The luck is that the Cinnamon Grey cock, from the birds I bought at the sale in June, mated with one of my hens has hatched 5 young so far one egg to go. Wish I had got that hatchability with the better birds instead of all clear.

 

 

 

My first batch of Texas Clear Body, from the TCB I bought & an Opaline Light Green hen, has only hatched two young so far out of six, doesn’t look like they will get anymore & because the cock is split for Lutino, one chick is a Lutino hen, it means I have only a 25% chance of hen TCB’s. The other chick is at least a split TCB cock or TCB hen. One of their first eggs I gave to another pair because she didn’t sit on it, has turned out an Opaline Light Green so a split TCB cock at least.

 

 

 

The one Fallow cock I have which I tried for months to get some splits from, has at last since I gave it a new young hen I bred, hatched 6 chicks, I think one more egg to go.

 

 

 

Also one Lutino hen I mated to a nice Grey Green cock who I had almost given up on, as thought their eggs were over due, hatched two one day & another two the day after. I want to have some splits to improve some of my Lutinos for mating later in my TCB breeding.

 

 

 

Also had a show breeder visit me Sunday & look at my birds before we went to the Taree Budgie club meeting…saw some nice birds, one bought from the Hill auction for $1500…We found out one bird I bought from a pet shop was bred from a big breeder that wouldn’t sell me any birds, so I got some of his blood anyway. Nice looking bird I have bred some nice young from, but he doesn’t like feeding chicks.

 

 

 

The bad news is that the FM seems to be spreading, has anyone had experience of how to stop it, maybe I will have to stop breeding for months or even a year, that would be a great disappointment, now I have some show type stock I want to breed. At least it only seems mild as birds only dropping a few wing Feathers not even their tails & I think most will grow back. A couple more nests have had one or two young with it.

Sorry about the bad news and sorry i cant help with your french moult.

But contrats on the good news