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Thursday, May 5, 2011

First turquoisine baby!

Apollo and his new mate (an older red bellied hen, not the younger bird from an earlier post), whom I'm calling Sunnie has finally produced a baby - it'll be the very first turquoisine baby to be born to my aviary.  Very excited.  I thought Sunnie would never accept Apollo.  She lost her mate, and her owner could not find a male for her so put her up for sale.  She's about the same age as Apollo - going on 3 years old, so she was a lucky find since I haven't been able to find an age appropriate mate for Apollo since Sunny died.  Apollo was smitten immediately, but Sunnie did not like him at all.  I thought she wanted to breed when she stayed in the nestbox all the time, but I think that was just to hide from Apollo, lol.  Finally, she must have changed her mind.  She had 4 eggs, only 2 were fertile, with 1 DIS, so only 1 live baby, but both parents are doing a great job so far raising the little one.
turquoisine baby says: "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

turq baby just a few days old

scarlet chest baby - only child of this clutch from Red and Scarlet
 

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