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  1. Faracat

    BC + CFW

    Just realised that I should have posted this in the genetic section. Sorry, I'll make a post there now.
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    BC + CFW

    I had always thought that a male with this combination would have grey spotted flanks, but I have one that has white flanks with white spots. He looks to only carry one BC gene as his cheeks are smudgy like his mother's and she definitely only has one BC gene. I have also had a pale grey male hatch this year, but I didn't think that I had any dilutes in the aviary. Maybe something was hiding in my CFWs? Any ideas?
  3. I quite like the medium sized birds that I have got before from crossing a pet sized male with an exhibition hen. I do find that the pet sized birds are better parents though (is that just my birds?). I do just breed for fun, so as long as they are healthy any pretty colour is a bonus. It would be nice if I got a surprise colour - it was wonderful when my grey normal and CFW pairing resulted in a pied BC chick in the brood.
  4. So true. There are still several colours that I don't have yet too.
  5. Thanks. I still don't have the fawn male that I was meant to be looking for. Since I started to look out for one i have bought a young penguin hen, the pied fawn hen and this chap. Ooops. I also bought two canaries, but they were a planned purchase.
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    Hecks ---- The 2Nd Batch!

    I really hope that they feed them.
  7. I found this cobby chap in a pet shop, so he had to come home with me. What do you think? He's paired up with a pet sized pied fawn hen, so I'm hoping for some medium sized pied chicks soon. He's also got a bigger percentage of white than any of my other pieds, so I'm hoping that the chicks will inherit a bit more white than the hen has too.
  8. I don't think that any have fawn in their ancestry. This sounds like a good excuse for a shopping trip for a male fawn then.
  9. I have been given a little fawn hen today, she is my first fawn so I'm really chuffed with her. I'm hoping that in time, she will pair up and breed. However what are the chances of me getting any fawn chicks? I have a few brothers that are grey normal, Pied grey, grey BC and pied grey BC in colour, their mother was a CFW. The other males are CFW (one could be carrying BC, but he's not got smudgy tears like his mother) and I do have one grey penguin, but he seems a bit clueless when it comes to breeding, bless him. So I'd be shocked if she managed to have chicks with him. She will be in the aviary, so she could choose from any of the above.
  10. Hi Ian. Welcome to the forum.
  11. ... why one of my birds have pale irises compared to my other birds? The bird with the pale, orangey-brown eyes is a grey penguin male. I also have his full sister and she has the usual dark eyes where the contrast between the iris and pupil is not so marked.
  12. I love your bird in the OP and look forwards to seeing a photo of him when he's fully feathered up. The black mutations are very attractive IMO. Thanks for the explanation.
  13. The talk about black flanks is very interesting. I have a grey pied BC who was a surprise colour as his parents are a normal grey and a CFW. I paired him with a grey BC hen and so far they have had two male chicks, one grey pied BC and one grey BC. Both have jet black flanks (bar the spots). This is the dad. You can't see much of his flank colour due to the pied, but he's not as darkly coloured as his sons are.
  14. I have two CFW hens that have one copy of BC, one has smudgy tears, the other doesn't.
  15. I love the one with the black front. Is that BF, BC and BB?
  16. Chick number 1 has fledged today. Sadly chick number 2 didn't make it and I found him/her dead a few days ago. I am thrilled with chick 1 though. He (I think that I can just see male throat markings coming through) is the first 'grandchick' of my favourite grey normal who is just a pet shop bird, but he's got something special and turned out to carry both pied and BC. I really should take a photo of him but anyway, here is the son and the grandchick. Planning ahead for great grandchicks, I may have to go BC hen shopping.
  17. I had a better look at the chicks today. I can definitely see two and one has pink and black skin, so it looks like I'm really lucky and the hen carries pied too!
  18. Thanks both of you. i've had a peek in the nest and one seems to have a white 'tuft' but it's too shady and they're too small to see the skin colour easily. Hopefully as they grow i'll be able to get a better look.
  19. My grey pied BC (in my avatar) and a grey BC hen have just hatched their first clutch. I don't know if she carries pied or not, so I guess that it's most likely that the chicks will be grey BC's that carry pied. I hope they are good parents. *keeps fingers firmly crossed*
  20. I'm no help with the mutations as I'm just learning myself, but what a nice selection of birds you have.