August 17, 201014 yr posably a violet their kaz or sky violet looks very very purply blue cobalty purply
August 17, 201014 yr Author posably a violet their kaz or sky violet looks very very purply blue cobalty purply Yes the blue looks very strong so far
August 18, 201014 yr Author A mystery  The eldest chick in the greywing nest of this pair ................................ PAIR THREE GREYWING TO GREYWING.........a pairing from before that yielded a very good result   seems to be a grey normal so far  so that means that one of those cold eggs from pair SIX and was fostered to the greywing nest.........has made it after all ..............and another grandchild to Omelette.  PAIR SIX  GREY SPANGLE COCK ( Omelettes and his first breeding ) to FRAN MC LAUGHGLAN SKY HEN  Hen Old photo  PAIR SIX   Hen got out of the nest last night when the first chick hatched....chick dead this morning. All eggs cold. Moved three eggs to another nest in case they will make it.    Edited August 18, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 18, 201014 yr Author The chicks from the greywing to dilute nestbox Greywings    dilute chick  Dommie pied chicks   Â
August 18, 201014 yr bet you are happy about the pieds!! I know there is a soft spot for pieds in there
August 18, 201014 yr Beautiful chicks What do the tail feathers show/mean? Â Â In this case Kaz has taken the picture to show us all the colour that the bird will be. Note the blue feathers coming through on this bird. Â Tail feathers can also tell you if the bird will be a spangle. If the two middle feathers on the tail are light in colour, not dark, then the bird will be a spangle. Â For the picture above, we know it is not a spangle, but we can see the blue feathers very clearly.
August 18, 201014 yr Author Beautiful chicks What do the tail feathers show/mean? Â In a post further back I commented on the nice surprise getting a blue out of two grey green birds .......I wasnt expecting them to be split blue
August 18, 201014 yr Author I threw out Omelettes eggs. She had eight in the end but all were infertile. The cock is a newbie and doesnt look like he got it right PAIR THREEGREYWING TO GREYWING.........a pairing from before that yielded a very good  result  This pair, as it turns out have no chicks of their own. They are raising three fosters it seems. Eldest chick is from a frozen cold egg from the grey spangle cock and his skyblue hen. Second chick looks like it may have been one fostered from my dilute dom pied hen and her greywing cock ( maybe ) and the third chick in their nest is the chick that hatched from a smashed egg ( the miracle chick ) and has been fostered to them because the original parents were raising one only chick. Edited August 18, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 18, 201014 yr In this case Kaz has taken the picture to show us all the colour that the bird will be. Note the blue feathers coming through on this bird. Tail feathers can also tell you if the bird will be a spangle. If the two middle feathers on the tail are light in colour, not dark, then the bird will be a spangle.  For the picture above, we know it is not a spangle, but we can see the blue feathers very clearly. Thanks for explaining. I learnt something else new today And the little blue chick was a nice surprise .
August 19, 201014 yr Author Some more pictures        and SPICE taking orders from a greywing cock :sad: Â
August 20, 201014 yr Author  dilute or greywing dom pied chick        Edited August 20, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 22, 201014 yr Author PAIR SIX  GREY SPANGLE COCK ( Omelettes and his first breeding ) to FRAN MC LAUGHGLAN SKY HEN  Hen Old photo   Five eggs and four showing fertile  Hen got out of the nest last night when the first chick hatched....chick dead this morning. All eggs cold. Moved three eggs to another nest in case they will make it.  One chick made it from the ice cold eggs ...............in a foster nest.......this chick      and there seems to be 4 fertile eggs or more in the parents second round.
August 22, 201014 yr Author you are breeding some top hens at the moment. All bodes well for the future. 95% of the last batch of babies were cocks, but now we are seeing hens coming through in the nests. Very good  Some more pictures Greywing dominant pied  Cobalt ? dom pied   From YF sky cocck and cinn opaline grey hen   Greywing spangle hen to greywing cock   a grey chick
August 22, 201014 yr From YF sky cocck and cinn opaline grey hen  How old is the chick on the right Kaz?
August 22, 201014 yr Author From YF sky cocck and cinn opaline grey hen  How old is the chick on the right Kaz? Cant tell you right now as its dark and the records are down in the breeding room. Chicks are also in a foster nest.  PS notice one chick looks like it is hugging the other one Edited August 22, 201014 yr by KAZ
August 22, 201014 yr From YF sky cocck and cinn opaline grey hen How old is the chick on the right Kaz?Cant tell you right now as its dark and the records are down in the breeding room. Chicks are also in a foster nest.PS notice one chick looks like it is hugging the other one That's okay, I can wait till tommorrow. Aww cute, I only just noticed that PAIR FIVEyf skyblue cock to cinnamon grey opaline henFirst chick hatched today and is cinnamon. There are foster eggs in that nest too though so will have to wait and see if its their chick or not once it feathers up. If its the same chick, that would make it 16 days old
August 22, 201014 yr Author From YF sky cocck and cinn opaline grey hen How old is the chick on the right Kaz?Cant tell you right now as its dark and the records are down in the breeding room. Chicks are also in a foster nest.PS notice one chick looks like it is hugging the other one That's okay, I can wait till tommorrow. Aww cute, I only just noticed that PAIR FIVEyf skyblue cock to cinnamon grey opaline henFirst chick hatched today and is cinnamon. There are foster eggs in that nest too though so will have to wait and see if its their chick or not once it feathers up. If its the same chick, that would make it 16 days old Good on you ...............yes its the same chick
August 22, 201014 yr Author PAIR FOURdilute dom pied hen and greywing green cock ( second round ) Â Â That pair had six eggs but the hen just sat and looked at them. I transferred some eggs to another nestbox and got one chick out of it Â
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