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  2. Posted

    4 hours ago, amf1975 said:

    lee couple of lovely type hens there mate. don't try nail them down to breed on a certain day!!! just try work them towards it... there is no way if you have 10 pairs of birds that all 10 will be fit to breed on the same day especially big fat lazy exhibition birds:lol::lol: 

    Many of em are getting like Norwich now hey :lol:

    But as yer say big fat lazy exhibition birds, but they are nice though  :D

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  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, Lee Pycroft said:

    Paid my fees last week and my order form for my rings came today ??? now! How many should I order????

    Mmm.....decisions decisions hey :D

    I don't know how many pairs you've got but on average I'd say about 50 rings give or take :unknw:............:D

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  5. Posted

    4 hours ago, Lee Pycroft said:

    Cheers Stuart, fingers crossed for plenty of chicks and give this show bench thingy me-bob a go ???

    Arh......well going by some of those zebies I'd say there's a few good birds in there and definitely worth putting out onto the bench..... dubry doo :D

    be lucky mate 

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    Hi there flight feathers, welcome to the zebra finch forum  :good:

    if yer really interested in breeding penguin zebras you could try contacting Dennis Webster Who is president and publicity officer for the zebra finch society, his number is listed below under publicity officer and he's a specialist in breeding the penguin zebras and is a very nice and helpful fella :hi:

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    be lucky

     

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    8 hours ago, Emmy said:

    Chirpy just had its first proper feed (used a crop tube) but didn't over feed it. 

    I'm thinking I'll let its crop empty more than just once a day to begin with.  Though it will probably need another feed about 2.30am /  3 am. 

    Tomorrow I'm going to make it a little 'comforter' for it to snuggle into- the small teddy bear that I used for the quail/ duckling is just a wee bit too big although Chirpy was trying to snuggle into it. (lol)   Just a pity the parrot's egg hadn't hatched out at the same time they would have got on fine snuggling into each other (lol)

    Meantime everything is looking good.  (parrot egg is still OK with good heart beat:good:)

    photo of Chirpy after its first feed all snuggled up in the brooder.

    June 18th 2017 11.15 pm Chirpy cockatiel chick.jpg

    Yer doing well Emmy,

    fair play to yer because I sure know that it ain't easy, to be honest that's why I don't do it meself because I know that it can be so tiring, stressful and definitely time consuming,

    good on yer though for sheer determination and effort  :hi:

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    25 minutes ago, Emmy said:

    Cockatiel egg in incubator is about to hatch and I took a video.clip.

    You can hear the chick chirping from inside the egg. The 1st and 2nd LOUD chirps you hear is ME! chirping to the chick and then you will hear the chick chirping --(is it chirping back to me its new MUM :lol:?)

     

     

    Here's a link to YouTube

    https://youtu.be/byWdWFJ7R7c

    Emmy

    ps please just ignore the  Chihuahua -Rabelou- barking -big bark tiny dog(lol)

     

    Oh that is brilliant Emmy :yahoo:

    anytime now :good:

    yea know exactly what yer mean about the dog.....lols....... I've got a long haired black & white foxy chihuahua, all bark but when confronted completely S##t scared :rofl: :lol:......lols

    be lucky 

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    1 hour ago, Andyn said:

    I think it would be difficult to believe the story without knowing it's Authenticity. Otherwise I would have to view it at it's face value. (A) Scaremongering, or (B) Just a Rumour.

    This doesn't reflect on any person who has passed it on though just the source. I would hope that it isn't true.

    I sought of know what yer saying Andy but surely the image on the shirt should be enough and clearly says it all :unsure:

  16. Posted

    Hi peeps, 

    dont know if this is on the right part of the forum but just got this gmail from a freind in New South Wales, Australia this morning,

    what does one seem to make of it,

    I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing  :shok:

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  18. Posted

    Hi Emmy,

    thank you for posting this info,

    yea to be onest this is nothing new with doing this to the birds, it's a very simple operation that I first started doing some 30 odd years ago , at first yes we did use elasto plast plasters cut into strips and they did come off again with a soaking of some warm water,

    it is actually quite a common occurrence with a lot of canaries as they are quite vulnerable at slipping their hind due claw within the first few weeks of just being fledged,

    thankfully as you rightly say that the vetwrap is now the way foreward :good:

    i used to breed and exhibit Yorkshire canaries for around 20 years aswel as me British finches before finally moving onto foreign finches and waxbills, the Yorkshire canaries were probably one of the main canary breeds for slipping their due claw

     

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  19. Posted

    7 hours ago, tillysmum said:

    Thanks stuart, she is incubating the lone egg, and the bead so i will see how this goes, if she eats this one i will def start taking them away. Is it common for them to just have and incubate one egg?

     

    That seems ok, it sounds like she's an inexperienced first year hen , occasionally this does happen with some birds,

    give it about 1 week and if yer careful take the egg with thumb and index finger at both ends of the egg and hold upto a light bulb, if the egg looks full then all well and good and then place back in the nest,

    however if the egg appears to be clear ( inside of egg ) then bin it and take out the nest,

    leave for about 1-2 weeks and place the nest back in the cage with fresh nesting material  :good:

    under normal circumstances if the hen is fit enough she should go back down to breed with the cock bird again :D

  20. Posted

    On 22 September 2016 at 22:03, kaddy said:

    Oh thank you, so happy to hear that. And no no, the pole thing is a 1meter thick metal wire that is attached to a pillar. Never mind.

    Aside from the birdy stuff, one thing i don't understand is the admin approval thing. Why would you (assuming you are a moderator) require for posts, to be approved by moderator (i actually see no point of that. i mean seriously, who in the world would register and post spammy content in a zebra finch forum? did that ever happen before? I think not).

    I think that you'll find that Gary our moderator is 100% right on this approval issue,

    yes you do get spammers on bird forums and wouldn't necessarily jump the gun here because it certainly has happened  <_<

    incidently i noticed that you've got no info up on yer profile and no location, this on its own could appear suspect to other members  :unknw:

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Emmy said:

    H Kaddy

    Once the birds start laying eggs in their nest its best not to move the cage to another position.

    From past experience I have discovered if the cage is move to another position the birds come off their nest and don't go back to incubate the eggs and sadly if there's chicks in the nest there's 90per cent  chance they wont go back to feed them either.

    Emmy

    Absolutely agree Emmy, well said :good:

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  22. Posted

    Hi there,

    take the real egg out and keep safe in a box with some cotton wool etc, every time /day take out the real eggs and  replace with a dummy egg,

    return all eggs on the 4-5th egg layed :good:

    and then hope for the best :D

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  24. Posted

    9 hours ago, Andyn said:

    You could try a trick by removing her real eggs when laid and replace it with Dummy eggs(you can get them from Ebay.) or -http://www.haiths.com/cage-and-aviary-bird-seed/plastic-canary-eggs/

    I store all eggs until 5th one with dummy canary but I also use Budgie dummies. That might eventually stop her from pecking the real ones and breaking them or you could use small white marbles (kid's ones?) One person in the fancy used Mint Imperial sweets. 

    I'm sure you have handled small eggs before but hold them at ends or Emmy's idea was to use a plastic spoon to get them out the nest. 

    Try it when she goes down again.

    Trouble is Andy is that it may be a good idea theoretically but when you return all of the eggs she may well bust em again,

    in a situation like this I'd try the dummy eggs and then return the the real eggs back ready to be incubated and then just see what she does, a bit of trial and error I suppose  :unknw:

  25. Posted

    Mmmm......doesn't sound good to be onest, I'm afraid this may happen again,

    incidently make sure you've got enough calcium in the cage that she can consume, 

    it may be possible that yer hen is looking for the calcium intake hence why she's eating the egg shell :rolleyes:

    this can be administered by giving plenty of cuttlefish, fine oyster shell or a liquid supplement in the birds water  :good: