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    pet shops are a mine field!!!! this year the zfs club show is in wales...... an if you go on Facebook/ or the wanted page on here there are plenty of breeders from wales on the pages and a welsh zebra finch society page. cocks together are ok but not too many and even two or three may still fight to establish a pecking order.

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    not been too bad for me apart from my struggle with my cfw's..  and my curse of loosing half a dozen chicks at 25-26 days old....took them a while to get going! young birds so quite a few clear or no sits.. gave mine a months rest and put  6 pair back up yesterday( different pairings) for one last hurrah..

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    sorry to here that. I have not had it with zebbies but I no  birds get what's called air sack mite. the symptoms you give sound like that.. zebbies don't really suffer much with mite as they eat them. can't remember how you treat it but there is one think you add it to there food/water am sure is something liken s76. . I will try find the thread on Facebook and check back  later.

    good luck

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    all sorts in that lot!!!!!  I think normal, cfw, fawn an than ????  may be silver? or a marked cfw as fawn and cfw are sex linked so gives you a washy colour cfw but it depends on what they are all split for.. would be good to see them all  molted out...

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    thanks.. cfw I only have 3 ready to jump an it looks 2-1 I have another 5 that are too young.. fawns only bred  hens so far but have 6 full eggs being fostered. all my silvers are cocks..( but have had 3 die at 26 days that were definitely hens)  as it happens by the looks of things my normal are about equal... so over the shed at the moment I am about 50 -50. sounds daft but I leave a bowl of water on a window shelf.. to help with humidity. I read that humidity when the hens are sitting makes a difference. i can not remember which way round but less humidity = more hens or vice versa. maybe another old wives tail but every little helps.

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    I have read on other sites that an early way of sexing CFW chicks is that the young hens seem to have the darker heads then the young cock birds... is this the case or just an old wives tail?. I have three about to jump 2 have quite clear heads one a lot darker so I was thinking two cocks one hen?

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    my first thought was the doves are eating them themselves... I no zebbies that are lacking in calcium have been known to do that.. I do not no the size of a dove egg my concern that it's the zebbies are would the egg be too big for them. so that leave the dove themselves or the canaries. it is getting to canary breeding season so the hens my be looking for nests or trying to top up on calcium. but this is just a guess Emmy

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