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hi all
might like to take a look at these photos. have several pairs. hard to get good photos ...shy birds

should be cordon bleu - might try to get a better photo later showing the white feathers on the wings and back

in that particular aviary there are two pairs of cordon bleu's. the pair in the photo's are grizzle pieds and have 3 young. all young appear normal. that is until they molt. it is at that stage their pied markings come through. so it's a bit like a lottery - you can get young with some white or near full white birds.
at one stage i did have set pieds. with set pied what comes out of the nest - is what you get.

Very nice!

Lovely

Awesome birds! What country are you from?

That courdon is stunning!!!!

They are lovely! I have normal RCCBs and just love them, but yours are something quite special!

Wow! Very pretty!!!

Lovely! Thanks for sharing the pictures

Simply stunning... they look like someone sprinkled powdered sugar on them.

LOVE them! (Oh how I wish they were available in the US!)

Thanks for sharing their photos with us!

thanks for the feedback. it's a bit hard getting better shot of the finches as most are feeding young. i've had to take these through the wire. i will give you some-idea on the pied cock colouring.
these are 4 pieds and 3 young in this aviary. all birds look pretty much the same

Bill
Those are amazing! You have such unique finches. I wish we could have pied cordon blues and pied fire finches here in the U.S. Although, I still love both of my regular rccb's and fires.

pieds are ok - but it's hard to beat the colour nature intended

I prefer the natural colors too, but that cordon blue is so pretty! Did you breed for pieds on purpose or did the mutation just show up?