opinions on colony breeding the gouldian mutations

MLaRue · Post by **MLaRue** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:05 am

Horrible news!

How upsetting to loose them to weather!

wildbill · Post by **wildbill** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:45 am

hi misty
thanks, glad you enjoyed the read. i think within the next month i may have/will have problems in the colony.
last year i only reared to adulthood 9 birds from 10 pair of first year parents.
this year it appears to be totally the opposite. at the moment i already have 10 young flying and another 8 in total in three different nest boxes and another 5 pair setting on eggs. all these in the mutation avairy.
the only way out of it is to relocate the stars and painted to another area and rebuilt the avairy for gouldians before winter sets in.
i own a jumping castle business and last saturday we did a delivery about 15klm from the city. i was driving along a dirt road and passed through a creek crossing and spooked a flock of approx 10 diamond sparrows or diamond firetails.
now that freedom and beats being housed in an avairy anyday. was a great site to see.
regards

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:11 am

wildbill wrote:i was driving along a dirt road and passed through a creek crossing and spooked a flock of approx 10 diamond sparrows or diamond firetails.
now that freedom and beats being housed in an avairy anyday. was a great site to see.
regards

That certainly would be amazing to see!!

Congrats on all your new young'uns!!

annague · Post by **annague** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:22 pm

Cool stuff!! You should post some pictures for us!

wildbill · Post by **wildbill** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:12 pm

just visited the aviary and i have a young blue out of the nest today. overall there were 5 young in the nest - the other 4 are possible splits as the parents were both split for blue.

wildbill · Post by **wildbill** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:56 pm

just took these photos of the colony today.

wildbill · Post by **wildbill** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:00 am

here's a few more photos

monotwine · Post by **monotwine** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:47 am

Super colourful aviaries for sure. Been reading with interest as I too only really have resources to colony breed.

debbie276 · Post by **debbie276** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:54 am

Great pictures, thanks!

wildbill · Post by **wildbill** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:08 am

i like this photo

lovemyfinch · Post by **lovemyfinch** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:09 am

Beautiful, healthy looking babies

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:46 am

Nice pics. What size are your nest boxes? Are they all the same?

wildbill · Post by **wildbill** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:37 am

they are the standard size budgie breeding box

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:29 am

wildbill wrote:they are the standard size budgie breeding box

What is standard in your corner of the world may not be standard to us. Would they be 5"x5" or 8"x8"? Bigger? Just curious as you are having such success.

annague · Post by **annague** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:59 pm

Breathtaking pictures and gorgeous, healthy looking birds!

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