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First of must say sorry for being absent for so long(work commitments) but am just starting to partner my birds up for breeding again, and saw this little guy in a pet shop and had to buy him, I dont usally buy from shops but could not resist this one.
Just unsure what is in him,never seen one with so much black on him!
(pics are not the best)





Have got him paired with this pure white female,be intersting to see what chicks i get

just to add,he has a little brown down side of his wings but his chest is mostly black,so is his head and his back has a lot of black in it as well

Welcome back! He looks to be a black face black breasted zebra. He is gorgeous!!! Great find.

Some links that may help:

http://www.efinch.com/species/bfzeb.htm
http://www.efinch.com/species/bbzeb.htm

That was my guess as well but I was under the impression that black face zebs had a normal grey/white back and their head was just like a hood?

Try going down this thread and looking at Vargur's male. Your male looks similar with slight modifications.

http://finchforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1 ... &start=120

Compared to the Euro Zebras:

http://www.zebrafinch.com/newzebra/Eumo/Eumo_Zebra.html

Yea thanks,it is just like Vargurs,minus the BC, well that clears that one up

Yes, do note that there is a difference between black face and black cheek. I think your gorgeous male is definitely a black face with a beautiful black breast. I hope you have beautiful babies!!

yea I have a couple of BC cocks and could tell that he was not BC, was just unsure on rest, just looked on zebrafinch.info to see roughly what chicks I can expect,and should be black face split for white, so hopefully can get some balck face line going

For sure. Good luck with the breeding. Do keep us updated when you can and don't work too hard! Take care now.

Looks like a normal grey, pied, black face. Not sure if he is also black breasted or not, the cheeks usually are much bigger than that when BB, does his tail have bars? If it has no black and white bars he is BB.

wow, thats a very nice find. congratulation. i agreed he looks like a black face black breast.

Ameza wrote:Looks like a normal grey, pied, black face. Not sure if he is also black breasted or not, the cheeks usually are much bigger than that when BB, does his tail have bars? If it has no black and white bars he is BB.

His tail is just black,cant make out any bars on it

Interesting, the BB tails are usually white, but it might be because of him being BF BB that converts in to simple black.

Nice find Hope you get some wonderful chicks from him!

I think he is BF ng pied.
And he also look like he is melanistic.
He is unusually black or dark on his head, back and wings.
should be much lighter..
You can also see the cheeks look like they
have black in them.
But still, he is very pretty.
BF is my Fav mutation

Thanks vargur, i read about the melanistic thing when looking up about bf zebs, as far as i can tell it nothing to worry about, i am ok breeding him, he isnt going to pass anything bad on?