Zebra genetics

[finchlover1]

I just need the colors. I've been studying and just can't seem to get it, so professionals put on your thinking caps. That color babies can come from these pairs:


CWF FEMALE (new bird & don't know if split or DFor SF, which I still don't understand with a GRAY split to pied and CWF MALE. (Gray can from mom CWF and Dad gray, both split to pied.


CWF FEMALE (new bird & don't know if split or DFor SF, which I still don't understand with a (same famale) with a PIED MALE split to CWF and gray.

PS. Afterthought: I have two zebras with pinholes (just giving you a visual) eyes and the others are big like I'm used to seeing. Is this a genetic thing (both parents have normal eyes)

My society's have two eggs (and I thought they were do nothings). My other zebras have 1 egg.

I can't swim but I think this is turning into an adventure!



Now I read that you shouldn't mate a CWF with a pied because the white on the pieds get that washed out look and you don't want that.

If you have a CWF, not knowing it's lineage, what would you put her with.

Also, if I am learning anything, I think I've learned that if you put a CWF female and male together you get 1/2 & 1/2 grays and CWF's.

Where is the gray coming from. I think the piece I'm missing is what makes a CWF. There has to be gray as a main color somewhere. Am all mixied up?

[RomeoFinch]

CFW is a recessive sex-linked mutation so you cannot say that the female is SF or DF because females have only one active sex-chromosome which can carry one sex-linked gene. DF and SF terms you can use talking about dominant mutation such as DS, GC, CR, BF.
Male can be split for CFW but female can't - either she is CFW or not.
When you mate CFW female with NG/CFW male you can get CFW females (25%), CFW males (25%), NG females (25%) and NG males (25%). They all can be split for P but don't have to. The babies shouldn't be P unless the female is split for P.
You can say when zebra finch is CFW from F series or NG series.
First of all there are 2 types of CFW - Continental and Regular. C-CFW females look like this one and R-CFW females look like this one. The CFW from F series (CFW-F) looks like this. As you san see, it is simillar to the C-CFW but it has brown markings. R-CFW are more white than the others and as they are hatchlings they have dark skin and beaks.
When mating CFW-F female with F male you will get only F males, F females but when mating CFW from gray series with F male you will get F females and gray males split for CFW and F.

I hope you will understand something what I wrote ;) I could make some mistakes - I am Polish.

[Vargur]

Romeofinch: great writing!!