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Hi all

I'm new to the hobby I was given two white zebra finches and told they were both female, I purchased two males to go with them but one of the whites fights with the males which confused me so I have attached a pic if anyone could give me any clarity on its sex I would appreciate it.

Many thanks

hi and welcome to forum
you will find lot of good infos about zebra careing in the http://www.finchinfo.com/index.php

and more infos about zebra mutation at Roy beckahm website http://www.efinch.com

about your cok is a male of corse and isn't a white but a grey Chestnut Flanked White and may be something else zebra expert will tell u
have fun

Thanks very much for the reply much appreciated

this is a male, a mutation he is carrying likely suppressed or removed the cheek color. Hens can have faint ghost flanking (usually a sign of split to OB) and incomplete or smudgy breast bars called show faults,

Males if not the yellow beak mutation will have red beaks when mature

Hen if not the yellow beak mutation will have orange beaks.

oh i haven't notified the removed cheek color ,cindy has the expert eye lol
so cfw and cheekless, how old is he? i perciste that it's a he lol

haroun there is a grey cheek mutation zebra but no such colour as grey chestnut flanked white,

The bird is a cock chestnut flanked white but with a diffused cheek patch

Glad that you got some help with sexing your bird, I'm hopeless when it comes to Zebras, but I wanted to welcome you to the forum! If you put your general location in your profile, it makes it easier to answer questions later on.

Thank you all for your replies and the information and for the welcome to the forum it's very much appreciated as I say I am new to the hobby so may have many more questions some probably stupid ones but you have to start somewhere.

It's good to know there are so many knowledgeable and friendly people on here. Once again thank you

Stuart whiting i mean by grey Cfw a regular cfw from the grey serie
We have 2 series of colors grey and fawn right ?
So it is aR-cfW with diffused cheek patch, i dont see any drop of orange ! looks like cheekless mut combo tp cfw

haroun wrote: Stuart whiting i mean by grey Cfw a regular cfw from the grey serie
We have 2 series of colors grey and fawn right ?
So it is aR-cfW with diffused cheek patch, i dont see any drop of orange ! looks like cheekless mut combo tp cfw

Hi mate,

That is the idea of a diffused cheek patch, it varies from a very faint orange to virtually nothing

Ok. I undetstand many thanks