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I got a female BC CFW baby and a BC male baby from same parents. Unfortunately I took an egg (dumb) from a BC pair not sitting on 4 eggs, but one hatched. Is there a way to tell on the male baby BC if it is split to CFW?

Sometime a bird will show sign of splits to a recessive gene, sometimes the signs stay hidden.

Some of the signs for a male split to CFW are white wing edges and a white abdomen.

Cindy,
The dad is a grey/bc/bc cfw and he has a white belly. I checked my pair if straight greys and male has strait white belly. I'm not quite understanding where to look on the wing for the white you mentioned. If it real white like a real white feather or just the tips that are "lighter" than the rest of the wings"?

I checked the dad of my cfw and I don't see the white on the wings. I would say I don't know what I'm looking for and would love to know and learn. Even my mom has a white belly and she's got no cfw due to being sex linked so I personally can't tell by looking at the stomach. I think the wings or any other part of the body would be easier for me.

Look on the feathers within the wing, they may show white edges. It will not look like the split to pied that shows on the bottom when the wings are tight to the body. The split to CFW if the bird shows it will be like white edge on the individual feathers on the wingss.

check this page out


http://zebracrazy.byethost13.com/SplitLBC.htm

Cindy,
Thank you for the explanation and link. It helped alot. You never stop learning when it comes to our fur babies.

I know these pics are blurry but there are two dark colored babies. Can you tell at all if either one is split to CFW?