summer updates

The one and only turquoisine egg turned out to be infertile as I suspected.  At least I got to try out my new incubator with self turner.  A bit noisy but works very well otherwise.

The scarlet chest babies are weaned now.  The 2 babies that were plucked are growing feathers back, so should be ready for their new homes in a few weeks.

Here is one of the babies.  At this stage, the juvenile look almost exactly like females except the beak is not as dark.









All of the zebra babies have fledged.  They are still weaning and are very noisy doing it ^_^.

The mother is the CFW at the most left, and the father is the gray normal 3rd from the left - he should be split to CFW.  There is a normal gray behind the CFW baby 2nd from the left.  There are a total of 4 CFW babies and 1 normal gray.



I've put a pair of gouldians together since they were looking very interested.  These were some of the first gouldians to finish molting.  They immediately did the dance, so I provided a nest box.  I've been seeing them checking out the nest.  We shall see if they succeed.  It's the first time for this pairing.  The weather is pretty hot, but hopefully they will do well.  See below for the happy couple.  The hen is on the left - she is a black headed purple breasted silver, and the male is a red headed lavender breasted double factor yellow split to blue back.