Yellow back bourke

One of the rosa bourkes chicks has noticable yellowish feathers.  I know there is a yellow back mutation.

Due to genetics I know that both the rosa's are cocks and split for lutino.

and the rubino is a hen.

Update

Some of the second round opaline turquoisines have much deeper red chests than those from the first round.

and the little adopted chick made it. Very small, but hopefully should get bigger now it's fledged.

That's all 8 chicks made it.

Bengalese chicks are starting to feather up.

as are the bourkes (two rosa and a rubino).





Bengalese chicks on camera

The chicks are doing well.



Turks fledged

or rather I threw the last two out as I was worried the mother may get nasty now she's laying agian.

The last three

The adopted bourke chicks, 2 rosa cocks and a rubino hen...and a filthy nest box

Bengalese finch chicks

5 chicks

Fledging early

One of the opaline turks has fledged.  I think the parents are keen to breed again, so I'll have to keep an eye on the small ones left in the nest.

 First to fledge

Remaining chicks

I'm not sure that I should let the parents breed again.  You would think that they would have had enough for this year!

The adopted chick is a long way behind, although it is now looking a lot stronger.

7 doing well

It looks like all 7 should fledge.

Bengalese chicks

My first bengalese chicks.....on camera

Adoption update

Things didn't go quite to plan.  After putting the little turk in with the bourkes I was surprised to find her own eggs hatching the other day (I must get new batteries for my egg candler).  The worry was that she wouldn't feed her own newly hatched chicks having come attached to the much bigger turquoisine.  So I've now moved the new bourkes chick and eggs to my other pair of bourkes, whose own eggs look like they have failed.  A second egg has now hatched and both chicks are being fed.

The adopted turk chick (I'm not sure it's developing properly)

The other 7 chicks are OK (although there is still a big difference in size)

bengalese eggs should be hatching soon

My other pair of turks chicks all fledged OK

Two cinnamon hens, a normal hen and oplaine

The normal has perfect feathers

Decided to intervene

I removed one of the 8 turk chicks today.  I decided that the littlest pictured lower left didn't stand a chance with its older siblings and when I looked closer its crop was totally empty.

I decided to take a chance and put it in the bourkes nest box, having had doubts about their eggs which are nearly due but still only show partially developed embryos. I've just had another look and deilighted to see that it has been fed and now has a full crop.  Hopefully the other little ones will be OK.