Zebra Finch Mutation?

[zena]

Hi all,
IO have some new birds, a pair of Zebra Finches and 2 Silver King Quails, but I was wondering the mutations of the Zebra Finch hen. The male is a normal, but the hen looks fawn, but she has a dark brown rump and tail.... they only photo's I have aren't very good...

[avinet]

Aug 4, 2013 18:28:22 GMT 10 zena said:

Hi all,
IO have some new birds, a pair of Zebra Finches and 2 Silver King Quails, but I was wondering the mutations of the Zebra Finch hen. The male is a normal, but the hen looks fawn, but she has a dark brown rump and tail.... they only photo's I have aren't very good...

Hard to be sure from your photo but she looks like a standard fawn to me - better photos including the rump area and closeup of the face would help.

cheers,

Mike

[zena]

I'll try and get some better one's tomorrow I wasn't sure as I've never had Zebra Finches before, and she looked different from the photo's I could find of Fawn ones...

[zena]

Here are some photo's of her, then her next to her mate, I can't get any good photo's of her rump... she moves around too much

[avinet]

I think she is a Fawn.  Ideally in the show standard the Fawns have a white belly but many commonly seen have  the fawn continuing down to the tail.

cheers,

Mike

[zena]

Thank you, that helps
Also if they had chicks what would the babies be?

[avinet]

Aug 17, 2013 13:27:39 GMT 10 zena said:

Thank you, that helps
Also if they had chicks what would the babies be?

Who knows!!!  Zebras are almost always split to a variety of mutations these days - a pure wild form Zebra with no splits is a rare bird!  It's a bit like breeding budgies - stand by to be pleasantly surprised at what might appear.

However if they are both exactly what they appear, with no splits, then all babies would be normals.

cheers,

Mike

[zena]

Thank you Its just I didn't know much about them - and any fawns (photo's) I found had the white belly...