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Zebra Finch Mutation help

Kales

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Hello,
Here are Meeps and Beeps.
Can anyone help me out with their mutationsÉ (Sorry my question mark key seems to have gone spanish on me).
Thanks so much!



 

mythic55

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The darker one is normal grey female. See how her tail feathers have a simple white and black pattern? that means it is not mixed with any of the 'hot sauce' varieties like black or orange breasted.

Second could be a few things- it is most definitely mixed with black breasted as the tail pattern is not uniform and heavy black breast bar also leads me to a male black breasted/ CFW- but could also be some pied with florida fancy. Problem is they can carry multiple genes-
 

mythic55

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Here is a great example: Female hen (mother) is lightback/silver/fawn (almost completely white) X Blackface cock (almost completely black).

Most people would say she is a completely different mutation upon first sight, but I have all the documented generations in my books. (parents and grandparents, etc.)

Here are the three babies with mom. This almost white/silver is pretty rare- and should not be dominant in the way it is with these young. It will be interesting to see what they moult into as adults. So needless to say- Aspro's father was a dead ringer for a lightback, but carried the silver gene. Apparently it decided to show its ugly head because I now have 10 creams and a bunch of dominent silvers. Ugh.

(beaks turn orange or red depending on sex as they age.... they look silly at this age... lol)


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