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Browsing Archive: May, 2010

Chick update

Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Thursday, May 20, 2010,

All six chicks are doing well. They are starting to eat on their own. They all know how to get in and out of the nests but seem to be more content out sitting with their parents. I have decided to keep the opaline cinnamon yellow face type two hen. In the future I would like to breed lacewings. The lacewing mutation is a mix between ino (albino or lutino) and cinnamon. The result is a yellow or white bird with red eyes and brown wing markings. Some lacewings even have color on their bodys as ...

Photos of the six chicks

Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Monday, May 10, 2010,

Chick photos

Posted by Bridget Wheeler on Monday, May 3, 2010,

Here are Grace and Apollo's chicks. The first one is normal, light green and the second one is dominant pied light green.

Here are Stella and Dusty's chicks. The first one is opaline, yellow face type two, grey violet. the second is opaline double factor violet. the third is opaline grey violet and last but not least is the fourth chick she is opaline, yellow face type two, cinnamon grey violet.