Hi guys, I have set up 4 pairs for breeding and they have laid there eggs.

2 pairs have 6 eggs, 1 pair has 7 they are my best breeders, and the other has 5 and still laying..

 

2 hens are first time layers 1 of them has smaller eggs than her sister. I will find out soon enough!

Will let you now how they all go. am expecting babies soon...

That's a lot of eggs!! Hope you get loads of pretty babies!

YAY how many days do we have to wait to see your little ones?

 

What colours are the folks to be?

okay we have about a week to go! and yes I am very excited..

 

1st pair::: dominant Yellow light green cock...Opaline skyblue hen.6 eggs

2nd :::: normal cobalt cock...Recessive skyblue hen. 6 eggs

3rd ::::: Recessive yellow light green cock... Opaline cobalt hen. 5 eggs

4th :::::: normal sky blue cock ...... dominant white sky blue hen. 7 eggs

 

good luck with your eggs lady, from one expectant 'grandma' to another (Laughing out loud), cant wait for pics

Thanks telmadee ..good luck with your eggs too.

I'm a bit lost with the yellow light green O_o but still sounds very interesting. Do you know of any of the splits in the bird or is going to be pot-luck sort of thing?

Hi nerwen, I know what you mean but I'm a bit confused too. I think I have a picture here have a look and tell me what you think.

 

He is the far right.

Please let me know. thanks

OMG I don't know what happend then but it wouldn't let me edit and then it posted it again.... Sorry I was just trying to edit!

I don't think the pics are going to work so I eill try again.. here goes

 

IT WON'T LET THE picture GO THROUGH THE IMG IS COMMING UP IN LOWER CASE NOT CAPITALS i DON'T KNOW WHATS WRONG..wILL VISIT PHOTOBUCKET TOMORROW..

okay I hope these work

what do you think.

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good luck! can't wait to see pics

I'm a bit lost with the yellow light green O_o but still sounds very interesting. Do you know of any of the splits in the bird or is going to be pot-luck sort of thing?

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I will try to explain what colour he is..okay he is yellow all over except for the shoulder area, rump, under bottom, where there is green, his flight feathers are white.

 

There are only 2 hens that I have bread, breeding at the moment. It is their first time they are the opalines pure blue. they came from blue parents.

My white skyblue dominant and her normal mate have given me 12 out of 15 pied babies.

And my recessive skyblue and normal mate have given me 4 recessives 3 greywinged normals and a (this is where it gets confusing) greywinged skyblue pied with an iris Which puts him in the dominant class

I will try an post a picture of him it's his back so you might see his spot!

That boy is a spangle Most spangles have a spot on the back of the head too, that is how freckle got her hame. Still not sure how you got him becuase spangle is a dominant gene.

thats right he even is opaline.. :dbb1: So are you saying that because he is spangle he is not pied with the spot... thanks nerwen...god we never stop learning, do we?

thats right he even is opaline.. So are you saying that because he is spangle he is not pied with the spot... thanks nerwen...god we never stop learning, do we?

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Learning - yes I'm trying :dbb1:

okay we have about a week to go! and yes I am very excited..

 

1st pair::: dominant Yellow light green cock...Opaline skyblue hen.6 eggs

2nd ::::  normal cobalt cock...Recessive skyblue hen. 6 eggs

3rd :::::    Recessive yellow light green cock... Opaline cobalt hen. 5 eggs

4th :::::: normal sky blue cock ......  dominant white sky blue hen. 7 eggs

 

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okay pair 3 I have told you light green I ment to say recessive dark green.

Also my 4th pair has layed their 6th egg

4 to 6 days to go...

he could eb slpit for pied but I think the spangle is dominant over the pied genes. I may be wrong though I'm still learning myself in Lots of areas.

I think a bird is either pied or it's not. Piedness isn't a recessive gene. I don't see why you can't have a pied spangle.

Piedness isn't a recessive gene.

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Errr :dbb1: I think may have come out differently to what you were thinking.

 

As to a spangled pied well if you think of spangles as a type of pied gene then you couldn't have one, like you couldn't have an dominant recessive pied.

I was just reading a book and it has a little bit on combinations, even says about rainbow pieds but the combinations are endless.. So I would say that he is a Opaline spangle pied..

His mum and dad are the 2 birds on the right in my sig..

 

He is a normal cobalt/ he must be split for opaline.. his first mate was opaline and they only gave me opalines...

I'm backing off since I' confsing myself with that part

 

I'm still stuck on how you got a spangle from those to birds. Unless one of your sky blues there got a look in

 

Pass was the one that told me you can have a bird split for spangle and I trust him

I know what you mean nerwen.. :budgiedance: But no others got to her because I breed in separate breeding boxes.. I will see what they bring out this time because they have 6 eggs.. soon to start hatching.. I have got a violet / cobalt spangle from them as well...

Glad to hear that :budgiedance: I'm sure that violet / cobalt is a cutie

 

Any change of some closer pics of the pair? I'm really interested now

It does sound beautiful

I will go and see what pics I have of them and take some if I need to...I also will get pics of the babies they have had already.

 

I am pretty sure they have all stop laying now. :nest:

3 pairs have 6 eggs ... and 1 has 7 eggs . 1 of the 7 has a little crack in it so I'm not sure how that 1 will go! Not sure what happend there, princess hasn't put it out, and noing her it may still hatch..

Not long now..

I cant wait to see those pictures!! They sound beautiful!