my hybrid baby

[liqinghua]

the spice finch was hand-raised last year, and the society finch i bred in my cage 2 years ago. i keep these two birds in a cage , feeding them millet and egg food which i cooked in the oven for 3-4 minutes , some eggshells ,occasionally some greens. small space as it is in the cage, everything goes normal and they mated and a clutch of 5 eggs were laid. of which 2 eggs were broken laid in the tray, remaining three eggs were fertilised. one egg was tossed out of nest at sitting day 10, one was broken by me before hatch due to my impatience.
spice finch reproduction rating in my opinion , is not very hard , i once kept one pair spice finch, in a very small cage, i did see them making nest of their own with straws, and mating before me, they laid 6 eggs. unluckily they didnot sit steady. any way spice finch is not hard to breed in cages,

[Icearstorm]

liqinghua

Interesting. Since spice finches and societies are so closely related, I'd guess that the mutations work work similarly. If this is the case, the baby will probably be a darker chocolate base color like your spice finch and have a few pied white marks of your society finch (though it would be single-factor pied, and thus wouldn't have as much white as your society finch). There's also a good chance that it will be fertile, so be careful if breeding pure spice finches or society finches in the same enclosure.

[Fernando]

poor thing ... so sad to see cages like that.

[liqinghua]

you are truly right , whatever society mutation is paired with spice finch, their offsprings are just the same as spice finch with only one or 2 feathers different