ZebbieFan

Just wondering about Eumo Zebbies. What do they look like? Are they rare? Is the Eumo feature a mutation?

My white female (Snowball) did eventually manage to lay two eggs in the nest, for the first clutch, after the bird bath and perch laying saga. The male Zebra finch then took the duty of spending the most time in the nest to incubate the eggs.Then I found three eggs about a week later and kept checking in the nest everyday to see if I could see any more eggs and saw some hidden at the far back. The birds are continuing to incubate the eggs from earlier this month plus last weeks eggs. The normal coloured cock (Clown) is the father of the brood as the Fawn male (Fawn) passed away of underlying issues last christmas. The photo above was taken within hours of their arrival (October 2012). The female hasn't been doing particularly much sitting on the eggs as far as I have observed whenever I am not at college. Is it normal with some Zebra Finches for the male to do most of the egg-sitting? Also, is there any way I could stop my Zebra Finches from laying any more clutches? I was thinking of allowing them just one more clutch before I stopped them, but I don't know how to stop them. I am looking forward to seeing the chicks as it will be my first ever brood of birds and I just hope everything goes well throughout the whole process when they hatch. I have no idea which eggs are fertile and which ones aren't as I prefer not to disturb my birds, even if they are very used to being near me everyday.

Hello, I have been fascinated by birds since a few years ago and planned to have some Canaries after last years summer, but one of my mother's friends introduced me to a local finch breeder. I discovered finches were more suited to what I desired in the birds I wished to own (small size, easy breedability, easy for begginners such as myself). I aquired my first three Zebra finches last year. Unfortunately, I lost one of the Zebra finches over christmas day. He was handicapped due to a past accident at his breeders, and became very hand tame over a matter of weeks. So hand tame he would try to jump into my hand the minute I placed it in the cage. I was able to take him out oof the cage and have him sitting on me. My leftover finches have been doing well after a couple of months. So well in fact that they have been breeding. The egg laying has been a bit chaotic at first considering the first egg was laid in the bird bath and the second was laid from a perch and smashed. They laid their first clutch of eggs at the begginning of February, and began incubating them a few days later. They laid another clutch of eggs last week and don't appear to have laid any more. Looking forward to all the little babies soon.