Some zebra pics with new camera

Bluebonnet · Post by **Bluebonnet** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:00 pm

DanteD716 wrote:Nope, the offspring will be

50% normal/black cheek pied
50% normal split pied

Try finding her a bc boy!

Thanks for the breakdown, Dante, but I'm not sure I understand it. Does the 1st one mean it would look normal with black cheeks, and be split to pied. And the 2nd one means it would look normal and be split to pied? So no visual pied ones?

DanteD716 · Post by **DanteD716** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:07 pm

/ means split so anything past the / is not visual. They will will look normal, and be split to those traits. Birds split to pied have white flight feathers and under there chin. Ask any question you want!

Bluebonnet · Post by **Bluebonnet** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:16 pm

DanteD716 wrote:/ means split so anything past the / is not visual. They will will look normal, and be split to those traits. Birds split to pied have white flight feathers and under there chin. Ask any question you want!

Oh, Ok, I think I've got it now, thanks. Bummer, though. Was assuming they'd produce visual pieds at the least. But they're still a handsome and fun pair, so I suppose I can live with that.

DanteD716 · Post by **DanteD716** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:23 pm

they eill have some white, but not alot. Some may have none at all. If you can get a BC biy and a pied girl, then you can make new pairs. Did you keep you silver zebras from the first 10?

cindy · Post by **cindy** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:07 am

Linda, pied and BC are recessive, recessive is passed onto the young by one parent or both. Often a bird can either show signs of being split or look normal and be split.

Example your pied male x NG split BC

The offspring will inherit pied from dad and BC from mom. They will be splits for both traits. Pied splits often will have white under the chin, top of the head and white wing edges. Some show no signs at all.

BC splits show a wider tear and a faint chest bar as your girl does or show one of those signs.

So in the offspring you may get split pieds with the white markers, pretty.

Rour · Post by **Rour** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:33 am

Bluebonnet wrote:Still trying to get used to my new camera, a Canon SX130 IS. Also, I put these images on photobucket and don't know how to make them smaller here on the forum to be larger when you click on them, so apologies for the huge pics. (edit: I see they got smaller when I submitted the post, so nevermind! )

[ http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/lindagrace2003/pair_3.jpg ]
[ http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/lindagrace2003/pair_2.jpg ]
[ http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/lindagrace2003/pair_1.jpg ]
[ http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/lindagrace2003/cock_1.jpg ]
[ http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/lindagrace2003/cock_3.jpg ]
[ http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/lindagrace2003/cock_4.jpg ]
[ http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x360/lindagrace2003/hen_2.jpg ]

Wow...just wow!

Bluebonnet · Post by **Bluebonnet** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:51 pm

cindy wrote:Linda, pied and BC are recessive, recessive is passed onto the young by one parent or both. Often a bird can either show signs of being split or look normal and be split.

Example your pied male x NG split BC

The offspring will inherit pied from dad and BC from mom. They will be splits for both traits. Pied splits often will have white under the chin, top of the head and white wing edges. Some show no signs at all.

BC splits show a wider tear and a faint chest bar as your girl does or show one of those signs.

So in the offspring you may get split pieds with the white markers, pretty.

Thank you, Cindy. I appreciate the explanation said in another way. I take everyone's way of explaining and put them together and then it eventually clicks.

Bluebonnet · Post by **Bluebonnet** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:53 pm

@ Rour - Thank you.

@ Dante - I do still have the silver male (or whatever it was determined he was) and a normal male. They're Oscar and Felix, caged together and getting along fabulously, so I really don't want to rock that boat.

DanteD716 · Post by **DanteD716** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:55 pm

what happened to the silver hen? The plucked one? She was so pretty!

Bluebonnet · Post by **Bluebonnet** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:39 pm

DanteD716 wrote: what happened to the silver hen? The plucked one? She was so pretty!

Of the 10 zebras I started out with, I have 4 left ... Oscar & Felix, the girl that was badly plucked, and the baby that was plucked nearly bald. Here are some pics I just took:

The baby

The baby being camera shy, but can better see the white on the wing edges

The baby again, with better view of dark chest hair (excuse the squinty eye)

The girl wanted me to go away

Here she is again, ready to bolt

Oscar and Felix (Tip: a bungee cord makes a great perch)

Oscar and Felix looking extra adorable

Oscar

Sorry for the picture overload, but I'm having FUN!!

DanteD716 · Post by **DanteD716** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:20 pm

I enjoy them!! Your baby also looks split to black cheek!!!!!!! And pied, if you get a male offspring from you newer pair, breed it to the baby girl to get pied BC! And your silvers look florida silver to me.

Bluebonnet · Post by **Bluebonnet** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:01 pm

Hmm. Something to think about, maybe. It definitely has a certain appeal. One thing, though, is she has a bum foot and it was advised that I not breed her because of it. Her mom had a foot that looked similar. All her siblings from mom's other clutches had normal feet. So I'm not really sure if it was advised against because it might be passed down, or if the thought was she's not in good health, top form, or whatever.

DanteD716 · Post by **DanteD716** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:06 pm

I don't thinkbit is genetics, just bad past ownership. If she can get around well I am sure she will be fine

Rour · Post by **Rour** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:31 pm

Bluebonnet wrote:
DanteD716 wrote: what happened to the silver hen? The plucked one? She was so pretty!
Of the 10 zebras I started out with, I have 4 left ... Oscar & Felix, the girl that was badly plucked, and the baby that was plucked nearly bald. Here are some pics I just took:

The baby

The baby being camera shy, but can better see the white on the wing edges

The baby again, with better view of dark chest hair (excuse the squinty eye)

The girl wanted me to go away

Here she is again, ready to bolt

Oscar and Felix (Tip: a bungee cord makes a great perch)

Oscar and Felix looking extra adorable

Oscar

Sorry for the picture overload, but I'm having FUN!!

I'm so impressed! That baby with the squinted eye - is it winking at me? lol Wouldn't it be great to have a magazine with all these great pictures! We should start a magazine, what do you think?

Roula

Bluebonnet · Post by **Bluebonnet** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:17 pm

Rour wrote:I'm so impressed! That baby with the squinted eye - is it winking at me? lol Wouldn't it be great to have a magazine with all these great pictures! We should start a magazine, what do you think?
Roula

Thank you, Roula. Hmm. Maybe she is

ing. A magazine sounds like a cool idea, as long as it's only published every 4-6 months.

It takes me a lot of tries to get just a few decent pictures. You would need to take up the slack.

I'm hoping to get a chance this weekend to look at the camera manual to see what the different settings mean.

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