The third chick had hatched when I checked them this morning. It's the one at the back with its head facing us. As each chick hatches it makes it really obvious how much the prevous chicks have grown. As you can see, chick 1 is now a little fatty! Just incase you can't work out what on Earth is going on in the first photo, here's the edited version! Chick 2 was hiding from the camera to make the pile of babies look even more confusing.
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The second parrotlet chick hatched today. It's the smaller pink blob on the right. It caused me a moment of panic when I first looked at it because it doesn't have dark eyes like I'm used to (the eyes aren't open yet but you can see the colour through the skin). I then remember that lutino, albino and fallow parrotlets exist so it looks like my green pied pair are probably split for a red-eyed mutation unless this chick is a random fluke. I'll be interested to see what colour it ends up being. I candled the parrotlet eggs today and of the 7, 5 are definitely fertile, I’m not sure about 1 and 1 looks to be infertile. This means that barring any disasters, I should have a baby parrotlets ready in 9-10 weeks from now. The first egg is due to hatch an about a week. I’ll update here as chicks manage to hatch. Sometimes chicks and eggs can have problems so I can't promise that all of the eggs will end up as parrotlets. However the eggs are all a nice size and shape so fingers crossed! For those who are interested here's a photo of the eggs. They're about 1.6 cm long so they're pretty tiny. The 2 eggs that look more beige coloured are the ones that are either newly laid or infertile. Bonus photo of my Mum's Tiggy being adorable! Tiggy is one of Squid and Bean's chicks from last year. I decided to candle the 4 eggs that the greens have so far. Some are too young to show anything but the third egg that I checked was fertile! I didn't bother to check the last one because I'll candle them all again 5 days after the 6th egg and I don't really like to handle them too much.
Just checked the green's box and saw a new egg in there. I'll update in a week or so when I've be able to say if the eggs look like they're fertile or not.
Well Squid (green hen) laid a clutch of 6 eggs but they were all clear. She seems to trying again now so fingers crossed that this lot actually hatch.
My dilute yellows are starting to show more interest in their next box so hopefully they'll start doing something soon. Likewise my younger pair of sierras are starting to look like they might be considering breeding. Squid, my green hen, has laid her first egg of the year. Hopefully this means that they'll be green chicks available by April. I'll update again once she's finished laying and I've candled the eggs to check that they are fertile.
All of the birds that I had for sale are now sold, although 1 hen is awaiting collection.
Two of the green chicks are still looking for a new home. They're 8 weeks old and just about as adorable as can be. The little boy chick went to his new home yesterday. He's now named Barnaby (an excellent name) and I can tell that he's going to be much loved.
I've also got an older cock parrotlet looking for a new home. See 'availability' for more details. |
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