Basket full of fawns?

[cindy]

I have a male zebra that has a weird look to him, the pictures do not show it but his head has a dusting of fawn in him, there is still gray in the head but you really have to get close to see the fawn throughout the feahers on the head. His tail is different, the pattern is more rounded white and the dots seem to join at the base of the tail. He his flighty so a good clear picturs is hard to get of his back side.

The female is a daughter of a Isabel and Florida silver.

The entire nest of babies are fawn? or Isabel.

The question I have is could this male be split to BB? I found a feather with an hour glass shape (white)....what would the young be. The father's mother is a deep fawn with an argyle paterrn in the tail, the father looked very much like the father but with a little more fawn on the head than this boy.

[cindy]

side shot of male

[Vargur]

Yes, there is a change he is split to BB.
His tearmark is very thin and he seems to have hour glass shaped bars.
If his flanks spots look smudged (elongated) then he is definitely split.
Also his chest look a little bit bigger...

[cindy]

He is very different from the others even his head shape is a bit different.

The babies are all light...when I first checked the nest the young had darkend skin with light fluff, now the pins are light fawn some look light enough to be whitish....I will have to check and take pictures in a few days to see what is going on.

Now if I do get BB can I put it with a Florida Fancy to get Phaeo?

[Vargur]

Yes.
Its says on www.efinch.com if you combine BB with FF you will get Phaeo.
you will need two birds that are split BB or one 100% BB and one split.
Or two 100% BB.
Because BB is recessive.

[cindy]

Thank you, it might take a couple of generations to make this...another project!!!!