Hey yes all Have my camera going again, bought my new battery, gee did I miss this camera, I love the beautiful pics it takes.

 

Anyway my breeding season started in March with about 12 pair put down.

But I had a heap of clears eggs, out os 12 nest there were only 2 nest with fertile eggs, I nest had 5 fertile eggs and all 5 hatched but the last one died on hatching. the parents are my good yellow df spangle cock and and a sister to the cobalt spangle that the yellow df spangle is normally with and are the parents to my white boys.

Here is a couple of photos of the 3 babies from the spangle nest and the cinnamon opaline violet, this taken 5 days ago

 

Well I was hoping to get something good but the 4 are very ordinary so far but who knows they could improve, there is a white df spangle a yellow df spangle both cocks and 2 green spangles.

The other nest is my violet cock the one I won the young bird shield with last year and a sky blue hen that I bought in for her large frame and shoulder. She doesn't have much above the head. but wow they had 3 babies, 2 violet hens and one is really nice and a cinnamon oplaine violet hen and she is going to wow, her head is wide and she is only 4 weeks yesterday but then it dawned on me what if she is a mop and she is so stunning. Her sisters are 6 weeks Friday and there heads are not as wide as this one.

I have some photos of the cinnamon oplaine violet but her sisters are still at Geoffs

 

and the cinnamon yesterday

 

See the directional feather growing, honestly her head is as wide as so my gut feeling thinks the worst, .MOP... but her flights are nice and neat so far and her tail and secondary tail feathers are all the same size so far......

Will take more photos tomorrow or Thursday and the ones at Geoffs next week.

 

I now have 7 more babies, the yellow df spangle is a dad a again, I put him back with the cobalt spangle sister to the one above and parents of my white ones and the one in amy aviatar.

Well they have 2 babies one egg was dead in shell, 2 eggs broke. I put rings on them in the last couple of days, they are quite big babies so I have my fingers crossed.

I have a cinnamon opaline violet hen full sister to my violet cock. I have her down with a grey green cock of Geoffs, she has 4 babies and I rung 2 today.

And the only other nest with babies is my yellow DF spangle hen Full sister to the white ones and I have her with a grey cock of Goeffs and they have 1 baby.

I have 2 nest with a couple of fertile eggs and that's it so far.

I lost a hen the other day, she layed 6 eggs and the 1st 2 were fertile and then I found her off the nest and eggs ice cold. I put the fertile eggs under aother hen and threw the other 4 away even though they were probably fertile, I really had no where to put the.

I put the hen in the hospital cage but she had ruptured herself. She died.

Will do more baby photos soon.

well we all have ups and downs but we sume times get what we wont uut off them i hope you get more big babys like that opaline cinnamon violet hen she is a wow bird i hope for you see is not a mop

looking fantastic mate. I was told a mop has a clear area around the eyes as one of the signs but your chick hasnt :bliss:

 

fingers crossed

I hope she is not Kaz and Shannon, honestly her head is as wide as adult bird massive. I showed Greg yesterday and said wow. Tomorrow I am going to measure her width across the head.

But she is looking good.

Seems I am not breeding a heap and my club friend have 40 to 50 babies and I have 14 I say to them I breed quality not quanity lol they just laugh at me but it works for me, and actually the babies I have are out of my best birds and the ones I am counting on.

I am putting more birds down after the Queens Birthday weekend. and I have fertilty etc .

Here is the baby again taken on the 19th yesterday, I am thinking not mop . I really hope not anyway.

 

She will be 5 weeks Monday the 24th

Edited May 20, 201014 yr by splat

Here is the baby again taken on the 19th yesterday, I am thinking not mop . I really hope not anyway.

 

She will be 5 weeks Monday the 24th

 

that chick never looked like a mop hun

its very nice

sky violet cinnamon or violet ???

 

glad you got your cam working

love the df chicks by way

cant wait for fledging shots

The 2 DF chicks just came out of the nest yesterday and today, the white might be okay but the yellow is very ordinary.

Here is a photo of my violet green cock hatched late Nov 2009. He has the same father as this cinnamon oplaine violet baby here.

The 2 DF chicks just came out of the nest yesterday and today, the white might be okay but the yellow is very ordinary.

Here is a photo of my violet green cock hatched late Nov 2009. He has the same father as this cinnamon oplaine violet baby here.

nice overall colouring splat and what a broad boy

got the dimond shape i love about him also

he is a nice bird love to have him in my breeding room

Here is the baby again taken on the 19th yesterday, I am thinking not mop . I really hope not anyway.

 

She will be 5 weeks Monday the 24th

What a little ripper

Here she is now taken on the 21st of May yesterday and she was 4 and 1/2 weeks old. I am sure now that she not a mop,.

 

and this is her tail so far all the same length

 

and these 2 violets are her sisters they are just 6 weeks old

 

Not a mop.

You can tell a mop from a very age & by the time they are 2 weeks old,they never stop squarking,

to be feed.

PS Splat, you have some good chicks there to work with.

Your birds are looking fantastic, well done

their nice hens hun id be happy with them

You can tell a mop from a very age & by the time they are 2 weeks old,they never stop squarking,

to be feed.

PS Splat, you have some good chicks there to work with.

 

Thanks Macka, desperate for hens. :grbud: The cinnamon opaline is not a mop thank god but she will be flecked which is a pity but still she will be a great stock hen and that's what I want at the moment.

 

Thank you Taboo and yes GB over the moon mainly because they are hens, so far to date I only have 18 babies and more cocks than hens rats, I just had another hen pluck the **** out of her babies and I had nowhere to put them so they are out at Inos place he had a nest with roughly the same age with only 2 babies so i took 3 out to him and they are doing fine. 2 of them are out of my best nest (full siblings to my white Df spangle boys), stupid me took them off their mother as she was on her own and the the pair I put them with only had one so I thought that would be a good thing but NOOOOOOO she decided to pluck down until she hit blood. The babies are only 3 weeks and she was chucking them out of the nest.

Edited June 1, 201014 yr by splat

Thanks Macka, desperate for hens. The cinnamon opaline is not a mop thank god but she will be flecked which is a pity but still she will be a great stock hen and that's what I want at the moment. :grbud:

 

Even flecked birds are winning on the bench if they are very good mate.....I wouldnt consign her to the breeding cage only if she continues to look great as an adult.

Kaz we will see what happens either I don't mind but for sure will will be a good hen if I don't get that stupid tail problem, you know that thing one minute nice tail and the next no tail; and never grows back

 

Here is that violet cinn opaline hen, she is 6 weeks and 1 day old.

 

and the Dk green spangle

Thats a loooot of spots she has. Will be interested to see her after her adult moult. Say... do you think those violet hens could manage a trans-tasman flight? I have bred 10 violet chicks and only 2 females of the lot. Desperate for hens!!!

Do you mean on her head Dean or her masks spot because has plenty of them tooooooo.

I would say she will be heavily flecked, :grbud:

 

Sorry I don't think those violet hens want to leave here as they know I need them more I am so pleased with them I have put the parents back together.

the hen is an outcross so I am hoping for better next year when I put these babies back to my line.

she is a very nice hen i will love to breed a hen like that look like the spangle is a hen to

Do you mean on her head Dean or her masks spot because has plenty of them tooooooo.

I would say she will be heavily flecked,

 

Sorry I don't think those violet hens want to leave here as they know I need them more I am so pleased with them I have put the parents back together.

the hen is an outcross so I am hoping for better next year when I put these babies back to my line.

 

I meant on the mask Yes she will be heavily flecked but hopefully you will have a very clean capped bird (or line if possible) that you can pair her to, and then pair the best (or cleanest) chicks from that pair back to more clear headed birds and fingers crossed...

 

Cant have it all i guess

She is loaded with spots, but I do have the ideal cock to go with her next year, a light green and a cousin on the father and mothers side, he is a nice bird with good direction feather and he is clean in the cap but needs more impact on his spots and I think this hen will do the job. I can only see what happens

Edited June 2, 201014 yr by splat

:nest: was wondering how one of my fav breeders is going

any updates on how things are ???

hope your good my friend

nothing special going on I have 26 babies so far. will take some pics tomorrow if I get time.

nothing special going on I have 26 babies so far. will take some pics tomorrow if I get time.

im just glad your k i was getting worried hadn't noticed you about