Yay!! First two babies hatched last night.
Chick #1(above) is a plum eyed cinnamon from nest 16. Parents are greygreen cinnamon opaline spangle hen- cock is sky blue opaline split cinnamon. Chick is doing well been fed and is very pink and wriggly.
Chick #1 above. Chick #2 (below) is from nest 2. Blue Texas clearbody opaline hen and the cock is green texas clearbody opaline split albino. This pair are maiden parents and the hen had not fed the chick for 12 hours and it was not looking good, so I have popped it under the hen in nest 16. I will see how its going tonight and maybe tomorrow I will put it back in its original nest.
Overall fertility has been very poor. My fault for pairing up too early and with cocks not being in prime condition.
17 nests- 8 with eggs (6 pairs recently paired up)- 2 nests with fertile eggs.
42 eggs- 2 hatched (alive)- 10 fertile- 1 dead in shell (early stage)- 29 infertile.
I have removed infertile eggs from 2 pairs that had finished laying. Hopefully there will be some more fertility next time round.
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