October 25, 200915 yr No worries I LIKE disucssuion just like this one so unless Kaz gets testy and edits you guys out, please feel free to continue. Kaz doesnt get "testy" for one and I dont edit out .....I do split topics if they go off on atangent that aparently doesnt link in to the topic at hand. I do these things because its my job. Noone has ever seen me "testy" and most likely never will
October 25, 200915 yr Noone has ever seen me "testy" and most likely never will Is that no one on the forum? Is that because Ken does not log on here?
October 25, 200915 yr Author No worries I LIKE disucssuion just like this one so unless Kaz gets testy and edits you guys out, please feel free to continue. Kaz doesnt get "testy" for one and I dont edit out .....I do split topics if they go off on atangent that aparently doesnt link in to the topic at hand. I do these things because its my job. Noone has ever seen me "testy" and most likely never will Got a bite though, didn't I!!!!!!!
October 25, 200915 yr No worries I LIKE disucssuion just like this one so unless Kaz gets testy and edits you guys out, please feel free to continue. Kaz doesnt get "testy" for one and I dont edit out .....I do split topics if they go off on atangent that aparently doesnt link in to the topic at hand. I do these things because its my job. Noone has ever seen me "testy" and most likely never will Got a bite though, didn't I!!!!!!!
November 7, 200915 yr Author Introducing "Holy S*%t" and his brother "Holy C*$p". 2 young grey cocks from the same nest who are almost identical except for larger spots on one of them. They are....well.....huge - it's hard to really see that from the photos but they are 1/3rd as big again as the last grey baby that I posted up. I'm hoping they keep all flights and tails as I think they might be something a bit special. You can see the other boy in the background of this photo. And here he is here. Trying to give some perspective of size against my hand....... And then there is the sister of the grey that I showed previously (previous posts - not the sister of these 2 greys). She is looking to have some potential too.
November 7, 200915 yr Beautiful birds, those two greys certainly are something special! Your doing something right
November 9, 200915 yr Author Some older pics of a few babies today. One of the very nice things is that my attempt at increasing size seems to be paying off. I spent the last few years working on feather and needed desperately to put some size into my stud. I definitely think it's working - as a gauge, all the show box photo's are in a standard show box. I took a comparison photo of the first grey baby that I posted and "Holy S%$t". As I said even though the first grey baby looked pretty nice to me, "Holy C&*p" and "Holy S%$t" are....... well you decide. This first photo is a reminder of the original grey baby I posted up. This is him on the left with "Holy C%$p" on the right. The brothers, "Holy C*&p" on the left and "Holy S&*t" on the right. "Holy S&^t" "Holy C*&p" This little guy is the single GDA DF spangle hen's baby. Looking nice, if a bit scruffy, in the show cage. One of the first potential good 'uns, the little cobalt also looking pretty nifty in the show cage. Great length on this bird (he takes after his mummy who is a very long bird also). 2 cutie YF babies (just compare the size to the greys above). Smaller but still 2 nice birds who will definitely be staying on at G&G stud. The blue had spent about 10 solid minutes going nuts in the cage as many babies do........ My first ever 2 Dom Pieds (there were 3 in the nest but the youngest had a double jointed hip and was culled). I am just a tad disappointed with the length of mask on the better one (the cinnamon), especially seeing as both mum & dad are quite long in the mask themselves. Here is the better of the 2. And last but not least a cutie little violet clearwing. As usual these things breed like flies and this girlie came from a nest of 5, 2 violets and 3 dark green violets (i think). Edited November 9, 200915 yr by nubbly5
November 9, 200915 yr Holy $@!t alright. Love all of the Greys. The 2 new ones are beauties and huge but I still really like the feather on the first Grey you posted. If he grows on he will take some beating.
November 9, 200915 yr Author Thank guys! Yes Daryl, I'm with you on that but we'll wait and see how they grow on. The dad of the first grey is a wonderful bird but sometimes has the tendancy to laze on the perch - the time that he didn't he went best in show. I was hoping to add a touch of size, keep the feather and up the deportment with the hen that I put with him. Looks okay so far with deportment and feather but not sure if there is any more size there than his dad. At least the genetic potential will be there. Both of the pairings (first grey and grey green sister and the two big greys) are down again and have good fertile eggs. Another really nice thing is that after a false start my normal/normal pair has fired and has a clutch of eight fertile eggs 2 of which have hatched successfully - so far so good - 2 normal babies so big fingers crossed that I have not got that sneaky cinnamon in there.
November 9, 200915 yr Really nice Nubbly, the greys look super, I hope they all come beautifully for you.
November 10, 200915 yr Really great comparison photo. The birds are looking great! Hope they develop nicely and bring you a few prizes :bow:
December 16, 200915 yr Loved :rofl: seeing your babies last week with their masses of feather and big wide heads....any photos to share ?
December 16, 200915 yr Author Loved seeing your babies last week with their masses of feather and big wide heads....any photos to share ? Noooooooooooooooooooooo....... that means I have to deal with Photobucket again.........<sob>.
December 16, 200915 yr Loved seeing your babies last week with their masses of feather and big wide heads....any photos to share ? Noooooooooooooooooooooo....... that means I have to deal with Photobucket again.........<sob>. the only people who have trouble with photobucket either have their camera set wrong for piks too large or are on dial up Edited December 16, 200915 yr by KAZ
December 16, 200915 yr Author Loved seeing your babies last week with their masses of feather and big wide heads....any photos to share ? Noooooooooooooooooooooo....... that means I have to deal with Photobucket again.........<sob>. the only people who have trouble with photobucket either have their camera set wrong for piks too large or are on dial up Or are on dodgy satelite broadband that is currently shaped!!!!!!! HATE Photobucket - with a passion. Having said that though I managed to up load some pics (one at a time mind you) and the damn thing only crashed once so that's better than normal. So (just for Kaz) here are some pics taken today. Sky spangle from son of Cec's Grey nats winner to a related syndicate hen. Lovingly dubbed Titan. I have a nest full of these birds. This is from one of my normal/normal pairings (the pair laid a round of clear eggs first up so fostered a first lot, these are all their own) and they have 3x dark greens, 1x light green and a skyblue in the one nest and the dark greens are very nice so far. Another nice young lacewing. I am so pleased with how these guys have been breeding so far this year and 4th place nats boy and his wife have another 2 baby red eye chicks just hatched out. Of the 1 BES pairing I put down this year I have bred 3x BES babies. 2 stonkers and 1 average. 2 stonkers are a boy and a girl. This is the little girl who was the only hatchee this round. This is one of the young greys that i showed a while back (the one with the best feathering). It's nice to see that his feathering is getting longer too. You can see the length of the pins is better than the baby feathers. He did have a grey green sister too but she refused to feed herself and after a month of crop feeding still would not so she is not longer with us. However, this pairing has bred another 4 babies, most of them grey green and the majority of them are looking pretty good so far. Here are a couple below. I put Holy S&%t & Holy C%*p back into the show box again today. They were shown for a first and second Open UBC and Best UBC in Show at our last club show with the judge commenting that the bird that caught his eye in the show was Holy C#*p - but then I know he is something a bit special! And I do believe that Holy C#*p has even grown some more - didn't think that was possible. okay I have to admit that i've kinda lost track of where this nice hen came from. I THINK she is Titans older sister...............? And finally I have 2 of these enormous clearwings (I've called them Horse - interchangable between either of them). They look almost identical except i think one is a violet dark green and that one has less markings. The one shown here is the more heavily marked of the two. It's hard to see the size really but they are monsters. Forgot one! This is the opaline spangle hen I showed some time ago but i wanted to show the length of the adult feathering coming through. That bit of feather stuck off the side of her head is one of her adult feathers coming through. It's going to be amazing. Edited December 16, 200915 yr by nubbly5
December 16, 200915 yr So (just for Kaz) here are some pics taken today. Sky spangle from son of Cec's Grey nats winner to a related syndicate hen. Lovingly dubbed Titan. WHOAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :fear
December 16, 200915 yr So (just for Kaz) here are some pics taken today. Sky spangle from son of Cec's Grey nats winner to a related syndicate hen. Lovingly dubbed Titan. WHOAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :fear Can the name Holy Cr@p be used again? I mean, c'mon, how 'bout Holy Freakin Cr@p!
December 16, 200915 yr Once again amazing bubs - well done Nubbly! Please tell me more about this "little" one - does it come out of a split pairing?
