Dave_McMinn

It is amazing how fast things change. This photo was taken on the 4th of January These photos were taken today. I took these photos on my iphone. Sorry. As great as it is, the camera still leaves a bit to be desired. I will take some better pics tomorrow. And you can click on the image below to play a video Like I said, it all happens fast. I have rung the first one, and the next two will not be far away

He looks great. We would love to see other pics of your young

Check again this afternoon. I think it needs to be fed in the first 24 hours.

My guess is greywing. But then, it is very hard to tell.

Not working out who is fostered where can be a problem. Some people use markers on eggs. So far, I hae only had to foster twice. Once two eggs went to a grey opaline to grey opaline pair. The two fostered eggs hatched and produced a DF white spangle and the other one was a cobalt opaline spangle. There was no way there could be any mistakes here. As for the current breeding pairs: Cage 1: Bruticus and Albino hen - they now have 4 little chickies in there. Doubling the first clutch, with more eggs to go. If the other hatch, then fostering becomes an issue. Anyway, at least 3 are plum eyed, so they are cinnamon. Not sure on the fourth yet. Cage 2: Grey and GreyGreen Spangle - hen has checked out the nestbox and is perching outside it on a regular basis. Cage 3: Green Spangle and GreyGreen normal - sawdust inside the box has been distrubed, but no action yet. Cage 4: Cinnamon Wing Blue and Blue normal - sawdust inside the box has been distrubed, but no action yet. Cage 5: Opaline Green Dominant Pied and Cinnamon Green - sawdust inside the box has been distrubed, but no action yet.

If she is enjoying time in the aviary, that is the best news I have heard in a while.

That chick does look very large, and Mac is coming along nicely

I did not know that Roxy lived in the aviary. That is great. I am pleased she has not forgotten you. Do you plan on letting her have a clutch in the future?

Welcome to the forum. Great name, I am guessing we are going to see some sensational pictures in the future as well.

There are a whole lot of things wrong with this scenario, from putting the nestbox on the ground, to leaving the other male in the cage with the breeding pair. I am not sure what is wrong specifically, causing the babies to die, however not to be the bearer of bad news, but when you start down the wrong path, a lot of things have the potential to go wrong, leading to the loss of young ones. I am sorry the babies are not surviving and I cannot provide specific information. Hopefully someone will come on here and be more useful. I wish you the very best of luck with the remaining chick and egg.

YF2 Mauve greywing

The two fostered eggs come from a dark green to a greygreen pairing. The young are guaranteed to be green or greygreen. This pairing is a grey/blue/cinnamon/opaline to an albino masking blue. There is no way this pairing can produce green chicks. I am pretty sure that I will know who were the parents of any chicks.

Really pleased to see this little one has turned out all right.

It got my vote!!!

Two eggs were fostered into that nest from a hen that I did not allow to have a third clutch. I think the two pinker eggs may be hers. Either way, I think most the eggs in there are fertile, with cinnamon winged hens it seems - :hug:

Not sure what you want us to say? Are you asking us should you pair them up? Sure, why not. I suppose it comes down to what you want to achieve - chicks? Off you go then. As long as you are prepared for all that breeding entails, why not.

Opaline Yellow face type 2 blue spangle hen

If you look at that photo i think all the eggs around the outside are fertile, so potentially there are 6 fertile eggs.

welcome back

Nope Hang on, you are telling me what I thought? Not being rude here, but how would you know what I thought? Like I said, I always understood dominant pieds to be harlequins, and I believe that pet shops actually sold dominant pieds as harlequins. It was not until about 3 years ago that I had even heard the terms recessive and dominant pied. As we all know, there is often a lot of misinformation, misunderstanding, and even misconceptions about pieds. Seems this term is just one more of them.

Out of this photo, so far there have been three hatchings. Two have plum eyes, indicating they are cinnamon winged and female. I think the third is dark eyed. I will have to double check. It is all going good so far. Just went and checked, and it seems I was wrong. All three look to have plum eyes. This would mean that I most probably have 5 hens from 5 hatchlings with this pair.

okay, first of all, she is not a lutino, she is a yellow faced, or golden faced albino. If she was a lutino, she would be a consisten buttercup yellow, rather than a white bird that looks like the yellow has bled through the feathers. These are often called a creamino. The blue you see in the photo is because she is from a blue father, rather than a grey father, thus the blue suffusion. Secondly, the females' ceres will colour up as normal, the males will not go blue, but will remain a pinkish colour. How old is this bird? I am bad at age-ing, but i would guess at her being young, thus the cere has not changed yet. There is enough white to indicate that she is a hen in my opinion.

I always thought of harlequins as being more dominant pieds - not saying I am right, but that is how I originally understood it

Long before I was on this forum, I had never heard of the term dominant pied, but I had heard of Harlequin. A harlequin was what I now refer to as a dominant pied.

I was going to say the same thing, they need ventillation holes, but too many let in too much light I suppose. I read somewhere that too much light is not good for breeding.