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TotteI came home with a recessive pied dark green budgie cock 20th of September 1997. I fell in love with that bird during a budgie exhibition where I was helping around. After one week I contacted a budgie breeder and after another week I went to him and bought a hen to the male. She was a normal light green budgie girl born 10th of June -97. She was a little bit more tough and curious than the male, but extremely calm and kind. She didn't bite at all when I handled her, while the male gave me some nips. I got very sad when she suddenly passed away in January 2004.

When I came home with her I could see that he was very happy. He courted her but as a budgie girl she pretended that she wasn't seeing nor hearing him. Although she noticed everything he did. The male was chirping a little bit different than my previous budgies did, his chirps are a little softer and sometimes he makes some sounds that I've never heard before. Perhaps he has learned that while he was in a big aviary at his previous owner's place.

The recessive variety is appealing to me since no bird looks exactly the same as the other, besides it is harder to breed good recessive pieds and that is a challenge for me. It's not easy to keep the size on these budgies.

I didn't know that much about things like this before, but with the help from other more experienced breeders of the recessive variety I have hopefully learned some useful tips. It will be interesting to see if I'll manage to breed some good recessive pieds in the future.

I gave a nesting box to this pair about the time when the female was around one year old and in breeding condition. She was interested in the box but he didn't quite know what to do and the hen eventually lost the interest. I bought a couple of more English type of budgerigars, two grey green cocks, so that the pair would hear some more chirping sounds from other budgies, no luck. Eventually one of those grey green males passed away for unknown reasons. Anyway I switched pairs and tried setting the light green hen up with the remaining grey green cock, and oh yes, they were much more compatible and I put up a nesting box for them during the winter of 2000-01, when they both were in prime breeding condition. They mated and she layed some eggs, incubated them, but argh! not ONE was fertile. She layed another clutch, but not ONE was fertile from that clutch either! So out of 20+ eggs layed, from two clutches, they got no chicks! I also got a young sky blue split recessive pied hen and paired her up with the recessive cock that I have. They also seem to be much compatible, however they also seem to need a bit more practice on how to mate. ;-)

Anyway the future will tell if I'll get some youngsters at all from my current budgies or if I'll get some new ones. The other breeders I've talked to have gotten plenty of offspring from their pairs during the breeding season of 2000-01, so can you tell I was a bit frustrated about my results! Until this year (2004) I haven't gotten any chicks from my current small flock of budgies.


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