BR23 Blog

The season is slowly coming to an end. At least in the basement. More and more breeding cages are getting empty.

A few pairs are starting their last round and that will be it. There are a few nice ones in the box like these two:

sky blue opaline-cinnamon

cobalt

They are both from the same pair (131GAOC): an own bred cock with an outcross hen. Both chicks look very nice. The cobalt seems to be a heavier feathered bird, a feature found in the mother too.

This clutch will probably be the last really good one of this season unless mum and dad want to have another go.

Now I'll have to sort out my birds. Even though I want to expand the number of good breeding pairs the bar will be higher for getting in the breeding team. All the good weaned chicks are inbred over the same cock (AC). Those that aren't inbred like the two in the pictures above are related to that cock. So I'll need to find some good new blood before my stud becomes fully anaemic.

As the inside season closes, the outside season opens. Usually the nest box would already be in the outside flights for more then a month. But with the later start of the winter season I'm also delaying the summer season. During this summer season the lesser hens (those that for sure will not be used next season) get a chance in the outside flights. I will also breed with about half a dozen pet hens. Perhaps I'll get rid of them after this season to make room for the expanding exhibition stud.

Once the possible split fallow chicks I bred are old enough, they will be test mated to see if they are split. Hopefully I'll breed a few fallows this year.