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BENSONSAN
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- Posts: 778
- Joined: 14 Aug 2009, 00:03
- Location: Sydney N.S.W
- Location: Sydney, Australia
Yup thats why ive got outdoor cabinets for my gouldians i dont want them all in one aviary...god knows whos knocking over who! I keep one pair of the same species per aviary. tho i do have 2 pair of painteds in the same aviary but the yellow pair stay together and the red pair also. But under close watch.
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E Orix
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- Posts: 2740
- Joined: 29 May 2009, 23:30
- Location: Howlong on NSW/Vic Border 30km from Albury
- Location: Howlong NSW
Sadly there alot of people in our hobby that have no idea or worry about selling related stock as unrelated.
Where the Gene pool is large its not good but also no disasterous BUT when it comes to the rarer species it can be tragic
Unless the breeder can swap young he/she really has no choice but to run two different pairs or colonies.Other wise he could even be selling nest mates as unrelated.
In the past if you located birds in another state you had a reasonable chance of getting unrelated stock today that has passed as birds can be located easily through the nett and freighted around.Hence a strain in Melb. could quite easily be directly related to some in Cairns.
My rule is try and ask questions and at least locate some away from your home.
Generally I only introduce males into my collection, I try to retain the females as I then know how old my breeding hens are.
Where the Gene pool is large its not good but also no disasterous BUT when it comes to the rarer species it can be tragic
Unless the breeder can swap young he/she really has no choice but to run two different pairs or colonies.Other wise he could even be selling nest mates as unrelated.
In the past if you located birds in another state you had a reasonable chance of getting unrelated stock today that has passed as birds can be located easily through the nett and freighted around.Hence a strain in Melb. could quite easily be directly related to some in Cairns.
My rule is try and ask questions and at least locate some away from your home.
Generally I only introduce males into my collection, I try to retain the females as I then know how old my breeding hens are.
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Diane
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- Posts: 7402
- Joined: 05 Apr 2009, 14:23
- Location: Northern 'burbs of Adelaide
- Location: Northern 'burbs of Adelaide
I try to get two pair from different breeders then swap the pairs around.
Diane
The difference between Genius and Stupidity is, Genius has it’s limits
The difference between Genius and Stupidity is, Genius has it’s limits
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malibu_birdie
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- Posts: 113
- Joined: 14 Apr 2011, 12:34
- Location: Nowra NSW
I was speaking to a Zeb breeder recently about my issue of breeding aluminas. I was explaining about not having any that wont be related and they told me about swapping the hen and then breeding half siblings together. I don't really want to do this so I suggested breeding cousins. They said they had not really thought about doing it that way. Any opinions on this method? Basically the situation is I have a grey/alumina hen and an alumina cock. My thought was to breed aluminas from this pair to some of my normal greys - then hopefully some of those young will be splits that I could theoretically breed together to produce the odd alumina along with more splits and normal greys. Make sense? 