jugglerjeff

perhaps it might be worth putting a pic on here of what you're after ...and where you are in the country?

happy birthday Gary ...ive told the fire brigade to stand down ...now you've managed to blow all the candles out on your birthday cake

that's a nice one ...i much prefer them to the pieds,creminos etc

just got myself some black grey bengalese again last week, i had a shed full a few years ago.....they are pretty smart looking birds

sorry i didn't mean to cause offence ...after all its only a piece of plastic.....just saying the ones from oz were like a childs bead that had been split ......i just gave them away

im with allan on this one ...someone bought some for me off ebay (came from oz)...utter crap ..far too chunky ...avian id or supapets ones are miles better

all the best Dave...have yourself a good day!

its not every sunday..i will let you know when the next sale is on at bilsborrow....if you want to travel a bit there is a good sale at stafford show ground this sunday (starts about 9)....where i'm sure you would get set up with some decent birds

welcome to the forum steve ...i'm in preston myself ....not too far from fulwood baracks..have you ever had a trip to bilsborrow bird sale on a sunday morning ? i've just paired mine up so i have non to go at the moment (i've started a couple up on here this year with a few zebs)...but when ive bred a few your welcome to a couple of pairs. jeff

hi ...i'm thinking of going to croatia in summer....i went many years ago to medulin ....

i think he is a she

all the best merv.....p.s . i don't think they laid the fireworks on just for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for the messages .....

looks like slip claw ...similar to what the odd canary suffers from ....if you want to you can try taping the claw back with a narrow strip of elastoplast to its leg in a more natural position ...it'll only work while the bird is still young ..

i'd leave them well alone ....and stop taking them in and out of the nest ...then theres a sporting chance you won't end up hand rearing (something i've never had to do in 35 years of keeping birds )...when they are on the perch will be soon enough for the photo shoot .....regards jeff

who's the daddy

i guess to make one is to put a crested to a normal penguin you'd probably get normal looking zebs of which some would be crested also split penguin then put one of the those crested chicks to another line of penguins and i think you might end up with a crested penguin

you sure can ..i sold one at stafford last march ...it was a hen ,really good crest like a gloster canary .....

have a good day merv ...ps the fireworks aren't just celebrating your birthday!!

i was reading somewhere (i think it was on the zebra finch society website written by dennis webster) an article about combining penguin zebs and cfw to make a red flanked zeb ,presumably the black bits on a cfw are suppressed by the penguin mutation and the grey backs of a penguin are overridden by the cfw mutation ??..so a cock bird of a red flank would just have orange cheeks with no tear mark and just the chestnut flanks ..on an otherwise white bird??. but if you go on efinch .com and look at "good" pairings for penguins it dosen't advise putting penguins with cf whites... anyone had any experiences ??..regards jeff

get on the train dave ..have a day out at blackpool.,the sea air will do you good .,..i've quite a few nice zebs again now and will probably bump into you at july stafford

he bought alsorts off me dave....birds (which he came and collected) and cages.( i remember delivering them in my savoy van)..i've recently sold most of my fawn cheeks to a guy in bolton ...i've just 1 decent hen of that mutation left ...(buy i'll probably breed some more).. if your ever near sunny preston ,call in for a brew and a look at the menagerie!!

was it ian in tamworth your getting your penguins from ??....he bought a few of my zebs and cages when i packed in with the zebs a couple of years ago ... its a rum setup he has ?? from memory

i've a few silvers and silver light backs .. a good site to look at is jan pastoors ,theres some stunners on there ...i'm trying to get, by using my own stock some black faced siver light backs...might even produce my own bred creams .. if you fancy a silver light back cock and your passing preston i can sort you one out for free ...i took it to stafford for some one on here but it failed to be picked up .regards jeff

thats a good do ,i'll pair it to a good pied cock i've got......funny with it being dominant there ain't more about