Help ID a new zebra

[ac12]

My wife bought this bird at the bird show a week ago. But we forgot to ask the seller what kind of zebra it is.

It's beak is still turning orange so it has not molted into adult colors.
It has a VERY light gray "cap" which is why my wife bought it. But based on the white feathers it already has...I figure it has to be some kind of white variation.

Have not heard it try to sing, it only beeps, so I figure it is most likely a female.

[lovemyfinch]

Looks like you may have a pied white on your hands, very cute. My little boys are in full molt right now and none are yet able to sing although they are trying. How old is the little one?

[ac12]

It is now 8 weeks old.
When we got it, the seller told us 6 weeks old. Beak was all black, no orange showing.

Their initial singing is very scratchy. I was worried the first time I heard it. Then I learned that the singing gets clearer as they get older. I can't remember when my males started to try to sing. I should have written it down, but I "think" they were trying to sing when their beaks were still black. So...since the beak is turning orange and I have not heard anything other than "beep" I figure it is a female.

[Nagdabit]

Isn't she a little cutie. Tough to see the details but going by the gray cap she looks like a CFW hen to me. http://www.efinch.com/species/cfwzeb.htm Although there is a very good possibility that pied is lurking in there as well, just really hard to see in the white birds.

There is room for a lot of variation with this mutation, especially as for the amount of gray involved. And if there's fawn somewhere in the line they can get a beige cast to them (Also known as Continental CFW). Sometimes the colors lessen as they mature. Our flock has produced a number of them. Up until about 5 months ago, every last one of them was a female but then our one CFW hen (Rhosyn) that we got from a breeder in Frederick MD. started pumping out the boys. She has produced at least 2 since then with the potential for more since there are some pink squirmy things that her and Mel are sitting on right now. That breeder specialized in black cheeks so we suspect that Rhosyn might be split to black cheek, hence the reason why we wanted to get a BC hen to pair up with the one male that we kept from her.

Rhosyn is a classic looking CFW hen, a nice clean white with just a small gray cap. She's a nice sized girl so we're guessing she must be an English CFW. Probably a little more than 50% of the offspring she has produced are large as well.

We have three other CFW hens that we've kept, Miss Ash has more gray on her head along with a definite beige cast all over (Her mom was a CCFW) and Miss Xanya appears to be half CFW and half plain white. She doesn't have any gray on her head at all, but does have a slightly dirty appearance overall and only one side of her tail has the bar markings on it. The third hen is Miss Olesia, and her coloring is somewhere between Ash and Rhosyn.

Sorry if I got to rambling on again. Just trying to illustrate how CFW's have a good bit of room for flexibility in the definition of their mutation.