Aussie Finch Forum

Here's a cinnamon - a bad pic but enought to get the idea....
viewtopic.php?f=221&t=12474&p=116880&hi ... an#p116880
....it's near the bottom of the page.

yes Matty,that's a cinnamon,notably lighter in the chest bar and flanks where the fawn is nearly black in those areas. Craig

From all of your input it would seem the fawns in the U.K are actually cinnamons as they are definitely recessive sex linked, as i don't keep them myself i am not sure if we have the true fawns over here, birds that i have seen would appear to be the cinnamon. In the U.K I think because the cinnamon is fawn looking in colour its been given that name and its stuck, confusing though when the other colour variant comes along with the same name.
Regards Bob

ive got about 30 plus of them so heres a photo. ive crossed both into my pieds

heres what you get when you mix




heres a dead in nest near white one




fawns




this young from a cinnamon cock and fawn hen





fawn hen on left

G'day WB,are you sure they are fawns as the ones i have seen in pics are much,much darker on the chest bar and flanks. By the way,you got some nice birds there.
But in saying that,the bird on the right next to the fire has a very different coloured brown to a cinnamon. Cheers Craig

So this is Cinnamon ?

Well DB,if i say yes you might say no and if i say no you might say yes,I am only going by the dark chest bar and flank as a fawn,the true way to find out is to test breed to a normal,sexlinked will produce colour in young hens and all other hens will be normal and split cocks. No coloured young will be produced from a fawn in this mating but all will be split for fawn. I'm talking about a coloured cock bird to a normal hen mating.
A stab in the dark is that bird is a fawn hen. Cheers Craig keep cool