Hi guys,

 

I created a photobucket account, uploaded some photographs so hopefully I'll be able to post some on here for you to look at! I know Renee has been wanting to see our setup for a while so I have attached a photo of it! I know it doesn't have a safety door on the breeding room, and I know it's small and simple but it is the best we can do whilst renting in the city and trying to become vets at the same time!

 

So yeah, basically, we bought an aviary, moved the safety divider into the middle of the flight and turned one end into a breeding room. We have 5 cages with pairs down, but have room for 8. Decided that 5 would be just fine whilst trying to give them the care they deserve. In total we probably had about 30 eggs laid in the first round, 25 were full and we currently have 18 chicks in the nests. Not outstanding results but for our first breeding season in Australia we are pretty happy. The early nests are not outstanding chicks but some of the younger ones look as though they might feather up okay ... fingers crossed!!

 

 

 

 

Random nest of fosters, chick nearest us is from a George cock and a Ganzer hen, might not be too bad. It's siblings are all in another nest but are pretty boring at this stage so we will photograph them later!

 

 

 

 

 

 

These three chicks are from the Daughter of Dave Ganzers national champion dominant pied cock put to a pretty average Ganzer hen, so not expecting anything great, but we will wait and see!!

 

 

 

A nest of grey x albino that was supposed to give us albino split cocks ...

 

 

Their sibling

 

 

Split lutino chick

 

 

Sibling

 

 

The humble abode with my flatmate and breeding partner working away. Notice the fan to help with airflow on the still days! Next year we will be getting an extractor put in the back wall of each area and hopefully extending when we move out to Gatton for uni!!

 

 

 

The spares!

 

Now that I know how to do it and how long it takes, I will wait till after exams before uploading more photos! Hopefully by then we will have some nicely feathered babies to share!

thats a humble little set up

and i tell you now very similar to my end product

 

love the grey cock middle to the yf violet and the pied wow

thanks for sharing

cant wait to see the split lute chick when you get back

Looking good....those chicks are nice

 

Keep posting.

look's good you have sume good birds

Thank You Hamish !!!!

 

Love the set up .... every one has to start somewhere and my first year breeding looked very much like how you have yours - this was before I realised I could convert my garage into a breeding room

haha if only we had a garage! I'd have somewhere to park my car so the bats and wild birds stopped pooing on it! But yeah, next year hopefully we will have some more space and a better setup because we will be living out further!

 

Thanks for the thoughts about the birds, GB that is a cinnamon spangle cock that we bought at the same auction where Kaz picked up most of the clear wings. He was a bargin but we just don't know who to put him to at the moment! The thought is at the moment we will try for some double factors because we need to try and get rid of the cinnamon wing markings, and double factors would benefit from having the cinnamon. But yeah, not too sure yet!

Edited October 27, 200915 yr by KAZ

You have some nice babies Hamish

haha if only we had a garage! I'd have somewhere to park my car so the bats and wild birds stopped pooing on it! But yeah, next year hopefully we will have some more space and a better setup because we will be living out further!

 

Thanks for the thoughts about the birds, GB that is a cinnamon spangle cock that we bought at the same auction where Kaz picked up most of the clear wings. He was a bargin but we just don't know who to put him to at the moment! The thought is at the moment we will try for some double factors because we need to try and get rid of the cinnamon wing markings, and double factors would benefit from having the cinnamon. But yeah, not too sure yet!

 

 

Kaz has no clearwings

haha sorry, meant to write GREY WINGS!!!

haha sorry, meant to write GREY WINGS!!!

 

Hi Hamish and Sebastian, good to see your setup. I like the Sky Blue baby on the back perch in the 3rd picture. As for who to put the Spangle Cinnamon Grey with: in your last picture on the middle perch, is either of what looks like a Spangle Opaline or a Dominant Pied Grey Green a hen? They look pretty good from the photo.