Zebra finch chicks! Fawn chick?
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:06 pm
I finally have zebra finch chicks again! I kind of gave up for awhile. I just put all 4 females and 1 male in a large cage and a nest and let them be. The male picked his mate, but eggs never seemed fertile. I quit checking and then I checked last week and sure enough 4 chicks! The funny thing is, it seems that 2 females who he didn't seem paired with, are taking care of the eggs and chicks. I watched for a few days and they started chasing one female, I took her out. I never saw the mate of the male going in the nest nor the male going in there.
Before I found the chicks though, I had removed the male because he never went in and I decided that since some eggs looked fertile, but hadn't hatched, and it had been a couple weeks, that they were dead. I figured I'd wait for them to get tired of the eggs and then wouldn't have to worry about more being laid if I took the male out. I decided I wanted to just keep him with one female. He is a pied fawn and I put him with the fawn female that was being chased. I originally wanted them together anyway. So after all that, I discovered the chicks and the two hens keep caring for them. The hens caring for the chicks are a normal grey and a pied grey so I could end up with fawn females, pied fawn females, and normal greys. Upon looking at the chicks, I think one might be fawn, it is still pink while the others are grey, its wings though not feathered yet, look lighter like a fawn color. Do fawn chicks have pink skin? I honestly can't remember.
Before I found the chicks though, I had removed the male because he never went in and I decided that since some eggs looked fertile, but hadn't hatched, and it had been a couple weeks, that they were dead. I figured I'd wait for them to get tired of the eggs and then wouldn't have to worry about more being laid if I took the male out. I decided I wanted to just keep him with one female. He is a pied fawn and I put him with the fawn female that was being chased. I originally wanted them together anyway. So after all that, I discovered the chicks and the two hens keep caring for them. The hens caring for the chicks are a normal grey and a pied grey so I could end up with fawn females, pied fawn females, and normal greys. Upon looking at the chicks, I think one might be fawn, it is still pink while the others are grey, its wings though not feathered yet, look lighter like a fawn color. Do fawn chicks have pink skin? I honestly can't remember.
