All,
Mass food and drinking season is over, trousers are tighter but hey ho who cares we all enjoyed it.
Not much to report on zeb's, weather has held me back unable to catch what I need in aviary.
Have repaired a part of my aviary which needed to be done, put an extra shelf in shed so tidied that up cos i'm a bit tight for space anyway.
Cages all ready for their new families.
Got my breeding programme sorted, list of zeb's I need to catch, so you can say i'm on the starting gri
All,
Still haven't paired up yet weather over the last month has been diabolicle, no way was i going out to the aviary to sort zeb's out.
Plan B, i've got Newark sale on the 10th feb so i'm going to kill 2 birds with one stone (not literally) catch all the birds, sort out for Newark + what i need to start my season off.
I wouldn't have thought a late start will make much difference, hopefully because it's a late start might get some results of what i'm aiming at as a reward.
If i do
All,
Things are start to pick up now, got rid of the low pressure that was parked over Norfolk and replaced it with a high one.
Had 4 young leave the cage and now in prep cage for release to the aviary, they are BC grey + BCCFW from BFBC x BCCFW &
BCLB Pied + Fawn Pied from BFBC grey Pied x BCLB Pied.
In the other cages i reckon to have approx 12 young round about 6 days old.
Now started to get young in aviary but they to are still in box
As you probually read in my post i
All,
All pairs in shed seemed to have settled down, all cages had eggs.
I wasn't banking on to much first time around, due to weather and most are first time parents.
One of the Silver males x BB hen had two eggs hatched one but died other egg clear, now got two eggs. (cage 7)
BFBC x BCCFW had five eggs hatched four out, one died so they have 3 young 6 - 9 days old. (c2)
BFBC x BCFW had two eggs hatched one and that died + other egg clear now got fresh nest. (c3)
BFBC pied x BC
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,
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
All,
All zeb's from last blog all went out into the aviary, had one nest with 5 BBLB's and they were absolutely filthy but problem was I was away on hols but my son and daughter looked after my birds for that week and they took box away and over a period of time these young gradually cleaned themselves and the bonus is one of them is a male. This is the first male of this type I've had so happy days on that.
This month I have had a few firsts as I said first BBLB male, others are BFBCBB ma
Having cleaned 3 cages out, I have wired them up only on a individual test a all worked ok.
Now today I've cleaned out 5 more cages and tomorrow I shall be wiring these up + testing them.
If all goes ok only 5 more to clean out and test plus connect all together.
Gradually getting there.
Photo's possibly tomorrow to view so far.
Thanks for reading.
Trevor
Here are 3 photo's of a bank of 5 linked up,
This is a temp set up just for testing purpose and it worked, well pleased,
So at the mo I've got a bank of 5 linked together and a bank of 3 wired but not linked up yet,
So all's left is a bank of 5 to be cleaned and fitted with led's,
Fingers crossed next weekend,
Hope you like them,
Trevor
