At last, my Fischer now lays its first 3 eggs!

For more than 7 months of waiting, finally my Fischer have now her first 3 eggs!

Lots of lots and farmland for sale!

There are lots of lots and farmland for sale while searching for a farm lot for my own.
Mostly cheap price per square meter but a buyer is required to purchase the entire hectares of land.

Scheduled again to farmland

On Wednesday after getting the car from the shop, I need to go back again to check for farmland for sale.
As informed, there is an available lot beside the road which cost 80 pesos per square meters in Castillejos.

Update May 20, 2011: 

The 631 sq.m. parcel of farmlot is worth 45,000 pesos  (1,047 USD) . Since this is a part of the mother titled land, the document available is only a tax declaration property. Jackfruit tree and banana trees are in the frontyard. Currently the nipa hut is being rented by a construction worker of Hanjen- the biggest korean shipbuilding company in the Philippines. I am still coordinating with the agent of this lot for further verification.

 

Update:  No more information from the agent.

Anticipating for another breeding

Another pair of lovebirds is breeding. This time I promise, I will no longer disturb their nests.

I'm selling my house & lot

I have already posted my Ad for my house and lot for sale for 2.3 million pesos. Few had already inquired through email. It seems to me they are just agents or brokers, not the actual buyers.
The proceeds will be used for buying a bigger farm lot and a new and better 700 sq.m. house currently on sale for about 28,000 USD at Castillejos.

budgie's embryo's heart's beating!

After 5 days inside the home-made incubator, I could see streak of blood inside the egg. I thought it was a ring of blood of a dead embryo, but when I happened to video-document the matter, I was surprised to see the beating heart of the budgie's embryo.

The egg candling was done by using a flashlight, diskette film to separate the light and a bulb reflector as the holder of the egg.

 This egg was the only one saved out of the 3. The rest were broken by the parent because I touched and changed the nest box beddings.

Photo:

Video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJJm4UTBQg

May 16, 2011 UPDATE: Unfortunately the egg did not fully developed. After 15 days, I did not see any heart beat anymore and I noticed that much fluid were inside the egg, instead of solid particle. I think this failure was due to unregulated temperature and frequent egg handling.

One budgie egg is incubated

Of the 3 eggs laid, 1 were at the bottom of the cage broken, 1 was taken out from the next box and was broken also, 1 left dashed at the corner of the next box which was transferred then to a home-made incubator.
This incubator was made from an old ice box-installed with a digital thermometer, with a CPU fan powered by a 6 DC voltage which is paralleled to the 6 volts spot (halogen) light. A glass of water was also put inside the ice box to provide humidity anyway. I don't have an instrument to measure the humidity as of now. The temperature read only 35.6 degree Celsius, so I put the adaptor of the spotlight inside the box to increase the temperature since it also emits heat. Only then I got the perfect temperature of 36.8 degrees.
Again this is just an experiment.

Another broken budgie egg

Yesterday night I changed and transferred the couple budgies to a separate cage. I had prepared a better recessed bottom nest box. The 2 eggs where transferred without the sight of the birds since I turned the lights, and uses a leaf to touch and transfer the the eggs.
This afternoon, I saw another egg broken and empty at the bottom of the cage. I'm not sure whether  it's the 2nd egg or the 4th egg that was broken since I hadn't checked yet the numbers of eggs inside the box. It could be the 2nd or the 3rd egg that which empty shell was taken out by the hen.

2nd and 3rd egg has just come out!

Expectedly after the first broken egg, 2 eggs have just come out. I just hope that all will be hatched since the bottom of the nest box doesn't have enough beddings and the surface is leveled plain.

Photo :  ( 2 eggs in the nest box:  soon)

Planning to buy a motorcycle

I think I will buy a motorcycle for myself.

The first broken egg of my budgie

One morning after six months of rearing several budgies, I just saw one egg lying at the bottom of the cage-it was broken and empty.  The cage has a nest box, I wonder why the bird did not lay inside the box.
Photos: (soon)

At the farm land near Aetas community

I was back again to the vast farm lands, this time at the nearby areas where native community of Aetas live.
Photos/ Videos: soon to be posted.