How do I feed my two zebra finches meal worms? Do I hand feed them or put in cage and let them get em. Provide details.
Anything would help……
Thanks
Also, how many worms should I feed them in a day?
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How to feed birds meal worms?
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Tagged birds, cage, Feed, finches, Hand, meal, meal worms, zebra, zebra finches
Baby Birds, did I screw up?
I have a pair of Zebra Finches that mated. The eggs hatched about 4 weeks ago. I opened the nest box to check on them, and all four flew out. I had to chase them down and catch them to put them back. Since my scent got all over them, did the mother decide to reject them? They are about 4 weeks old and have all their feathers, but their beaks are still black and they don’t really come out of the nest box. Did the mother abandon them because i touched them?
thanks…I was worried. The female and the male were both staying out of the box and they tried mating again. They went back in though. I’ll pick a best answer as soon as it lets me
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Tagged baby birds, beaks, eggs, feathers, finches, nest box, screw, zebra, zebra finches
Why the zebra finch male bird is plucking one chick’s tail feathers?
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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Tagged Bird, care, chick, chicks, diffrent, father, finch, finches, male bird, parents, problem, Tail, tail feathers, White, zebra, zebra finch, zebra finches
Feeding My Birds Eggs?
I want to feed my birds the eggs they lay, shell and all (my main egg layers are the quails and zebra finches.. and occasionally I get some from my cockatiels and dove).
Assuming this is okay, how do you reccomend preparing the eggs (hard boiled, scrambled, etc?)
Or is it better just to feed chicken eggs or no eggs at all?
Sorry if people from the bird section are getting sick of all my questions one after an another.. but I have a lot of real questions to ask…
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Tagged birds, Cockatiels, egg, egg layers, eggs, feeding, finches, quails, shell, zebra, zebra finches
Zebra finches are dying?
I had 22 zebra finches. I had them about 2 to 7 years when all of a sudden the other day when I went in to feed them I saw 3 of them dead on the floor of the cage. I had never seen this before. I have had one die before but not 3. I moved the cage and called the bird lady in town and she said to give them some antibiotics in their water. I did this and the next morning I found 4 more on the floor and 3 in the nesting box. I was mortified. Does anyone know what type of disease could do this??????? One of them was my oldest finch I had for 8 years. My little girl is HEARTBROKEN and I am extremely angry that she had to see that.
I did notice that one of them looked like it had its eye pecked out by one of the others but now I am thinking it might have something to do with their death
Birds do not drop dead of old age all at once and some of them were 2 or 3. Zebra Finches particularly males live to the age of 12. If you are unsure of the question please dont answer
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zebra finch breeding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?:D?
hey yesterday i bought a pair of zebra finches, male and female of course
anyway yesterday i made a nest box with a rafaelo box (the chocolates) smart me keke
and lined the bottom with some tissue paper so my poor birds wnt slip around.
anyway today i noticed the male was very vocal, is this normal behaviour for any male zebra finch?
and at the end of the day, as the sun was just about gone i brought the cage in for the day, and i noticed that they have started piling some grass in the corner of the nest box:D
and i would like to know when i shoiuld expect some eggs, considering i just got the finches yesterday, they were in the cage with many other finches so i doubt they wer already a pair
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Birds……………….?
Okay; I have two Zebra finches (Male; Romeo Female; Juliette)
They are first time parents and they mate all the time.
Juliette was recently showing signs of illness so I moved their cage to a warmer place and she recovered.
She is always in the nest box I provided them and from what I’ve read; the male is supposed to line this box with nesting material.
I’ve provided them with shredded up papertowels (strips) and he isn’t lining the nest I gave them. Instead he is lining the entire cage.
Their nest is homemade (it’s an old salt box and I’ve cleaned all the salt out and cut a hole in the top and used a popsicle stick as a perch)
Now; the only reason I did this is because I asked the breeder I got them from and she said that that’s what they nested in.
What should I do?
Should I get a new nest that he will line?
What nest has worked best for all of you breeders out there?
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Tagged birds, finches, Juliette, male, romeo, Romeo Female, zebra, zebra finches