New babies

New zebras babies are growing feathers.  The grey is the father; given the color of their babies, he is most likely split to CFW.  The CFW is the mother.

 This is when the babies were just hatched for a few days.  Zebra babies have white fuzz and no nodules at the corners of the beak.

 Here the babies are a bit older, starting to get pin feathers on the wings.

 These are the babies currently.  The oldest has the most feathers.  Four looks to be CFW so far; given the high proportion of CFW in the babies, the father should be split to CFW instead of fully normal grey.

 Here we can clearly see the difference in the color between a CFW chick on the left and a normal chick on the right.

Here's the oldest chick - a CFW. 

 Very cute still with fuzz on its head.

 Some of the my molting boys; these guys are so much more colorful this year after improving their nutrition (more on this later).  This guy turned out to be a red headed lilac breasted single factor yellow back - his colors were so light when I bought him from another breeder that I thought he was a white breasted (thought he was a bad white breast since he had a very light pink colored breast) double factor yellow back (the light blue ring around the mask is just showing through the molt).

This is another example of what good nutrition can do for your birds.  He is a red headed lilac breasted double factor yellow back.  Note how deep the red on the face is.  He too had a very light pink breast; I could not figure out whether he was a bad white breast or a very light lilac breast.  See how lovely his breast color is.  He is enjoying my home-made veggie salad; this is an important part of my current improved regimen for them.

Another group of my molting male gouldians.  From left to right, red headed white breasted double factor yellow back, red headed purple breasted single factor yellow (or dilute) back (he seems to have a redline under the breast, but this is just a factor of the picture; he's not really a redline), and finally, black headed (YTB - see yellow tipped beak) purple breasted normal green back male.

A new junvenile just finishing his first molt into adult color; he's a black headed purple breasted normal green back (split to yellow head since his father is YTB).

Just wanted to throw in a picture of my yellow turquoisine male since he's so pretty :D

This is the baby I've been handfeeding.  It's the baby that was abandoned by its parents that had the stress bars on its feathers.  Not sure if it's a boy or girl yet, but is a yellow back.