One on One with Serious Bill
Well I thought the Pokémon hit was worth a try. Plenty of junior members on the forum and should they take a 'POKE" or check out this link - it would have been good to know that all the OLD and active veteran members don't actually think alike
Information Breeding Wise
For the past 3 seasons I have bred pretty good numbers with just - mixed canary seed-with some extra white millet added - Iceburg lettuce soaked overnight in Soluminavite - with a bit of sprouted seed mixed with hard boiled eggs.
Take note -no-where have I mentioned I required green milk millet and when I used it and it cost me $30 a tub -I did no better or no-where near as good. When available I do add a bit of the local winter grass.
True its cold here in Orange and only an idiot would say - let them take all the element that nature can dish out. My aviaries face west and I would get the cold south westerly winds straight from Mt Canobolas. End result -they would all be dead in a matter of days.
All aviaries have the clear café blinds down for the winter. Helps a bit with eluding drafts from entering the aviary and more importantly keeps them alive. There is no point me saying -All my Limes and Blues died as it's way too cold for them here. I'm sure the reply would come back -more fool you for not looking after them.
Earlier this year -say March two of my split hens went egg bound on their very first run of cold nights. Further back in my posts I mentioned this drama unfolding and one died and the other just got through. Well you can afford to lose the odd cock bird but hens I look at totally different. In most cases males in any species hold very little value and that's why in most game sports they shoot them
So I fitted out all 4 aviaries with panel heaters which I run from 6pm to 8am and since then -all has been good. No egg bound birds and better breeding results over the winter period. Very few young -very few not making it. You may wonder why I always add figures etc in my threads but it's just habit as I had 20 years working in accounts -. so over the years I saw quite a lot of numbers
Now before you jump the gun and think its not a bad idea heater wise which it is - the power bill to run the 4 aviaries is about $250 a month.....go figure that
Is it worth it. YES! If I didn't have gouldians I bet I could pick any finch I could get my hands on and risk having a crack at breeding them in winter via a thermostatic controlled environment as so far its worked extremely well with gouldians.
I decided to take a couple of photos of aviary 1. today. From what I could see bar what was hiding behind the shelter I counted close on 70 birds. Now the more observant might notice the breeding cabinet too. About 6 years ago I had my first crack at Blues from a NSW breeder.
I bought 8 pairs of blues and splits and put them in under cabinet conditions in the laundry and bred a miserable 9 birds in total for the season. Plus had a couple of head twirlers to boot. After that season those birds were sold off and the cabinet breeding idea fell through and those boxes went to the outdoor aviary as a later source for holding cage for 'sale birds' and others who have been in my yard will/can confirm - Plus I have no bird room to house stock
Probably never likely too either
I am surprised -well I am not really
not much has been said about this possible Blue mutation of mine. I look back at all the comments on that possible parrot finch mutation....pages and pages of hopefuls. why I say hopefuls is all interested parties were probably thinking if that guy breeds it -I might get hold of it cheap! But in the end it was not the case and some-one bought him out.
Now I feel they would be a few viewers who would like to see this bird of mine fail to produce anything interesting mutation wise. Feedback comments alone speak for that comment itself but I bet there is talk about it
But regardless I still think I have the new mutation!
But you probably think ....What if I am wrong? Well as far as I am concerned it really is no big deal......I'm wrong
but look on the positive side what if I am right
and the Lime is the key to the next Blue cross........thousands of blues about and they all require a Lime to breed the new colour.....SCARY THOUGHT THERE !
Plus go even further. There are probably another 8 or 10 mutation colours or more which could be of benefit to the Lime gene . I've only played about with the one. At the moment I don't know how the Lime mutation will react with other mutations so the option is out there.
Who knows Looking ahead this coming event could be a lot bigger explosion than just a small bang or it may just fizzle out. Either way it won't worry me as my breeding mutation experiences starting from the Fawn and Pied Diamond Sparrow cross to now has been extremely good to me
Kind Regards
Serious Bill
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the Pokemon craze has taken the world by storm 
Just across from out house is a nice leafy park and it's the number one hot spot for Pokeballs. These pokeballs are used to help catch the mutant Pokemons 
and 
Suddenly it dawned on me. They had come to the Central west of NSW to see their King
