This is Heaven and Zeus. YF cobalt opalines. They were sold to me as badly marked clearwings, but I think it would be easier just to say they are greywings. They are such a pretty couple. They only had 2 babies and I havent fussed with them too much, just checking in on them. The last couple of days, I have started handling the babies more though, so they are used to me and I couldnt believe it when mum decided to jump back in the box while I was looking at her babies. She is sooooooo unbelievably calm! I can actually gently push her aside to get at the babies and she nibbles on my fingers and fusses over the babies. She is NOT hand tamed, she was sold to me by a breeder who doesnt handle her birds any more than most and she has been in my aviary for about 6 months. I can actually talk to her while messing with her babies and gently scratch her chin. So, I had to try and get a few pics of my lovely Heaven and her babies, unfortunately, they didnt come out the best. I also took a snap of Zeus so you could see who daddy is to

 

 

and last but not least, the lovely boy Zeus, who would prefer NOT to be in the box while I am lol

 

I can see why you love these guys

 

Hen is YF skyviolet opaline greywing. Cock is same but I cant see wings so not sure its opaline but looks like it

Edited October 9, 200816 yr by KAZ

And that fluffy chick in the first picture is going to be an opaline too

Can you tell that because of all the white fluff? I am kinda hoping both babies will be the same as mum and dad

Awwwww! They are so beautiful!! I cant wait to see the bubs feather up

Wow! They are both so so beautiful.

wow. They look great. can't wait to see the chicks feather up..

Thanks guys

I thought the chickies were going to be the same colouring, but one has yellow tips on the wings and the other has greenish blue tips on the wings. It's hard to get pics of them, they won't sit still long enough! I will wait a couple more days for more colour and try again

They are so sweet :purr:

The one without any yellow on the tips is probably a double factor yellow face ( looks white), keep it in mind if you keep that one for future breeding as it may pass YF on to it's chicks. Yes the white fluff signifies opaline

They both have yellow faces

:hap: :wub:

Oh Sunnie, they are adorable .... Congrats mate..

 

 

MB Thanks for the explaing ... Now I can see what they all mean about the Opaline in the nest

Unfortunately I had a loss with the babies here. I think I must have jinxed them going on about what a great first time mum she was :mellow:

Anyway, last monday I found one of the babies dead in the nest. I picked up the other and realised it had nothing in its crop and I assume, for some reason, the parents just stopped feeding them :laughter:

I gave the other baby a small feed, via syringe and put it in the lacewing nest as their babies were about the same age. The parents there then had 6 babies to feed and I kept checking in to see that it hadnt gotten too weak and was missing out on its share. It is doing fine with the lacewings, as you know from my other post a couple of their babies are close to fledging, so there are less babies in the nest now. Anyway, I have taken this on board to be a little more vigilant. I do look in on my babies every day, but I assumed here, that being only two in the nest and them both seemingly healthy, I had nothing to worry about. If I had picked them up and checked their crops, maybe I would have realised and could still have both babies. Always lessons to be learned.

 

So I took a photo of the remaining baby as he is starting to feather up now. I would really like some opinions on what his colouring is.

 

Cheers guys :laughter:

 

sorry to hear about your other chick.

 

I have no idea about colour but it looks very cute.

The parents are full body greywings which means they are a greywing and clearwing combined together that is why the wings are grey and the body is a bright color. Because of this the offspring is a clearwing type 2 yellow face looks like violet, I would like to see the baby feathered up more or the chest color of the baby it see the strength of the coloring. They were not that off when they sold it to you as a clearwing they just didn't realize it was really a full body greying.

 

It is definitely a boy too, wish all boys ceres were that pink :laughter: I saw that the hen is an opaline but was the cock? If not then he is split to opaline, I can't tell if he is an opaline from the front he doesn't look it.

Edited October 17, 200816 yr by Elly

Thanks Elly, your knowledge of mutations never fails to amaze me :laughter:

Yes, dad is also opaline. I just checked the chest colour and its a colour I cant really describe lol. Its like a dirty greyish olive colour.....

I will leave it a few more days and update pics.

 

Thanks again for your help.....and your nice comments Jimmy :laughter:

He would be an opaline too then. I hope I am on the right thinking process lol Sunnie but that is how I see it when I read up in it here would be the &

 

2 Full Body Greywings

50% Full-body-color greywing

25% Greywing

25% Clearwing

Edited October 17, 200816 yr by Elly

Here are a couple of updated pics of the remaining baby, hopefully to get a further idea of his colour

I couldnt choose my favourite pics, so I posted.........a few *cough*

 

OMG!!! Wow!!! Look at that, absoloutly stunning :hug:

I'm green with envy He's gorgeous!

I am going with Yellowface Type 2 Mauve Fullbody Grey Wing OR Clearwing, beautiful coloration .