The morning of the day I left for Melbourne one of the best chicks that fledged was attacked and killed by its mother. Best blue chick I had seen come through for quite some time. Left the other blue chick alone which isnt a patch on the one she killed.

That's very sad and sorry for your loss Kaz

Hey Dean the start of this season has been what I would call very average for us. Always seems to be the way before the weather warms up. Reasonable fertility but countless addled and DIS or dead hatchlings, still managed to ring 20-something babies so far but from 24 cabinets that kinda sucks. Still I don't call it a complete disaster until the end of the season but when you are not used to the difficulties of breeding exhibition birds it can really knock the stuffing out of you.

 

As your exhibition flock grows and you have a better selection of experienced birds I think you won't see such wholesale disasters.