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