2 White Zebras

[snowy]

Hi, I adopted 2 white (in colour anyway) female zebra finches. They're about a year old.
Yesterday I adopted a male Zebra Finch (typical colouring).

Can I put him with the 2 females & if so what colour would the babies be, by chance? Do I have to worry about the females fighting?

[Sally]

I'm not a Zebra breeder, so I can't help you with your question about colors of babies, but I can say that usually a trio doesn't work well, unless it is a trio of Societies (because they normally get along no matter what). What often happens in your scenario is that the two hens will start to fight over the male. Much better to put one of the hens with the male, and either rehome the other hen or get her a mate and a cage of their own.

[cindy]

Depending on what mutations your hens are that will determine what the young will look like. There are a few mutations that look white...if they are pied white they may give you with a normal gray male pied or split to pied offspring. If the true mutation White, which is recessive they will give you normal offspring split to white.

Often all white pied can carry other mutations that do not show due to the white...pied are interesting and can give you as few different results depending on the genes they carry.

Can you post pictures? You can try housing the three without nest...typically zebra pair off and the odd man out can get picked on. Then again the male may fancy two hens...aggression is what you need to watch for. My experience has been a third bird is usually driven away from the nesting site.