August 9, 201014 yr PAIR SEVEN Light green greywing hen to Dilute grey green cock COCK Here is the mother on her babies the babies Interestingly the fourth chick has plum eyes So what does that mean? Either cinnamon or recessive pied? No pied spots on the parents, is there, so it's more likely that the cock is split to cinnamon? I guess you have a wait and see situation! Edited August 12, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 9, 201014 yr Yeah............looks like the cock was hiding cinnamon Does that interfere with any of your plans? I know a lot of times I've read that some of you don't like cinnamon turning up where it doesn't belong. I just realized that a cinnamon chick from this pairing will have to be a cinnamon and greywing. You probably don't remember when I asked a long time ago if this was a possible combination, and what would it look like. Well, now we will find out!
August 9, 201014 yr Author Yeah............looks like the cock was hiding cinnamon Does that interfere with any of your plans? I know a lot of times I've read that some of you don't like cinnamon turning up where it doesn't belong. I just realized that a cinnamon chick from this pairing will have to be a cinnamon and greywing. You probably don't remember when I asked a long time ago if this was a possible combination, and what would it look like. Well, now we will find out! Cinnamon and greywing ? NO. The cock is dilute. The hen is greywing. The chick isnt greywing at all based on what I can see. Anything else we will have to wait and see. I did this pairing aiming for dilutes. Edited August 12, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 9, 201014 yr Yeah............looks like the cock was hiding cinnamon Does that interfere with any of your plans? I know a lot of times I've read that some of you don't like cinnamon turning up where it doesn't belong. I just realized that a cinnamon chick from this pairing will have to be a cinnamon and greywing. You probably don't remember when I asked a long time ago if this was a possible combination, and what would it look like. Well, now we will find out! Cinnamon and greywing ? NO. The cock is dilute. The hen is greywing. The chick isnt greywing at all based on what I can see. Anything else we will have to wait and see. I did this pairing aiming for dilutes. Sorry, I meant 'greywing' in the loosest sense of the term, not differentiating between greywing, clearwing and dilute. So, all these chicks will be either greywing/dilute or dilute/dilute, to be more specific. Did I get that right? And then if there is cinnamon thrown on top of it all, that is a separate gene. So I will still be interested to see what this chick ends up looking like. Edited August 12, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 9, 201014 yr Author PAIR THREEGREYWING TO GREYWING.........a pairing from before that yielded a very good result
August 9, 201014 yr PAIR THREEGREYWING TO GREYWING.........a pairing from before that yielded a very good result That looks like some really white down, to me. Does that meant that he cock is split to opaline?
August 9, 201014 yr Author The chick isnt greywing at all based on what I can see. Anything else we will have to wait and see.I did this pairing aiming for dilutes.Here is the chick with plum eyesThat looks like some really white down, to me. Does that meant that he cock is split to opaline?No its normal for greywings
August 9, 201014 yr The chick isnt greywing at all based on what I can see. Anything else we will have to wait and see.I did this pairing aiming for dilutes.Here is the chick with plum eyes That looks like some really white down, to me. Does that meant that the cock is split to opaline?No its normal for greywings Normal for greywings? That is something very useful for me to learn! That could explain why I thought I had all opaline hens in my nests last winter, because I had so many "greywings" (well, or clearwings or diltues ) and I kept seeing white down everywhere. To the point where I just decided that I must not know the difference between white down and grey down. (I really did feel kind of stupid about it.) So maybe I really was seeing white down. Oh, and with the plum eyed chick, do their eyes stay plum, or is it just when they are first born?
August 9, 201014 yr Author Normal for greywings? That is something very useful for me to learn! That could explain why I thought I had all opaline hens in my nests last winter, because I had so many "greywings" (well, or clearwings or diltues ) and I kept seeing white down everywhere. To the point where I just decided that I must not know the difference between white down and grey down. (I really did feel kind of stupid about it.) So maybe I really was seeing white down. Oh, and with the plum eyed chick, do their eyes stay plum, or is it just when they are first born? The plum eyed chicks eyes right now are very easily seen still as plum. I will try for a photo Here is a greywing chick from before ( full sister to the new one ) note down colour Edited August 9, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 9, 201014 yr The plum eyed chicks eyes right now are very easily seen still as plum. I will try for a photo Cool, I will look for photos next time I log on. It looks like you and I are the only ones on the forum, right now, but I have to log off now and go get some chores done. Thanks for answering all my questions. I'ts been nice to chat with someone in 'real time'!
August 10, 201014 yr Author The plum eyed chick ( guess the plum eyes dont show well in these photos ) others in that nestbox we have seems to be two dilutes and one greywing
August 11, 201014 yr Is this the plum eyed one in the front? I can almost believe I can see a difference, but I think I must be imagining it. Also, looking at the cere shot in the prior post, is it a hen?
August 12, 201014 yr Author Is this the plum eyed one in the front? I can almost believe I can see a difference, but I think I must be imagining it. Also, looking at the cere shot in the prior post, is it a hen? Seems to be a hen :party0011: There is activity on the aviary ( but I think this pair is brother and sister :happy-dancing: I will have to check ) Edited August 12, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 13, 201014 yr Author New Pairing Opaline spangle hen cinnamon grey cock PAIR ONEDommie pied hen bred by Carl Alder and Green Cock bred by Rob Dunstan ( cocks father Gazzard bred bird..and this cock was selected for the nationals ) broke up the dommie pied hen and cock as the hen laid one egg only and then stopped. PAIR SEVENLight green greywing to Dilute grey green cockCOCK Two hatched today. Another one hatched today. That's three chicks in two days :glare:Here is the mother on her babies Seems the results are two possible dilutes and two greywings. I have based this on body colour feathers coming through. Edited August 13, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 13, 201014 yr cinnamon grey cock This guy looks familiar. Is he famous from another post? Maybe from when he was hatched or just bought, and we all said he was special? :angel: Who is that masked man?
August 13, 201014 yr Author cinnamon grey cock This guy looks familiar. Is he famous from another post? Maybe from when he was hatched or just bought, and we all said he was special? :angel: Who is that masked man? He recently won me Reserve Best in Show and Best Intermediate :doh: He is one of Omelette's sons.
August 14, 201014 yr Author Another pairing I hadnt mentioned were on their second clutch..............greywing pairing. The hen decided she didnt want to sit on eggs anymore so smashed them all up, half developed chicks included...........so she went back into the aviary. There was an olive greywing in the aviary and he had paired up with Spice a couple of weeks ago and they were still together so I paired them up so I can get some good greywing splits. They took the former breeding cage of the rampant raging hen who tore up her eggs. Edited August 14, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 14, 201014 yr Author Some dommie pied babies in a nestbox. Two definite hens looks like. Third and youngest may be a cock. Ino sibling to my miracle chick was euthenased today. It had some serious bone development issues and it wasnt being fed as well as the other.
August 14, 201014 yr Awww! That chick in the first picture is soooo cute! I am very sorry you lost the miracle chick's sibling. It was a great pity about the rampant hen destroying her nest. I hope all your other babies do well and their parents behave themselves.
August 16, 201014 yr Author More nestbox pictures The greywing to dilute nest another greywing nest dom pied nest and others and this poor baby has a ruptured blood vessel in it's nostril ( I will keep an eye on it )
August 17, 201014 yr Author I like surprises Finding out that two grey greens who have three dommie pied babies in the nest, are split BLUE The greywing chicks are starting to get real spiky with lots of feather Edited August 17, 201014 yr by KAZ
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