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Thank you GB. By natural light, do you mean direct sunlight, no cage? (sorry) no sweets just put bird in show cage in a light spot no sunn beaming in or down just naturally lite sun lite room and take picture with sun behind you like a window behind you i find works well

well im not going to guess as in first picture the wings look very aqua sugesting sky violet yet with out a propper tail shot that could be just sun and angle of shot can you get someone to hold out a wing open while you take a picture also tail shot need to see tail feathers the 4 shorter ones included one way to find out pair her to a cobalt bird or a visual violet bird the chick result of these matings would tell you

oh well best i see what this young chick has for real as if this is so then my birds could be carrying this is this right so wow all my quarantine bird will need to be on other side of yard in fact i may use the front of house so their miles away as im on big block lets hope it was just lightly tossed around not actually the diagnosis is it just a treatment of doxy then as i did try to doxy birds resently but all got the sighns that come with flock not needing treatment the large poos and very down in out birds so i stopped gave pro bos and the birds been chattery as poo normal again mmm could just the one bird from that pairring be the carryer i think a selection of random birds are going to vet for a test wouldnt birds be dropping dead if my flock had this ??? am i just worrying myself for nothing do you think or could they have it with no signs the whole flock chicks the lot ???

im trying to find out how to find out if your birds have this mycoplasma and exactly what is it is it climidia ,parasisiossis or is it totally different is is caused by high humidity or by bad seed ?? if a young chick in nest 5 weeks got this what would most likely be cause ?? any help would be appreciated as it seems maybe i have after a long time found out what killed my birds last year and im scarred i may have it back nothings died or dead or even looks sick but i sold a chick recently whom has ended up not well when i spoke to the person i sold him too i knew he was not right by what was described ,..so she took him to vet (avian) its not decided what he has but white blood cells were high and was bacteria found but what im unsure i haven't spoken properly to new owner vet said he should come through fine but mycoplasma was mentioned as possible problem if this is so then its possible my flock holds the illness and i want to know hows the best way to treat or if its not that simple cheers ps i did offer to pay vet costs but offer was declined i truly do hope he pulls through he was such a lovely boy his clutch buddy's seem perfect as does his Peronts so i really am stumped but know he has to of been unwell from start as hes so little (as in young) hes only been gone a short time im just glad i like to stay in contact for a month or two see how things are going as if we didn't discuss things and how their going things could of been different as i said none of my birds or young showing sighns of any illness no breathing issues nothing but my violet did have sighns of mycoplasma parilis and the crackling breathing but i thought that was due to me feeding her im not so sure now

yes apparently so

Thankyou Sunnie! I forgot to mention, all of these birds are the same birds. So I only have one lutino hen, one grey cock etc. So there are quite a few double ups. The only birds I have that are the same colour are the opaline. light green cock birds (A and I go with gut feeling also Yes, these are only pictures, which make it alot more difficult! Thanks guys for your input, I am sure some people will be able to learn from this topic, I know I will! So far I have 4 cabinets to fill. Pair 5: Lutino X Cock A Pair 6: Sky Cock X Violet TCB Hen And not sure but I am thinking. Pair 3: Albino X TCB Grey? Pair 7 Hen with Cock B? That is what I have tried to summarise from you guys posts i was talking about the normal grey with the albino not the clearbody cock but yeah thats okay to just the albino and grey boy compliment each other

can get better picture with real day light rach please before i decide its cobalt want to make sure shes not a sky violet as they can look like cobalt

id leave the grey with the albino hes not that big but hes got a nice head i would never pair the grey x grey green first picture as both sitting short and squashing head into body both of them doing it so in that picture anyway id pair the clearbody hen with cock a clearbody cock and lute to clearbody b and grey green hen to clearbody grey the violet clearbody to sky blue boy and rec pair is nice thats me but this is pictures so may be different at my own place

this statement sounds like my town

thats fn funny as pmsl

don't quote me on this but i have feeling he /she is leaning toward being long flighted not a mop by thoughs pics ive had long flighted chicks and almost long flighted chicks they seem to be bit bigger and heaver in wings when small ps your birds dont need to of been long flighted they could of carried the gene

looks like 4 to me one their is iffy the one leaning on crop of the other chick on right but other 4 look good to me from here good luck

very pretty and very cute will be very handy

this is great news

took an egg out of nest thinking was infertile sat it on table for like 5 mins then decided to check on more time before tossing it it had a tinny heart beat no blood vessals just heat beat put back under hen but id chilled it it was dead next day :{ this was three months ago about now

My percentages of what I consider my good birds to the rest being cr*p still has a long way to go. so imagined if you culled out the ****

well done kaz your dilute sure did deserve that and i agree that cobalt is stunning

the wy that cock is moulting hard indicates he needs extra vitamins i would be flying him and her for a month after the chicks fledge or even marrie them off in a cage they can fly in with out nest when they both have totally no pins left showing then id putnest back in just my opinion though beautiful chicks by way

glad its working out splat i still need to fit mine grrr i think maybe the ventilation is not enough and a whirlly is maybe my next step

could we have some picks of birds please as before im giving any advice i want to see two pairs or my advice will be useless

its very cute

mine is 210 splat i lost chicks yesterday two them from heat it wont be my breeding room again that was as i didnt get home to open before 12 pm still with all open its 30 in their today if i could do mine again id have thin window all sides with wire mouse mesh and for winter a drop down peaice of plastic stuff the see through stuff you get i forget its name with few air holes drilled along it so still air in their

good to see a smile on your face splat best luck next breeding set just remember thoughs sheds get hot mine is isulated and all and open ides and frount got to 35 today everything open even door i have ventilation through roof and shade cloth on sky light and swinging shade cloth doors for real hot sunny days and today i had a dead chick it was from heat i could see poor thing so now im going to put my big shade saiol up before hot really gets here and my pop out bit also and im re thinking useing the breeding side as a baby flight and just not breeding till i can devise a plan of action to have a proper located place for this so far the back fence has been my best breeding space but thats only from September on to November so one round but i wouldnt risk my show birds out their like that so im really stuck for place to breed

totally agree

You most likely wont find it amongst show breeders as it is a composite bird not a bird show breeders in a club would be trying to breed. You need to find a pet breeder who dabbles in this or you need to create it yourself by buying in some breeding birds to create a rainbow in stages. It may take some time So maybe if I bought a clearwing blue hen, breed some chicks and keep a yf blue cock bird (split clearwing) and maybe buy in another clearwing hen, and just dabble around with getting the right mutations in? I don't mind if it isn't "technically" a rainbow, just because I sell to petshops and privatley, and birds like rainbows are more likely to attract the eye. if your not worryed about the tech bit then a cinnamon opaline violet yf type 1 or dom pied yf op spangle violet or sky blue are quite nice df australian golden face in same mutations and colour leaving out spangle also very nice