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I'm sorry to hear about your loss after trying so hard to save them. :dbb1: I a also agree with Kas and Kathy.

Yeh Im looking at an upgrade too. Kas yours sound great.

That's a great post Kas, :ausb: My first year of breeding I found a cold one and was about to dispose of it when Greg told me to cup it in my hands and blow warm air on it. WOW it worked. I have save a quite a few like that since, mainly last breeding season, Have saved 2 this year. I was angry with one hen because I found one ice cold and I held it and breathed warm air for ages, then yep it starting wiggling, never ceases to amaze me but I put it back in the nest and everything was good till the next day, it was going fine in the morning but by late afternoon it was dead, it had a full crop so not sure what happened, it wasn't flattened but the head was white and the body was still pink weird, mayby it something wrong withit. :dbb1:

Gee now it looks like a grey green cinnamon as I first thought not a spangle. The 2 spangles, did you say father and son, if that's the case and the mother is normal and the father is split for cinnamon you have 25% chance of the son being split also. I think that's right.

Me too :dbb1:

Wow Daz, you are doing a great job.

Real nice birds there Bea

Yep ya sure can Daz, :ausb: that's a nice bird that light green one. :dbb1:

Well Libby it is a spangle for sure, :ausb: I evevn got Greg on the site the other night and he won't normally go near a computer :dbb1: but I begged him any way said spangle. We need more pics to see if it's cinn or not, or grey green.

I put a piece of 2x1 pine onto the removable concave floor for them to chew, and they really go for it too.

Yes that's right Daz, both cinn and opaline are popping up every where here, nearly all cock birds that we have bought seem to be split for one or both. I only ever bought one cinn hen and now I have heaps and the same goes for opline.

When I started out, I had everything, dominant Pied, Recessive Pied, Albino, Lutino normal, spangle, Well now all I have is normal with of course the cinn and opaline, spangle and Dominant Pied and yellow face. I am finding yellow face a pain in the bum lately because it can mask behind the green and then it just pops up everywhere. But yellow face is Dominant also. A breeder told me for a beginner you shouldn't try to have yo many types and to focus on a couple and that the dominant varieties are easier. Because you get what you see where's recessive you can't see it but it is there. Meaning it will show but dominant you ever get or you don't. Gee I don't know whether I have made a lot of sense with this. But my point is keep it simple

Thanks Guys, keep you all informed

Thanks guys, after reading Macka's comment, I went straight out to the flight and cut off all threads. So now they are all safe, will keep an eye out for any new ones that appear,

I have a sky blue cock split for albino that I bred last year and I have put him with a yellow face grey hen. I could if lucky get a Yellow face albino This is how it goes Sex linked 1. Normal cock x ino hen - 50% normal split ino cocks & 50% normal hens 2. Ino cock x normal hen - 50% normal split ino cocks & 50% ino hens. 3. Ino cock x ino hen - 100% ino cocks and hens 4. normal split to ino x normal hen - 25% normal split to ino cocks, 25% normal hens 25% ino hens 25% normal cocks 5.normal split ino x ino hen - 25% normal split to ino cocks 25% ino cocks 25% normal hens 25% ino hens I hope this helps Neat.

:(Laughing out loud): that's funny Kathy

Is the father split for albino or lutino? that's right hens will be ino and cocks will be split.

Here's another one, had my thinking cap on and my head hurts now, (Laughing out loud) "Hey! Guys here comes some chicks quick look ya best."

Neat maybe one of the parents is split for cinnamon, if so the red eyes will go black looking soon about 8 days onwards.

Luenet

No Daz, I took over some droppings off the ones that look a bit iffy and some off the ones in the flight and still nothing conclusive. Needs a dead one for the autopsy but I am not going to sacrafice one yet till I know for sure it is going to die. So he wants me to continue with the trimidine treatmeant. Then another test if still showing signs of illness. At the moment they are on there 3 day break and I start again tomorrow for another 5 days. That must be the cycle for the coccidiosis. :ausb:

UPDATE REPORT: Birds are looking good at this stage, there are about 4 that look iffy, but it is hard to tell because they are going through their 1st molt and it is hard on them, I don't remember the babies looking this bad last year. Any way I should know what's going on by the end of the week end. They are still under the vets care and on Meds. :ausb: Thank you everyone for caring it has been a great help while going through this.

Kathy we are boiling the water but only for the last couple of weeks. That what Greg thought because last year all my birds got boiled water, then I got lazy and they gat tap water, but they have been doing good on the tap wayer till now, But it good be part of the problem. Thanks. :ausb: The oldest bird 001 has come good must have had a husk or something caught in his throat, that's what Greg thinks anyway, but he is perky as ever and hasn't coughed since that day. All other birds look okay, but there is still 4 that I'm not sure about, but it iis hard to tell because they are going through thier 1st molt and it looks like it's taking its toll. I should know by the week end what's going on, hopefully. they are still on meds.

I was wondering about the Macka, Iwill make changes straight away. :ausb: Thanks very much I had a baby last month got caught on the smallest bit of wire, the ring got caught, but cos we were away all day, by the time I found her, her little leg was almost cut off. :fearMacka, all threads are now chopped off

Gee that is old, you guys must really look after her well for her to get to that age. Well done