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Hi Paul, Nice Looking chicks, they look lovely and cosy. Clare

Hi Emmy, Fingers crossed on this as I need to breed splits this year, to bring back the mutations I lost last year, to my rat invasion. Which thankfully I haven't had any more problems with lately. The chick did pop out a bit early so will post some better pics when they all fledge properly I have 3 other nest with chicks due to fledge from tomorrow and over the next week ish, hope the weather holds out

Though I'd Post a pic of chick that fledged a bit early today. Popped back into the nest after There are another two in the nest with it, one looks to be the same and the other I,m being Very Hopeful will be an OB split. The chick was very calm and hopped straight onto my hand, for his photo shoot, shame I'm not so good at taking pics

Hi Trevor, Great Pic, will be interesting to see how they turn out. Clare

Hi, welcome to the forum.

Good luck for the future, with them, Well done. Clare

Hi Emmy, If it is CWF Pied it is definetly a cock, especially after this length of time YOur pic does show a slight cheek patch, and broken flank markings, which lead to my pied conclusion~?

Hi Emmy, Is there a chance it could be pied? It Would explain the lack of markings

Hi Emmy, Really cute pic, keep going, you're almost there. Afew mores days, and they Will be safe. Keep updating. Clare

Hi Emmy, Hope the dad is still feeding them for you, and you can get some sleep Strange what you said about changing the nest, that would of been the last thing I would of thought of Always learning Good Luck with the chicks, keep us posted on their progress Clare

Sorry to read about your hen. Hope the dad rears them for you. Good luck, hope all goes well.

Hi Emmy, Your'e not thinking on christmas dinner already I do have an OB fawn pied, by accident, as I did not fully understand what I had in my avaiary, until I started using this forum. Good luck if you choose to do this they can be quite stunning looking, my best pied is in my avatar.

Hi Emmy, The chicks look to be doing well, and have a good looking dad to Hope all works out ok, will be interesting to see what you get if you introduce pied into them.

Hi paul, Really nice looking birds. Hope you achieve what your after Josh.

Hi Emmy, Probably a cocky Trevor is right you can see the cheeks comming through. I had a silver cock that had faint flank markings, but the cheek patches to ages to come through. Clare

By the sounds of things your'e doing a great job, With your eumos, good luck with them for the future.

Ok I should know what, this will produce, but, need to test. What should I expect from this paring? They have paired of their own accord so should have no Problems with them when they produce, the plus point being that they reside outside, so when new aviary is built they will not be disturbed, and can be left until needs be.

All I've heard about eumos is that they cannot fly properly, hard to breed, ect. This seems to be an exception to the rule with your finches. And must be excellent for you. Keep up the good work!

Good luck , bred silver's for the first time last year. Hope you get the results you are after. Mine appeared by chance knew I had the genes in there, but didn't expect to do as well as I did. Looking forward to see what the offspring bring. Have silver male to normal female at the moment. Clare

Hi Kerry Thank-you for your kind comment Clare

Hi Guys, The hen in the pic looks like, the hen I have had Silvers( Bred from a dominant Silver) from this year also lightbacks and Creams & various combos that I'm stll working out. With lot of help from this forum She was bred from Dominat Silver Split BB/OB Lines, Combining BC Not sure this is correctly written. But might help

Hi Pip Alan & Josh, My Penguin is pied, unfortunatley my penguin line has pied in it Had a normal pied penguin but had faults, breast markings ect Still working on it as my first penguin was from a pet shop, I only bought him because I thought he was unusual, so still working on the blood line. Have produced some nice penguin hens, but males are elusive for me, hence my post, but will get there They are more mature now since I originallyu posted this will post some up to date pics for you Bear with big back catalalogue to look through

Hi Trevor, Has now started to show male markings at last, still very faint though. He is also quite a bit darker than my other silver male, who is his brother form a different clutch. Its cool as these are the first silvers I have bred, and were a big surprise for me hence the confusion. Should make next year interesting Thanks for the help. Clare

Hi Dave, 100% male on this one, caught him singing his little heart out. Silver is what I thought , but seems different to my other silver male.

Ok, I give up they have stumped my again The Attached is a male, although showing no flank markings, very curious as to why? Same parents as the silver male I posted. But he seems different, darker in colour, not showing full male markings, pics attached. The pics are one week apart, pic 1 being the earliest, still no real difference other than breast barring preety faint also, not to clear in the pics. Or could the flank marks be just to faint to see, even on close inspection I cann't see any Any ideas on what he could be?