Tumor or not?

[Stavros01]

Stavros,The infertility might not be because of that lump,in my experience with pied BFPF was that they are infertile.I once had a bird that was 80% pied and never produced a fertile egg from five different normal hens.I even had grizzle pieds and the same thing happened.(in my experience) here in Australia. Cheers Craig

And did you ever tryed to now why this happened to your bird??
Because this is so strange: the male buiilds the nest, the hen have 3 to 4 eggs and, they even make shifts in the nest, every time one comes out, the other enter in the nest and in the end, nothing. All eggs empty. So, if the problem is not the lump and has you experienced, your bird did not breed any time, could this bird, this mutation be origin in a hybridition??
Because this problem does not exit in pied RFPF and Tri-colored PF. Or does it????


regards
Gustavo

[Craig52]

Stavros,The infertility might not be because of that lump,in my experience with pied BFPF was that they are infertile.I once had a bird that was 80% pied and never produced a fertile egg from five different normal hens.I even had grizzle pieds and the same thing happened.(in my experience) here in Australia. Cheers Craig

And did you ever tryed to now why this happened to your bird??
Because this is so strange: the male buiilds the nest, the hen have 3 to 4 eggs and, they even make shifts in the nest, every time one comes out, the other enter in the nest and in the end, nothing. All eggs empty. So, if the problem is not the lump and has you experienced, your bird did not breed any time, could this bird, this mutation be origin in a hybridition??
Because this problem does not exit in pied RFPF and Tri-colored PF. Or does it????
Gustavo Hi, quite a few years ago this happened and it also happened with heavy pied orangebreast's.I was obsessed with buying anything i could get my hands on that was different to normal.They were not hybrids but mutations that pop up every now again out of normals.I don't know wether the pied markings on these birds effects their fertility or not,but that was my exsperience with them and it might be different overseas. Craig

regards
Gustavo

[Stavros01]

Well, Graig you was almost has i am now: i love mutations, not hybrids but mutations inside of a specie.
Almost all my gouldians are mutations, my RFPF are too, my Lonchura Malabarica are too and even my Star Finches are mutation.
And i saw this new pied BFPF and he is a very beautiful bird but the fact that he can not breed normaly is driving me crazy...


Gustavo

[Craig52]

Well, Graig you was almost has i am now: i love mutations, not hybrids but mutations inside of a specie.
Almost all my gouldians are mutations, my RFPF are too, my Lonchura Malabarica are too and even my Star Finches are mutation.
And i saw this new pied BFPF and he is a very beautiful bird but the fact that he can not breed normaly is driving me crazy...


Gustavo

Gustavo, see if you can cure that lump and continue to breed with him you never know it may be fertile as it's a nice looking bird.Good luck and let us know what happens. Cheers Craig

[finchbreeder]

He is a nice looking bird. I hope you can find a vet cure and breed him.
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