November 26, 200816 yr They are fantastic Kaz......love the green and the grey green. Â Liv, I'm hoping you have two pockets!!!
November 26, 200816 yr Holy He ll ..... Â Looking great Mate ..... I might need help picking my jaw up off the floor though LOL
November 26, 200816 yr Four of Omelette's chicks    what is that in the next box? looks like some sort of grass, dried.
November 26, 200816 yr what is that in the next box? looks like some sort of grass, dried. Â That's a chewed spray of millet
December 2, 200816 yr Author Update...the last chick in Omelette's box wouldnt not stay out of the nest and begged to be fed from both parents. I removed today. In the meantime Omelette laid another 8 eggs and had no intention of stopping. She and Stud have been removed to a holiday cage and their 8 new eggs have been fostered. She may lay more off the perch but she is valuable to me and needs to rest.....and will get a very long rest. Most of 2009 she will be on holidays Here is her eldest boy having just moulted and his new spots are coming in  From this .....  To this ....
December 2, 200816 yr Author I am told his spots are only just coming in and they will be lower than the lowest one you see now. I am also told I will not recognise him in 7 months.
December 2, 200816 yr He is a good looking fella especially for such a young one. Once those 'internal (?) spots come in (the middle ones) he will have a lovely mask. At what age do you keep in kindie cage/ put into flights? Are you better off keeping them confined (as such) until a certain age?
December 2, 200816 yr Author He is a good looking fella especially for such a young one. Once those 'internal (?) spots come in (the middle ones) he will have a lovely mask.At what age do you keep in kindie cage/ put into flights? Are you better off keeping them confined (as such) until a certain age? Since my flights arent done yet he is still in the kindie cage. I am sure he would benefit from some flying space but for right now he cannot. Certain practices have changed here until the flights get done. I would be putting him into a large flight now...if I had one.
December 2, 200816 yr Would you move them into a flight at first moult or younger? (youngster only flight)
December 2, 200816 yr Author Would you move them into a flight at first moult or younger? (youngster only flight) My newest practice and theory is to hold off on putting in the adult flight till the youngster has had its first moult. BUT in the future with two new larger flights being built, I will have a youngster / juvenile flight and an adult flight....so I would put them in the youngster flight a little sooner if they were doing well
December 4, 200816 yr Author Update...the last chick in Omelette's box wouldnt not stay out of the nest and begged to be fed from both parents. I removed today. In the meantime Omelette laid another 8 eggs and had no intention of stopping. She and Stud have been removed to a holiday cage and their 8 new eggs have been fostered. She may lay more off the perch but she is valuable to me and needs to rest.....and will get a very long rest. Most of 2009 she will be on holidays Here is her eldest boy having just moulted and his new spots are coming in  From this .....  To this .... Omelette, today, is about to lay a 9th egg off the perch. BUT she isnt stressed and actually looks quite good for having producednearly 30 eggs, and around 11 babies and more to come through fosters. Here is Omelette and Stud in their holiday cage. Omelette has egg bum. Omelette   Stud  PS Liv has made me promise to try and catch the 9th egg :rofl:
December 4, 200816 yr They look amazing!! you wouldn't even know they popped out around 30 eggs!!! Â PS Liv has made me promise to try and catch the 9th egg :rofl: Â You bet - they are too valuable to waste Edited December 4, 200816 yr by **Liv**
December 6, 200816 yr Author If a 10th comes try to catch that one too 9th egg laid off the perch but was cracked ......I doubt she will lay a 10th egg JB now she has no nestbox :cake:
December 11, 200816 yr Author Omelette's first egg from the round three eggs that she laid while chicks were in the box.......................1st chick round three has hatched in its foster nest. It actually hatched while I watched it when checking nestboxes earlier this morning. Liv saw it just a few minutes out of the egg
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