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Why my zebra finches keep fighting?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

I have 5×5 feet cage in which I used to keep two pairs of finch but I always saw them fighting then I placed their nest box on opposite corners but they fought, so I gave them back to pets keeper and bough two pairs of baby finch of 1month age they lived peacefully but they grow up and laid egg they also keep fighting, what the hell is with them????????
My friend has about 6pairs in 5×5 feet cage and they don’t fight.

Finch is a colony bird, why are they behaving so?

What should I do to prevent them fighting????? As I want keep 5pairs in this cage?
Plzzzzzzzzzzz tell meeeee

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Why the zebra finch male bird is plucking one chick’s tail feathers?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

I don’t know what to do anymore…I have four chicks and the parents take good care of them. The problem is that the male bird plucks the tail feathers of only one of the chicks…I would have tried to separate them but the father is the only one who feeds the chick. This chick is diffrent from the others…he is all white…What should I do? How can I stop the plucking? The chicks are a month old. And the parents are zebra finches the CFW type.
The male is only plucking this chick and only at its tail.

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We found a wild bird, how do we care for it?

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

It looks somewhat like a finch and it seems it already knows how to fly. I’m not too sure if it fell from its nest but there were no nests around. Now, what exactly should we do? We’ve been feeding it tiny pieces of bread made mushy with water. Is this acceptable and if not is there a place we can take it?

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Need help on feeding a young finch bird.!!!?

Posted on April 27, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

My cat found a young bird, one of those small ones with brown feathers that are flying about constantly. About the same size as a Blue-tit. Anyway, couldn’t find the nest, so I put it in the bushes nearby for about 5hours to see what would happen. It was still there. Perfectly fine, sent me on a wild-goose’s chase trying to catch it. It drinks water from a small injection(without the needle), but I can’t seem to get it to swallow any food. Its got some feathers. but its quite scrawny and either one of its wings or legs is wonky so it can’t really fly very well. I don’t know how old, but I would say its in the ‘teenager’ age… So what do i do now? I have it in a small box with sawdust cuttings, some food in a tiny bowl… and it keeps trying to get out. But I have cats everywhere, and if it can’t fly, it sure as hell can’t defend itself against a cat. Any tips what to do now? please!
if I put it in a tree – won’t it fall and seriously hurt itself again? it’s not flying or flapping its wings…
and barely claws at anything just pecks me…

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baby birds crop has air?

Posted on April 21, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

ok this is the first time i have noticed this the baby is almost 4 days old it is a baby zebra finch so its very small

I relized that during feeding the crop was filling with air and it barly had any food in it mostly air of course the lack of food was because i stoped feeding it right away when i noticed it
I do not feed with a suring because it would hurt the baby because it is so tiny im am feeding it with a flat end tooth pick im using the methiod called spooning

could the babys crop inflat because it is swolling air not food?
i barly put any food on the tooth pick so it will have less of a chance of breathing in any liquid

i am feeding th baby what the adult finches eat except i put the food into a coffie grinder to turn it into pouder so i can mix it with water to make it in a formula.

I feed the baby when the crop emtys about every 2 hours i feed it untill its crop is almost full i dont want to take a chane of streatching

is there a way i could relise the ai
hurry i need to feed it!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

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Can not get Finches to feed on my feeder. Brought Thissel food. Hanging in front yard, very busy street.?

Posted on March 31, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

Finch Feeder has been hung out for over 6 months, first hung in front of kitchen window, then moved feeder to tree limb. Can see the Finches every day in tree, but they do not come to the feeder. Have placed special Finch Food in feeder and even on the ground to try and attact them to the area. Other birds do not eat the finch food. I live on a very busy street.

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