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how would the babies of these too look

Edited March 22, 200619 yr by Rainbow

Sorry, the pics were too large so I had to make them into links.

 

The male looks too young to breed, but you should end up with green babies if you bred two birds of these colors.

he is too young but he still maed with her and she is sitting on one egg

The green hen is at LEAST a year old. You can tell becuase of her dark choclate brown cere, her iris rings, and her head has no more bars on it. So, you cant really tell. From the picture though, if i was to make a random guess, id say 2-3. For the blue male, its the same. His cere is bright blue, meaning hes at LEAST 8 months old. You cant really make out a iris ring, nor can you really see if he has bars on his head. If he were to have no more bars, and an iris ring, hed be about 1-2 i guess. If he does have bars on his head, and no iris ring, id say hes about 9 months old....

 

Hope that helps! ps-they are stunning, and what are their names???

 

Kirby

I disagree about your methods of determining age, especially the age of the male. He has bars running all the way down to the cere. Those are lost at the first molt, which occurs around 16 weeks of age. That would make him under 4 months old. The cere begins to change around 4-8 weeks of age, so the fact it is blue only makes him at least 2 months old. The hen could have a chocolate brown cere at 5-6 months of age - the darkness of the brown is due strictly to hormone levels. The iris ring is not a reliable age indicator either. Some of my hens had them turning light at 5 months, and I currently have 2 birds at 2 years whose iris rings are not very dark at all.

 

My reasoning about the age of the male was due strictly to the bars running all the way to the cere.

 

I do agree with you about the looks of the birds though, beautiful colors!

 

**Edit**

Now that I look at the pictures again, I'd say the hen isn't very old either because she looks like she still has "baby spots" in her necklace. Many babies don't have spots at all until their first molt, and those that do often have them in irregular patterns, or too many spots. After a 2nd or 3rd molt they settle in. It's possible she just has small irregularly placed spots and is fully adult, but I'd guess she was under a year also.

Edited March 22, 200619 yr by Rainbow

1st. the names are porscha and kirby

2nd. the female is a year but i dont know the age of the boy

Since the hen you know is a year old, I would sugggest letting her handle the clutch/chick alone. It will be alot of work for the male and he may even harm the eggs/chick.

 

But i'm with rainbow if your hen isn't split for blue then all green babies.

Green babies split for blue.