Newbie from South Africa

[Lushen1600]

Hi I am a 33 year old male from Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, I started breeding birds last year, I currently have 12 ringnecks, 11 lovebirds, 6 cockatiels and just recently got 21 common budgies and 1 show male budgie. Im currently negotiating for a secondhand walk in aviary to colony breed my budgies and hopefully will have it soon to start my budgie breeding project, I don't have the best of colours or types, but the fact that I'm making a start is good. I joined this forum so that I could increase my knowledge. I also belong to our local bird club and want to learn more online

Thanks
Lushen

[Marianne Marlow]

Welcome Lushen

Wow, you have a lot of birds. Would we be able to see some photos?

Marianne

[BudgiesBuddy]

Hi Lushen and welcome to forum

All the best with your budgies project.

[suejr69]

Hi lushen it sounds like you have a good variety of birds.i have budgies,1 african grey and 4 quail.it would be nice to see photos when you get chance.welcome to the forum and i am sure you will learn everything you need to know on here..
sue

[Deleted]

welcome to forum,
i as like the rest cant wait to see the pics....
but i would say......... please reconsider....... colony breeding .......its not a good idea.
regards mick.....

[Lushen1600]

Hi thanks all for the welcome, will post pics of my birds as soon as I get a chance, maybe later tonight, do I have to use a site like imageshack to post my pics or can I post them directly. Also thinking of starting a blog with my budgie project so that all can see as I start from scratch, please not that I'm not gonna put in tonnes of money into this so you guys are gonna see me buying a secondhand cage and set it up for a start, I want to start with colony breeding as I have mostly normal common budgies and only 1 show male, when I get more showbudgies, I will consider breeding 1 pair per cage, right now all my budgies are in one suspended cage and they are choosing their own mates

Thanks
Lushen

[Lushen1600]

Here is a pic of some of my lovebirds, they are still young, about 4 months old now, will have to wait for them to mature before I breed them, the ones in the pic are all peach-faced lovebirds, there is 1 normal peachface, 1 orangeface, 2 normal opalines, 1 Aqua, 1 Aqua opaline, 2 blue and 1 violet, I also have 1 fischer and 1 blackmask which is not in this pic, both of which are the wild colour green, still looking for mates for them, that my 11 lovebirds that I have

I'm just testing if the pioc comes thru this way, if it does will post more pics later

Thanks
Lushen

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[barrieshutt]

Hi Lushen and a big welcome to the forum

[barrieshutt]

Jan 9, 2012 7:44:06 GMT Lushen1600 said:

Here is a pic of some of my lovebirds, they are still young, about 4 months old now, will have to wait for them to mature before I breed them, the ones in the pic are all peach-faced lovebirds, there is 1 normal peachface, 1 orangeface, 2 normal opalines, 1 Aqua, 1 Aqua opaline, 2 blue and 1 violet, I also have 1 fischer and 1 blackmask which is not in this pic, both of which are the wild colour green, still looking for mates for them, that my 11 lovebirds that I have

I'm just testing if the pioc comes thru this way, if it does will post more pics later

Thanks
Lushen

very interesting photo Lushen as we were just trying to I D some lovebirds for another member , i did mention that the peach faced now have several mutations.

[BudgiesBuddy]

Jan 9, 2012 7:44:06 GMT Lushen1600 said:

Here is a pic of some of my lovebirds, they are still young, about 4 months old now, will have to wait for them to mature before I breed them, the ones in the pic are all peach-faced lovebirds, there is 1 normal peachface, 1 orangeface, 2 normal opalines, 1 Aqua, 1 Aqua opaline, 2 blue and 1 violet, I also have 1 fischer and 1 blackmask which is not in this pic, both of which are the wild colour green, still looking for mates for them, that my 11 lovebirds that I have

I'm just testing if the pioc comes thru this way, if it does will post more pics later

Thanks
Lushen

You have very beautiful love birds Lushen

[Lushen1600]

Here is one pic of my budgies is the holding cage

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[Lushen1600]

A pic of my blue show male budgie

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[barrieshutt]

very nice Lushen

[Lushen1600]

Another pic of my budgies

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[Marianne Marlow]

They all look like nice birds. I especially like the big blue

He's very handsome!