Orange zebra chick?

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Miss May
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Orange zebra chick?

Post by Miss May » Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:59 pm

Hi everyone,
Two days ago one of my pairs hatched out a baby with orange skin. It’s really weird, I’ve never seen it before - all the chicks I’ve ever had in my aviary have had pink skin!
It’s nest mate is pink, I have a pic:
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Birds I have:

somewhere between 10 and 20 zebbies

2 chinese quail

2 japanese quail

1 queen of the world (cockatiel)

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Re: Orange zebra chick?

Post by Fraza » Sat Mar 03, 2018 4:43 am

I think it will be a mutation I had one with black skin once and was told when skin colour is different then it’s gojng to be a mutation maybe it means OB
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Re: Orange zebra chick?

Post by Flight Feathers » Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:59 pm

Have the parents of this baby zeb ever had any other clutches of baby Zebs?
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Re: Orange zebra chick?

Post by Flight Feathers » Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:00 pm

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