Great looking birds and setup splat. very imprssive. im just starting out i dream of something like that.

Thanks Pride, it only took me 5 years, each year getting bigger and bigger until I got my new room last year. So it all takes time. You will get there.

hey splat just been re-reading through this thread you said earlier that the problem was seed what did you mean by that? are you using soft foods instead?

I thought it was the seed because I tried to sprout some and only half of it sprouted , and the birds were emptying the jars out over night, What I have done is use different seed and I have been giving the aviary birds the other seed. But Geoff said it wouldn't be the seed as he bought the same seed I bought at the same time and he is having no problems. But I really thought my birds were hungry all the time.

My birds get a soft food mix in the morning and the ones with chicks get it at night also.

Anyway I have now put my birds on tank water, they were on town water. Once I buy a kettle they will be weaned onto boiled water and see how that goes.

I am still loosing chicks. My lutino nest hatched one the first one the other day and it died stuck to the shell, then other hatched the day after it is a lutino chick well it is still alive and then 4 days later another hatched in the morning and dead in the arvo and the last chick hatched that avro and lived 2 days, dead this morning, the last 2 chicks had empty crops, the one that died this morning was doing well and then the hen just stopped feeding it and I had nowhere to foster it, both these chicks were splits. And they did not have yellow belly. So I do not get it.

I hope i can atleast get my first ever chick this year.

 

Ps. How do you quote people.

Edited July 30, 201113 yr by Pride

What do you mean , (how do you quote people)

Splat.

 

 

 

i just read what you went through. It must have been frustrating for you. I usually have blood warm milk in a 10ml syringe to give to the newly hatched chicks. this gives them fluid and sugars and gets them going.

 

Also check you humidity in the nest. You may need a quick spray of water (mist) when the chicks are due to hatch.

 

 

I love the outcome anyway the chicks that have survived look great.

 

 

 

What was you thought of pairing Clear body to Clearbody? Numbers?

Edited July 31, 201113 yr by Daz

I mean how do you quote as in like what Kaz has done on her first post on the first page.

Thanks Daz, yes it has and still is heart breaking, I have fertile eggs and normally I would be excited but not anymore, they need to hatch and live, it just seems the hens just aren't feeding the, all the dead ones have no food in crop at all when I find them dead.

But I will give the water spray a go. How do you tell what the humidity is the the birdroom , is there away to tell Daz.

I have 3 fertile eggs so far from the yellow Df spangle and he is 07 bird and I really want those babies, I got nothing from him last year and already his chicks died this year from another nest. I have lost chicks from the white boy his son and I have fertile eggs from my violet and I need them too. I am on the verge of panicking.

I have gave a couple of chicks a weak solution of hand rearing food and I managed to save them. But i will try the milk. I just can't understand why the hens won't feed them.

I am fairly happen with what chicks have survived there are a few good ones there.

My idea of putting clearbody to clearbody was yes numbers, I am really happy with them but not the suffusion, there are 2 really good ones there to, they are big birds too.

Are you saying putting clearbody to clearbody a bad idea, just wondering because I am always after advice on them.

Yesterday at the Bendigo auction tried to buy another clearbody but they weren't as good as mine so i gave it a miss, I was also after grey hens and cocks but there weren't any there to improve my clearbodies or spangles but there were some nice cinnamons there. I was also after a albino for the clearbodies but was out bidded but teh winner promised me a chick when they breed and we shook hands on it lol, it was Peter Tirent, have you ever heard of him. But any I have lined some up off the breeder who sold them yesterday but will have to wait, so that won't happen until next year. My birds mainly come from this breeder.

Time for another update, here are some babies, a bit older and some new ones.

Yellow Df spangle

another one from the same nest, one has suffusion more than the other and they do have better colour than the photos, it the camera

 

White Df spangle from another nest, I am hoping it he improves, he is a bit small but my birds seem to develop late like the yellow one the grandfather and the white boy through their feather after their first moult.

 

Light green form another nest

 

and the clearbodies

 

 

and the weakest one but the one with less suffusion, always the way.

Maybe try and get a humidity reader splat.

That way it will be super easy to keep track of it.

 

I had no idea what they're called, but it took me less than 5 seconds to find one on ebay

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LCD-Digital-Temperature-Humidity-Meter-Hygrometer-Clock-/200461324010?pt=AU_Gadgets&hash=item2eac6d0eea#ht_3489wt_1141

(Turns out its called a hygrometer )

Maybe try and get a humidity reader splat.

That way it will be super easy to keep track of it.

 

I had no idea what they're called, but it took me less than 5 seconds to find one on ebay

http://www.ebay.com....#ht_3489wt_1141

(Turns out its called a hygrometer )

 

 

You can also find them in the reptile section of the pet store.

 

Ps. How do you quote people.

 

Pride, at the bottom of each post, on the right hand side is a button marked "multiquote". Just click on that and then you can type your reply.

Edited August 1, 201113 yr by Finnie

I reckon your white double factor if it grows will be a cracker. I like the 2nd clearbody too.

Splat you have remakable chicks there. When you feed the milk, you will see it fill the crop. The sugars will help give strength after the hatch.

 

Clearbody to clearbody is fine for numbers but best results are to breed to splits or if you are lossing the clear flights (darkening) go to lutinos

Thanks all, I will look into a humidity thing, thanks Fordmob and Daz I have 2 light green split clearbody cocks I bred last year, In the nest i got 3 light green split clear bodies, 1 clear body hen and 1 lutino hen.

I haven't put the clear body cocks down through lack of normal hens, but i have a grey hen out there waiting for one today, so that's a start.

I have the grand father of the babies this year down with a normal at the moment.

I am focusing more on my main line , spangles before I loose it. The clear bodies and dom pied come in when their is a nest or bird available.

Thanks finnie and great babies splat. Good to see some good luck as well on this forum.

Update time.

All is going well kind of lol.

I have most cages with eggs, 1 to about 8 in different nest.

One nest with one of my best hens has destroyed 2 of her eggs so I fostered the last 2 and out false eggs under her to stop her, it normally works.

I have a few nest with clear eggs still.

But the best news is my violet (the shield winner has 6 fertile eggs so far.

violet

 

The yellow df spangle (father to the white boy) has 2 maybe 3 fertile eggs and he is with his grand daughter.

yellow df spangle

 

Grand daughter

 

The dom pied has 4 fertile eggs so far.

 

The rest are to early to tell.

I just put the white boy (white Df spangle with 2 hens)

White boy

 

I just need them to hatch and survive now.

 

Oh I have a dark green cock I think about 3 1/2 weeks old nearly 4 weeks and he is looking like a beauty.

Will take some pics tomorrow or when I get time. But he has a wide head, plenty of feather, I think he will be

just like his dad. His dad is the violet green. (My violet is his dad and his mother is the violets half sister a

and the yellow DF spangles is the grandfather. If he turns out as good as he is looking now I think I have my line

on the right track. Mixing the spangles with the normals with the wow bird as the common blood.

Any just need to wait and see.

 

violet green,

 

But one of my nest is also

exciting, I have this really nice sky blue cinn opaline, (parents are the violet cock and a sky blue hen) and we put her with a light green spangle (full brother to the white DF spangle) the light green spangle is in my siggy his is the one on the left. Anyway she has 2 eggs and I am praying they will be fertile.

 

Light green spangle

 

This boy is being a pain, clear eggs so far

Any way Time will tell I guess. but at least the fertility is improving

Edited August 1, 201113 yr by splat

good to hear slpat things turning about

I have my fingers crossed for you

 

I love this one splat, beautiful colours.

Thanks Pride and great news he has a fertile egg with another hen, fingers crossed, out there this morning and I have some fertility in difference nest now, even the hen the destroyed 2 and I fostered 2 , 1 of them is fertile.

Gb I know now that even if I have fertile eggs, I can't get to excited because they have to survive and after the last round and they all dies but a few, the same thing may happen again, but if it does I think I will cry and probably through it in.

Thats great news splat.

I thought I would give you all an idea where things are at the moment.

Nest 1..sky blue hen / violet cock, younger brother to my shield winner, so far clear eggs.

Nest 2..grey opaline hen / lutino, had 4 fertile eggs, hatched all 4 only one survived, a lutino hen.

Nest 3..grey cinn spangle hen / white DF spangle cock, so far 2 fertile eggs

Nest 4.. yellow Df spangle hen / grey cock. so far clear eggs. (Aunty / nephew mating)

Nest 5.. grey hen / violet cock, shield winner, so far 7 fertile eggs. (father daughter mating) eggs should start hatching in a couple of days.

Nest 6.. grey hen / green clearbody cock, so far clear eggs

Nest 7.. light green cinn spangle hen / white DF spangle cock, apart to chuck the hen out, hasn't laid.

Nest 8.. baby cage

Nest 9.. grey green cinnamon hen / Dark green dom pied, 4 fertile eggs. Eggs should start hatching in the nest couple of days.

nest 10.. light green hen / light green cock, no fertility yet.

nest 11.. grey green dom pied hen / sky violet spangle cock, 2 eggs so far and the 1st showing fertilty

nest 12.. sky opaline spangle hen/ sky yellow face cock, no fertility yet

nest 13.. grey hen / light green cock, hasn't laid yet, the cock is the same cock from nest 10, running him with 2 hens.

nest 14.. light green cinn opaline hen/ yellow DF spangle, 4 fertile eggs.. father/ grand daughter mating.

nest 15.. foster pair.

nest 16.. sky spangle hen / white DF spangle, waiting on laying. Father/ daughter mating

nest 17.. light green clearbody hen / grey green clearbody cock, looks to be clear eggs, they already had a nest of 3.

nest 17.. grey hen / light green/clearbody cock. just put down.

nest 18.. cobalt cinn opaline spangle hen / white Df spangle cock. Father/daughter mating. The cock is the same as nest 15, running him with 2 daughters from different mothers.

nest 19.. sky blue cinn opaline hen / light green spangle cock, 2 eggs so far

nest 20.. sky violet spangle hen / cobalt cock, looks to be clear eggs so far.

nest 21.. light green cinn opaline pied hen / light green cock, just put down.

nest 22.. sky blue hen / sky blue spangle cock. smashed 2 eggs and I fostered 2 and one is fertile

nest 23.. light green opaline spangle hen / violet opaline spangle, 1 egg but she is mucking around.

nest 24.. light gren cinn spangle hen / white Df spangle cock, so far clear eggs.

nest 25.. dark green hen / violet green cock. 2 fertile eggs so far

nest 26.. violet hen / grey cock, 3 eggs laid , no fertility yet, they just had a round of chicks.

nest 27.. grey green cinn hen / cobalt cock. 3 chicks, 1 theirs

nest 28.. holding cage.

Edited August 2, 201113 yr by splat

I have this cracker I hope, this dark green chick is from the violet green cock. Look at the head on it, and she is only 4 weeks old. I think it is a hen as there is white around the cere but Greg reckons cock. But it is far the best I have bred this year and last year so far.

here are a few photos but she would stay still so they are not very good.

looks very promising