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If all the vet planned to do at visits is "weighing", then this isn't an avian vet. There's a difference. If you do some googling about "how often should a parrot see a vet?", you'll find that what you were told was wrong. Once a year they should have blood and feces checked for signs of...

This is why parrots need to go to a vet yearly, not every ten years. By the time you notice something is wrong, something has already been wrong for a while. I don't know where you got the idea that they need a physical only once every ten years, but that is very wrong.

Thanks for the tag. I'll guess 146.

Yes, Birchen in Copper Black vs Extended Black in Black, but also Gold in Copper Black vs Silver in Black. I think that was the piece I couldn't remember the other day. From what I do remember, being Silver made for more "correct" iridescence. I think there's the addition of a gene that changes...

@nicalandia Hi. I remember asking this question years ago, and getting a detailed answer from someone else, but can't find it anymore. Let's say you wanted to create a line of Black Marans using Black Copper Marans as a base, because the latter could be more easily found with dark egg color. I...

I'm not familiar with Australian quarantine per se, but I had an aunt and uncle who moved to Hawaii for a bit -- uncle was in the army. Their dog and cat had to be in quarantine, and visitation was allowed. This is because of what diseases they were quarantining against, and they weren't...

Do you have proof that what Peafowl Today said is true? If you message me on Facebook, I'll tell you the group to join and see the post. .

This peafowl color came up in a facebook discussion today. I had heard a bit of the story before, but hadn't seen pics, or if they were given a name. Today I saw pics and the name, and searched here to see if they were ever mentioned. This color is derived from hybridization with Congo peafowl...

I would not recommend this as an only-food. Maintenance diets for small birds are typically about 15-17% protein and 6-7% fat. Breeding or molting diets would be about 20% protein and 12-15% fat. Poultry grower feed (18% protein, 1-2% fat) is meant to put on muscle, and at a lower fat...

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Well, I understand that the components of Hazel or Indigo would independently assort in an F1 x F1 cross, and that means a lot of IB possibly split to something else, but it would be a way to find out. If someone out there has the land for free-ranging the excess, it would be an interesting and...

Thanks for that! Among the offspring from those crosses, did you notice if they segregated by sex? For example, in your percentages for each, were they about equal as far as male and female? If, as I suspect, the difference is due to a third mutation, then a complication in sorting this out is...

I'm curious about how Hazel and Indigo are claimed to be due to the same mutations without a third mutation present that causes the phenotypic difference. I wonder if perhaps one of the Purple males used was split to Peach -- he had one Z with Purple, and the other Z had Purple and Cameo. Since...

Birds don't have XX or XY sex-chromosomes -- they are ZZ (male) and ZW (female). You have the two pigments reversed -- melanins are inside the feather, and psittacins are on top. Melanins are brown to black, and appear blue because feather structure bends the reflected light. The dark factor...

If your budgies have eight eggs, it's likely you have two females. Typical budgie clutches are 4-6. And in a previous post, you asked about improving their diet. Considering you likely have two females, remove the nest box and get them eating better before encouraging them to lay eggs that...

You say you bought your cockatoo in May, and in December it was 7 months old, and you're still hand-feeding it. The math suggests your cockatoo hatched in May -- are you saying you bought a day-old baby? This post looks fake. A new parrot owner who doesn't realize when a cockatoo normally weans...

There's a difference between "budgie" and "budgies" in an aviary. One alone will be so itching to be a part of the flock that some of the aggressiveness will be tempered so as to fit in. Get a group together and they'll bully the rest. Almost five years ago, I found an adult male budgie (now...

It makes no distinction between single-factor WE and double-factor WE. A bird can't be "split to Silver-Pied", since "Silver Pied" is not just one mutation. A Silver-Pied bird will have one White mutation, one Pied mutation, and be double-factor WE. Being "split" to something means you have...

Yes, that's a half-sider. Note that the difference is between left and right, not front and back. Something "happened" when the zygote first divided into two, leaving one cell different from the other. As the cells continued to divide and grow in number, that difference was maintained in all...

That last pic with the chromosomes has several errors. :-)