My 8 little gems are doing quite well and just wanted to share some observations. First, I have two males and six females in this clutch that just hatched. Last year, I had 2 males and four females and the year before that, one male and five females. Has other folks shown similar ratios?
I am now in that wonderful period of getting my hatchling couperi to feed. So far, all refused their first feedings of frozen/thawed fuzzies as expected. But, on the next go around, here's what was taken:
6 indigos took 1-day old frozen/thawed quail (I am starting to think that this is the miracle food for baby indigos)
2 indigos took small shad allowed to flop around the cage floor; the next day, I offered 1 day old quail scented with shad and they took them. Everyone ate!
On the next feeding I will be attempting to smear quail/shad on to frozen/thawed fuzzies (as I did last year) and hopefully it won't be too much longer before they are devouring frozen/thawed rodents. I have been much luckier than in years past in getting all of the hatchlings to feed.
Now the even harder part, trying to not get too tattached to every hatchling!
