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Can somebody tell me anything about the following image:



I have got a pure white chick with pink legs, beak and ruby red eyes.

Are those the parents in the pic?
Looks like a continental chestnut flanked
white male and a black cheek or split
black cheek hen...
Ccfw is a sex linked trait so the white baby
you have from them should be a ccfw hen that
is split to black cheek(bc is a recessive trait but
not sex linked).
At least that's my opinion/understanding of
those two genes/colors.
Any experts have a say?

Tim,

Sorry mate, I forgot to mention that these are not my birds (this picture is just for reference). Parents of the baby which I have (soon I will upload their picture with baby) are as following:

Black Cheek cock = Unknown origin (purchased from bird's Sunday market)
CFW hen = Produced by combination of pure white hen and silver-back Black Cheek cock.

Result of the above combination is one pure white chick with ruby red eyes and another is CCFW hen with nice circular crest (another big surprise by her father). Father of these birds have previously gave me one CFW Black Cheek hen with remarkable markings.

By the way, I found the following article very informative to understand above mentioned birds:

http://www.efinch.com/species/cfwzeb.htm

The pure white chick could be a white CCFW.
Showing no marking.
Or a albino, but that is a very rare mutation.
I think albino is recessive.
I have one pure white male CCFW (showing no markings)
He and a white female, gave me CCFW male.