Breeding Pair - Finches

[Flip-trainer 0]

Hey guys,

 

So I just bought this cute pair of zebras and I loved them straight away... They are currently in a different cage and room to Sparta for quarantine and they see to be settling fast. All I know, is that the males mutation is spotted something or rather and the females name is Isabella 0.o What do you guys think? I'm gonna get some pics up when they settle in and hopefuly soon, because ZF's have been known to settle in quickly and sometimes, as soon as they settle, they start breeding

[Ratemymate 0]

Queensland isabella?

 

Nice looking mutation. Not sure on your other one tho

[Flip-trainer 0]

Queensland isabella?

 

Nice looking mutation. Not sure on your other one tho

 

 

Hehe no as in the female zebra's name is Issa

I received an email late yesterday with really nice information:

 

Instead of being bothered to take out parts of the email, I'll just copy and paste the whole thing :3

 

"Your cage is looking perfect also how u put the nestbox is good.female is fancy Isabel and male is normal zebra.u can put some leafy brances on top or inside the cage to make em feel theyre in a nice environment.they're 8 mos old.i call em Issa and Zebby.give em some lettuce leaves and fruit aside from the finch mix they'll love u for that.u should also have some grit and cuttle bone.give em a dish to bath in..thanks for giving em a nice home.im sure they'll give u pretty babies.if u want to breed budgies later on I've got a few.love all my birds :-)

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Faith"

 

 

 

Here's some pics of them as well Enjoy

 

 

Zebby and Issa's tail

 

 

Please note that this cage is only temporary, as I'm going to build a large cage for them

Edited April 21, 2012 by Flip-trainer

[BUDGERIGAR BOY 0]

Looking great . What I've noticed is that when i used to use those wicker nests ( the nest that u have in there ) u get less chicks successfully growing and fledging. I switched to nest boxes. ( I own and breed 35 zebra finches)

Edited April 22, 2012 by BUDGERIGAR BOY

[Flip-trainer 0]

Looking great . What I've noticed is that when i used to use those wicker nests ( the nest that u have in there ) u get less chicks successfully growing and fledging. I switched to nest boxes. ( I own and breed 35 zebra finches)

 

 

oh... well with the budget I had to use, that was the one I got... which was the cheapest one there... and anyway, they seem to like them better

[Ratemymate 0]

Id wait till they are a year old before introducing the nest. They will breed young but all the breeders i knew waited 1year for maturity

[Flip-trainer 0]

Id wait till they are a year old before introducing the nest. They will breed young but all the breeders i knew waited 1year for maturity

 

But all of the breeders I know do 8 months These finches are nearly 9 months old, and they've raised a fully successful first clutch from the breeder I got them from They're fine

[BUDGERIGAR BOY 0]

A zebra finch is sexually mature at 13 weeks of age. I breed my birds at the age of 6 months.

[BUDGERIGAR BOY 0]

How are the finches going?

[Flip-trainer 0]

How are the finches going?

 

 

They're great I'm feeding them a breeding diet so that I won't have to be surprised, it has these ingredients: Hardboiled egg (with shell), raw pistachio kernels, Pasta, bean sprouts, lettuce, and a tablespoon of seed and a tablespoon of pellets... This is enough for Sparta and the finches and a bit extra they love it, also, my friends have some beautiful finches, one is a female with male markings (I was confused too, but they had it sex checked it sure enough, it was a female) They said that I can take as many as I like (for free) So when Issa and Zebby's first clutch are in breeding condition, I'll pair them up with one of my friends'

Thanks for asking

[BUDGERIGAR BOY 0]

How are the finches going?

 

 

They're great I'm feeding them a breeding diet so that I won't have to be surprised, it has these ingredients: Hardboiled egg (with shell), raw pistachio kernels, Pasta, bean sprouts, lettuce, and a tablespoon of seed and a tablespoon of pellets... This is enough for Sparta and the finches and a bit extra they love it, also, my friends have some beautiful finches, one is a female with male markings (I was confused too, but they had it sex checked it sure enough, it was a female) They said that I can take as many as I like (for free) So when Issa and Zebby's first clutch are in breeding condition, I'll pair them up with one of my friends'

Thanks for asking

 

Sounds good here is a picture of one of my female charcoal zebra finches there brown pigmentation is turned into black pigmentation .

 

 

 

This is a link to the AFF ( Australian finch forum ) I recommend you join it has heaps of good information and all the members are friendly. you will be able to access more of the forum once you have posted 5 posts. First it might not look like much but once you have posted 5 posts that the moderating team has checked you will be able to access over thousands of posts. I'm also a member of the forum .

Here's the link:

 

http://aussiefinchforum.net/viewforum.php?f=37

 

ENJOY :P:P

Edited April 28, 2012 by BUDGERIGAR BOY

[Flip-trainer 0]

Thanks for the link, but I'm already a member of another finch forum (it's mainly american thoiugh), so basically the only use for the aussie finch forum for me would be for buying finches

[Finnie 0]

So Flip, about finch forums, which one did you join?

Edited May 7, 2012 by Finnie

[Flip-trainer 0]

I'm a proud member of this finch forum Edited May 7, 2012 by Finnie
Took out all of Finnie's messed up test posts

[Finnie 0]

Oh! That's the same one I'm on. I"ll have to look for you over there.

[Flip-trainer 0]

Oh! That's the same one I'm on. I"ll have to look for you over there.

 

 

Awesome I'm wearjo over there

[Flip-trainer 0]

Well, I had a three day year 9 camp, and I just checked the nest, and hey presto, THEY'VE GOT AN EGG

 

Oh and they're in a flight cage now, one of the small ones that don't come with a stand, but they're really happy with it

[Flip-trainer 0]

Egg number two popped out today I'm gonna have a baby shower on the holidays no joke

[Flip-trainer 0]

there's now 5 eggs (forgot to say) they should hatch this week