Posts by Niqi
The Ideal – Part 2
The Big Issue: Exhibition or ‘English’ Budgerigars Visit a show in the UK today and you will see birds like the one below being awarded trophies as paragons of the breeder’s skill. Ironically, it has taken great skill for breeders to produce birds with these highly exaggerated characteristics: massive heads, a doubling of body size,…
Read MoreStarting with Budgerigars
An interest in birds usually begins as a child. Time and time again after a couple of years with birds, the teenager gives up and makes a return to bird-keeping twenty or more years later. Many give up keeping birds at around 16/17 years old and return when they are settled, married and have the…
Read MoreBudgerigars and their eggs
We tend to dismiss the eggs and believe it all “just happens” in the breeding room with eggs but to be successful with budgerigars being they exhibition, colour or just pets, it’s vital to understand what’s going on with eggs – and to know what’s normal and not so normal. We pair up our birds…
Read MoreBreeding Problems
With any luck we will have chicks in the nests by now, some will have left the boxes and be on the perches. Other pairs will have produced eggs – but things have gone wrong. Some pairs will even have done nothing – and still be sitting there looking at each other. This article is…
Read MoreRand Avicultural Society Expo
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Read MoreResplendent Budgerigars
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Read MorePreparing Birds for Exhibition
By G. Nicholson, U.K. One of the fascinating aspects of budgerigar culture is exhibiting at Local and Open Shows. To be a successful exhibitor of budgerigars, it is necessary to know how to prepare and train them. They need to be spotlessly clean, perfectly steady and display themselves to their best possible advantage. Condition is…
Read MoreRings Sent Abroad
A sample of the rings [image src=”https://awebsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/10365796_331063847071712_5031563485245000771_n.jpg” alt=”Rings sent abroad” type=”rounded” float=”none” link=”false” title=”Rings sent abroad”] Well to those who don’t know, I sent some 500+ plastic budgie rings over seas a while ago to be tested by some of the “Big Guns” in the our hobby. Will be interesting to get feedback from them…
Read MoreLarkwood Feeding
[image src=”https://awebsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/budgie_eating_millet.jpg” alt=”a budgy having a bite to eat” type=”rounded” float=”right” link=”false” title=”a budgy having a bite to eat” info=”popover” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=”A budgy having a bite to eat.” lightbox_thumb=”https://awebsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/budgie_eating_millet.jpg”] All breeders have a feeding routine that suits them and their aviaries. Here is our menu as an example bearing in mind that we make…
Read MoreIn to the future!
We are actively building some support systems to grow the fancy.
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