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First 2 canary fledgling of the year now weaned ( age 5 weeks )

Mum


Dad


Chick 1


Chick 2


Anyone know is it normal for young dominant white canaries not to show yellow on flights and for fawns to show a fair bit of yellow ?

Congrats Smurf!!! Beautiful Family!!!

Friend of mine breeds these here in the states. Not a very common bird over here I believe, but could be wrong. Unfortunately I don't know anything about them but congrats on your breeding success.

Rob

Beautiful baby chicks, congratulations.

They are gorgeous!! Congrats

As I understand it, dominant white will show yellow and recessive white will not show yellow. I have a dominant white hen and we had this discussion on the Aussie finch forum

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Your assumption seems to be that there is no way to visually tell a Dominant White from a Recessive White. This is not so. The whole reason why Recessive White is sought after by colour breeders is because it gives a pure white bird without any trace of yellow. Dominant White birds show a trace of yellow on their flight feathers. According to Geoff Walker's book, if you look even closely the skin of a Recessive White it is lilac not pink as in Dominant White.
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The topic is here
http://aussiefinchforum.net/viewtopic.p ... 8&start=10

Hi Roxanne, thanks for your comments

What's puzzling me is if you look at the first 2 pictures of mum+dad the yellow on flight feathers can be clearly seen, thier chick in the 3rd photo has absolutely no yellow anywhere on him, he's moulting at moment and still not showing any yellow, i'm wondering if he could be a double factor dominant white because both parents were dominant white ?

I checked his skin as per the post you linked and it's pink ( not lilac )

Padraic

Congrats on the beautiful canaries!

Smurf

I am honestly not sure if you get a double factor dominant white. My pair is both dominant white (with yellow on their flight feathers) and all of their chicks have either been dominant yellow or dominant white but still with the yellow on the flight feathers.

Hopefully some of the more clued up canary breeders can help us out here