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Oh exciting, you might get a violet spangle or two, they are very pretty. :sadsorry:

:yes: I rang about my car this morning and :yes: the motor is in they are waiting for some hoses to come. he said I should have it back by the end of the day or tomorrow morning. well I didn't get it by the end of today. But tomorrow morning, can't wait But I am not looking forward to the bill though .

Very exciting for Both of you (Dave and Dustin), I still get excited when my new ones turn up :emoticon112:

Mine are uncoded this year 350-450, was to slack to put my order in :emoticon112: and then I panicked, So uncoded :gday: I am still ringing mine with 2010 rings. I have a few left.

I say male, hard hard does he bite, that's my indicater :emoticon112:

:gday: and :emoticon112: Adi Oh Paco is very cute.

Lovely pied, love the head and mask, well done Phill

Looking good Squeak, really cute at that age I think so anyway I have a clearbody hen in my nest, the other are to young to tell. This one has very pale feathers on her head so I am guessing clearbody exciting

The same boy but phot take a few months back

Cool :nest: exciting, wish you all the best with your breeding

I lost 7 chicks in one week from 3 different nest (yellow belly) so I treated the effected nest with MoxiT and no more died.

It looks like yellow belly to me, if you loose anymore treat the parents with an broadspectrum antibiotic, I use moxti T.

Her father is a light green and her mother a violet.

Thankyou very much Pete that is what I thought, so I have done the wron thing already. But that's okay at least now know and can learn from it. Can I use what I have bred now if they are anygood from the dark green hen or not.

just checked on my nest and this little chcik is thriving and I got a huge surprise, the last iffy hens egg just hatched. I was picking up all the babies in this nest to see who needed ringing and I thought what a dead one, I could see pink flesh stuck to an egg and my heart sank but further investagation proved to a chicks head sticking out a hole in the egg, so I was delighted, I help a little chipping away the shell till it kicked itself out. So cool. I wish I had my camera with me BUT I didn't as usual. I think I have 36 new little chicks now and more to hatch. I have 7 fertile eggs in my grey opaline hen from the in may at Northcote and she is with Geoffs yellow face cinnamon cock which I think is Sheppard breeding . Not impressed over the cinnamon but happy about the yellow face 7 eggs fertile bound to get a yellow face.. I HOPE....

Thankyou Snoopy

Thanks I have read that article but it doesn't say anything about dark factor, well i don't think it does. Yes the hen is split blue as she is the a full sister to the dark green hen you have. She could be even carrying violet. I have 4 chicks with dark eyes, I can tell one is green and one I am not sure and the other 2 are only tiny and I have a lutino hen chick. She laid 9 eggs, the first 3 were fertile and then then next 4 were clear and the last 2 fertile. All ferile hatched, so 5 chicks.

The link doesn't work Gb, it said the link has broken. As for my pairing. I don't think this hen will improve much but at least she doesn't drop away from the tail. I mainly put them together because I thought he was a dud and she was th only spare hen I had. Earlier I put him with a sky blue hen from the same breeder on his advice as she is from his National winning bird and his top line but I got clear eggs, I know the hen is fertile so I thought he was useless BUT he now has 5 chicks with the dark green hen. I also I bought a lutino cock from the same breeder which is from his top Lutino line that he has won Nationals from too. He is a big bird..BUT I needed a hen. I have that lutino cock with a dark green hen and the first round they had 2 fertile eggs, but I fostered and I don't think they hatched well they hatched but they were the ones that died from yellow belly, lost 7 in a a week. They have 3 fertile now. ..HOPING So maybe I will put the clearbody to that sky hen again. My clearbody is split for ino too

RIP if you see this I am sure you can help me. When I got my clear body cock I am sure someone told me not put the dark factor into them. Like at the moment I have my (I think light green in colour) with a dark green hen, I am thinking a big mistake. Anyway my claerbody has a fair bit of green through hi body. He also drops away at the tail so I need to take that into consideration. I do not have many normal hens and I just got my albino hen back for a while but she is quite tiny. To start with I need to get rid of the green through the body so i use inos , is this right. I really want to breed the blue series so that's why I got an albino. I have looked up on google and found out about breeding clearbodies ect but i couldn't find anything on colour, like the darkfactor etc. I hope this makes sense Any help would be great. This is him, sorry bad photo in the breeding cage and Dark green hen

and Snoopy, you have some lovely birds, that last one the little pied from the other post, well that must mean that the other little clearbody is pied too not recessive

Sure is for me I love mushrooms, I have read ir all yet, I guess it would work for humans too.

Very interesting, thanks kaz and RIP

Nice fallows and splits Nubbly, I actuall like the jean chucked in she looks like a brood hen, I would love her. Good luck with breeding your fallows

I didn't think it was spangle but seem the hen was heavily marked I thought maybe but at the same time couldn't see the spangle markings

You might get one yet of course later on. Have to see how they moultout remember. There is one with a spikey hair do and I find that is a good sign, but I am worried their look a bit narrow But it is only early days. Rats! Greg had the bathroom vanity unit replaced the other day and his mate the plumber did the work and his payment is 1/2 dozen budgies. BUT wait a minute these budgies are mine and the house is Gregs , how does that work. Anyway I told Steve I don't have any for a while but he is not in any hurry thank god. BUT I told Greg he has to pay me for them. so far i don't have any culls