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Pete, Welcome to the zff i'm sure you will enjoy your time on here.Trevor

Mark, Don't know about being on a poster, i'd rather have them in my cages Trevor

Dave, Thanks for the info, right up my street that is cheers!Trevor

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. Trevor

Zebbie 007, Welcome to the zff i'm sure you will enjoy yourself on here, there a great bunch always ready to help with any advice however small.Good to hear you're back into zebs. (What colours are you into ?)Yes there should be some for sale at the KZFS.All the best with your new set up,Trevor

Rick, Hi and welcome to the zff hope you enjoy your time on here.Trevor

Liam, welcome to the zff enjoy.The answer to your pairing could be:- 50% Normal/Isabel Fawn males, 50% Fawn/Isabel females.Hope this helps,Trevor

Dave, My guess is that she is a normal pied.But i have been known to be wrong.Trevor

Ebrahim, Welcome to the zff hope you enjoy your time on here.I think i met you at the east anglian zebra finch show last year.Trevor

Gary, I've got the following, Grey, Fawn, CFW, BCCFW,GC,GC Lightback + my white type GC's.When i pair them i never do 2 crests together + i keep the grey side and fawn side seperate from each other.Hope this helps, Trevor

Paul, Thanks for info there, some of the lesser known mutations are hard to get size into. wouldn't this be taken into consideration on the bench.Eg, not to many years ago the penguin struggled for size but now it's up with the others.I was just thinking that surely it would attract more colours to the bench and possibly get more people to keep the more rarer types.Please don't think i'm disputing what you say, i'm just trying to make a constuctive comment.All the best Paul, Trevor

Nick, I'll try and answer the best i can in drop order if thats ok.No i've never bred Cr-Cr, 1. It's dom to dom and i believe you stand a chance of getting blind chicks. I have had this with 2 x GC's by accident in my aviary.2 You don't really gain to much you get 50% Cr's on average by using one Cr. Also by using 2 Cr's i think 50% are still s/f and 25% are d/f so if they are all the same mutation you wouldn't be able to tell the difference (sf/df).Deffo Crest, if it's in Cr class then crest it should be, then mutation (rarer the better), then size.I always pair a Cr to a non Cr both of the same colour, Keep the grey side together and fawn together.Doesn't matter whether it comes from a non Cr pair or not. Being dominant it's not carried.I don't think so, Cr's and non Cr's seem to be ballanced from the parents.The crest to me seems to fit whatever size bird it's on, a big or small bird the crest seems to be in proportion with the bird. ............................I hope this makes sence Nick, if you're still unsure about anything i've put please contact me again. These veiws are based on my own findings.All the best Nick,Trevor

Wayne, Welcome to the zff. Hope the inlaws like the finished artical, nice thought.Trevor

Dave, Yes i do sell at Newark, i'm in the end shed the opposite end to the entrance.I'm getting mutations first then i'll work on size, cos i think you can always work on the size but sometimes getting certain mutations is hard.When it's on come over for a chat, i'll post my table no. nearer the time so if any other members are there likewise.Trevor

Dave, As Mark said i do breed the crested type.As follows:-GreyFawnCfwBccfwGC (normal type)GC (pure white with faint cheek patch)GC LightbackWhat i find is that even if it's a poor crest, it breeds good crests and vice versa.I don't pair 2 crests together, do you?Do you go to any sales ? ie stafford, newark, norwich.Trevor

Dave, Welcome to zzf you will deffo like it on here real good bunch, any probs just ask.Trevor

Scott/Mark, If it's any use to either of you someone in NW Cheshire is selling some yellow beaks + other zebs. Birdtrader BT132515E Tel:- 01613431871Hope this is of use, Trevor

Checking my register this afternoon and i've realised that in all my young this year i haven't had a male Crested CFW. My pairings have been Cr CFW x GC & GC x Cr CFW. Out of these pairings i've had CFW males and females, but only Cr CFW females + Cr GC's males and females. But other pairings i've got are GC x CFW & CFW x GC i've had males and females of CFW. Is this just one of those things or should i not get Cr CFW males ? Does this only work if you have a Cr cfw x cfw pair ? Thanks Trevor

Hi Chris, All the best with your returning to zebs.Trevor

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, soon be time to sort out what's going and what's not, more as it happens next month. Trevor

Hi Dean, Welcome to the zff it's a very freindly forum and nothing is to much trouble to answer. All the best with your new hobby, Trevor

Richard, I was confusing you with the other one, sorry about that. We've now got the real rrenshaw Trevor

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 previous. More as it happens next month, Trevor

Hameed, Welcome to the zff, hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Trevor

Mark, The important thing is can you get a matching pair in size and shade ? as thats a must for showing. No laurel and hardys. Seriously though i get that with my grey cheeks differents shades in colour, probually get 1 matching pair out of say 6 birds.Hope you do well in which ever shows you enter. Trevor