Aussie Finch Forum

Am selling the parents of these tomorrow at the bird sale I hope.As they are getting long in the tooth and I am not sure which two birds are the parents.This bird I believe has signs of being pied,And I think he is a cock.The other one from the same batch that I am keeping i think is a hen.



It has looked like this for Around four months since it coloured up.And distinct white feather on the right wing.And white through its back.

Should i Dna them and try to breed them.Or hand them on to a pied breeder.I don't really know how common they are.

My thought is that you should try to breed them yourself. never seen anything like it.

if you want advice on pied birds, maybe ask Vince Gauci, I hear he's breeding pied jacarinis and double bars

Sold the posible parents for $15 each.Due to unknown age today.Sold some other young ones I had aswell. The two I didnt sell,One might have white feathers coming through to.As they are only young birds its hard to tell.

Hey gomer my cock redbrow is virtually identical in colour. i havent realy thought anything of it until now.

Ben

Not sure why,will catch mine up again soon to see if he has changed.

mmm very nice gomer. havent heard of too many pied red brows lately but 20 yrs or so i think me mate did have a few but was never able to get them established. theres a nice heavy pied in the A guide to australian grass finches. talken about bout pied birds was on the phone talken to me uncle earlier today he was on about haven maybe a pied gouldian which im getten to mess around wit most probs got white flight feathers nd white splotches around its head nd back will post pics of it when i get it off him looken forward too it

Looking forward to seeing your photos.Never heard of a pied gouldian.

yeh im looken forward to seeing it too as i havent actually seen it yet. and uncle only breeds normals gouldians nd is in about his 3 generation of breeding straight to straight

If you keep getting all the pied birds Chris, I'll have to look at changing your rank to something like......
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Chris - the Pied Piper. Look forward to seeing the pic. And Gomer look forward to hearing how those young Red browed go.
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