Aussie Finch Forum

i couldnt get a great pic because they move too much lol i have a question ive had her since sunday when should i be expecting eggs (:
i cant wait to see they're colors

hey mate, they look like a couple of good looking healthy birds there. hope they breed well for you...pete

time for a birdkeepers worst word, patience. there are no guarantees on when they will breed. you just have to wait until they are ready. could be a week, a month or longer.

i hate waiting lol.

but what color do you think their off spring are going to be????

i had a female exactly like her and the offsprings came out like normal finches.(to me means

gray) but there son looks really light grey and the daughter is light too.

would u guys like to see pictures ?

of course, we love pictures.

This link might help with the colour inheritance for zebras

http://members.fortunecity.com/cmatos/EN/Zebras.htm

ok here they are. Scrapper(son) and Chunk(daughter) srry kinda bad quality here is a picture of meep(original) beep and meep being happy lol RIP meep she had become eggbound that is why she died idk why i gave them cuttlebone and multivitamins?????

The young pair do look lighter than the normal gray. Could possibly be a recessive dilute gene in there? I have dilutes popping up faily regularly in my stock which is why I am moving to breed my zebs in a more controlled environment. Started with just some nice zebs and aviary breeding, then started to pick pairs and seperate them into a different avairy, but due to time constraints wound up not getting the young out quick enough and woops in- breeding. Now i'm switching to cage breeding in cabinets, and I have more time.
LML

finchbreeder wrote:The young pair do look lighter than the normal gray. Could possibly be a recessive dilute gene in there? I have dilutes popping up faily regularly in my stock which is why I am moving to breed my zebs in a more controlled environment. Started with just some nice zebs and aviary breeding, then started to pick pairs and seperate them into a different avairy, but due to time constraints wound up not getting the young out quick enough and woops in- breeding. Now i'm switching to cage breeding in cabinets, and I have more time.
LML

thanks i wish i hade the space to breed in an aviary
but what i really want to learn is how to tame zebras.