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Budgies? I'm thinking small!

BUDGERIGARS

IT IS A little while since I wrote something for the paper and I am pleased to report that I still have my colour budgies! They are good fun and over the winter I had the hard job of trying to get the numbers down so that I only had a few pairs for breeding.

With colour budgies it is very easy to haveI could pair: a normal green hen and a cobalt cock bird; a lutino hen paired to an albino cock; and a violet cock bird to a cobalt hen. With these pairs I am hoping to breed some very small birds plus some colours that I really like, which are violets and inos.

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