lyrebird
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Post by lyrebird on Jul 4, 2010 17:23:21 GMT 10
Hi everyone- I have a pair of budgies which im going to breed. I want to Hand Raise the chicks. Does anyone know how often I will have to feed them and how much work it will take? Please note I do not own the photo below. Attachments:
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Post by Lewis on Jul 4, 2010 20:59:46 GMT 10
budgies are awesome to handrear but are really loud all the time
depends how old you pull them to handrear ive done them from a few days oldright up to just about weaned
if you were gonna hr pull them at 3 weeks old and be feeding 4-5 times a day
so 6am,10am,2pm,6pm, 12am for a few weekss
it is alot of work but i hr budgies wen i am handrearing othert things usually i have a few tiels, few budgies, few lovebirds and sometimes to old galah wen i handrear so it is easy for me
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Post by lyrebird on Jul 14, 2010 13:54:23 GMT 10
Thanks for the info Lewis!  |
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Post by Laraine on Jul 15, 2010 12:19:08 GMT 10
I have been getting lots of enquiries the last couple of weeks for handraised budgies. Unfortunately I don't get time. If anyone knows of breeders in the Sydney area, let me know and I will send them on.
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Post by madaussie on Jul 15, 2010 12:45:57 GMT 10
Boo all me again  i can do buba g"s if there needed what sorts price do they get ? And i was after Girls Laraine but hey its all good just means i need more Girls now lol more birds why not ;D works for me no excuse needed now well i could sell sum boys but mm hmmm nope ill just get 8 girls. jjjj |
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Post by Laraine on Jul 16, 2010 10:57:57 GMT 10
I thought a couple of the babies were girls. I'll redirect enquiries for hand raised babies to you. I'm not sure how much they cost.
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Post by madaussie on Jul 16, 2010 20:51:23 GMT 10
All is good just hope sum breed their all new birds to me.
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Post by Laraine on Jul 20, 2010 11:02:28 GMT 10
John, I have given your email address to a couple of people wanting hand raised budgies. I am suddenly getting lots of enquiries for baby budgies and mine have only just started to lay eggs.
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Post by AussieBirds on Jul 24, 2010 15:28:50 GMT 10
I have at the moment at least 10 babies, one of the mothers is one of the birds I bought off you Laraine she has 5 young at the moment, I am saying at least 10 but there are more as couple of the birds I cant see how many they have, I am tipping an early spring andf an early breeding season.
John
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Post by Laraine on Jul 24, 2010 19:34:01 GMT 10
Would you like me to direct my enquiries for non handraised baby budgies to you? It will be a couple of months before I have any available.
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Post by AussieBirds on Jul 25, 2010 10:35:52 GMT 10
I still have a way to go yet before the babies are ready to go Laraine so I might leave it for a couple of more weeks yet, although I do have four just about ready to fledge, 1 spangle blue, 1 yellowface blue and two violate so they are almost ready.
I also have one box with four babies and they are all Lutino, they all have their eyes open now and they are all red eyed with Yellow feathers, the hen is a green/yellow bird don't know what the father is yet.
Thanks for the offer Laraine I reckon in about three or four weeks I will have heaps of babies ready to go.
John
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Post by Laraine on Jul 25, 2010 12:27:12 GMT 10
Ok John, just let me know when you are ready.
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Post by AussieBirds on Jul 26, 2010 13:54:59 GMT 10
Ok John, just let me know when you are ready. Thanks Laraine, I have been keeping a very close check on this lot of babies as I have lost a few over the last couple of months I am not sure if it is because my budgies are relatively new to breeding, this is the first time for a lot of them, or it is something else. John |
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Post by Laraine on Jul 26, 2010 14:32:54 GMT 10
It has been very cold at night.
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Post by lyrebird on Jan 19, 2011 15:03:47 GMT 10
My budgies had their first lot of chicks a few months ago. They recently hatched another lot.
My female budgie kicked one of the chicks out of the nest 2 times. I put him back in the nest, but today I noticed that the female wasn't feeding the chick.
I decided that putting the bird down was NOT an option for me. So after spending hours reading through my books and researching on the internet, I decided that I would try and hand rear the youngster.
He has got his pin feathers on hime and is going really well! I purchased some passwell hand rearing mix from the pet store. I heated it to the temperature it said to and made sure it wasn't to hot (so he dosen't get a crop burn). He was really keen to eat the mixture and did so very fast. I am keeping him in a small cardbord box with shreded new paper on the bottom. He seems to be very active. I have blankets over the top (with an air hole) so he dosen't get to cold.
Fingers crossed he survises.
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Post by xoxoEbzxoxo on Jan 19, 2011 15:41:09 GMT 10
Goodluck with the little bub.. |
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Post by Robyn on Jan 19, 2011 16:53:41 GMT 10
Good on you Lyrebird sounds like your on the right track.
If you need to ask questions just ask if your not sure.
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Post by lyrebird on Mar 5, 2011 17:18:33 GMT 10
Sad news.
He died about 2 weeks ago. I don't know what happened. I was sticking to the routine. The night before he was happy, fine, nothing wrong with him. The next morning I found him dead.
It has put me off hand rearing for a while.
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i can do buba g"s if there needed what sorts price do they get ?
