I threw out the split cock. Almost immediately the mauve dominant pied fallow cock (probably split recessive pied) started chatting her up: much better. Yes I really mixed up my colours in that cock. The dark factor in the fallow is intentional but both pied types are accidental and I will need to breed them out.   When

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

3Rd Flight: Extra Hen

Both split fallow sisters in the third flight aren't showing much interest in the breeding cages. That will hopefully change. Yesterday I noticed a hen in the big flight was very interested with what was going on in this flight.   It was a small 2010 hen, first generation of what would become my main line. She bred me 1 of "the three 2011 cocks": the 3 best birds I ever bred. Last year she was paired up to another on those 3 cocks. This year she raised one nest as foster because she is such a

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

Wrong Pairing

Yesterday I put in an extra the mauve fallow hen and a split fallow cock into the fallow breeding flight. Guess what happened? The split fallow cock decided to pair up with the wrong hen. This hen is either the sister of this cock (in which case she is split) or just a bad hen from a foster pair. My records are empty on her band number (which probably means she's from the foster pair). Anyway: a bad combination. So I've thrown out this hen in the hope that the cock will pair up to the fallow hen

BertRaeymaekers

BertRaeymaekers

A Quick Update :-)

A quick update on the main pairs.   The two Miller pairs both have eggs! Details of which are contained in earlier blogs.   I also have five chicks from the Geoff Bowley Golden Face Double Factor to a Sky Spangle hen. Very excited to see these feather up :-)     Unfortunately I was let down badly by Oesieg with the new cages, they made the wrong size and I didn't find out until the day before they were due to arrive! I only found out because I queried the price! Great product, utterly a

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sfowler_uk

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