Contents

Beginners

• A Plan for Beginners in the Fancy - Part I by Pat Norris
• A Plan for Beginners in the Fancy - Part II by Pat Norris
• Buying a Healthy Budgerigar by Dr John R Baker
• Advice for Beginners by Jim Hutton
• Basic Information about Starting to Breed Budgerigars by Dolores Noonan
• The Patterns of Established Studs by Bernard Kellett
• Helping Newcomers Stay by Bill and Christine Heale
• Colour for Beginners by Jim Hutton
• Back to Basics by Gordon and Sylvia Hallam
• Venturing into Budgerigars by Stan Richardson
• Success and How to Improve your Chances by Gordon & Sylvia Hallam
• Give Yourself a Chance... by Gordon & Sylvia Hallam

Breeding

• Some Do's and Don'ts of Budgerigar Breeding by Dr John R Baker
• The Breeding Season by Mick Freakley
• Growing Up - My Method of Bringing Up Chicks by Steve Robertson
• Hints for Beginners by Jim Hutton
• Feather Plucking by Jim Hutton
• The Weaning Process by Bernard Kellett
• Preparation for Breeding by Jim Hutton
• Pairings by Jim Hutton
• Birds At Their Best After The Moult by Jim Hutton
• Pairing of Exhibition Budgerigars for Improvement by Nigel Tonkin
• Seeing Quality in the Nest Box by Bill and Christine Heale
• Artificial Insemination by Graham MacGuire
• Preparing for the Second Round by Jim Hutton
• Pro's and Cons of Artificial Insemination by Dr John Pilkington
• An Unorthodox Method of Breeding by Stan Richardson
• An Experiment with Lighting by Brian Byles

Charts of Breeding Expectations

• Dominant Pied
• Recessive Pied
• Dark-eyed Clear
• Fallow
• Albino
• Lutino
• Spangle
• Greywing
• Slates
• Cinnamon
• Opaline
• Clearbody
• Violet

Diseases

• Liverpool University Budgerigar Ailment Research Project (LUBARP) Overview
• LUBARP: Going Light
• LUBARP: Vomiting
• LUBARP: Diarrhoea
• LUBARP: Reproduction
• LUBARP: Eye Diseases
• LUBARP: Causes of Death of Exhibition Budgerigars
• LUBARP: Vitamin Poisoning
• LUBARP: Clagged Vents
• Diarrhoea
• Respiratory Diseases
• The Fancier's Approach to Budgerigar Diseases
• Megabacteriosis in Diseased and Healthy Budgerigars
• Osteopetrosis
• Two Unusual Diseases
• Research on Feather Diseases - Part I
• Research on Feather Diseases - Part II
• Megabacteriosis: Notes for Budgerigar Fanciers
• Megarbacteria in Budgerigars
• Two Unusual Diseases"

General Interest

• Enjoy Your Judging by Terry Jukes
• My Life with Budgerigars by Geoff Tillson
• The Stock Bird by Rodney Harris
• Give Judges a Break by Steve Cox
• A Yank Visits the Motherland by Larry Moore
• Looking through a Looking Glass by Jim Hutton
• The World of Exhibition Budgerigars by Gerald Binks
• Book Review: The Challenge by Royston Simpson
• It Pays to Specialize by Jim Hutton
• An Interview with Ray Podger: A Budgerigar fancier with Bird Fanciers Lung by Nigel Tonkin
• Budgerigar Identification Gallery - Page 1
• Budgerigar Identification Gallery - Page 2
• Budgerigar Identification Gallery - Page 3
• Budgerigar Identification Gallery - Page 4
• Budgerigar Identification Gallery - Page 5
• Judging Budgerigars by Gordon and Sylvia Hallam
• The Power of a Little Bird by Larry Moore
• Dedicated Fanciers - Don Havenhand by Gerald Binks
• Carol Gough interviews Nigel Tonkin
• An Interview with Ray Podger

Genetics

• Genetics and Colour Breeding for Budgerigars by Ghalib Al-Nasser
• Breeding Dark Factor Budgerigars Of Exhibition Standard by Gren Norris
• The Grey Factor and its Dominance by Gordon and Sylvia Hallam
• The Significance of Feather by Bernard Kellett
• Appreciation and Progression of the Ideal Budgerigar by Eric Peake
• The Intriguing Yellowface and Goldenface Blue Varieties Explained by Ken Gray
• The Half-sider by Dr John Pilkington
• The Origin of the Individual by Hugh Mathie
• The Problem of Poor Fertility in Budgerigars by Dr John Pilkington
• The Question of A Yellowface Albino by Dr John Pilkington
• It's all in the Genes by Gordon and Sylvia Hallam
• Genetic Inheritance has Rules - but is not an exact science by Dr John Pilkington
• A Glance at Genetics with Keith Flockhart
• Mutations in Budgerigars by Eric Peake
• Dr John Pilkington answers your questions on Genetics
  • Question 1: Why so few Dilutes?
  • Question 2: Cinnamon and Opaline genes
  • Question 3: Fallows - sex-linked?
  • Question 4: Yellowface or half-sider?
  • Question 5: Lethal gene in violet factor?
  • Question 6: Breeding expectations?
  • Question 7a - 7g: A series of questions on colour
  • Question 8: What should we do with flecked birds
  • Question 9: Lack of feather growth and early death
  • Question 10: Breeding expectations of Dilutes
  • Question 11: Decreasing fertility in a budgerigar stud
  • Question 12: The Grey Factor
  • Question 13: Dominance of the various colours and varieties
  • Question 14: Lacewing × Greygreen?
  • Question 15 - the Yellow varieties
  • Question 16 Two Recessive Varieties?
  • Question 17 The elimination of the Cinnamon factor
  • Question 18 An explanation of the Ino factor
  • Question 19 Going light
  • Question 20 Violet patches on grey bird

Links

Management and Nutrition

• Controlled Feeding System Provides Balanced Diet by John Bell
• Housing and Birdroom Management by Jeff Attwood
• Introducing New Birds Into a Budgerigar Stud by Dr John R Baker
• Build a Quality Stud by Jim Hutton
• Birdroom Hygiene by Jim Hutton
• Year-Round Feeding by Nigel Tonkin
• Practical Management by Nigel Tonkin
• Natural Conditioning by Keith Flockhart

New Zealand News Index

• News of New Zealand
• The Heron and the Budgies
• News of the Breeding Season in New Zealand
• The Show seaons begins

Noonan Aviary

• Everyday Life in the Noonan Aviary
• Changes in the Noonan Aviary
• Basic Information about Starting to Breed Budgerigars
• Show Preparation in the Noonan Aviary
• A Cautionary Tale
• Changes in the Noonan Aviary
• The End of the Breeding Season
• How it all Began
• Impressions of the 1999 All-American BS Show
• Setting up a Garden Aviary
• Back from the Dead
• A Word on Line Breeding
• Weaning your Budgerigar Chicks
• Budgerigars and the Internet
• How it all ended
• Useful information - Part I
• Useful information - Part II

Popular Varieties

• Light Greens and Skyblues by Brian Byles
• GreyGreens by Brian Byles
• Opalines by Brian Byles
• Cinnamons by Brian Byles
• Dark Greens and Cobalts by Brian Byles
• Recessive Pieds by Brian Byles
• Dominant Pieds by Brian Byles

Rare Varieties

• The Lacewing by Colin Putt
• The Greywing by Daemonn A Mullee
• The Saddleback by Ghalib Al-Nasser
• Dark-eyed Clears by Ghalib Al-Nasser
• Rainbows by Ken Gray
• Keeping Rares in an Exhibition Stud by Tony Clegg
• The Revival of the Faded by Mark Goodsell
• The "Mottled" Budgerigar
• Breeding with Lacewings
• Future Mutations
• The Future Whitefaced Greens
• Rare Budgerigar Varieties - Greywings

Clearbodies

• Australian Clearbodies by Ken Yorke
• The Clearbody by Kevin Eatwell
• Clearbodies by Jim Hutton
• Successful Beginning with Clearbodies
• Rare Budgerigar Varieties - The Clearbody

Fallows

• A Short History of the Fallow by Ray Bennett
• Fallow Budgerigars by Ken Gray

Slates

• The Slate by Daemonn A Mullee
• The Slate Mutation by Ken Gray

Mottles

• The "Mottled" Budgerigar by Ethel Dobie
• Mottled Budgerigars in America by Larry Moore
• The Mottled Budgerigar from a genetic point of view by Dr John Pilkington

Show Preparation

• Budgie Beautiful by Mick Freakley
• Show Preparation in the Noonan Aviary

Specialist Varieties

Clearwings

• Clearwings "Down Under" and "Up Top" by Ken Gray
• Whitewing Blues and Yellow-wing Greens by Malcolm Freemantle
• Where has the Body Colour Gone? by Malcolm Freemantle
• Exhibition Budgerigars - Clearwings by Brian Byles
• A series of articles for new Clearwing budgerigar breeders
  • Introduction to the Clearwing Budgerigar
  • Budgerigar Genetics
  • Budgerigar Accommodation
  • Equipment
  • Starting Up and Buying Stock
  • Food and Feeding
  • Breeding Budgerigars
  • Preparing for Exhibition
• More on Breeding Violet Whitewings by John Evans
• Death of a Variety
• Exhibition Budgerigars - Clearwings by Brian Byles
• Is the Budgerigar Society trying to ruin the Clearwing?
• Our thoughts on Clearwings by George & Keith Jones

Crests

• The Crested Budgerigar by Ghalib Al-Nasser
• Breeding Crested Budgerigars by Kevin Eatwell

Dilutes

• The White - A Challenge by Colin Putt
• Some Thoughts on the Buttercup Yellow by Ken Gray
• Rare Varieties - Dilutes

Inos

• The Albino by Tom Ormerod
• The Lutino by Ian Fordham
• Establishing a Lutino Stud by Steve Cox

Pieds

• The Recessive Pied by Geoff Capes
• Breeding Quality Recessive Pieds by Ghalib Al-Nasser
• Line Breeding with Dominant Pieds by Hector Segui and Norman Schofield
• The Dominant Pieds by Tom Ormerod
• Rare Varieties of Budgerigar - Pieds by Ghalib Al-Nasser
• Dominant Pieds by Pat & Gren Norris

Spangles

• Breeding with Spangles by Ghalib Al-Nasser
• Spangles - Our On-going Experience by Bill and Christine Heale
• Spangles - The Answers by Dr John Pilkington
• The Spangle by Nigel Tonkin
• How to Breed Winning Spangles: An Interview with Mark Bridgeman by Nigel Tonkin

Tips of the Month

• Tips - March - How to Make a hospital cage.
• Tips - April - How to make a cheap and effective air filter.
• Tips - May - How to make an additive shaker and also how to save seed.
• Tips - June - Comfort for orphan chicks.
• Tips - July - Perching with a difference.
• Tips - August - How to get rid of moth eggs and help with weaning hand-fed chicks.
• Tips - September - Things you can do with Bird seed
• Tips - October - How to make an easily cleanable rope ladder
• Tips - November - Perching
• Tips - December - A very effective Door-closer
• Tips - January - How to keep a Budgerigar's Toenails
• Tips - February - Make sure your bird is safe from disinfectants
• Tips - March - A new use for a dog preparation
• Tips - April - Easier cleaning
• Tips - May - Green food
• Tips - June - Taming your Budgie
• Tips - July - A Recipe for soft-food
• Tips - August - How to keep the water fresh

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