cock dies ? foster parents found

[gomer]

Found a yellow backed split/blue cock dead this morning,So checked about four day old chicks in the nest box, found them stone cold a thought they were dead.Put the three in my hand and blew warm breath on them.They all came around, But i did not want to put them back in the same nest even though I thought the dead cock wasn't the father,could be wrong.I decided to go through all my normals first to find a foster pair.As all my yellows i keep are white breast and all the blues are purple as far as i know.So it will be easy to tell the young apart if they live.In the off chance the split/blue i got are also split to w/b,but all young were to big.So i went through the yellow backs and found a pr with four chicks a couple of days younger.I put them in with them and checked them a hour later.They were all still alive and not tossed,I will check them another couple of times today and touch wood they will be OK.

[cranberry]

So the hen can't look after them on her own?

[gomer]

In this case they were already as good as dead when found.I have had a single parent look after chicks before,But the younger the less chance of the parent looking after them I think.
Good news at 5:30 pm tonight all are fine with the foster parents.Not so good news is there is a extra chick than i first thought,being five origanals and now three more.Six would have been a good number not eight.

[AMCA26]

Nice work, what are the young going to be as in colour gomer? Blues , Silvers or all Splits.

[gomer]

If they live one will be silver as one is lighter skinned,And i think the other two are yellow split to blue as they all have the white middle nodule but are a little darker skinned then the silver.

[finchbreeder]

How is the foster nest going?
LML

[gomer]

All the split blues have fledged.Lost three of the yellows though.They died early in the piece,The blues were a little bigger so did better.Was unfortunate as I did not want any to succumb,But i did not want to loose the split blues.

[finchbreeder]

Ah well. More good news than bad then.
LML

[BENSONSAN]

Have to see some pics of them gomer when you get a chance. Will you breed a split to a full blue bird?

Ben