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Hi,

My name is jessica and I am new to this site but have been reading everyday since I picked up my 2new little indian ringneck babies... So cute!! I am from melbourne Australia can't wait to upload the pics of my babies, picked them up on Friday (they were only 8days old) and have been handrearing them both since!

Hi and welcome

I thought in Australia you weren't allowed to bring home unweaned baby birds from a breeder?

Anyway, can't wait to see pics.

Hi skyes_crew,

Thanks for ur post! Well they aren't from a breeder as such, my dad has two pairs of IRNs, he had the yellow lacewing male and I bought him a blue lacewing female earlier this year and they bred within a couple of months to our surprise! From four eggs one was infertile and two hatched within a day of each other (19/9/13) and the other egg was squashed, it hatched but the mum neglected it and the third baby died so I have the two eldest that hatched

Oh, ok. Well I wish you the best of luck with them. Keep us updated on their progress. I love to see the little ones grow.

Mel

Thank you so not breeding them to sell, breeding them to keep! I couldn't give them up I'm so attached already!

Welcome Jessicaz, and to your little ones

Loo

Thank you loo I'm trying to work out how to upload pics but I'm on my iPhone and it won't let me for some reason!

Best way to upload pics is create a free imageshack account, upload your pics there, and then post the link for forums into your posts here and your pics pop up

Here is the link I hope 9 day old lil munchkins

nope no link showing, read through, and it gives you the specific option of the link to use in forums, then the pictures show up directly in your post, and we dont have to click on a link and go to a seperate page, we can view it right here in this forum

Oh that is very exciting. Looking forward to follow you and the babies. I am planning on handfeeding two in spring here in denmark - which will be april /may so will look forward to hear how it goes and deffinitly see pictures.

About pics.. do they not need to be a certain size small to be able to upload on these pages ?

I have noticed people that are able to upload photos from the first day as members....I'm not sure how. But the forum rules are that you must be a member for 5 days and have at least 10 posts to be able to post photos. It's a security feature installed to prevent spam. there is a sticky post all about posting photos somewhere around here lol.

I'm so utterly rubbish at posting photos I've had to keep going back to that thread to remind myself how to do it!

It's in the 'miscellaneous' section, at the top.

Loo

Thanks Loo....I couldn't remember where I had seen it

My lil babies at 9days old ))

They are nice and content in that pic after their feed! I'm am following a guide that Donna put on here in regards to he times and how much to feed etc and it is working really well! Babies are eating 6cc each feed every 4-4 1/2 hours crops are emptying nicely they have character already it's amazing!

It must be so rewarding and satisfying to hand rear your babies, we did it with our first IRN (well my mum did, I wasn't old enough at the time) but the breeder I got my Doodlebug from wouldn't let him go before he was weaned. Of course I completely understand his interest in the safety of his birds and it's commendable, I just wanted that bond from the start and I fully understood the commitment needed and I had the time to do it Of course I wouldn't change Doodlebug for the world but our bond would've been far greater by now and at least I'd be able to have him on me without the bites!

Lovely little chickies you have there, keep posting

Loo

They are just the cutest little munchkins they love cuddles! I think their feathers are just starting to come through and it looks dark under the skin so I believe they will be blue!! I will take some pics tomoro. They grow too quickly!! I can't wait for this weekend, going to go buy them a little perch to lie down in their box so they can start practising and I also have a little stuffed toy in their which I catch them snuggling up to, so cute!!

You never ask a lady her age Alphawolf!

I'd love to see your babies progress, do keep posting, they change so quickly but I guess they have to in order to survive (and feeding them every few hours during the night must be tiring too-but I'd have done it )

It's lovely they'll grow up together too so none of this fighting/seperate cage malarkey.

Loo

It keeps saying the file is too big to post a pic il keep trying tho

There is a thread about posting photos in the 'Miscellaneous' section at the top, it explains about sizing etc.

Alpha wolf, Doodlebug isn't a lady, you're quite right

Doodlebug is a bird

LOL I meant loo.

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9086/5qhv.jpg
I hope this works this was just after a feed so please excuse the mess, their not like this all the time lol

Aww how cute can't wait to see them feather up.

I'm so excited to see what colour they will be!!! Obviously they look blue, the mother is a blue lacewing and the dad a yellow lacewing.. But the feathers on their body look white???

That's the down you're seeing if the mom was a blue lacewing (pallid) and the dad was a lutino then your offspring could be either lutino or PallidIno. The lutino would be female. The PallidIno would be male.

Oh is it down? It's so cute so if they are blue they will probably be male?

This is the dad

These are my babies Charlie and Harley as I don't know the sex I went with some unisex names lol.

Here is a close up of one of the babes, dark toenails? Not sure what that means?

The pic is a little dark, but if my eyes are not deceiving me, he may be a turquoiseGrey Pallid. Those results would be


1.0 grey(sf) turquoise(parblue)Blue pallid Dad
x 0.1 blue pallid. Mom

% from all 1.0 Boy babies
25.0% 1.0 grey(sf) blue pallid
25.0% 1.0 blue pallid
25.0% 1.0 grey(sf) turquoise(parblue)Blue pallid
25.0% 1.0 turquoise(parblue)Blue pallid

% from all 0.1. Girl Babies
25.0% 0.1 grey(sf) blue pallid
25.0% 0.1 blue pallid
25.0% 0.1 grey(sf) turquoise(parblue)Blue pallid
25.0% 0.1 turquoise(parblue)Blue pallid

All of the babies would be pallids. Either blue, turquoise, grey, or turquoise grey

Charlie and Harley 20 days old ) eating better again I think when I got them out of their box to feed they were getting too cold.. So I have a heat mat and it's helped a lot!!! Eating 9-10cc each feed and crops emptying each time, so happy!

It looks like one will be Grau and the other blue ) the feathers are just starting to come out of the pins and yea, one looks yellowy grey and the other a light blue

The yellows grey could be turquoise blue pallid or turquoise grey pallid check out this site

http://home.wanadoo.nl/psittaculaworld/ ... Pallid.htm

Is that good? Oh the suspense is killing me! Lol..

I amended my post...look back

Oh wow!!! That's beautiful! Definitely looks like their dad in the bottom right they are stunning colours! Might need to get a cobalt to pair with one of these babies for in the future! Or a voilet stunning colours, I like the speckle effect it may have!

I thought you might like it

I guess we will know in the next week or so!!

Definitely diff colours!!! 22days old!! This is a close up

My first guess...blue or maybe blue grey pallid on the right and turquoise grey pallid on the left

Oh oh!!! We have another addition to the family!!! A baby Alex!!

lol...where did he pop in from

A friend had babies so they said I could have one!! He/she is so much bigger than my lil babies!! They all cuddle each other sleeping like they've known each other for ages! So I had a cage but needed to upgrade to a bigger one now but ill keep the other just in case I may need to separate in the future (hopefully not touch wood) and hopefully next weekend il start putting them in their in the day (cage is inside) and at night back in their box! It's all happening now, can't wait to train all these babes! My 3 1/2 week IRNs are pretty much stepping up on my hand now which is fantastic!!

This is the new cage! Outside in this pic cos we cleaned it but inside now

Jessica that cage is huge!!! But what is the bar spacing? It looks like its made for a macaw or at the very least a cockatoo. Those bars would be too wide for ringnecks or Alex's. their heads could easily get caught. Could you measure the widest distance between two bars on the cage?

Also, I would wait another two weeks before trying to place them in a cage during the day. The large openness is not a feeling that baby birds enjoy. At around 5-6 weeks maybe start placing their container inside the cage to get them used to it.