Hi all,

 

New to breeding (well, attempting to) and looking for some advice.

 

These are the newest addtions to our little flock...they are a little over 1 year old, and seemed to be quite bonded from our observations at the place we bought them (a local home-based shop). They were in a cage with another 10-15 adult birds, and these two wouldnt leave each others sides...if 1 moved the other followed...lots of "kissing" and mutual head touching. Even my 11yo son noticed how close and clingy they seemed to be....so we have our fingers crossed. We also thought they were independantly quite pretty birds, and the fact they seem bonded was a bonus.

 

Now for the questions ....

 

1. Are they in breeding condition?

 

2. What colour/s are they?

 

3. What colour babies can we hope for?

 

Cheers and thank you, Michelle

 

 

 

 

Dont put the hen down to breed just yet. She is sat the stage where the brown is about to peel off and reveal the white blue of a hen not in breeding condition and she is also showing signs of moulting. How old is she ............do you know ?

He is a skyblue normal and she seems to be a grey greywing.

Its best to give new birds time to settle in before putting them straight down to breed.

Edited December 13, 201014 yr by **KAZ**

Thanks Kaz, i also thought she appeared to be moulting but wasn't sure. They're both a little over 1 year old (what we were told). What sort of time frame are we looking at before she will again be in breeding condition? Or is it just a matter of "wait and see"?

 

Cheers, Michelle

Give her time to settle in. You may be looking at a couple of months. Brown cere will peel away and then you wait for light brown.

Opaline greywing grey and skyblue normal cock. If the hen is single factor grey, expect 50% grey and 50% blue babies. If the hen is carrying a dark factor, you can expect light greys, dark greys, sky blues and cobalts. Unless the cock bird is split you will only get visually normal chicks although all will be split for greywing and the cocks split for opaline.

thank you Dean