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What Colour Are These?

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Thought i'd pop up a second thread to ask this question.

 

Just been out to take a photo of the white chick in the nest box and it's not quite what I thought it would be.

 

Any ideas?

 

(sorry photos not as good tonight!)

 

It is completely white except for a dark washed out splash on the back of the neck 

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and what looks like a brown face mark

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Also to my surprise I found a second white one in another nest

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And then checked on the third box to find 6 more chicks, all looking like clones of each other! (please excuse the dirty box, 6 chicks are making one **** of a mess, may clean it out tomorrow for them)

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Hello, nice to see you on this forum. :D

 

I'm sadly no help with the colours as I'm learning myself but they are lovely chicks and look very well fed! 

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I would guess it is a pied zebra as second pic looks like a cream coloured/grey beak?

Great photos....

Suggest last pic should enter the photo comp!

Scott

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Hi,

I think you have White Pied and normal Pied. (My kind of mutation)

 

The first photo looks like it might be 'Grizzled' White.

 

I have one bred this year with the 'Grizzle' from shoulder to shoulder.

 

Are all the parents either visual Pied or Pied bred.??

 

Andy

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