Orange Breasted or black Breasted?

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Orange Breasted or black Breasted?

Post by Eng.W0LF » Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:43 am

Hi everyone

i have a female Zebra finch and i bought her a black breasted male ,
but still not sure if it's OB or BB.

so can you please help me identify it's mutation.

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notice that it lacks the tear markings but the tail bars still normal
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Re: Orange Breasted or black Breasted?

Post by cindy » Sun Mar 15, 2015 12:12 pm

not full orange breast, not full black breast either. Looks silver possibly split to BB. You need to put a small heat lamp on her she does not look well

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Re: Orange Breasted or black Breasted?

Post by Eng.W0LF » Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:06 pm

those were old pictures of her
i took 2 more photos hope they look better
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as you can see , she looks better now , and if you are looking for a traces of spots on her sides , well there isn't
hope the new photos will make it clear [-o<
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Re: Orange Breasted or black Breasted?

Post by Eng.W0LF » Mon Mar 16, 2015 2:46 am

thank u fetching

i'm 99% sure it's fawn not silver ,because it's base color is similar to the fawns i had before ,
i hope it's at least split to BB since this mutation and many other mutations is rare and expensive in iraq compared to sex-linked mutations .
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Re: Orange Breasted or black Breasted?

Post by Eng.W0LF » Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:06 pm

thank you very much fetching for your great effort , if she is a dominant silver combined with fawn it will be great bcoz silvers are rarer than BB here but in that case i have to wait for much longer time if i want to have black breasted zebras .
by the way , this is the first time i try to breed large zebras
do you find them harder to breed than regular size zebras?

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Re: Orange Breasted or black Breasted?

Post by Eng.W0LF » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:38 pm

already checked ur website :D
found it in ur signature and i'm going to read as much as i can
great work , keep going
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