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Thanks for your wishes......and yes, I had a nice day

Nice one Trevor !

Happy birthday Dave ! Michael

All nice birds ! Well done Nick !

LB fawn (white belly) split BB and OB in my opinion.

AndyN's bird is an isabel grey split BB. It's not a full BB, ......you can see it on the tail- and tear markings.

Yes This is 100% a BB LB fawn hen. Young penguins look like fawns (with a whitter belly) before they moult.

Nice ones !

Happy Birthday Paul ! Michael

The silver lightback hen has a big colour fault,..............her cheeks should not be white,............. that makes her a bad showbird but an excellent breeding hen to produce cocks with nice white cheeks !! Good luck breeding her !

Hello Craig, it's very difficult to get penguin cocks without chest markings. Most of the time all the cocks have more or less markings. Sometimes after 2 or 3 moults, they can get clearer . Birds with a lighter grey colour will show less markings, but they will show less colour in the cheeks too. The penguin hens never show chest markings, but sometimes they show tear markings. And again it's the same as with the cocks, you can get 2 sisters and the one is clear and the other one has tear markings...................you can try to reduce these faults by a severe selection, but nevertheless they will never totally disappear.Penguin is not an easy mutation . Regards, Michael

Try this link Aspen..............you'll find here pictures of zebrafinches of quite all mutations..........and isabel grey and fawn: Pictures made by Bart Houben. https://plus.google.com/photos/113661298080126966272/albums?banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1#photos/113661298080126966272/albums?banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1

Happy Birthday Peter ! Michael

Happy Birthday Huub ! Michael

Thank you all for your wishes ! ...........and i hope to see you again in a near future ! Greetings from Luxembourg ! Michael

Just for information : a masker in the Netherlands is a CFW in the UK ! a blackface in the UK is also named a blackface in the Netherlands. Welcome Tommy. Michael

normal cock x CFW hen = 50% normal hens 50% normal/CFW cocks. .in your case all the youngsters will of course be BC as well. Michael

You were right, it's a lightback BB

or a CFW BB cock?

it can only be a grey cheek cock. The penguin is a grey one, the hen a cheek grey..............so the young cocks are grey/ penguin or grey cheek/ penguin The hens are normal/ penguin or grey cheek/ penguin. If the penguin grey cock would be split fawn, then you would get fawn cheek hens, fawn hens, normal hens and grey cheek hens............all split penguin. The cocks out of such a pairing cannot be of fawn color.

Happy birthday Nick ! Michael

Happy birthday Adam! Michael

Hi, .......and for the continental standard too (type and color!). Michael

Happy birthday Paul ! Michael