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Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:30 am
by Pudding
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what do you think what will their color be?Mom is CFW,and dad is normal pied
They are 2 weeks old :)

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:37 am
by G8love4finches
What chubbie little sweetie pies!...Sorry I know anything about Zebras, except they are "adorable!"

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:46 am
by L in Ontario
They look like Fawns to me. =D>

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:49 am
by cindy
possibly light backs....they aren't fawns since they are missing the horn colored beak.

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:05 pm
by 6finchfriends
Color them adorable!

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:32 pm
by Ameza
From what I can tell, I would guess normal grey split bc.

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:08 am
by Vargur
Normal grey.
If they are boys they could be split for CFW.
Girls cannot be split for sex linked mutation.
(CFW is sex linked)
Both parents must carrie the pied gene mutation so it
will show in the offsprings.
(pied is rescessive)
Thats why your baby chick is NG :)

Very very cute chick, congrats! =D>

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:19 am
by Pudding
thank you.
last night I read the article about sex-linked mutations and recessive mutations,so finally I can understand what you're sayin' :D

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:29 am
by Pudding
and what are other possibilities for their chicks in the future?

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:44 am
by Vargur
it depems on what bird they are mated with.
But I guess if the NG split CFW boy are mated with CFW girl,
then you will get CFW, normal greys and NG split cfw..

And if the chick on picture #1 is Split BC, then you can pair him up with another bird that is split to BC, and then you will get full BC bird.

But wild guess... U can have pied, CFW, normal grey and possible BC.

But like they say, when you have zebra finches, its just like a box of chocolate, you will never know what you will get.

Re: Zebra chicks-what color?

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:48 am
by Pudding
they fledged.
one has a white mark on his wing-so he's pied I guess,and he has much lighter legs