Conjoined twin birds!! Fixed the link! Not a Joke!!

[okiemommy]

Very interesting!!! I would really like to see that! (the show) good point: how many DNA tests have not proven the father of the baby when really they are. And how do they know it? Is there ever a way to find out? try to get the "other" set of DNA matched?? Wow.

 

[goldensunriseranch]

I thought that same thing! How many paternity tests gone wrong!! And how many innocent people in jail, or how many gone free when they shouldn't have. A whole new can of worms I guess the legal system really doesn't want to think about it. Add in a whole lot of 'disappearing twins' that are on ultrsound one minute and gone the next, well maybe this is where they go! I had a disappearing twin on my ultrasound once, but then lost the other so my own little chimera didn't happen. From what I understand sometimes the other dna is only on the inside in internal organs.

 

[onthespot]

I wish like crazy that the fischer was a new mosaic mutation, one that could be bred for. I think it is KILLER looking and would like to have a whole flock of them. I know the chances of a new mutation are way slimmer than the chances of a chimera. I am going to breed him just to see anyhow.

 

[goldensunriseranch]

Did the breeder candle the egg at laying and knew it was a double yolker? Actually spontaneous mutations, especially for color isn't all that rare. Especially if the gene pool is small. That's how the hairless cats came about, just one naked kitten in a normal litter. And the lionhead rabbit, just a mutation in a normal litter there too.
It would be very interesting to see what your little guy made baby wise! Some of each or only one color or the other.
What a fun breeding project! Do you have any girls for him already?

 

[okiemommy]

I'm so sorry you lost your twins

:aww

 

[goldensunriseranch]

Thanks! It was very very early on. And then I went on to have 3! (4, 2, and 3 months). So I am still very blessed. Especially since I supposedly had a 2% chance of ever having any. Shows what doctors know...

 

[okiemommy]

Thanks! It was very very early on. And then I went on to have 3! (4, 2, and 3 months). So I am still very blessed. Especially since I supposedly had a 2% chance of ever having any. Shows what doctors know...

congratulations!! Yeah true, doctors don't know everything!​

 

[onthespot]

My fischer has chosen a girlfriend, not quite the hen I would have chosen for him, but at least he has impeccable taste. It is a dark eyed clear white beauty. She is blue series, which at least will tell me if his gonads are blue or green DNA'd if he is a chimera. The clear, which is recessive, would also look incredible, if it got a mosaic look to it. I think a dark eyed clear bird would be mix marked pure white and clear yellow with a red head, eyes dark. THAT would look hot too...

It is too hot to breed them right now so I have not set them up for breeding right now. There is a nest box that I have seen her go in and out of, and they sit side by side, but I have not put nesting materials in there. I will wait until the fall to really set them up right. Here is a hotlinked pic of a dark eyed clear white, not mine. Mine's cuter!

 

[goldensunriseranch]

Those will be some wonderful babies!