Hourglass tail

Includes Species Profile.
User avatar
Flight Feathers
...............................
...............................
Posts: 14
Joined: 09 Feb 2018, 09:49
Location: New Zealand

finchbreeder wrote: 13 Feb 2018, 12:00 Never heard of an hourglass tail, hopefully someone more knowledgable can help. What do you mean by bb? Is the father gray or fawn pied? There is a lot that people need to know to answer with any hope of acuracy. Enjoy the mutations.
LML
I don't know what the father is... He is a pied of some mutation that possibly has Isabel and orange breast in it and some fawn too but I won't know unless I breed him to a non pied.
User avatar
Flight Feathers
...............................
...............................
Posts: 14
Joined: 09 Feb 2018, 09:49
Location: New Zealand

Tass wrote: 13 Feb 2018, 19:33 black breast and black fronted are both recessive as finchbreeder said. Not sure what NZ has.

To get a full BB you would need 2 splits at minimum as the mutation must be in both parents. Example if you have 2 Grey/Bb (grey split to BB) , then you will produce Greys , Greys/BB , and BB . The only issue you will have is that in most cases you cant tell the difference between Greys and Greys split to BB .

going by the internet Black BREASTED splits do show signs , I don't know if the Australian Black FRONTED does. Which does NZ have ?

Always better to breed from one split and one full bird as you will always know that it is split with a recessive gene
I've never heard of black fronted unless it's the same as black bodied? I think we have black breasted and we also have their mutations like penguin, cream, silver, black cheek, and black face and marks whites also.
User avatar
finchbreeder
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Posts: 11489
Joined: 27 Jun 2009, 20:00
Location: Midwest of West. Aust. Coast
Location: Midwest of West.Aust.Coast

http://zebracrazy.byethost13.com/AllMut.htm?i=1
Have a look at this site it will help clarify some of the mutations people are mentioning.
LML
LML
User avatar
Flight Feathers
...............................
...............................
Posts: 14
Joined: 09 Feb 2018, 09:49
Location: New Zealand

Thank you, I've been on that site before and looked through all the mutations. I'd obviously forgotten about black fronted! Thanks!
User avatar
Tass
...............................
...............................
Posts: 55
Joined: 26 Feb 2017, 12:26
Location: bexley nsw

black fronted and black bodied are australian mutations

Currently we don't have in Aust , of the list of mutations you mentioned , the penguin and the black cheek, lucky guys

we also don't have black breasted , so in your case work on YOUR mutation being black breasted. (as all 3 are different in some way).

finchbreeder has a link to photos of hourglass feathers,
User avatar
Flight Feathers
...............................
...............................
Posts: 14
Joined: 09 Feb 2018, 09:49
Location: New Zealand

Okay thanks!
Post Reply

Return to “Zebra”