My New Zebra Finch Pair

[Harvey11]

They look great and very healthy to.
And i like how your cabinets are set up.

Harvey11

[Luís Lourenço]

Congratulations, nice Charcoal hen you have. Unfortunately, this mutation doesn't exist in Portugal ...

Cock is a Red Breasted Fawn.

I'm not familiar with the mutations that occur there so i need to ask this. It's the Red Breasted the same mutation that the Orange Breasted?
Here in Portugal only the Orange Breasted exists and the cheeks design isn't like that ...

[zebman]

Its the same mutation, I think they appeared in the early eighties here in OZ, why they were named reds I don't know.

[Luís Lourenço]

Thanks ;)
But the cheeks design looks odd ... here only the Black Breasted Zebras and their combinations have that cheek design

[zebman]

I think maybe given a couple more moults the cheek patches could extend further up into the head and give it a more of a red/orange head.

[Luís Lourenço]

That's not common. At least here.