while checking the aviary this afternoon i found a small fully feathered zeb fledgling on the floor and on closer inspection it has no eyes what so ever otherwise looks healthy,
anyone seen this before?
Zeb with no eyes
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gomer
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No never seen it before.Are the parents related ? And if so over how many generations that you know of ? I dont like its chances becoming independent.
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The birds are in a colony so they could be related,I only really started breeding them last year and hadn't bred them in great numbers until recently. I started out with about a dozen birds from different places and have 40 birds before this lot of fledlings so it could only be a few generation .
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MariusStegmann
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I had about 6 chicks with what looked like water blisters around the eye area. When left to mature the blisters disappeared and the birds ended up blind. I had to end those birds misery. I first thought that it was a decease, and later found out that it is very prevalent in zebras with fawn cheek mutation gene. I got rid of all my Fawn cheek zebras, because I hated having kill the chicks.
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JR Did you get your original birds from a couple of different sources? Or all from one place? As depending, they could have already been inbred.
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