I know I'm not suppose to pick favorites...But...

[yourcharmedlife]

I know I'm not suppose to pick favorites...But...

It is the only one who does not panic when held, she falls asleep in my hands...
I am only keeping 2 babies from this batch, she is deff. one of them.
Love that she closes her eyes when you pet her on the head
I think its a girl, just because it is very quite.
Help me think of a name, on top of her head she has what looks like a White headband

[Babs _Owner]

yourcharmedlife

I have favorites in my flock as well. CackJax, KoJax & Ham are my best buddies.

If she's quiet Whisper might be a good name.

[Spreckles]

is she going to be a crested?

[yourcharmedlife]

Whisper is a good name, thank you.
What is crested?

[Sheather]

Crested zebra finches have bowl haircuts or flat-tops like my Claire and Snickers here, where the feathers grow in a whirl from a center tuft on the top of the birds' head.



However, your little girl isn't crested I'm afraid. It's a dominant but relatively uncommon mutation seen in zebra finches, society finches, and canaries.

Whisper is a cute name.

[yourcharmedlife]

aww oh my gosh how sweet!

[tt101]

Crested zebra finches have bowl haircuts or flat-tops like my Claire and Snickers here, where the feathers grow in a whirl from a center tuft on the top of the birds' head.

[ http://i.imgur.com/pT2mZwE.jpg ]

However, your little girl isn't crested I'm afraid. It's a dominant but relatively uncommon mutation seen in zebra finches, society finches, and canaries.

Whisper is a cute name.

Don't you mean recessive trait? I had a normal male and crested female society pair which laid 3 clutches of 3 babies. All babies were 100% normal.

[Sheather]

Nope, dominant, you just got some bad luck. I recently paired two crested hens to a plain-jane male and all their offspring have been crested. It isn't 100% dominant, you'll get 50% crested and 50% plain with a mixed pair usually.

[tt101]

Nope, dominant, you just got some bad luck. I recently paired two crested hens to a plain-jane male and all their offspring have been crested. It isn't 100% dominant, you'll get 50% crested and 50% plain with a mixed pair usually.

Ohhhhh, so my female must have been dominant for crest but also carried a recessive gene for normal and since the dad was normal, I got the 50/50 crested-normal and out of bad luck ended up with all non-crested.

[Spreckles]

How are the babies?