Welcome back everyone! Here's a nice little shot of our barless family
but we actually have a new little family here - we have some baby tiger grizzles, which I'm sure
you are all excited to see. So let's get on with the video.
Have a look at this little guy. He's only a couple of days old not even two
weeks, and he's already one of my favourite birds. And that's not just because we've
finally got a baby in our barless project. He's just such a little cutie!
He's definitely a blue pigeon. I'm hoping he's a dark blue checker but I think
he's father might carry the regular checker allele so we'll have to wait
and see in another couple of weeks we'll see what colour he turns out.
I'm really happy with this little guy. I think he's going to grow up just as aggressive as his mother, which is a
trait that I'm really happy to have in in our barless project. He's such a nice little baby.
But this is what you guys came here to see, we have tiger grizzle babies!
They've just hatched this morning, or last night, but I can't wait to see how these
ones grow up. I'm really hoping that we get a brown tiger grizzle out of this
pair. If we do it'll definitely be a hen because the black father
carries the brown base colour gene, and because it's a sex-linked gene he can
only pass it on to his daughters so if we get a brown we know it's definitely a
hen. Anyway, I'll put these guys back in before they get too cold, I can't wait to
see how they grow up. These little guys have gotten themselves nice and dirty
playing in the rain, but this is probably the last time you'll see these guys for
a while.
It might actually be the last time you see the blue bar because I'm pretty sure
she's a hen so we're not going to be using her in the brown breeding
project. But I think our black pied here is a cock, which means we will keep him
for the breeding project. But we'll probably have him sitting in the other loft until he's
old enough to breed. I'm probably going to pair him to the check a hen who's
down here with the tiger grizzle cock. So hopefully we get some nice spread browns
out of that pair in a couple of months, maybe... maybe this time next year we'll
see what happens. So we have babies over in the other tiger grizzle box but
down here we don't even have eggs yet. It looks like she might lay this afternoon
we can hope so anyway because, she's being her normal frustrating self,
she is keeping us waiting and waiting and waiting.
She will lay eventually she just likes to take her time. This is of course the
box where the black and the opal pair were. I've taken them out and moved their
baby, I actually gave their baby to another local flyer. Because I'm trying not to keep too
many extra unnecessary pigeons at the moment. And once this pair's finished
breeding I'm actually going to do a bit of modifications like I mentioned last
week on this box set up. Make it a bit more waterproof and then we can start
breeding some birds for racing next year. Anyway guys, that's about it for today's
update make sure you come back in a couple of days and we'll have another
look at our little tiger babies we'll have a better idea of what colour they
are in about a week or two. And there's also another little option that
myself and Kurt from Maney Lofts have been talking about that we might be to get
some of our birds to race against each other. But that's all the information
have for you today, a bit of a teaser, so make sure you stick around for some more
information on that.