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Post by meandem on Feb 10, 2010 10:53:18 GMT 10
What did you feed them Ben? That was going to be my question.  I know what the Dunnarts around here like to eat!  |
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Post by Laraine on Feb 20, 2010 22:28:22 GMT 10
The 2 cockatiels have fledged yah, and the 3 baby bugies are coming along nicely, 2 of them are getting pin feathers. Another budgie is sitting on eggs.
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Post by sypher on Feb 21, 2010 10:26:15 GMT 10
Good news Laraine! How are the turks going?
Shaun
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Post by Laraine on Feb 25, 2010 9:59:42 GMT 10
Your little turk is going well, unfortunately the male I had with her died, but have another male I will put with her when I get around to it. She is happily in with the budgies and isn't getting plucked anymore. How are your Amazons coming along. I noticed you had some of your birds for sale on Petlink, how did that go?
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Post by Laraine on Feb 28, 2010 14:22:51 GMT 10
Shaun, I finally put a yellow male turk in with the little one this morning so she will have someone to talk to of her own species. At last look they were sitting together.  |
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Post by sypher on Feb 28, 2010 18:37:33 GMT 10
Great to hear Laraine Hopefully they will breed for you. The amazons are going great. They are such characters, a pleasure to have in the aviary. I did try and sell some birds. I had no luck selling any of them. I have decided to sell the breeding quakers and possibly a few others to help fund another purchase which is under way. I was also thinking of selling the moustache parrots aswell, but the hen is in the nest now. Shaun |
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Post by Laraine on Feb 28, 2010 19:38:01 GMT 10
It seems hard to sell at the moment, I have been trying to sell baby budgies and cockatiels with no luck. I get enquiries but they aren't the right age/colours/location. Are you keeping your Eclectus's?
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Post by sypher on Feb 28, 2010 19:45:32 GMT 10
I have advertised a young pair of eccys half heartedly, but didnt have any enquiries anyway. I put alot of it down to my location. I dont really want to sell anything, but have to raise a bit of money at the moment.
Shaun
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Post by megzly on Feb 28, 2010 20:22:50 GMT 10
well you know shaun if you run out of room you can always send some eccies over here  haha i wish anyway, i cant afford them really, we have been selling a few birds off also. Luckily most of them were sold to one buyer and the few left over arent in any hurry to go anywhere anyway. Now im full time back studying and only working a few nights a week at a clinic im not able to afford to buy more babies for a while, atleast until next breeding seaon... oh and not to mention the birds who come into the clinic to be euth'd they come home too... |
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Post by vankarhi on Mar 1, 2010 7:19:56 GMT 10
yes I have had trouble selling my female eclectus who is only 6 months old now. I put it down to me saying she is bitey in the ads but I have to be honest as I don't want someone to buy her and then say I didn't say she was bitey. Anyway I have put her back into the spare aviary as Erik was becomeing quite naughty with her inside and now he is back to normal.......well normal for him lol ;D Anyway I will advertise her again in a couple of months and advertise her as an aviary bird. I did eventually sell both her clutch brothers but have had no enquiries about Mikey......oh yes I had one enquiry but his hen is a Vos and I suggested it better if he got a Vos male. He is only a young kid around 13 or 14 and didn't realise there were different subspecies. Oh and I know she is a Vos because I have seen her in his grandfathers shop where he works after school ;D
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Post by megzly on Mar 1, 2010 21:17:33 GMT 10
People may be more interested in her as she gets a bit older too Tracey, seems there are always a few people always looking for older females and males to pair with existing birds.
An idea that came to me just then...Mabye you could swap one of your boys from a subsequent clutch for an unrelated younger male and pair it with your girl and offer them as a pair, as they are young still i wouldnt imagine people wanting them for the wrong reasons would buy as theyd have to wait 4 or five years before they could breed them.
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Post by vankarhi on Mar 20, 2010 18:15:39 GMT 10
Yeah thanks for that Megan. ;D
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Post by zooyouthben on Mar 21, 2010 20:48:39 GMT 10
We have bred 5 Blue and Golds so far and they have laid another egg last week!
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Post by Laraine on Mar 22, 2010 9:01:33 GMT 10
That's great Ben, is it late for them to breed? I have sold the baby budgies and 4 hens are sitting on eggs again. I also have a quail sitting on 7 eggs!!! Again.
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Post by AussieBirds on Mar 22, 2010 12:50:26 GMT 10
At the moment I have 8 hens sitting on eggs ( budgies ) and two lovebird hens sitting on eggs I was going to give the lovebirds a rest but they beat me to it........again I have 13 baby pied lovebirds in my baby aviary at the moment, trying to sell them along with a lot 0f cockatiels.
John
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Post by alemap on Mar 23, 2010 3:11:36 GMT 10
Blue and golds are expensive in australia arent they, they have been over bred in the uk and now end up in parrot rescues.
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Post by Laraine on Mar 23, 2010 9:07:29 GMT 10
You can pay about $6,000 plus in Australia, it's hard to imagine over here finding them as rescues.
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Post by zooyouthben on Mar 23, 2010 19:28:44 GMT 10
That's great Ben, is it late for them to breed? I have sold the baby budgies and 4 hens are sitting on eggs again. I also have a quail sitting on 7 eggs!!! Again. Its very very late, Macaws had a pretty bad year in the Darling Downs, but we have had a stellar year! Macaws breeding in March, and i have just had a cattle egret hatch out, its going to be a crazy year! |
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Post by Laraine on Mar 25, 2010 11:27:35 GMT 10
Yesterday I found an egg shell in my backyard from a Dove, thought they were a bit late too. The trouble is I can't find the nest, there are some dense trees eg. Lillypilli and Bottlebrush so can't see.
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Post by Laraine on Apr 3, 2010 14:27:15 GMT 10
Two baby budgies have hatched in the last 2 days, plus I have 2 other hens sitting on eggs. Looks like it is all starting again. Lol
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haha i wish anyway, i cant afford them really, we have been selling a few birds off also. Luckily most of them were sold to one buyer and the few left over arent in any hurry to go anywhere anyway. 
