dave huntington

as i said a bit of an odity not even sure that they would produce further half sider genes in their youngstersjust a quirk of mother nature a once in a blue moon type of occurance

they are a bit of an odity surely not something one would want to breed withseen a couple i think dave edwards bred a one two or three years agoDave

Its just not feasable to have a class for every possible combo and that's what a lot of these birds are combos not out and out mutationsHowever there is always a class for your birds so why not bench them anyway and let people see what your breedingThere is more to a show than best in show and the major awards and good competition occurs in some of the new colour sections and you will find good competition in these classesIndeed some fantastic pairs have gone on to win major honours

hello michael,welcome,i have seen pictures of your birds on another site they looked stunningdave

hello Laus good to see you on here mateDave

nice birds paul very nice head features well done.gary hope the normals do well for youi would be tempted to pair your fawn cock up now to try and breed some moreive got an old fawn hen thats done well for me paired to a nice cream cock just hatched some chicks fingers crossedDave

the cocks look like some form of cfw dilute some fawncheek hens not sure though.if they arnt standard colours im the wrong person to comment on them

really hopefull of breeding a few next year looking at some normal cocks next weekgot three nice hens here just need to get them through the winter and hopefully a couple of them do the buisness next yearfingers crossed

if you cant get normal hens this year you could pair a normal cock to chestnut henyou could get some normal hens via that routedave

in my opinion good quality normal hens are the most important birds you can have in your shedthey can improve virtually any studtherfore being of such importance are hard to get hold ofi have produced a few through my cfw this year and even found getting pure normals cocks difficulthowever picking a pair of normals up next weeki reckon a few are lost through all these bloody new colours and peaple trying to get as many colours on a zebra finch as they canif we are not carefull we could find normals a rareity if more newcomers dont take these birds upnothing looks better than a top pair of normalsdave

yeah stay well away from fawns but by all means introduce normal to improve colouri would use a normal hen initialy paired to a good coloured cfw cocksome of the young produced will be normal split cfw cocks and these are the birds to put back into your cfw linei have done this before and have managed to darken my cfw linehope this helpsdave

yes all cfw produced with that pairingif already of good colour,no reason youngsters shouldnt be of good colourDave

they are over here and the ones i saw were tidier than thatnew colours just dont get me exited however they are different if thats what your intoi personaly like a zebra finch to look like a zebra finch and these all red or all black even whites do little for medave

http://zebrafinch.info/colours/default.asp?mutation=1048576go on thensaw some this year they are over here and being bred

well theres one i can think of that i have seen this yearbut i am saying nowt Dave

it has long been thought that recessive dilutes no longer existed in this countrybt someone has voted for them so hopefully they are backwould like to see someDave

Hello helen hope you enjoy the site I'm in manchsterNice to see more people in area with zebsDave

hello stuart hope you enjoy the forumwhat colours are you looking to keepdave

hello markhope you enjoy the forum

hello brianenjoy the site dave

no mark still concentrating on my normal colours just fancied a pair or two of these to play withone or two people showing them now so a chance to get some competition at end of year to see if they have improvedthey definatley wont be takng over the shedyes i picked up at carlisle off colin clark top bloke is colin with some very nice birdsi beleive you did well on saturday well done,sorry i didnt see much of showi ended up having a meal with a load of my family that live in carlisle and it went on a bit longer than expectedstill it was nice to see everybody up there at my favorite show even if my birds were not that good on the daynext show haltwhistle my favorite cbs showgot a cracking judge for the day aswell

well i ended up with 2 pair of normal penguinsnice birds something new to have a go withmaybe get some on the showbench in a year or two

well i have took the plunge and managed to sort myself a pair of normal penguinsgetting them at weekendjust something to play with and offer me another little challangelooking forward to trying to breed some nice clean breasted specimensdave

last year i introduced normal into my cfw and bred some normal/cfw cocks i kept the best two of these to pair to cfw hens this yearboth cocks produced some cfw cock youngsters and the colour has definatley improved in this years youngstersi have retained these two cocks to use next year and an aditional normal/cfw cock youngsterobviousley by pairing this way a number of normals wll be produced but normal hens are usefull birds to produce whatever you are breeding and the split cocks very usefull n maintaing and improving colour imo