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- Apr 15, 2020
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This week my ~5-6 week old albinos and double silvers had a crowing, foaming, albino roo. I moved him to the albino cage with a couple of his female litter mates, this brings me up to 5 hens and a roo as far as albinos go. I had the dad in with the hens, as I’ve read albinism is sex linked, and I had only gotten hens, which seemed to support this. So dad moved out and son moved in. I have 1 more albino chick, about 2.5 - 3 weeks old, that was in a brooder with a double silver litter mate. After about a week, I have to separate the blind birds because the sighted littermates peck their eyes. Anyway I have a total of 7 albinos, the youngest chick seems to be male because I moved him in with Snowflake and the double silvers, and Snowflake is crowing like crazy, but not harming him. I’ll see how they do, I don’t wanna move the baby out until it’s fully feathered, and he’s a bit behind because the blind ones sometimes take a couple extra days to start thriving at first.
I have Snowflake in with 3 double silver ladies, and then the 6 adult albinos live outside. I have a total of 5 extra double silvers, 3 males, 1 hen, 1 too young to tell. I may keep the hen, snowflake can take one more. But the rest have to go to the auction. I’d like to have an heir and a spare so to speak with my albino Roos, which means I need 2 cages, I have to be realistic and not try to keep 2 cages of albinos, 2 cages of double silvers, sex link celadons, snowie celadons, a cage of k dale sparklies, and my black project cage, plus 2 cages of buttons eventually. It’s too much. So I’ve had to choose between albino and double silvers. I’ve worked really hard on the doubles, and they almost always hatch and do well now, I’m so conflicted in selling them. Snowflake is basically our pet, so he isn’t going. I’ll keep him in his inside home with his ladies, but I’ll probably change his ladies out to albinos as I get more. So I’ll be no longer working on doubles, and I’ll put the efforts into my albinos. I actually have a bunch of anxiety about selling my doubles lol.
Anyway, here they are, getting ready to go:
I have Snowflake in with 3 double silver ladies, and then the 6 adult albinos live outside. I have a total of 5 extra double silvers, 3 males, 1 hen, 1 too young to tell. I may keep the hen, snowflake can take one more. But the rest have to go to the auction. I’d like to have an heir and a spare so to speak with my albino Roos, which means I need 2 cages, I have to be realistic and not try to keep 2 cages of albinos, 2 cages of double silvers, sex link celadons, snowie celadons, a cage of k dale sparklies, and my black project cage, plus 2 cages of buttons eventually. It’s too much. So I’ve had to choose between albino and double silvers. I’ve worked really hard on the doubles, and they almost always hatch and do well now, I’m so conflicted in selling them. Snowflake is basically our pet, so he isn’t going. I’ll keep him in his inside home with his ladies, but I’ll probably change his ladies out to albinos as I get more. So I’ll be no longer working on doubles, and I’ll put the efforts into my albinos. I actually have a bunch of anxiety about selling my doubles lol.
Anyway, here they are, getting ready to go: