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Breeding better whites

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ZEBRA FINCHES

BREEDING and exhibiting whites is a big and exciting challenge for the zebra finch fancier. The average white lacks the substance and feather quality of the average exhibition bird. The challenge of bringing them up to show standard is one that most fanciers don't take up, but is one that I have enjoyed for a number of years now.

White is a recessive colour form of the zebra finch. That means that both parents must be visual or split for white to

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