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3 socie pairs with eggs
Topic Started: Oct 29 2009, 02:46 PM (1,584 Views)
Pass
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Hi,
I will be posting everything going on in the nests of my 3 societies finches pairs. They mostly have their own eggs but I also collected a few eggs from the zebras and put them in their nests.
This morning a first baby hatched and I beleive it's a Zebra finch:

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So that confirms it then, the first hairy chick I had that did not make it was a zebbie and this one is a society. :) Pass, u were right :), but u knew that lol. What got me thinking it was the other way round was the fact that I thought Socies were bigger than zebbies, but I guess not. Its just their fat heads and bigger beaks I guess, so the zebbies must weight more by weight then. So pass, how do I know which of the whites is a male then? Any way to tell other than, patch which they dont have? The beaks are equally dark red on all 3.
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Cute pic Dad. I love them all fuzzy like that.
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Pass I cannot believe how fuzzy they are when they are born
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Yup CBL, the first one was a zebbie and the one u have now is a Socie... It's ironic that you wanted a zebbie and got a socie and I'am dying to get a socie and all I get are zebbies lololol... Wanna switch babies?


Violet and Cathy,
It's true they so fuzzy.. I guess it's a camouflage thing since Zebras love to line their nests with white fuzzy material and this way the chicks are well hidden inside the nest.
The first time I bred zebras many years ago, I thought the parents ate the eggs or burried them untill I felt the babies with my fingers while I was looking for the missing eggs.



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Oh Pass nature always has a reason for what it does, make sense
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Hhah yes pass, lets share hhhahhaah. I thought the bigger one was a socie. So I guess zebbies are smaller?

Mine was that fuzzy when hatched. Im soooooooooooooooooooooo sad I didnt raise it myself.

Pass, also, this bubs eyes are starting to open and look red. :) So what color showing pigment will have red eyes?
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Red? well, fawns, fawn pied and whites with fawn background should have dark red eyes. Inos have bright red eyes... I hope you have an INO... I have one and he's the dad rearing the little zebbie.
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But how can he be an ino with dark pigment coming on the wings???? I was thinkin cinnamon of some sort?????
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With dark pigments, no, it's not an INO... Fawns are the cinnamons, so yes, probably :wub:
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