Posted August 19, 201014 yr Hi All! I have a hen on 6 eggs, first one is due to hatch any time now. She is a Violet Opaline Texas Clearbody and the cock is a Grey-Green Opaline Texas Clearbody. First egg was laid on the 1st, and I am giving a few days leway because it is chilly right now. About 3-4 eggs look fertile out of the 6. Pictures! (they don't do her justice, like any violet bird) In show cage: ( I have had the cock being described as a "fluffy tennis ball" sometimes
August 19, 201014 yr well done nice looking pair of clearbodys fingers crossed that they have nice chicks!
August 19, 201014 yr Author Thankyou both I love the hen, she is top bred and a sibling of hers sold at auction for $180.
August 20, 201014 yr Author Update: Still no eggs hatching, it was a little warmer today. How do I know if they are still alive and not DIS?
August 20, 201014 yr Nice clearbodys I really like the hen you can her here if you want I have a boy the same colour as your boy and I too am waitinng on eggs to hatch
August 20, 201014 yr Author No way! I love her to bits. Her name is Violet (ironically enough). I am really hoping to get pinkies, (jelly beans ) , these chicks can hopefully make it to the bench.
August 20, 201014 yr I had planed breeding the blue series clearbodies, bought an albino hen to put with him but to me the hen is pretty crappy any I have loaned her Clearwingfor the a round. She is looking better as she gets older. Now that i know my clearbody is fertile when Geoff finishes with her i will put him with her, might get nice birds
August 20, 201014 yr Author I am breeding mainly clearbodies, with YF Blues as a smaller line. So both series for me . Aweomse, just make sure the clearbody doesnt throw DIS's. I have a chick in another nest, so I bet they will all start arriving together Will walk out tommorrow and the whole nest in both nest's would have hatched :doh: (or not,,, I wish )
August 26, 201014 yr Author Update:First chick is here! Thankyou both I love the hen, she is top bred and a sibling of hers sold at auction for $180.Whoops, don't know what I was thinking I meant $50
August 26, 201014 yr Author She's looking good Soph! Cant wait to see their babies He's a lovely boy too I bet your a little regretful you gave her to me now
August 26, 201014 yr She's looking good Soph! Cant wait to see their babies He's a lovely boy too I bet your a little regretful you gave her to me now I know i would be Good luck with your babies
August 30, 201014 yr Author Wow, I have completley forgot to update The 3 fertile eggs have all hatched. Chick 1- Aug 26. Chick 2- Aug. 27. Chick 3- Aug 30. (today) Chicks are looking healthy and well, and growing quite fast.
August 31, 201014 yr Woohoo!! Very cool! I dont live with regret, I learn from mistakes and move on, and selling her to you wasnt a mistake, I still have her two sisters Looking forward to pics as they feather up
August 31, 201014 yr great birds, i look forward to seeing the chicks. Do you know if he is split blue?
August 31, 201014 yr Author Woohoo!! Very cool! I dont live with regret, I learn from mistakes and move on, and selling her to you wasnt a mistake, I still have her two sisters Looking forward to pics as they feather up Pictures soon great birds, i look forward to seeing the chicks. Do you know if he is split blue? The cock is grey green, so he carries the blue factor in him with the grey.
August 31, 201014 yr great birds, i look forward to seeing the chicks. Do you know if he is split blue? The cock is grey green, so he carries the blue factor in him with the grey. I think there is some confusion here on the blue or grey gene. If the cock is is greygreen, he is not split blue. Do not work on the assumption that you will get blues from a grey. That is not correct.
August 31, 201014 yr I agree and disagree with Dave here, grey green is from grey and a green bird not blue. The only way a grey green bird could be split for blue if he has blue in his back ground. when I say split for blue is I know putting to grey green together you can get blue series if blue is in there background, so yes split for blue, I put 2 grey green spangle down over 3 nest and got 2 greys, 2 white Df spangles, one sky blue spangle, 2 grey greens and 4 grey green spangles. We were shocked as we didn't expect it so I asked the origional breeder for their background and both birds had blue in their backgrounds. I am talking about my wow bird grey green spangle cock and the grey green opaline hen that Greg bought for my birthday 3 years ago.
August 31, 201014 yr ive always said grey will give blue if grey to grey breeding has birds from blue to grey breeding so its not completely true grey does not give blue grey to grey can give blue ive always stood by this but i think grey green may be diffrent not sure as most grey greeens from grey to green or greey green to grey breed birds
August 31, 201014 yr I've always understood that the grey factor is a color adding gene (like violet), and that it is separate from the green/yf/blue series. So whether the gray gene is there or not, has no effect on whether the bird will be green series or blue series. The same rules still apply in that the green birds have to be split for blue to produce a blue offspring. I think the confusion comes in when we start to think of the grey bird as something other than just a blue bird with a grey factor (or 2).
September 2, 201014 yr Finne is right, grey is a adding factor and separate from the blue gene a grey bird is a bird lined bird with the grey factor. a grey-green is a green lined bird with the grey factor. So the cock bird in the instance might not be split for blue, the answer will appear in the chicks.
September 4, 201014 yr Author Ohhh okay, I get it now Thanks, I really don't like genetics much. Updated pictures: Foster chick is slowly catching up. I think I have all hens. Nest pictures:If you can make the tangle out, largest chick is oldest. Foster is fluffiest down bottom with head out the top. Youngest chick is bottom left. Middle chick is top right. Two Youngest: Oldest Two: Oldest with pins coming through. She is looking yellow series. Foster: Foster trying to climb over oldest: Middle chick: Youngest: Chick Ages Oldest: 9 Days Middle: 8 Days Youngest: 6 days Foster: 14 Days Edited September 4, 201014 yr by Squeak_Crumble
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