Finnie 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Well, I could hardly get a turn on the computer yesterday, cuz school was cancelled due to freezing rain. Plus I had a probem with Photobucket called "operator error" I accidently uploaded 30 pictures, 3 times, and into the wrong albums, so I had to spend my whole turn figuring out which 60 picture to delete! so yesterday's update is: Phoebe and Bailey have chick number 4: (I'm pretty sure that last egg is clear, so I don't expect any more in this nest.) It looks as though Finnie and Patrick have skipped hatching out egg number 7, so I think it was clear, and I expect egg number 8 to hatch today. It's time to go look, so I will update this again, later on. (And I have 30 pictures of babies to post, too! ) Link to comment
LittleBudgie2005 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,309 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 433 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 19/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 1, 2011 Birthday: 10/03/1987 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Loving the pink bums... whatch out for the age difference sometimes the older babies are food hogs... But great job... Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Thanks. So far every new little one has been well fed, but I will definitely be keeping watch! One thing I've noticed , is that all of my chicks seem to have white down! Surely that can't be. I must not be able to tell white from grey. I will be doing a search for baby pics, so I can compare other people's chicks for down color. Meanwhile, here is my morning report: Finnie and Patrick had an egg with a crack in it. It was kind of shrunken and shriveled in that spot. I noticed the crack last night, and was hoping it was about to hatch, but it didn't, so today I peeled away the shell to see what I could see. My first ever dead in shell chick. I could tell it had been dead, and it wasn't me that killed it, so I'm glad I opened it. Just looked really tiny, but normal, as far as I could tell. Laid it to rest in the trash, on a bed of discarded seed. I don't mind losing the ones that never hatched. I just hope all my pink hatchlings turn out okay. Now for some of yesterday's bucketload of photos. Finnie and Patrick's nest: FP#1 This kind of looks boy-like in the cere, doesn't it? That means it must have grey down. What do you experts think? FP#2 (I'm thinking hen) FP#3 (No pics of phoebe and bailey's, cuz they were still too little.) Colleen and Sean's nest: CS#1 I know I had pics of CS # 2-6, but now Ii don't know where they are. Probably deleted those from Photobucket. Well, I know they are still in my home computer files, so if they are worth uploading to photobucket, I'll do that later. As far as opaline and white down is concerned, The only way I will get any opaline's from Patrick and Finnie is if Patrick is /opaline. So I don't expect them to have 100% opaline hen chicks, even though stranger things have happened. so I will keep waiting and watching, and learning. Link to comment
defieldsfamily 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,648 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 327 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Such GORGEOUS little chicks!!! Sorry about the one who didn't make it . Our first ever chick died while trying to hatch so when the next one was hatching I sort of helped it along I was so scared of losing her too! She's happy and healthy at months now but I wouldn't do that again...toooooo risky! How many chicks do you have right now in total? Link to comment
Amy S 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,666 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 601 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 3,375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 15/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 1, 2022 Birthday: 23/04/1982 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Ohhhhh they are SO CUTE!!!! I love when they're at that stage Your photos are brilliant! And your babies are wonderful, congrats! Sorry about the unhatched pinkie though Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Thanks, guys! There were a total of 21 eggs layed. 1 was clear (so far) and 1 DIS, and there are 2 left to hatch out still in Finnie's box. So that leaves...16 hatchlings at this point. Double checking...7 for Colleen, 4 for Phoebe, 6 for Finnie. See, it's a good thing to double check. I guess I have 17 chicks! (I have it all written down on notecards, too, in case I forget.) I got some more pics of Colleen's oldest this afternoon. I could swear this chick is greywing! That is a surprise, both parents must be split for it, then. Also, can anybody see whether this chick looks opaline or not? I twisted the lamp away, to reduce glare, and I still think the cere says hen. But it depends on the opaline part. Link to comment
defieldsfamily 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,648 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 327 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2010 This chick does look greywing but I think normal not opaline by the grey down...more experienced folks could probably tell you more! Gorgeous! Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 22, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Well, after doing a search, and reading all the info on the baby opaline post, I think that what I'm seeing as white isn't necessarily really white. It seems that grey down babies have white "down-pins", but the down isn't really white when it comes in. I will have to watch mine as they develop. Definitely a learning experience. DF, I could see CS#1 being a boy, if that is the case. Time will tell. Link to comment
renee 0 Posted January 23, 2010 Member ID: 4,388 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,462 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 13,420 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/05/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 28, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Congratulations Finnie! Your chickies look gorgeous! Yes, the first one does look like a Greywing but I'll leave it to the mutation/variety experts as I don't usually venture a guess till Week 3. Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted January 23, 2010 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Check out my greywing topic and see how the skyble greywings looked as chickies....it will help you ID yours. Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 23, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Check out my greywing topic and see how the skyble greywings looked as chickies....it will help you ID yours. That was a big help, Kaz. I think he's definitely greywing, and after looking at all those normal down baby pics, I think I was just assuming grey down was a lot darker grey. My guy is probably not opaline, after all. Hopefully as more of the seven feather up, I will be able to get a good comparison of white vs grey down. I guess for opaline, I am going to start looking for a much brighter white. At this point, all my chick's down seems the same, and I think it would be just as unusual to have 7 boys as 7 girls, so sooner or later, I'm sure I'll notice somebody in there looking different. I can really appreciate all the time you spend posting pictures, Kaz. Do you know of some way to post them in bulk, because it gets time-consuming, doesn't it? But I'm glad they were there. Thank you, Kaz! Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Today I decided to focus on Finnie's clutch for a change. Here are the photos: FP#1 Interesting how the two primary flight feathers are different colors. FP#2 FP#3 Patrick appears to be split to blue! Yay! FP#4 And one shot of Colleen's whole group: Link to comment
Ratzy 0 Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 5,628 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 77 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,283 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8,095 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 30/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 22, 2012 Birthday: 26/03/1998 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Awww sweet. They are so cute!! Link to comment
Amy S 0 Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 5,666 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 601 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 3,375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 15/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 1, 2022 Birthday: 23/04/1982 Share Posted January 25, 2010 They are gorgeous Finnie! Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Thank you. Oh, and I've started seeing the difference between darker down and lighter down. Link to comment
Ratzy 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 5,628 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 77 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,283 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8,095 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 30/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 22, 2012 Birthday: 26/03/1998 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Awwww. Link to comment
splat 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 3,340 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 202 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,891 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 27,770 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 17/04/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 19, 2014 Birthday: 13/05/1958 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Aren't they sweet little jelly beans soooo cute Link to comment
renee 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 4,388 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,462 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 13,420 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/05/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 28, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Today I decided to focus on Finnie's clutch for a change. Here are the photos: FP#1 Interesting how the two primary flight feathers are different colors. FP#2 Finnie the chicks are lovely ~ Well Done! I don't know if you know it already but these ones look like Dominant Clearflighted Pieds to me. Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 27, 2010 I always figured Patrick, the father, was a regualr dom pied. Here is a good shot of his back, he's the yellow one, for anyone who didn't already know that. So is it possible that he is actually clearflight pied? The mother, Finnie, is normal, no pied at all, and I doubt if she's split to recessive pied, cuz she has no pied spot on her head. So that means the chicks can't be a combo pied, right? Only dom pied or clearflight split to normal, if I am correct. Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted January 27, 2010 So is it possible that he is actually clearflight pied? Hard to say since his flights have been clipped ? Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 27, 2010 Oh yeah, I forgot about the clipped wings there. They have since grown back in, and they are a pale yellow color. Lighter than the rest of his yellow parts, but not white. I'll look around for a picture that shows them. Link to comment
Ratzy 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 5,628 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 77 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,283 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8,095 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 30/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 22, 2012 Birthday: 26/03/1998 Share Posted January 27, 2010 All your budgies are so pretty, Finnie. Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted January 27, 2010 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Oh yeah, I forgot about the clipped wings there. They have since grown back in, and they are a pale yellow color. Lighter than the rest of his yellow parts, but not white. I'll look around for a picture that shows them. In a yellow bird the flights would be white if a clearflighted pied wouldnt it ? Like this boy I once had Bubblegum Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 28, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 Oh yeah, I forgot about the clipped wings there. They have since grown back in, and they are a pale yellow color. Lighter than the rest of his yellow parts, but not white. I'll look around for a picture that shows them. In a yellow bird the flights would be white if a clearflighted pied wouldnt it ? Like this boy I once had Bubblegum Well, Bubblegum's markings look very much like Patrick's, so I will try to get some shots of Patrick's flights this morning after I "wake" them up. LOL Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 28, 2010 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 Well, I couldn't get Patrick to "hold still" this morning, so please excuse the adult nature of the photo. Even though it's blurry, you can get the idea that there is yellow in his flight feathers! (I wasn't really planning to let these pairs go a second round. Colleen and Sean are looking the worse for the wear, so any eggs they lay will be tossed, but maybe I will reconsider for Patrick and Finnie. :question: ) Here is a picture of Colleen and Sean's oldest. He decided to come out of the nest box yesterday morning. I put him back in, and he hasn't come out again, but I made an ice cream carton igloo for him just in case. I don't think our American cardboard cartons work as well as your Australian plastic ones! But it is okay for now. I put some oatmeal and seed mix in the bottom of it for bedding/eating practice. Link to comment
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