Odd cheek patches?

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Re: Odd cheek patches?

Post by DanteD716 » Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:20 pm

Looks normal to me, it is possible they are carriers for BB
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Re: Odd cheek patches?

Post by LuxandLolita » Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:21 pm

thats what i thought. I can take more pictures of the babies, all three if you would like. If they were BB heheh i would be a happy person *hint hint* heheh
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Re: Odd cheek patches?(more pics added)

Post by LuxandLolita » Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:41 pm

Oh look! its the whole darn family!! Lux had been plucking the babies backs, he has since stopped. These pics were taken a few minutes ago :)
If you need me to crop or zoom on the pictures please request it rather then straining your eyes :) anyway, here are pics of mom, dad and babies!
Gus and Tahny are the non Drill head babies and Lux and lolita are in the picImage
Gus looking at cam, and drill heads. Lux and LolitaImage
Lux is the clearest in the pic, Seed shell on face :lol: :lol: Image
Tahny and LuxImage
The whole finch family!ImageImage
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Mother to Two Zebra Finches, Lux Interior and Sheena Is. Fly Free Ivy, Lolita, and Tahny Bird. 2 Cockatiels, Ian Curtis and Singerboy("Beo"), 2 Cats, Betty and Buddy, and 5 Ferrets, Lydia Lunch, Leia("Kitten"), Coda, Tubesock and Stiv Bators
Lux Interior is six years old!

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Re: Odd cheek patches?

Post by Vargur » Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:07 pm

yebb they sure look like normals.
Nothing I can see that indicates bb.

but you can see it if bird is split bb.
it can be all this
or only one of this:
thin tear mark, larger cheeks than normal
like over the eye brow or longer cheeks,
long spots on the flank area,
orange lacings in the wings,
white area under the beak,
hourglass shaped tail bars.

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Re: Odd cheek patches?

Post by LuxandLolita » Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:19 pm

oh, so they could just be normals with thin tears? only one baby has a normal tear mark as far as i can see, the other two have thin ones.
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Mother to Two Zebra Finches, Lux Interior and Sheena Is. Fly Free Ivy, Lolita, and Tahny Bird. 2 Cockatiels, Ian Curtis and Singerboy("Beo"), 2 Cats, Betty and Buddy, and 5 Ferrets, Lydia Lunch, Leia("Kitten"), Coda, Tubesock and Stiv Bators
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Re: Odd cheek patches?

Post by LuxandLolita » Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:05 pm

i just found the Efinch thing for black breast again, and found a picture of a black breast fledgling. is it possible that the chicks are split? Falcon does have a sort of buff cheek. you can't really see it in the pictures that well but he does!! its not super prominent like the one on the efinch website but the cheek is lighter then his face. that is what i meant by "odd cheek patches" along with the shape of it.
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Mother to Two Zebra Finches, Lux Interior and Sheena Is. Fly Free Ivy, Lolita, and Tahny Bird. 2 Cockatiels, Ian Curtis and Singerboy("Beo"), 2 Cats, Betty and Buddy, and 5 Ferrets, Lydia Lunch, Leia("Kitten"), Coda, Tubesock and Stiv Bators
Lux Interior is six years old!

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