Browsing Archive: March, 2009
Posted by Rachel on Saturday, March 21, 2009,
Mondrian and Sprite's 4 eggs hatched, and all the babies are wiggly and well-fed. Now we're up to 15 babies! Dandy and Zelda, the pair laying eggs in the coconut in the aviary, is up to 8 eggs. We'll see if anything comes of it!
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Posted by Rachel on Monday, March 16, 2009,
As of this weekend, we jumped from 3 babies to 11!
- Constantin x Danube - 3 babies who we thought were all blue, but now one seems to be changing to something else. We'll see!
- Orange Guy x Silvie - 3 babies. All look like greens.
- Peep x Marie - 5 babies! Looks like 2 yellows and 3 greens.
- Mondrian x Sprite - 4 very fertile eggs...
- Brahma x Judith - scared off the nest during some work that was being done on the house, but look to be going back to nest...
- Dandy (OH PB Dilute with pos...
Posted by Rachel on Saturday, March 7, 2009,
Today in cleaning out the aviary, I took out the old bamboo which scared all of the breeding pairs out of their nest boxes. I took the opportunity to do a 5-nests-in-30-seconds egg candling, and here's the update:
- Mondrian x Sprite - all 4 eggs fertile
- Constantin x Danube - all 3 blue babies who hatched yesterday are looking good
- Orange Guy x Silvie - 4 out of 5 eggs fertile
- Peep x Marie - all 5 eggs fertile
- Brahma x Judith - very early, but looks like all 5 might be fertile
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Posted by Rachel on Thursday, March 5, 2009,
Just a quick update on the 5 pairs we have set for breeding:
- Mondrian x Sprite - 4 eggs, possibly starting to sit.
- Constantin x Danube - 5 eggs, 3 fertile. Due to hatch within the next few days.
- Orange Guy x Silvie - 5 eggs, 3 fertile. Due to hatch in the second week of March sometime.
- Peep x Marie - same as Orange Guy and Silvie. With both pairs we somehow missed when they started sitting.
- Brahma x Judith - 3 eggs! Didn't even know she was laying till today.
Our new OH PB YB hen, Pi...
