look what i did ..... with lots of love and twice day daly bathing with warm salt water i present to you my new improved chicks oldest of the three light green Opaline no more eye problems second chick third chickall together so they are looking completely better all i did was everyday i treated eyes with one drop warm salt water to each eye and two drops in mouth i cleaned nest before treatment started also increased fruit ( apple orange or manderine and lemon slice daily rather than ever second day )and egg n weeties and grated carrot will post lacewings in minit as twomany pics forpost but here is a very welcomed and only straight from shell prem baby from my / albino cock this it just hatched unfeed still its fine by way i didnt think it would make it but did (not helpped out ) for some reason these chicks are pipping themselves to earliy i lost one yesterday pipping death :hooray: lacewings they wouldnt sit still and as i just handled the other babys i wasnt touching these guys as they may look better but who knows yet (i took picture baby first before touching three others

Edited June 23, 201014 yr by GenericBlue

for some reason these chicks are pipping themselves to earliy i lost one yesterday pipping death

I lost four chicks when the mother heard them pipping and decided to help them out of the egg one at a time. Saved the fifth one by moving the egg and Splats DF cock raised it

Good to see them with their seed bedding

yes kaz i always do seed from two weeks on always

 

thanks for that

no other nest to put under sadley so just hope

i didnt think i would get anything from him :hooray: im very happy he cost me 10.00 06 cock so im very happy

 

I like these two, grey being dominate would you get grey spangles?

 

Your aviary is looking great

Edited June 23, 201014 yr by KAZ
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i didnt think i would get anything from him im very happy he cost me 10.00 06 cock so im very happy

 

I like these two, grey being dominate would you get grey spangles?

 

Your aviary is looking great

 

yes grey spangles blue spangles in cobalt and violet and skyviolet , sky blue

albinos and the little one their just confirmed for me my worst night mare that this cock also is / cin/albino and make a bet Opaline cinnamons ahrrrrrrrr :rofl:

but i knew already deep down it would be as all my/albinos are so far really is hard as i dont want to cull these birds as they really are great birds and blood line is what i want

im still not sure how to breed the cinnamon out of the albino hens so .... ill get their though but its not to say they are cinnamon albino hens as hes normal shes normal so get normal hens and cin and albino in norm or cin

update pics from yesterday

 

first chick

 

 

 

second chick

 

 

 

third chick

 

 

 

fourth chick with foster mum n dad

 

 

 

fifth chick

 

 

 

6ixth chick

 

 

 

lacewings altogether

 

 

all looking good

First and second looking very nice and buff, especially second. Thumbs up!

First and second looking very nice and buff, especially second. Thumbs up!

thanks dean second one is my fav so far she always has her feather abouve head held high just what i like to see

Hi GB,

There looking great,

Cheers

Patrick

Lovely babies GB

Thank you for letting me have a cuddle. They are so beautiful

The lacewings are absolutley stunning! Very pretty colours, looking very vibrant.

I was also going to comment on the 2nd ones performance of his lovely blow, but someone else beat me to it

 

 

EDIT: also, I was just wondering how you get the air out of a birds crop? I have had one of my chicks with a crop full of air, but I don't know what to do! He was acting a little off yesterday (not moving much, a little unresponsive) but today his crop had less air and more food, and he seemed a bit better.

Edited June 29, 201014 yr by Squeak_Crumble

Hi GB,

There looking great,

Cheers

Patrick

thanks patrick and splat

im pretty happy their markings are beautiful no thum print

couldnt ask for better just hope it doesnt moult out to get one

not sure if it can

 

also squeak their femal all of them as like clearbodys its a sex linked genetic so any chicks visual from a split cock to normal hen will be hens can also have normal hens but any lacewings can only be hens not cocks

 

as to how i got air out

i lightly pushed it out starting at bottom of crop and in towards center then up

you need to very careful doing it that way

most use a sterile pin but i cant do that i tried it once it worked but gave me creeps i hate needles so

 

 

here is babys two day one came out nest

right on time too

i will leave her their till a few weeks

 

 

littlest chick

 

 

dad is not scarred of me and took opportunity to feed while i snapped pics of young chick

 

 

middle one with baby hiding behind it

 

 

 

 

mum looking great just what i like to see

well i took mum out cage other day as its to to cold to let them have second round

dad is healthy but cold has taken toll on him

im going to let them go through a molt as breeding suppresses molt and both need to molt out to stay healthy in my opinion

mum looks fantastic

chicks are still with dad at moment but all eatting on own

i will leave with dad till he has no interest in them anymore see how all chicks come out then decide if she was the right hen for him or not

Great result GB. Good management of mum, dad and babies as well - you are right on about the moult etc. I definately think this pairing was good if the young are anything to go by, cant wait for the moult - especially for baby #2

Great result GB. Good management of mum, dad and babies as well - you are right on about the moult etc. I definately think this pairing was good if the young are anything to go by, cant wait for the moult - especially for baby #2

yes two and five are in my opinion best in clutch

i will get pics when not busy

of all out

three greens still feathering up last stages

 

thanks for compliment on my management i do try to do best for birds

not what id like

look what i did ..... with lots of love and twice day daly bathing with warm salt water i present to you my new improved chicks oldest of the three light green Opaline no more eye problems second chick third chickall together so they are looking completely better all i did was everyday i treated eyes with one drop warm salt water to each eye and two drops in mouth i cleaned nest before treatment started also increased fruit ( apple orange or manderine and lemon slice daily rather than ever second day )and egg n weeties and grated carrot will post lacewings in minit as twomany pics forpost but here is a very welcomed and only straight from shell prem baby from my / albino cock this it just hatched unfeed still its fine by way i didnt think it would make it but did (not helpped out ) for some reason these chicks are pipping themselves to earliy i lost one yesterday pipping death :hooray: lacewings they wouldnt sit still and as i just handled the other babys i wasnt touching these guys as they may look better but who knows yet (i took picture baby first before touching three others

 

 

 

okay their is one dead chick you can see no food

 

the next chick alive also no food in crop

hope that helps