Browsing Archive: July, 2010
Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Thursday, July 29, 2010,
Well there are more eggs and more chicks to talk about. No big surprise. Prince and Violet have three eggs. Willow and Storm still have two but I'm expecting more. Horus and Ginger now have five little chicks. The last two are a female and a male.
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Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Tuesday, July 27, 2010,
The aviary is filling up fast. Prince and Violet are now laying eggs. They have two. Willow and Storm also now have two eggs. Horus and Ginger still have four eggs to go. Their latest chick is a lutino female. I have a feeling I'm going to have my hands full feeding chicks this season. The birds don't usually have a summer breeding season but I think all of the humidity and hot temps followed by thunderstorms helped.
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Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Monday, July 26, 2010,
The second chick hatched today. The first is defiantly a female. And the second is a male. All the females will be lutino (yellow with red eyes) and all of the males will be normal green. I can now see the stark contrast between the two chicks because of their eye color.
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Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Saturday, July 24, 2010,
The first chick hatch today. It is four days early. It looks like it has developed to term so I'm guessing it just developed faster than normal. I'm not sure but it looks like a lutino but I will have a better idea when it gets older.
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Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Thursday, July 22, 2010,
Well it looks like we are going to have some chicks if everything goes as planed. All of the eggs are fertile. I put three of the eggs in Storm and Willows nest box. They have started showing signs of breeding and Storm has a large vent so she should be laying any day now. I figured Storm has raised multiple clutches so she knows what she is doing. I thought that would give the first time parents a break. Ginger didn't like it but she got over it in a few minutes. Storm has been sitting on th...
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Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Sunday, July 18, 2010,
Ginger has laid seven eggs. The 6th was laid on the 14th, the 7th on the 17th. Continue reading ...
Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Tuesday, July 13, 2010,
Ginger laid her 5th egg yesterday. Continue reading ...
Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Monday, July 12, 2010,
Horus and Ginger now have four eggs. The second egg was laid on the 8th the third 9th and the fourth 11th. Continue reading ...
Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Thursday, July 8, 2010,
Ginger laid her second egg today.
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Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Wednesday, July 7, 2010,
I have been talking a lot about breeding lacewings in the future. So I did a lot of research and asked a lot of questions. I decided to pair up my lutino male Horus and my olive green cinnamon female Ginger to start off. Well I put them in one of my breeding cages a couple weeks ago. They had just finished their molt so I thought it would be a great time to see if they would bond or not. Well they have bonded alright. I have seen Ginger going in and out of her nest a lot lately. In the last c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Thursday, July 1, 2010,
As I have said in prier posts, I am setting a new goal for the aviary. I would like to breed the lacewing mutation. Lacewing Is a mix either albino or lutino and cinnamon. If you have mixed an albino and cinnamon the bird will have an all white body and light brown head and wing markings. If you mix lutino and cinnamon the bird will have yellow body color and light brown head and wing markings. In both types the cheek patches show up violet. Both also have red eyes. Male ceres don't chang...
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