pied orange breast unbelievable

[Craig52]

thank goodness they are still kicking and are sitting high in tea tree , be interested to see how they look when there older

That's great news,the weather has been kind to them with very mild nights.I too would like to see progress pics. Cheers Craig

[finchbreeder]

Thanks for posting. I 3 would like to see progress pics in a couple of weeks/months etc.
LML

[garymc]

Be great to see how they turn out.

Got the Hunter Valley magazine last week and there was a picture of (well it looked that way to me) an incredibly well coloured pied orange breast taken in NZ - almost totally yellow whilst maintaining the red broaw and a huge splash of orange on the chest

[mrscibbo]

Will try get some update photos tomorrow there ended up 3 in the nest 1 heavy pied and the other 2 looked like the lighter pied in the photo, hope to get another nest out with some more pieds, will give me a few birds to play with next season,

[mrscibbo]

will try again he or she wouldnt turn to see the back

[mrscibbo]

this ones a little better hard bugger to get a good pic of

[finches247]

Thats Quite good pied colouring Interesting

[mrscibbo]

Took this photo the other day, he had just finished pruneing himself after a bath, hre has went through molt, what do use all think
regards Marty

[firetail555]

He looks quite nice Marty. Hopefully he was preening not pruneing or he will get the runs What are you going to pair him too?
David

[mrscibbo]

i suppose if he prunes to much he wont have any pied left in him
i have breed about 10 youngsters that have come out pied, the one on the photo is one of the best 2
regards marty