Italian

They are just a color variety of the Coturnix. Same productivity as any other Coturnix. Some are large and some are small. Selective breeding takes place to get your jumbos or XL. I have these at home and are my home bred. They are very easy to care and breed. Also the males coo-tuur-nix is very pleasing to ears..

finches

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Zebra Finch Care Basic Care Zebra finches are fun and easy to have in your home.  They are a pleasure to view and their soft chirping is soothing.  Whether you want only one pair to keep you company or you want to be a breeder with many birds, Zebras are a joy. Zebra Finches originate from Australia. Zebras live in open grasslands with some bushes and trees.  They live in dry areas over most of Australia.  They live in groups and eat mostly grass seeds.  They build their nests in bushes out of grass, straw, feathers and anything else they can find.  They lay 3-6 eggs and both parents participate in raising the young.  The currently accepted taxonomic nomenclature for the Zebra is "Taeniopygia guttata castanotis". Zebra finches live to be 4-8 years of age.  I have heard of birds living to 10 and 12 years old, but I think this is rare. Males: The normal male bird has a gray upper body and wings.  The belly is white.  The beak and legs are a red-orange color.  On each side of the head is a cheek patch.  There is a 'tear drop' mark under the eye.  This is a brown/tan/fawn color commonly called orange.  The flanks/sides of the bird just below the wings, is a chestnut (orange) colored area with white dots.  The chest is black and white stripped like a zebra, hence the name zebra finch.  A truly beautiful bird! Females: The female also has a gray upper body and wings with a white belly.  The beak and legs are the same red-orange color but not as deep color, lighter.  She has a black 'tear drop' mark under the eye.  The most noticable differences between males and females are the cheek patches and the chest striping. Let’s talk about some of the aspects of keeping Zebra finches.    1) Selecting Birds    2) Location/Environment    3) Diet    4) Care    5) Housing    6) How do I catch a bird?    7) Breeding    8) Colors    9) Terms

reading cat's mind

This is not like a big blog but I am damn sure that this blog is a treat for those cat lovers. These images will help judge you to judge what is in a cat's mind. From the way of its tale you can read Its mind.

the beauty of coturnix

Texas A and M Quail are a large breed. They are the result of selectively bred quail, and are bred especially for meat production. Texas A&M quail produce a light skinned, light meat quail. It takes 8 weeks to bring them to butcher weight, which is about 10-14 oz birds.
Selectively bred by A & M Texas college for their white meat and pure white feathers.

breeding your cockatiel parakeet

Breeding your Cockatiel Parakeets:

Breeding cockatiels:- Breeding cockatiels is not a very difficult task but it requires a lot of time and care. Cockatiels can breed two to three times a year. The pairs like to live in a random cage but its OK to keep them in an avairy. Necessary conditions are light and proper items in cage.
Pet or Breeder:- One should be known to the fact first that the bird can be human's or bird's. The parakeet can either bond with a human and be pet or bond to suitable mate to breed. So a bird can be pet or a breeder, not both at time.
Breeding maturity:- Cockatiels can breed at the age of 9 to 12 months but breeding maturity is attained at the age of 15 to 20 months. Breeders usualy bond a young one with an old one so they can learn and teach.
True pairs:- One should be known that males there will be no eggs while in females there will be many of them but unfertilecockatiels having same sex can bond but can't breed. In True pairs:- One should be known that males there will be no eggs while in females there will be many of them but unfertile.
In eno and pied cockatiels or the simple ones, the female has a lining pattern on the under side of its tale feather.

Patridge(our national bird in Pakistan @chakor)

Partridges are birds in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are a non-migratory Old World group.
These are medium-sized birds, intermediate between the larger pheasants and the smaller quails. Partridges are native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Partridges are ground-nesting seed-eaters.^{[citation needed]}
According to Greek legend, the first partridge appeared when Daedalus threw his nephew, Perdix, off the sacred hill of Minerva in a fit of jealous rage. Supposedly mindful of his fall, the bird does not build its nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights and avoids high places.^[1]
Partridges appear as part of the first gift listed in the Christmas carol, "The 12 Days of Christmas". As such, "A partridge in a pear tree" is sung as the last line of each chorus.

Aggressive dog(pitbull)

Discription:The Pit Bull immediately strikes one as being a dog of power, passion and undying willingness. The brick-like head, which is especially broad between the cheeks (to house the powerful jaws), is carried upon a thickly muscled, well-defined neck. The neck runs into a deep, thick, well-sprung chest. The American Pit Bull is a very muscular, stocky, yet agile dog that is extremely strong for his size. The ears are generally cropped, though this is optional. Docked tails are not accepted by the UKC or the ADBA. The eyes are round. Both the ADBA and the UKC do not accept blue eyes or the coat color merle. The American Pitbull Registry does accept a merle coat. The teeth should form a scissors bite. Its coat is made up of thick, short, shiny hair. All colors are admissible. The tail tapers to a point.
  Height, weight

The American Pit Bull Terrier is both powerful and agile. Actual weight and height are less important than the correct proportion of weight to height.

 Height: 14 - 24 inches (35 - 60 cm)
Weight: 22 - 78 pounds (10 - 35 kg)

A very common misconception is that APBTs are muscle-bound hulks that weigh in around 85 pounds (39 kg) or more and this is generally not the majority. Most of the APBT's that are that large have been crossed with other breeds and are being called American Bullies. The general public often gets American Bullies mixed up with the American Pitbull Terriers. American Pitbull Terrier vs. American Bully
 

Budgie Parakeet Colors
What’s What, and Who’s Who!

I can remember a time when every budgie I looked at seemed to be a special, and totally random, mix of colors. However as I learnt more I realised there was a pattern to those beautiful mixes.  With a little bit of effort you too can identify the lovely budgie parakeet colors and varieties that make each of them look unique. And from there you are just a hop, skip and a jump away from being able to breed the specific ones you want! But that’s another story… for another page…

Wild Budgies

Let us start with the ancestor of all our lovely budgies, that wild budgie out on the Australian Outback. Wild budgies usually only come in one colour and one variety, but all our pet budgies colours have come from there.  Click here to find out what color wild budgies are.

Captive Budgies

So, if there are only one colour of budgie in the wild, how did we end up with so many different budgie colors in captivity? Well, in all living things the process of mutation occurs. So if a mutation occurs in the sex cell of a budgie (the cell that is past on during breeding to form the next generation) it can have an effect on the forming of the chick. Now this is likely to cause its death, as many genes are vital exactly as they are, but occasionally you get a mutation that alters something non life threatening, like the color of the feathers. And in captivity we are able to protect these birds and breed more of them, leading to much more variation than you could get in the wild.

Basic Body Colors

The best place to start learning is with the body color of your budgie. By this I mean the colour from its chest down to its vent and around under the wings. I am sure you have noticed that there are many shades of green blue and grey available, so lets start with them.
Once you have explored the body colours you may want to learn more about the many different varieties that budgies come in. The variety of a budgie effects the markings colour and position, and can alter the shade or presence of the basic body colour. This is where the truly amazing diversity of colours and patterns are produced. 

Take a look at the links above and see if you can identify your birds colour and variety.

Raising Guinea Fowl(tetri)

Like officious little men in baggy gray suits, the guinea fowl scuttle up and down our driveway. Since dawn, they've been scouring our orchard for beetles, locusts, spiders, and ticks. Now they are ready to patrol our yard and garden for ants, cockroaches, flies, wasps, termites, cutworms, grubs, and snails. The guinea fowl are relentless in their pursuit.
I can remember a time when my husband and I had no guineas. Our former flock had roosted in trees and nested on the ground where, one by one, they had fallen prey to owls and foxes. While we were guinea-less, our potato crop was denuded by potato beetles, our hibiscus hedge was decimated by locusts, and we lost several fruit trees to flat-head borers. We soon realized that our "little gray men" had given us far more than just a pleasant diversion (and occasional good eating). So we got a new crew to work our land, and I hope never to live without these little guys again.

Raising Guinea Fowl

Many people have never seen, much less heard of, guinea fowl. Visitors, on spying their first guinea, invariably ask "What is that—a turkey?" Nope, but not a bad guess. Like turkeys, guineas are Galliformes, a group encompassing all chicken-like birds. But while chickens are members of the pheasant family, turkeys and guineas each have a family of their own. Native to Africa, they are known for traveling in large, gregarious flocks. Guinea fowl were introduced into Europe by 15th century Portuguese explorers, and then arrived in North America with the early settlers. There are seven species of guinea fowl, of which the "helmeted pearl" is by far the most common, and certainly the weirdest looking, with its oddly shaped helmet, white, featherless face, bright red wattles, and gray polka-dotted feathers.
Ask those who keep guineas why they have them and you'll get a different answer every time. Chicken and turkey farmers keep them to ward off poultry-eating predators. Ranchers turn them loose to discourage rattlers and copperheads. Country dwellers like the way they gobble down disease-carrying ticks. Orchardists use them to drive off marauding birds. Farmers put them to work patrolling for row crop pests. Guineas do all this without damaging crops. Sure, they'll take the occasional peck at a cultivated plant, but they much prefer insects, weeds, and seeds.
Free-ranging guineas spend most of their days foraging. They work as a team, marching chest to chest and devouring anything they startle as they move through the grass. When they discover a special treat—a rodent, for example, or a small snake—they close ranks, circle their prey, and move in for the feast. All the while, they keep up a steady stream of whistles, chirps, and clicks, a sort of running commentary on the day's hunt.

This is me holding guinea fowl(tetri kas known in Pakistan) in my hand. They are very hard to get hold of, They start jumping and flying wildly as soon as they see you, as mine were wild.

Aseel chicks having extra powers

 These are the pics of Aseel chicks. These chicks are 2-3 weeks old. The yellow one is my home breed and the black one is a friend's breed. Aseel eggs are smaller than normal egg laying hens, So the chicks are also smaller. The Aseel chicks has more than double the weight of a normal chick according to size. These chicks are very resistive and active relatively. The males start fighting with each other as soon as their lives start.
 The yellow one is now more than  4 months old and black one died in first month of his life.

Naturally hatching chicks

Naturally hatching chicks:
Broodiness:-
It is the quality of a bird to sit and heat its eggs to hatch chicks from it. In this period the whole  behavior of the bird changes. It becomes aggressive, protective and it eats, drinks and also poops very less than usual. Mostly this kind of behavior appears in a year.
For hens:
Egg collection:-
Firstly, You have to regularly collect eggs from your cope. As, If they are not collected on time their fertility loses. The eggs should not be kept more than 2 weeks to ensure its fertility. Eggs that have to be  hatched must not be shaken a lot.
 Hen sitting on egg:-
There should be a bedding of some kind of dust like most preferably wood saw. There should be 12-18 eggs under the hen so It could take proper care of them. Hen should be removed daily by force to offer water and feed and to clean Its stomach.
Hatching:-
The chicks will hatch from 20-23 days of brooding but mostly on 21st day for hens. In this process hen could get lice so she should be given anti-lice powder in his feather and after brooding this process could be repated. For more natural way, a dust bath in  the remaining of fire.



Note:-This process is very intrusting but takes a lot of care.

Pricess of hens

Aseel Hens some of last broody hens:
 As far I see Aseel hens are the some of those breed's queens that can hatch their own eggs on their own. These are those princes of Aseel breed that have the rare ability to brood among the vast chains of fancy and agricultural breeds of hen in now a modern age. The Aseel breed is known for its massive aggression and  this aggression is continued by their blood and is on Its peak when a hen is broody.The hen starts laying at the age of 6-8 months. In our area(Pakistan), Most of the pure breed hens lay 6-8 eggs and then go to the state of broodiness.
Other breeds that go broody:

• Cochins
• Buff Orpingtons
• Light Brahmas
• Dark Cornish
• Buff Rocks

Bird Toys

The Importance of Parrot Toys

Parrot toys are more than just play-things. Different types of toys serve different physical and emotional needs for your little feather fluff.

Snuggle Toys: Soft materials, plush toys, or corner snuggies are like blankies to baby birds and gives them something to snuggle when you are unavailable. Bonus points if it’s machine washable for easy clean-up.

Chew toys: Parrots need to chew on things because their beaks never stop growing. A healthy parrot will chew his beak down on toys (wood, leather, rawhide, rope, etc.) and you won’t have to worry about it. If a parrot does not have enough things to chew on it will start to chew on YOUR things, and as a bonus the poor birdy’s beak might get overgrown and then you have to take a file to it and it’s better to just not go down that road. It can be frustrating buying these toys because inevitably they just get destroyed and they aren’t inexpensive, but I like to think of them as Destruction Distractions. I subdivide chew toys into Quick Wins and Long Hauls.
Quick Wins: Chew toys that will be destroyed within an hour or two at most but are of high interest. This is kind of terrible parenting 101 but sometimes I need Choco to shut up while I do something, so I give him Quick Wins. The key here is not to give the same ones out too often or they won’t be of interest anymore. Sometimes I use cheap or on sale small bird toys for this purpose but I also frequently use garbage. The occasional plastic soda top will entertain Choco for 15 – 30 minutes and an empty lip balm container is like a magical free hour of silence. I usually pull out the ‘guts’ and then stuff the empty tube with treats, but Choco is often more interested in the toy than the treat. If you’re using garbage, make sure it’s non-toxic and thoroughly cleaned.

dogs

These are some pics of dogs of different breeds. They all are special in one or another way. These  pictures were taken  in 2012 at the Pet show of PGC  where I study. This show was held at sports complex Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. It was a great pleasure to attend this show.