3/11/2024 0 Comments Society finch need nest sleep![]() ![]() They begin moulting at 2 months into their adult colours. Petra’s bib started coming through a few days ago, and Cassi isn’t changing despite hatching the same day.Īs such, it seems that both male and female Cherry finch fledglings will look the same, and both will look female. and it seems Little Petra is in fact a male, as he has developed a bib under his beak, sings a lot and the pale eye brows are disappearing. With our Cherry and Bengalese chicks now 2 months old, they have began moulting and the Cherry finches are slowly gaining their adult colours. It looks to have been cut off at some point, possibly from the grid on the bottom of the cage she was in. At this check up we also realised that she is missing her back toe on her left foot. Though it didn’t clear up all the blood, it softened it enough for her to free her wings and clean herself. ![]() We ended up having to pull out the bleeding quills as we couldn’t get the bleeding to stop, even with blood stop sticks, and we used a damp cloth to gently clean her wings. The little finch must have bled a lot, as her wings were caked in blood, and the ends stuck so tightly together that she couldn’t stretch them to fly! This little Zebra finch did have a tail once, but it had been plucked out, and she had several quills bleeding - so much so there was blood all over the box we rushed her home in. With the cage set up we let her out and the reality dawned on us. We bought the Zebra finch and took her home. This little finch was young, as others in the cage still had the black patches on their beaks, and we were told they were all about the same age. And every time we have to walk away, we end up feeling sad and worried for that bird we left behind. Now, in the past on many occasions, we have seen injured and/or impaired finches, and have wanted to save them from their unfair circumstances, take them home and give them a tailored life to meet their needs, but we haven’t had the ability, for one reason or another, to do so. We watched her as she struggled to move and fly, and it seemed she couldn’t get to the food and water bowls hanging higher up on the side of the cage. Helens finches, but there was one finch that caught our eye.Īt the bottom of the cage, sat on a gridded bottom was a small, young, female Zebra finch. We were pleased to see the store had a wider range of finches than before, including St. On Friday 13th April, we went to a local bird farm to pick up some more dust free wood chippings to line the bottom of our finch cages, and we popped into the sale section to see the variety of birds. And some pairs are simply not good for breeding and should not be given a nest if they continue to fail.Friday the 13th is notorious for those who believe in bad luck, but do we ever consider the bad luck to animals in the same way? Also, most Zebra finches only live about 6-10 years, so it may be they are too old to produce fertile eggs. The female needs the extra protein and calcium when she is about to lay eggs. This can be a commercial dry egg food, or you can cook an egg with the shell washed, crushed and cooked with the eggs. When you give them the nest, you can off a daily egg food. Also offer dark leafy greens and chopped veggies. Seeds offer little in nutrition and they can’t produce healthy eggs or chicks if they only eat seeds. You also need to be feeding them a balanced diet, like pellets or granules, and not a seed mix. Make them rest from breeding for at least 6 months before giving them a nest. Take the nest away, and if they try to use a food bowl as a nest, remove it and replace it with smaller cups. Since the previous owner let them keep laying eggs, they were over bred before you got them. The female can literally die from laying too many eggs. So it is up to you to keep them from laying eggs too often. In captivity, they do not know to stop because the seasons do not change indoors. In the wild, they only breed one time a year and during that time, they only raise one or two clutches of chicks. It takes a toll on the female’s health to form each egg and lay it. ![]() It sounds like this pair has been allowed to lay eggs over and over and the pair is simply exhausted. They should not be allowed to nest all the time. A nest is only used for breeding and laying eggs. ![]() Finches do not need a nest or house or anything to sleep in. The best thing to do is take the nest away from them for now. ![]()
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