Chirping Chicks

Nyt minä vasta hoksasin, että meillä on pöntössä kaksi eri sinisen sävyä, joka siis tarkoittaa että Chiara on perusväriltään koboltti, sillä muutoin ei tummuusasteita voi tässä pesueessa näkyä Bossin ollessa vaaleansininen. Nelonen on siis koboltti normaali ja vitonen vaaleansininen opaali. Nelosella on lisäksi muutamia tummanharmaita sulkia sinisen seassa, joten tummuustekijä siellä tekee työtään, väri todennäköisesti tasoittuu ensimmäiseen sulkasatoon mennessä. Kakkonen vaikuttaa superuteliaalta ja kesyltä ja voikin olla, että se sittenkin etsisi uutta kotia perheestä jossa se saisi olla kesy perhelintu, eikä jäisi meidän puolivilliin parveen. Mutta katsellaan vielä miten kehittyvät, tavoitteena on saada kaikista muistakin yhtä uteliaita ja kesyjä 💗 Liljan ja Frodon pesueen vanhin on myös jo kasvattanut perusväriä esiin ja siellä meillä on ensimmäinen violetti :) Ykkönen edessä, taustalla myös harmaa opaali kolmonen, jolla kenties myös tummuustekijä Siniset pyrstöt! Nelonen, koboltt...

The troubles don't seem to want to go away.. First with good news, Chiaras and Bosses babies do fine, very well actually. Chiara seems to be a lot more energetic now that Boss has finally started to help her with the chicks. This though didn't happen until I had taken the hen away a couple of times. Chiara has also stopped being as protective with the babies as she was before, maybe due to me handling her and her remembering that humans are not all the bad after all. I'm hoping some of them getting out of the next box already this week so that it wouldn't be so crowded! Number 1 and 2 have lovely long feathers already. But then to this tight sitting hen, Lilja... Her good intentions seem to have caused her babies even more harm, now the splayed legs sydrome. I noticed this on sunday morning, was suspecting it already when I ringed number two on saturday, but when I had to renew the banding as the ring had fallen off, I could very well see that both number 1 and 2, possi...

  She's still the sweetest little budgie 💕 Chiara has gotten some time out of the cage now that she's started over grooming the chicks. That means she's nibbling their down off, and bald patches are appearing where they should be fluffy and white, or grey. But it's worked, Boss has started to feed the chicks instead and Chiara, every time she gets back, concentrates better on her babies. If it should get worse, we are now prepared to remove he all together. Here are number two, three and four. Four and five are the ones who she's plucked the most, and also here you can see the fluffy down which should be covering evenly all the back side of the chick, is blotchy. The elder chicks are better off already and luckily Chiara hasn't been plucking any of the chicks feathers. The colours of the babies are as follows: 1. Grey opaline 2. Grey cinnamon opaline 3. Grey opaline 4. Skyblue normal 5. Skyblue opaline None of the chicks are yellowface!

Tai eipäs liioitella, kuvia on vain yksi! Se on numero kaksi, eli Honda, Huyndai, tai Huawei. Olen kääntänyt sanat suomeksi ja makustelen tässä mikä olisi sopivin. Ehkä kuitenki Hiace, muodostettu sanoista sanoista High and Ace - kaikkea sitä oppii 😅 Se on suurella varmuudella poika, ykkönen vaikuttaisi edelleen tytöltä. Mutta miksi kuvien otto eilen jäikin näin vähälle - tai otin useampiakin, mutta olivat aika liikkuvaisia yllättäen ja kuvista tuli suttuisia - oli että ehdin siinä sitten puruja vaihtaessani ja poikasia katsellessani huolestua, että onkohan Chiara lie harrastanut "over-grooming"-ia eli hoitovieteissään rapsutellut poikasilta untuvia pois. Ei taida olla yhtä ainoaa päivää poikasten ollessa pönttöiässä, etteikö yksi tai toinen asia huolestuttaisi... Jos se on over-groomingia, eli jonkinlaista liiallista tai aggressiivista hoitamista, joka muuttuu negatiiviseksi vaikutuksiltaan, sitä on jatkunut vasta 1 tai maksimissaan 2 päivää. Poikaset on olleet ihan tavalli...

Lilja and Frodos fourth chick hatched today and that will be their last too. Two eggs remaining are light and dry. I took one of them away already, and left the other, though I'm sure it's no good. It was those two eggs I lifted up a week ago, when I was waiting for the first one to hatch and became so sad thinking it must have happened, or will happen to all of the eggs... But luckily I was wrong. So I'm happily waiting for the colours to start appearing as there is a nice chance for some violets! Violet is after all a dominant mutation, so the odds for getting a violet for a budgie chick is always 50%, but yes, you can also get tails 4 times a row... So it isn't a done deal just yet. Frodo will also be passing forward only skyblue, having no dark factors, and a skyblue violet will look like a cobalt. With Liljas cinnamon gene it's difficult for me to determine if she also has the cobalt gene, but it's likely. A cinnamon skyblue violet will on the other hand gi...

The house has been empty the whole weekend, that is more than 6 hours per day, both days, which usually doesn't happen, as either the kids or I am at home. My friend has been here to take the dogs out and put some fresh food in the breeding cages. So we got home with the kids in the evening and all is well, I start to take the old food away and prepare some fresh for the parents to eat and ask my daughter who hasn't seen the newest bub - born this morning, and she goes "aaaw!" - and I want to take a look myself, because Lilja is still out of the nest box, but there's only two of them. There should be three. My first thought, it has been eaten - and while I thought that, my daughter points at a tiny little thing on the cage floor, unmoving. I pick it up right away but it's cold and I start breathing on it, I breath and I breath and go to the bath room to warm up my hands in hot water as they were ice cold coming outside just a moment before. I continue breathin...

Liljas and Frodos nest has now two chirpy-chirpers, as another egg hatched just today. This clutch will get letter I what comes to their names. I get superhappy now that I already got to fear the worst, I checked the eggs in a hurry as I do everything that has to do with anxious moms - and I saw some dried out eggs, but I'm so happy that my gloomy predictions didn't come true. Even two little chirpy-chicks for them is enough and if more is to come, I'm even happier. I'm really hoping for a violet, though I do acknowledge the difficulties in trying to figure out which one actually HAS the violet gene... But I will worry about that later. Now Chiaras and Bosses babies are feathering up lovely and the second baby is beyond beutiful and a must stay in the flock. It seems to be a grey cinnamon, with a very orange beak atm, so you can only imagine! I will probably be taking some pictures next week just to memorize the development of feathers in cinnamons. --- Lilja ja Frodo o...