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Australian Team Show

The Federation of Australian Zebra Finch Societies will hold its 17 national team show in Perth WA over this weekend 25th & 26th August.

KenG

KenG

 

July - 1St August

All, Appoligies for late entry for 1st July so to even things up i thought i would post Aug1st early so i's evened things up. Things have realy turned around zeb's and weather, during the month of june i rung 18 young, concidering up until then i'd had 25 to ring so not bad. July obviously quietened dowh and i rung another 6, not worried because i knew i'd got eggs in other box's. As of going to press, i've got an astonishing 24 young in box's. Plus this year i've had young from 12

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

1St June 2012

All, After a disasterous month the only way is up and sure enough my zeb's have pulled it around. following on from last month i lost my best cock bird a BBCFW but he had gave me 6 BBCFW hens so on the bright side i can keep that line going. Weather has definatly improved in my neck of the woods out here in east anglia. Checked zeb's today and i've got :- 1x BBCFW + 2x BB greys from the cock bird that died, the hen is bringing them up very well. BB grey x CFW = 3 young BCCFW x BF g

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

1St May 2012

All, Talk about highs and lows, march high, april low, out of those 21 young i have lost 10. 4 different nests i've lost them from a 4,3,2 and a 1. Reason ? Don't know i'm relating it to the weather/climate to much of a coincidence, apart from one nest i've been getting 1's and 2's in the box's. On a brighter note my BBCFW x BB have produced another good round, 5 young 3x BBCFW and 2x BB now in the aviary, Other young what came through are BC, BFBC and BCCFW's all now in aviary. Next

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

Genetics Information

Hi, I am new to this, hope I have posted this in the correct section. Can anyone recommend a book on Zebra Finch genetics, and where it I can get hold of one ?

sam159

sam159

 

April 1St 2012

All, Norwich bird sale went ahead, had a lot of interest in the forum handed out quite a few flyers, hopefully may lead to new members. Those 2 young i mentioned last month turned out to be cfw and grey. When i checked this weekend i was amazed to find 21 youngsters. The box i'm pleased with had 2 creams + 1 fawn and the other pair have 4 young which also could have some cream in. In the last month i have lost 1 male and 1 hen from different pairing but have replaced with identic

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

What Will I Get

I moved to Spain 5 years ago and have just taken up breeding Zebras again. Having very limited space I can not keep many birds. I have a visual fawn pied cock ( history not known ) x CFW hen which I bred last year. What can I expect to get from this pairing? There are not many variations/ mutations available in the area I live. I have only seen, Normals, CFW, Fawns, and Pieds.

sam159

sam159

 

1st March 2012

All, Hope everything is working out for you all in your new breeding season. Didn't go to Bird sale at Norwich, because all of the weekends it decided to snow was that weekend and it was called off, we'll try again on 18th March. As for my birds i've had several clear eggs on first round, seems to follow last years start, all be it with different birds. So far i've got 2x BBCFW hens, 1x BC grey male, 1x BFBC grey male and 1x BFBCCFW hen (to be confirmed)from another box. Also this

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

1st Febuary 2012

All, In my area weather has been kind to us, as of writing temp's are down and they are forcasting snow for the next couple of days. Who would want to be a zeb in an aviary. Paired birds up, had prob with 4 pairs, males were chasing females all over the place,so not happy with that took the males away and replaced them with identical males, everything settled down. At present i have 3 young and 46 eggs this is from 13 pairs so at the moment doing ok.One nest has got 2 young they are

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

January 2012

04.01.2012 setup up first 3 pairs so far, pair 1- chestnut flanked whites - both 2011 bred pair 2- normal split lightback cock x chestnut flanked white hen - both 2011 breed pair 3- normal blackbreast cock early 2011 bred x 2009 bred fawn hen fingers crossed to some chicks soon and happy new year and good luck to all 07.01.2012 pair 3- have 1st egg today, fingers crossed for more soon pair should produce me some nice normals split blackbreast & fawn cock and normal split black

Dave.H

Dave.H

 

Finches

Hi all. I mentioned in my introduction, that I had to pack in bird breeding a few years ago, due to ill health. But as my wife took over looking after the birds, I still kept the interest in the hobby. At the moment, we are only keeping a small amount of birds because I have had to rebuild a new bird room. The birds we are keeping at the moment are, Stars, Diamond Firetails, Bengalese. But now I've finished my own bird room, I am going to start up with some Zebs, which I'm looking forward in do

Davis

Davis

 

1st January 2012

Hi all and a happy 2012, Well dec went quick, i managed to get all my cages (13) refurbed. Not because i did them but they really look the dogs bits. I did the cages in stages each weekend 2 here and 3 there, thats one of the problems with this time of year, the daylight hours. On the dark evenings i've sat down (not every night) and wrote down possible pairings for 2012 scrubbed some added some and finally got the finished artical, worked out the possible breedings fro

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

1st December 2011

All, 2011 is history now for the breeding, went to newark sold a few zeb's + bought one as well a male BBCFW. Started my 2 year refurb over the last 2 weeks, 2 cages done completely last weekend and 3 more this weekend completed. 5 down 8 more to go. Keep tinkering about on a A4 what to put with what i know roughly, suppose you call it fine tuning. Next blog will be in 2012 (could have a few pairs down) so have a happy christmas and a good 2012 for breeding and to yourselves as

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

First Time Breeding Exhibition Zebra Finches

Hope you all enjoy as much as i did writing it First ever time with Breeding Exhibition Zebra Finches First acquired some birds in Oct/Nov 2010 advertising for breeding stock to start of with as a total beginner with Exhibition Zebra finches. I was very lucky with a top Zebra breeder only living few miles away he replied to my advertisement telling me he had some birds I might be interested in to start of with. Turned up at there house I was stunned buy the size of these birds never eve

mark1e

mark1e

 

1st Nov 2011

Hi all, The answer is yes i did pass 100 youngsters (103) it's my p/b. In all of my cages the nest boxes have been taken out, 1 cage with 3 young which will soon put into the aviary. Newark this weekend and after that gradually re-furbishing the cages and really blitz the place. I know there's plenty to do in the shed but i find this time of year for me with zeb's can be a bit boring with nothing happening. But these jobs have to be done. Next month will be how far work on re-furbi

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

October 1st 2011

Getting towards the end of my season now, as young leave parents i'm taking box's away. Out of 13 cages 6 are now shut down. 6 have got young and the 7th has 4 eggs. 12 youngsters i have rung this month which brings my total from cages to 83. At the moment the 6 cages with young have 15 in total so once rung it brings it up to 98, will the nest with 4 eggs have 2 or more young to make 100? Wait till next months blog to find out the final number for 2011. If any of you reading this are showin

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

September 1st 2011

Another month goes past, as we say doesn't time fly. Not a bad month up on the average of young. 16 young for the month plus eggs to hatch. Total for season now on 75 youngsters with rings. Young consist of:- 4x LBGC 4x Cr Grey 2x Cr GC 2x CFW 1x Cr BCCFW 1x Cr CFW 1x BCCFW 1x Grey Thanks for looking, more next month.

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

August 1st

Got back to normality, average month, but pleased with whats been bred. The 2 young at the end of last month's blog turned out to be 1x CFW and 1x GC white type. Sadly the cfw died for no apparent reason. CFW x GC = 3 young 2x GC white type + 1x Cr GC white type. FC x Cr Grey = 4 young 3x Grey + 1x Cr GC BCCFW x Cr CFW/BC = 4 young (to young to tell) CFW x GC white type = 2 young 1x CFW + 1x GC white type GC x CFW = 2 young + 4 eggs (way to young to tell) 15 for the month, s

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

July 1st 2011

Another month has passed and totaly different to last month really an upturn in youngsters. CFW x GC white type = 4 young 2 x CFW & 2 x GC white type BCCFW x Cr CFW/BC = 5 young 3 x Cr CFW & 2 x BCCFW GC x Cr CFW = 5 young 2 x Grey + 2 x GC & 1 Cr GC GC/CFW x Grey 5 young = 2 CFW + 1 Grey & 2 x GC CFW x GC 2 young = ? to young to tell (4/5 days old) This brings the total for the month to 21 young. Reason for this is that its been a lot wetter month than previo

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

June 1st

May, Well what can i say not a good breeding month at all. 5 young in total 3 of my White types from Cr CFW x G/C. Other 2, 1 x Grey & 1 x G/C from F/C x Cr Grey. In Norfolk, weather has been extreamly dry no rain for a few months and high temps. As i write this blog things have took a boost with 3 boxes with 4 youngsters in each. Weather over the last few weeks has become cooler (just a bit) and a bit of rain which i think is helping to kick in the breeding again. Hopefully

norfolk flyer

norfolk flyer

 

Fresh Start

OK so i have decided to write this Blog, i hope new comers to the fancy will learn from my experiences some good and some bad, i have picked up many tips from this forum, so if experienced members would like to comment i could learn from my mistakes. Step1 i decided to retake up a new hobby instead of just sitting in front of the tele. I want to breed and exhibit Zebra Finch's, i only have limited space in the garden, so as the garage is already full of stuff i will need to build or buy a ne

Kim

Kim

 

From: Updates & Maintenance

Well I've finally finished the new blog section, you many not notice any change, because this is mostly a maintenance upgrade to iron out some of the bugs. Hope you will find it useful. Looking forward to Trevor's June Blog. Oh and did you know that you can now add a topic directly in to your blog to save you entering it twice, you can also create links from your blog to your topic as well. Gary. Source: Updates & Maintenance

Zebraman

Zebraman

 

From: Updates & Maintenance

I have started to carry out some overdue maintenance and upgrades this weekend, which will mean that the forum will be off line from time to time. You may also experience some disruption and errors when accessing some parts of the forum. I’ll try my best to keep the down time to a minimum, but please be patient if you do experience any problems. Regards, Gary. Source: Updates & Maintenance

Zebraman

Zebraman