Are these blue babies, pics from nest

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Great set up there Mel
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Great Photo's Melby thanks for Sharing :)

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looks nice and cosey for them.Your phone takes good photos to.
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hi mel
nice aviarys you guys have their

with blues i leave the young in with parents until fully coloured i found the survival rate in coloured birds greatly improved , blues in out door aviarys do not like being moved when moving i give spark and vitamins.
also in winter i cover top 1/2 of wire with clear plastic so nice and cose
cheers brad
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thanks for info, we will definitely leave them in same aviary as parents. We will breed the blues on with some of our other birds and leave them in the aviary they were bred in. The way their cage is set up it does not get any wind in there but good tip about covering cage come the colder months. I got my stash of grass seeds today for the winter months. Thanks to this website I found out I could freeze them. Such a good site.

PS I took all the photo's with my phone. Good old nokia
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it just aint fair, you take better pics with your phone than I can manage with a camera :(
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Wow it seems that in Australia their isn't much blue mutations :?:
Well congrats on the babies!
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I hope to get some 2 because my female is yellow split to blue. Strangely instead she has blue markings on her back its like dots still don't get that?
well any ways don't forget to keep us updated
good luck :)
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wow your bird sounds beautiful. bet you can't wait to breed.

Unfortunately our blues are now all dead. 1 died a couple of weeks back and the other two died this weekend. We still have the green ones that were in the same nest though. I guess it's true what they say about mutations being weaker.

Maybe next years when all our bird problems are gone we'll be a bit more successful with breeding blues.

Hope you do well with yours. Love to see pics once you have babies.
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bummer,I would make sure mum and dad are keep in good health for when you are ready to breed again.
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sorry to hear about your problems, hope you get it sorted soon. good luck with the birds you still have
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