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Although my CFW is still too young to breed, I can't help but wonder what her chicks would be. I have a male pied zebra I'd like to eventually pair her with. Although he looks almost normal, he has a bit of the pied markings and carries the gene.

I don't know anything about their parents.

So if you'd entertain the idea, please spitball some color options that their chicks might be. I'd be really interested!

I'll give it a shot for you. I think you'd get peids, CFW and whites with very light peid markings. Is the male a lightback? But as they say with zebras you never really know

Thanks for entertaining my question I know its probably a sort of dumb question, but I really am new to this and was just wondering about the possibilities.

The male's back is gray...I just looked up "lightback" and he doesn't appear to be one.

Hi,
In theory, you'll only get normals (gray) and normal pied. The CFW will not show in the offspring but the little males will carry it in hidden from and transmit it to their offspring.
Now if the male himself was split CFW you will get some CFWs in the babies.
Same applies to fawn and lightback.

The pied mutation is Recessive
Both parents have to carry the pied gene so it will show in the offspring.

I think you will get normal grey males.
And the females will be normal grey and CFW.

But if your male is split for CFW then you will get CFW males and females.

hope this helps.

Thanks for replying everyone!

The woman who I got the CFW from kind of kept a lot of colored finches together in a small area, and I don't even think she knew who the parents were. The cage consisted of a lot of white birds and pieds...but I really have no clue exactly what color mutations there were because I didn't really take the time to ask or inspect them.

My little CFW's wings were clipped for whatever reason Poor thing. She's getting around alright though, and I keep the food on the ground in a cup. She really can't fly worth a crap, but she can flutter enough to reach the perches.

She was a nice older lady who meant well though.

All of these possibilities really makes me eager to see what they'll produce. That won't be for a while yet!