The pied chicks arent all that big, but all three may be hens. The mother wasnt feeding all that well so one chick was moved out of the nest and now she has just two to care for.

Parents are now a little mystery and seem to be carrying dark factor and split blue.

one pied is either cobalt or violet.

 

Colour showing on the blue is less inaccurate in the second photo

 

One is dark green or a violet green ? The colour coming through on the green pied resembles a dark forest green colour.

 

 

The other chick is grey pied.

 

Parents

 

 

 

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.

 

This chick on the other hand is quite large and a hen

 

Edited August 23, 201014 yr by KAZ

PAIR SIX GREY SPANGLE COCK ( Omelettes and his first breeding ) to FRAN MC LAUGHGLAN SKY HEN Hen ( Old photo )

 

 

 

 

The sole surviving chick from this pair ( due to cold eggs and fostering cold eggs out......an opaline grey hen chick ...is coming out really nice, I think.

 

 

 

 

 

four fertile eggs to that pair this time and due to hatch the first anyday now

 

and the greywing dilute nest chicks are doing well

 

Chick #1

 

 

Chick #2

 

 

Chick # 3

 

Chick # 4

Edited August 24, 201014 yr by KAZ

Chick # 4

 

So this one is the plum-eyed baby, right? And she is both dilute and cinnamon? It seems like the dilute must mask any effect of the cinnamon. So if you hadn't noticed her plum eyes when she hatched, no one would suspect she was cinnamon, would they? I guess that's good to know for when you breed her, so you can track where she sends the cinnamon gene.

Chick # 4

 

So this one is the plum-eyed baby, right? And she is both dilute and cinnamon? It seems like the dilute must mask any effect of the cinnamon. So if you hadn't noticed her plum eyes when she hatched, no one would suspect she was cinnamon, would they? I guess that's good to know for when you breed her, so you can track where she sends the cinnamon gene.

 

She isnt cinnamon as far as I can tell, but I will get someone to look at the bird as it grows.

PAIR FOUR

dilute dom pied hen and greywing green cock ( second round )

 

 

The hen gave up on incubating the second round so they were put back in the aviary. The hen has spent the past week breaking back into the breeding room from the aviary

Anyway, one of her abandoned eggs hatched in another nest.....a foster nest. Chick is a very pretty skyblue greywing dominant pied.

The skyblue greywing dominant pied

 

 

 

 

shares the nest with yet another foster so seemingly gets less food than this big hen

 

Edited August 25, 201014 yr by KAZ

This one is showing good protenial Kaz, the directional feather is there

Edited August 25, 201014 yr by splat

She is nice and she has a great temperament too.........from Omelettes line ( grand daughter )

Two chicks from the greywing to dilute nest

 

 

are out of the nestbox today...both cocks.

 

 

 

 

Two still in the box

Had to move the greywing dommie pied out of the nest with the large grey hen chick as the larger chick is getting most of the food.

 

 

 

 

so the dommie pied greywing went into the nestbox with two other dommie pieds in it

 

 

 

Edited August 27, 201014 yr by KAZ

More photos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These chicks from a spangle greying to greywing pairing

 

 

one definite greywing amongst the chicks others are spangles

Real parents of this baby ( still in nest )

 

 

 

 

.....had four eggs in second round. First chick hatched with yellowbelly and died almost straight away.

 

 

Then I saw a dead in shell egg so tossed that. Two eggs to go.

Three out now from the greywing nestbox and one left in the box.

First two

 

 

 

and third with dad

 

Awww..... some of those pics are definately BOM winners. I'm sorry to hear of the DIS and yellow belly, hopefully things will be good with the other eggs.

Real parents of this baby ( still in nest )

 

 

 

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmm! Magnificent.

PAIR EIGHT Sky hen to sky dominant pied cock

 

 

First chick hatched in this nest but there is a foster egg in there as well. I did throw out two dud eggs though, so maybe this chick is hers.

 

Real parents of this baby ( still in nest )

 

 

 

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmm! Magnificent.

 

and out of the nest finally

 

 

 

 

 

 

More chicks :laughter:

a bunch of pieds

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 30, 201014 yr by KAZ

That grey baby is a stunner :laughter:

That grey baby is a stunner :laughter:

Decent size too which is good.

WOW awesome chicks love the colours the dilutes......

love the babies, keep the pics coming

dilute and greywing babies..........all out of the nestbox and all eating well.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 30, 201014 yr by KAZ

PAIR SIX GREY SPANGLE COCK ( Omelettes and his first breeding ) to FRAN MC LAUGHLAN SKY HEN Hen ( Old photo )

 

 

Parents to the grey opaline baby that hatched from the cold egg and was fostered in another nest.........

 

 

...........have hatched out a sibling today. Fingers crossed it does well. One egg to go.

Edited August 31, 201014 yr by KAZ

This one

figured out how to escape from the breeder cage and took a few flying laps around the birdroom

 

This hen ( BOOF ) did okay for her first night out of the nestbox.

 

 

this hen

 

now has another hatchling

 

This pair

have two chicks in foster nests

 

YF chick

is the last chick cin kaz ?? the yf

is the last chick cin kaz ?? the yf

Yes Seems Dad is split cinnamon too