Red-throat & Seagreen Parrot Finches

[lovemyfinch]

Beautiful babies

[L in Ontario]

(sigh) thank you! Got my baby PF finch fix for the day.... love all the little trills and chirps. Such cute little green devils! Grasshopper very happy now.

BTW: Forgot how stunning your pied is --!!

Keep us updated on how all your pairings work out!

Glad you enjoyed the vid, Anna!!

The parents have just hatched two of their three fertile eggs yesterday and this morning - hopefully all three by the time I get home tonight. I had to remove the two Seagreen weanlings as they disrupted the parents so much that they would not sit on the eggs until I removed the youngsters - then they sat tight right away. Still no sign of pied feathers on the SG chicks yet though.

[L in Ontario]

What I find rather interesting is that the chick from their first clutch - who is a pied RT - was hatched with a pure yellow beak. Now that he is starting to moult in a few pied (light yellow) feathers, the top of his mandible is getting DARK!!

[annague]

I noticed my pieds do that, too. Some of them retain the yellow/lighter beaks and others get quite a bit of dark on them (but later after they molt)...

I found out that one of my normal RT males was split to Seagreen after he threw a Seagreen male.

I was also interested to notice that two chicks I got from two heavy pied parents (both babies are female) are different -- one is showing some light pie-ing (sp?) the other none at all -- and they just finished their first molt. I wonder if you can get a normal RT from two heavy pieds when pied is dominant? Or maybe she just isn't showing any of the pied gene yet?

[L in Ontario]

Would be cool if you could get both pied and normals!!