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I made them bigger but they just looked HUGE on the screen! When the kiddies get back from the Vet tomorrow I will see if I can get better photo's and I will post them at the right size. Thanks Kaz! Im sure that when AV reads this I will get the ALL the Blame!!!!! As long as she is still will to take me along to her bird club meeting I can handle that!

Okay so yesterday I ducked over to meet AV and have alook at her fantastic set-up and just chat birdies a bit! Now AV lives about 3 minutes drive from my all time favorite pet shop, which my other half had banned me from!!!, Now my partner new that I was heading over that way and didnt tell me NOT to go into the shop, so I asked AV what time it shut, her response was "fiveish I think, want to go have alook" she then grabbed my arm and twisted it really hard (only kidding, sorry AV) Anyway I walked in and went all to pieces, there was a great looking grey green cock, who was all puffed up, great bog looking throat spots, oh he was so pretty! Well lets just say AV got in first (insert jealous lloking smiley here) I look alittle bit more and I see this great looking Grey opaline Cock, clear forehead, nice size throat spots, fairly clean saddle who stands proud and has okay length! Done dibs on him! I couldnt walk out of there with a solo male, as i like to keep the male to female ratio even, everything in pairs. I then find a grey hen, she has great size, good length clear mask, head not brilliant but with the right breeding she would throw some very nice looking babies, got alittle confused though as on her left side she has white flight feathers, but grey on her right, she also has two white feathers on the back of her head, but apart from that she looks like a grey normal! Does the white wing and dot on the back mean that she may be split dominant pied or is she just a poorly coloured dominant pied? Anyway I now have another pair, but mum's the word, the other half still hasnt noticed!!!! Here are some bad shots, he loves the camera, she hates it. I will get some better shots when they are setteled abit more, and not coupled up in quaritine! Cock: You can see the white dot on the back of the hens head in this shot. Here is another with a bit better light Now you can see the white flight feathers in the hen now! And this is the best shot I could get of the hen at the moment, I will try for better soon Now you can all blame AV for the purchases, she is a terrible influence, oh or maybe I am on her, as she did by two as well!!!

thanks Kaz, I hope that the babies are cinnamon, that will be great, I just hope they get some of daddies size though!! Oh dont know if I like the idea of dead in shell, I hope not all of them are like that!!!!

Your photos are fine PS what colour is the babies eyes...dark black, plum coloured or red. Looks plum to me but the photos isnt the best for looking at eyes hey Kaz, thanks! I was going to ask actually, as the babies eyes are plum coloured and I have no idea what that means!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If anyone knows I would love to hear!! I will get a better picture tomorrow, due to the other egg hatching I thought it best to let mummy back in to give it the warmth it requires! By the way Ali chucked tnhe dark egg out and the baby was very very dead inside the egg stunk and all the viens inside were black, what could have caused this??

Mods I dont know how to fix this please can you delete the whole thing and I will repost with the photo's redused to the correct size, sorry again!!!!

hey guys, well yesterday one of Violets eggs finally hatched, I was so excited that I came running in to the house to tell my partner that it had hatched jumped on the bed and broke a few slats!!!!!! Then jumped off and rung AV (who by the way is a terrible influence, how do I explain two new fully feathered birds sitting in a quarintine cage) The baby has been feed well and mummy and daddy are doing a great job, egg 2 has started to hatch as of this afternoon, so I am just thrilled!I took some photo's sorry they are alittle blurry, I was shaking when I took them!Have a look at Violet and Cole's little wonder, oh I have no idea how something this size fits into the egg, I swear I dont remember them being this size!2ndand today 2ndAli's eggs still havent done a thing as yet 1 of them is a funny grey colour and when candled you can see the veins but instead of being red they are black, so I am assuming that it is a no go for some reason.I will keep you all informed and thanks again for all the support!!sorry mods I didnt realise that the photos were so huge!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your support guys, there is no way that I would take any eggs off her until well past the due date of the last one. I am very convinced of the fact that I don't know when they were laid exactly so I will wait until the September if not later, I just couldn't live with myself if I threw one out and it was still alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bought another book this morning so that will keep my mind occupied! Both mums are still doing well and the dads are feeding them regularly! When I do there seed in the mornings the boys gorge themselves on everything then fly up and feed the ladies, then fly back and go again for themselves, its the same routine in the afternoons when I redo the seed and water and greens.

thanks Norm, I have to say I seem to remember having alot more patience when I was breeding all that time ago, okay I was only 15 at the time and had other things to do like school and work,, but now my birds are my relax and destress after work! I too hope that all happens but soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ill just have to keep all crossed and maybe find a good book to take my mind off of it.

Thanks for your support, I watched a great clip on candeling that I found on one of the posts here. I candel my eggs and when I find that they are fertile that is it, well anyway I watched the clip and thought way that is interesting, so I thought okay Ill have a look and see what I can see! Well now I am totally panicked cause I dont know if what I am seeing is normal or not, and am terrified that the babies are dying in the shell, I so wish now that I didnt candel at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Neat, I think that I will be devastated if none of them hatch, I know that they are fertile, but so much can go wrong in 18 to 21 days, even then after that is scary, I have hand raised birds in the past and did a rescue op for a Rainbow lorriket, 3 months back, poor featherless little tacker was laying in the grass at the park, he survived, I bearly did, my other half was most distrute at the chewing that he was doing just before he went to the Bird sanctuary, and my office, well lets just say the IT guys thought it was hilarious!!!

Hi all eggs have been candeled from both nests, Violet Definatly only has 2 fertile and Ali has all 4 fertile, am alittle frustrated as I cannot be sure as to the due dat of any of the eggs as I missed there laying dates, I know when Violets last was layed, so can work back from there, but as for Miss Ali well hers is all just guess work, so I can only assume as to when the are due to hatch, oh how I hope that hatch, I would say that Ali is the best sitter, the eggs look full apart from the air sack, so all I can do is hope and pray! I really want babies, I have had a total buying ban put on me by the other half, my last two were given to me by the neighbours who were moving back to Germany so they couldnt count!!!! The only way that I am aloud to increase my flock for now is via breeding!!!!! Fingers crossed it increases by atleast 6 Then I cant get in trouble, lol I will keep all posted and when they hatch I will post photo's

lol my lutino hen is developing the same problem she now goes up and down the wire to the hulled oat's, she wont eat anything else!!!! Greedy little piggy she is, on top of this she has also taken to being feed by the three males that are in the avairy with her! Every day now for the last week she has been getting finger exercise, she is quiet happy to sit on my finger, so I just lift her up and down kind of quickly so that she flaps her wings, 2 minutes a day of that better do the trick, or she will be put in a seperate cage and made to eat a healthier diet!!!

Hi Guys, okay so this is my first attempt at breeding in 15 years, so I am totally eggcited, I went out and bought a double breeding cabinet, but the 2 pairs that I wanted to go down got the nest all ready and then nothing happened, after a 8 weeks of nothing I felt I couldn't let them stay in there any longer so put them back in the avairy, the hollow logs and feed dishes ended up being the nests of choice so I figured what the hey I throw in some box's and let them go! I only had to remove one pair from the avairy due to some serious fighting, but no missing parts so all was good! Pair one is Ali & Buffy Ali is an Albino Hen and Buffy is a Grey normal cock! Photo's below and Buffy Due to the fact that went to nest in the avairy and I didnt check the box's to regularly I cannot say when Ali laid the first egg but it would have been around the first (???????? thats a big think) She has laid 4 eggs in total, all are fertile So I am holding my breath at the moment for hatching, I am alittle nervous but excited at the same time! Pair 2 are Cole a Green normal cock and Violet a something normal, in the photo's she looks blue but in real life she looks kind of mauve/Violet. This pairing wasnt my choice it was there's totally, eveytime I put Cole with the Lutino hen that I got for him, he sulked and went nowhere near her for weeks, when I put Violet with the Grey Normal cock that I got for her she just about murdered him, so I just thought that I would let Cole and Violet have a go, mind you I have seen her turn the tail up to the greywing that I have in the avairy at the moment, so who knows what will happen there. Here are Cole and Violet: Violet has laid 5 eggs of which only 2 are fertile here she is with 4 off them: Egg 5 was laid on the 15th august which means at a guess that she laid the first on the 5th, I would also hazzard a guess that eggs 2 & 3 are the fertile ones so due date would be the 25th or 26th and 27th or 28th. Fingers crossed that all goes well!!!!