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    I might be able to do a bfbc grey I've got a nest full just fledged, I don't breed much fawn. I've got one lovely pair of fawns but that's all - and so far they won't lay. There are a few fawns in the sale cage at the moment a bb hen and a split bb cock and a nice big hen, possibly split for ob. I'm mainly interested in bc, bb and bf. I'm just near cranbrook, I am  on the members map. Just keep going north from hastings.

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    Must be something about penguins, one of mine has recently laid these. The two smaller eggs are pretty much "normal" size eggs. The other two are huge! She does normally lay the huge ones, the smaller eggs were more of a surprise. I had a hen who laid some tiny eggs. I never got a normal egg from her.

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    If both parents are normal then the cock bird is carrying the fawn gene. To produce fawn cocks you would need two copies - one from the hen and one from the cock. A hen can't be split for a sex linked mutation. If a hen carries a sex linked mutation it will show that mutation visually. So the chicks produced will have one copy of the fawn gene which can only have come from there father. As they can only have one copy they can only be hens.

    Hopefully that helps.

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    You could try a bit of natural string tied to the bars, it gives them something to try and use as nesting material with out being able to fill the nest up. I've found it particularly useful with birds who like to lay nesting material over their eggs.

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    My cages have LED tape. As Busta says, 5 meter rolls from ebay.  I've notched out the  top piece of wood that the cage divider slides into and run a piece of self adhesive mini trunking across the full length of each cage, with the LED tape stuck to the lid of it. I've not worried about dimmers and simply time them from an old central heating programmer. 

    Andy.

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    Try farley's rusks. 0.03 g of salt per hundred grams and they have vitamins and minerals. I can't pretend I've tried them out on the birds but they are definitely healthier. :good:

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    Extractor fan is a must, they are very useful to keep the place cool in summer. Insulate it well, allow for plenty of storage. I would agree on windows, roof windows are top of my wish list. Lighting is obviously very important too.

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    Hi Emmy,

     

    Yes she chucked all of the chicks that she hatched out, I never got anything from her. I took the nest box away in the end. She was a lovely bird, just lacking in parenting skills.

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    A confusing bird! If it's cream one of the parents would have to be visibly cream or silver as it's a dominant gene.

    My bc silvers don't get black cheeks until they have their first moult, so yours should come through with a moult. The bird in my profile picture is a bc silver and she has pretty much no black in her cheeks at all.

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    It is certainly possible. If both parents carry the pied and the penguin mutation then chicks can be pied penguins. It's not regarded as a particularly desirable mutation because the pied can take away from the penguin markings. In reality though, desirable mutations are whatever you want, not what anyone else wants.

     

    Andy