Hi all,
The answer is yes i did pass 100 youngsters (103) it's my p/b. In all of my cages the nest boxes have been taken out, 1 cage with 3 young which will soon put into the aviary.
Newark this weekend and after that gradually re-furbishing the cages and really blitz the place. I know there's plenty to do in the shed but i find this time of year for me with zeb's can be a bit boring with nothing happening. But these jobs have to be done.
Next month will be how far work on re-furbi
All,
Talk about highs and lows, march high, april low, out of those 21 young i have lost 10. 4 different nests i've lost them from a 4,3,2 and a 1.
Reason ? Don't know i'm relating it to the weather/climate to much of a coincidence, apart from one nest i've been getting 1's and 2's in the box's.
On a brighter note my BBCFW x BB have produced another good round, 5 young 3x BBCFW and 2x BB now in the aviary,
Other young what came through are BC, BFBC and BCCFW's all now in aviary. Next
All,
Hope everything is working out for you all in your new breeding season.
Didn't go to Bird sale at Norwich, because all of the weekends it decided to snow was that weekend and it was called off, we'll try again on 18th March.
As for my birds i've had several clear eggs on first round, seems to follow last years start, all be it with different birds.
So far i've got 2x BBCFW hens, 1x BC grey male, 1x BFBC grey male and 1x BFBCCFW hen (to be confirmed)from another box. Also this
All,
Things are starting to pick up but slowly in the sense of small nests of young.
So far this season I've now rung 22 with more in nests but I've only had 4 out of one nest all the others have been 2x 3's and the rest are 2's and 1's
Is anyone else getting small nests ?
Haven't hit my aim so far but with nests down on young plus the percentage would be low for what i'm after, the results become more difficult.
Bought a pair of BCBBLB's from the east of England sale so that will
All,
After a disasterous month the only way is up and sure enough my zeb's have pulled it around. following on from last month i lost my best cock bird a BBCFW but he had gave me 6 BBCFW hens so on the bright side i can keep that line going.
Weather has definatly improved in my neck of the woods out here in east anglia.
Checked zeb's today and i've got :- 1x BBCFW + 2x BB greys from the cock bird that died, the hen is bringing them up very well.
BB grey x CFW = 3 young
BCCFW x BF g
All,
Another month has gone this one I think slipped under the radar, whosh it's gone.
Hope you all are picking up on the breeding after the slow start most of us had.
Mine now seem to be in batches, I knew I had 3 young out in two cages but when I went to check and clean today blimey! a total of 22 young that was a shock.
Had a couple of surprises one in the shed and one I the aviary.
Shed first, Silver male x BB Grey 2 young 1x Grey and 1x Cream Why???
Aviary, had this zeb o
Hi all and a happy 2012,
Well dec went quick, i managed to get all my cages (13) refurbed. Not because i did them but they really look the dogs bits. I did the cages in stages each weekend 2 here and 3 there, thats one of the problems with this time of year, the daylight hours.
On the dark evenings i've sat down (not every night) and wrote down possible pairings for 2012 scrubbed some added some and finally got the finished artical, worked out the possible breedings fro
All,
In my area weather has been kind to us, as of writing temp's are down and they are forcasting snow for the next couple of days. Who would want to be a zeb in an aviary.
Paired birds up, had prob with 4 pairs, males were chasing females all over the place,so not happy with that took the males away and replaced them with identical males, everything settled down.
At present i have 3 young and 46 eggs this is from 13 pairs so at the moment doing ok.One nest has got 2 young they are
All,
2011 is history now for the breeding, went to newark sold a few zeb's + bought one as well a male BBCFW.
Started my 2 year refurb over the last 2 weeks, 2 cages done completely last weekend and 3 more this weekend completed. 5 down 8 more to go.
Keep tinkering about on a A4 what to put with what i know roughly, suppose you call it fine tuning.
Next blog will be in 2012 (could have a few pairs down) so have a happy christmas and a good 2012 for breeding and to yourselves as
