paulm

Hello and welcome to the forum. Paul.

Hello and welcome to the forum. Paul.

Hi Rolf Glad to see you have changed your opinion on UK Zebra finches, i seem to remember you said you would rather stop with Zebra if they became to much like UK birds "I prefer the continental type,too. If you want to change the volume, you also change the type of the bird. And you will see at once if there is english blood in your birds. The same problems we had by the gloster canaries." Regards Rolf Haag www.soccerbird.de Regards Paul

Hi Trev Hope you had a good day and sorry its late, i've had the man flu. Paul.

Hi Trev Nice bird i had two just fledge one fawn obbb and one Normal obbb but the normal one just died Paul

Hi All Thanks for the comments Emmy it has 2 older siblings but there molting Heres one who had just fledged Dave I'm just giving the hen a rest and will have another go all being well. Paul.

Hi All This is an interesting young Fawn its a week out of the nest in the photo. Regards Paul.

Hello and welcome to the forum. Paul.

Hi Jon Looking good mate and congratulations on your show season Paul.

Hello and Welcome to the forum Paul.

Hello and welcome to the forum. Paul.

Hi Chris Not that i'm aware and it may well moult out normally. Paul.

Hello and Welcome to the Forum. The birds you have are a Normal Cock and Hen. Paul.

Hello and welcome to the Forum. Paul.

Hi Chris One explanation is as Kareem and Stephen have said missing feathers, the reason only the Black and white barred feathers could be missing is they are located on the top layer of the tail. Another explanation is the bird could be over Melanistic. Paul.

Hi Found this photo its a couple of year old now but it shows the difference

Hi Well i can give you my opinion on size if it helps. Size is gained though selective breeding over a period of time, to put it as simply as possible, breeding some pairs of birds together keeping the bigger resulting chicks and then once mature breeding these larger birds together and repeating the process, the only down side to doing this with pet shop type birds is the length of time needed to get from A) pet shop size too,B exhibition size. As for pairing Pet shop type birds to big birds and what might result well i would expect offspring resulting from such a breeding as being better than the lesser of the pair but not as good as the greater and the result to vary pair to pair as it also depend who is dominant in the pair and their size. I did hear in the past that penguins Have a tendency to breed backwards over time but have not bred many so i'm not sure on this. Paul.

Hi Andrew Welcome to the forum and welcome back to the Hobby. Paul.

Hi The Hen looks like a BB Normal Possible BF its hard to tell 100% from the photos. Paul.

Hi Thanks for the comments I don't think the hen is Yellow beak as i have never kept them apart from one hen who i didn't breed off but it is possible as you know how these Recessive mutations can be Paul

Hi All Paul.

Hi Gary Thank you.

Hi Everyone Heres how some of the Normals turned out this year. Paul.

Happy Birthday Baz

Hi In Penguin Zebra finches the Mutation belongs to the recessive mutation group and it takes two forms regardless of back ground colour i.e Normal, Fawn or other. The first form is called A Visual bird which has two copies of the penguin gene one from each parents and the mutation is manifested in a visual manner. The other we call a split, this bird has only one copy of the mutation Gene inherited from the one parent who also has the mutated Gene and has passed it to the young bird. Paul.