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Dr Kev’s Budgies

Budgerigar breeder of healthy birds in a wide variety of beautiful colours.
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22/09/2024

All good to go now. It’s now down to my husbandry and care with assistance from both my descendants.

20/09/2024

Donald Bruton has been a star once again. He’s helped with some extra dishes and nest boxes so I can get everything in place for breeding. Slow work with my back, knees and legs but I do have a new seat!

18/09/2024

The good news is I’ve now got working internet in the birds now!

16/09/2024

Slowing getting the message out there!

16/09/2024

https://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/fife-practice-to-open-for-exotics-only-patients/

Lifelong dream of triple-boarded exotic vet specialist Kevin Eatwell, Fife Exotic Vets will be Scotland’s only 24/7 dedicated exotic animal-only

16/09/2024

Really starting to take shape now! 39 breeding cages.

15/09/2024

Getting the shed ready for when I took the birds back on six years ago. Four more years until I’ve finally formed a stud.

14/09/2024

Just the cages to go up now and one more heater.

12/09/2024

There are from circa 2005 when my family had a stud of mostly spangles, crests and recessive pieds. I think in fact about 90% of our normals were spangles. I have descendants from these families still breeding now. Wire cages and UV lighting has been a long standing set up for my birds.

11/09/2024

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Over £1200 in Prize Money.
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10/09/2024

Baby cage finally installed. That concludes the work in the extension aside touching up the paint.

08/09/2024

I have created a band group for any surplus babies or adults I have.
https://band.us/n/a9a6Aelbm9D0O
They will be posted here and on the UKBC band only. It’s searchable. Britain only (Scotland, England & Wales). Or just scan the QR code.

06/09/2024

Aviary done and all birds treated onto cleaning wall number two and building a baby cage.

04/09/2024

Budgerigar health and welfare is critically important in captivity. My new aviary is now ready. Birds have been treated with ivermectin and are in disinfected holding cages for 24 hours until they move across and ronidazole treatment will commence on entry.

02/09/2024

Home made door out of a cage I had from Ricky Anderson. Now just got to work out how to keep it closed!

31/08/2024

Lots of thinking to do & how to pair up the three lines this season. Then have to cut them back by half.

31/08/2024

UKBC passing on price reductions to their members. Great work.

Amazing news our members 2025 rings can be pre-ordered as of tomorrow 1st September 2024 they will be posted out Monday 30th September 2024.

At the reduced price of 33p each across all sizes and yes you did read that right reduced price.

29/08/2024

Normals all moved into a bank of 15 cages. 15 pairs descended from Neil Cawley birds crossed into my blue family, with the vast majority of my Glenn Hawthorn birds and all my slates. 13 pairs of birds back from Luetoff Descent crossed into my blue family with birds back from Adams and Randall encompassing most of my spangles and pieds. 12 pairs back from Ball, Hockaday and Harrison lines all crossed into my blue family including my goldenfaces and Easley Clearbodies. In total 42 c***s and 41 hens for 35 breeding cages when it comes to it.

27/08/2024

Bank of perches in place.

25/08/2024

Caulking and painting done, next job to move the birds into cages so I can use the existing flights to make the front of the new one!

23/08/2024

Ready for round two of caulking and painting.

21/08/2024

Last of the left over paint now on both sheds.

19/08/2024

Caulking and filling done.

17/08/2024

All insulated and lined out ready for filling and then two coats of paint.

09/01/2024

Skyblue c**k x YF English Fallow hen.

05/01/2024

A couple of baby Texas Clearbodies now bred back to my blue family.

02/01/2024

A baby grey coming along nicely.

31/12/2023

I was hoping for a clean Slate for 2024, instead I have a dirty Yellowface Slate being hand reared. It’s a c**k bird which is excellent to progress my plans for this mutation. Should be able to wipe it clean though.

27/12/2023

A game of I spy today.

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas. Please watch your birds closely over Christmas as there’s increased risk of injuring themselves around the house.

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Really starting to take shape now! 39 breeding cages.

Just the cages to go up now and one more heater.

Home made door out of a cage I had from Ricky Anderson. Now just got to work out how to keep it closed!

Lots of thinking to do & how to pair up the three lines this season. Then have to cut them back by half.

Caulking and painting done, next job to move the birds into cages so I can use the existing flights to make the front of the new one!

All insulated and lined out ready for filling and then two coats of paint.

I was short on yellowfaces, golden faces and violets so I paired up a Yellowface cock to a Goldenface hen back from my dad’s original families and the blue family just to up the numbers a bit. I only kept the four hens which will be used across lesser cocks in the Ball / Harrison / Hockaday / Luke family to once again just perpetuate some more hens for another year. It’s important to keep your own bred hens and even if the quality drops a little they still have potential when distant relatives to your better birds and it helps avoid excessive inbreeding.

So these two are once again hardcore members of my blue family. Last year the cinnamon was used in the ECBs and the cobalt across my Luke / Harrison birds. So they will continue to be used across the Ball / Harrison / Hockaday / Luke family next year.

My Easley Clearbodies are next. These are a dominant mutation and these are now bred back from my blue family. In addition two of these are back from Ball/Harrison/Hockaday/Luke bloodlines which is a loose group of birds based on similar bloodlines. These bloodlines will all be brought together in the first instance forming a second group of birds. The Easley’s will be fully integrated into this group.

These hens are all back from the spangle cock crossed into Lutolf birds and form the other side of the family. The aim will be to merge the Lutolf birds, Glenn’s birds and Neil’s birds together as one family as I already have multiple birds spanning these families already. My Slates, Pieds, Spangles and Yellowfaces will then be primarily in this family.

These four hens are descended from Glenn Hawthorn Spangles crossed into my blue family. The father to the double factors has generated a whole family across my Lutolf birds and these will provide a connection between Glenn’s birds and Lutolf bred birds.

These five hens are all bred back from my blues and neil Cawley family. In addition two have Lutolf bloodline in them and will be used to start to mix these families together going forwards.

Two lovely birds from the Moorhouse family. This completes the normal males for next season.

A friend sadly decided to stop keeping his birds. This now means there’s a whole need group going to be added to my blue family. These have a lot of Luke and Moorhouse bloodline in them. So all outcrossed initially (by going into my blues) then the best folded back across the best birds.

Four home bred cobalts back from my blue family mixed with Luke bloodline. These are not related to the luke rung cocks but their babies will be folded together. Not up to grade really so one round only and see what comes out.

Another outcross Glenn Hawthorn rung. He will pop into the family somewhere…

A total outcross this one from Dan Norman. Not sure where to place him yet but he will get a home bred blue family hen.

Neil Cawley rung cobalt. Will he used to add the dark factor into the Cawley family.

Home bred cock Neil Cawley family in with my Blues. A useful bird to fold Ito the Cawley family next year. Breeds well has just spent his time breeding blackwing splits this year.