I've seen that before too kaz.

One time I found an egg on the floor of the breeder cage, the hen must have threw it out by mistake. It had big cracks and their was a tiny little baby inside. About 4 days before hatching. I put it in with the other chicks but it died within a few hours.

I've seen that before too kaz.

One time I found an egg on the floor of the breeder cage, the hen must have threw it out by mistake. It had big cracks and their was a tiny little baby inside. About 4 days before hatching. I put it in with the other chicks but it died within a few hours.

Then I guess this chick was real lucky Pearce

The spangle chicks from this pair as they are right now....

 

DF Spangle hen

 

Cinnamon spangle hen

 

DF Spangle hen

and on the right

 

Grey green spangle hen

 

and another grey green spangle hen the one from the smashed egg and out 4 days early.

They all look beautiful Kaz, any particular pair you got that you envy the most? color/mutation wise

any particular pair you got that you envy the most? color/mutation wise

No, not really. I have a favourite hen called OMELETTE and she is currently on 9 eggs to a grey green spangle. Her chicks are always nice and I look forward to seeing the chicks from the spangle with her.

What a merical that little bub has been. It's amazing how they can keep going even when stone cold. He looks lovely and healthy - well done

There were two miracle chicks in that nest Liv. The last egg was found broken in the nestbox, and I removed it to find the chick inside was still alive, egg was too broken to reseal and the egg was broken too early for normal hatching. I removed the chick and it still had a white bag attached to an umbilical cord. The area where the cord attached was bleeding.....I stemmed the bleeding and put a spot of betadine on its navel area. Then I cleaned it up as best I could and put it in another nestbox. Afterwards a chick in the new foster nest died so I didnt know if it was this second miracle baby who had died or another chick. Today I have the answer as the chick is feathering up to be a spangle hen.....so the second miracle chick also made it and here she is...........

 

 

 

so in all the result from the spangle to spangle pairing seems to be

1 greygreen spangle,

1 cinnamon grey green spangle

2 DF yellow spangles

and this latest one which is a grey green opaline spangle...maybe cinnamon...time will tell.

= 5 spangle babies

The chick from the smashed egg and was hatched four days early due to the broken egg...................

 

Very Very Nice Kaz... I love the look of your birds. Nice width ov'r the cere, nice length in the mask, nice length of feather and will look very good in a show cage in Rockhampton next year

Stunning babies!!!! They are going to look amazing when they mature!

Very Very Nice Kaz... I love the look of your birds. Nice width ov'r the cere, nice length in the mask, nice length of feather and will look very good in a show cage in Rockhampton next year

Here's hoping Daz RobD was saying just last night that my birds are starting to look like Kaz birds where a number of chicks are coming through with the same features. He says it makes them identifiable as bred by me.

Edited May 19, 200915 yr by KAZ

Lovely Kaz you are definitely on the right track.

That's what I am aiming for my own Line they will be known as my birds.

This year I hope will be great as I have all these relations I can focus on. I am working on the xmas tree out with outcross in with my blood line then out in with the blood lines and so on.

Very Very Nice Kaz... I love the look of your birds. Nice width ov'r the cere, nice length in the mask, nice length of feather and will look very good in a show cage in Rockhampton next year

Here's hoping Daz RobD was saying just last night that my birds are starting to look like Kaz birds where a number of chicks are coming through with the same features. He says it makes them identifiable as bred by me.

 

 

 

I can believe him

Very pretty birds kaz. I love this one.

 

I love them all.

Here in the aviary and going through first moult

 

 

Father is currently the partner of Omelette and so far they have 4 babies.

Edited May 19, 200915 yr by KAZ