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Zebra Finches
I sold zebra finches What should I do now?
A lady bought 3 chestnut flanked white finches and 2 normal zebra finches from me about a month ago, to live in her aviary and she never said she didnt want to breed them, but she rang me yesterday and said the two chestnut flanked white zebra finches are laying eggs, and she said she doesn’t want them to breed. She said could she bring the two females back and get two males instead? She said she will pay for the next two.
Should I let her pay or not?
Yes, I would charge her. Its her fault not yours, she should have said she didn’t want them to breed.
Yes, you can use them to breed yourself but its not the point, If you wanted to keep them then you wouldn’t have sold them.
So yes charge her again
Zebra Finches
Keeping Your Pet Macaw Happy
Despite their tropical habitat macaws are hardy birds in captivity, when once acclimatized, as well as being easy to feed and very long-lived.
Macaws have notably large beaks and long tails, and certain kinds – since vanished – used to inhabit the Antilles Islands. Nowadays they are only found in the tropical parts of America where they frequent the forests and, unlike many members of the parrot family, go about in pairs rather than flocks.
Unfortunately no ordinary parrot-cage is large enough to house the best-known and largest species, consequently they are usually kept chained by one leg to a “macaw stand” of a kind which must be familiar to anyone who has visited a pet shop or a zoo. While such a contraption permits them to flap their wings and take a certain amount of exercise, I dislike the idea of any bird, particularly an active one such as a macaw, being kept permanently chained up in this fashion, just as a dog should not be permanently kept on a lead.
As often as possible when you are with it, the chain should be removed and you should talk to and make a fuss of it, and let it climb about unfettered on its stand, or on your arm or shoulder. If both you and your bird do not mutually derive pleasure from this, the latter would be far better off under other, kindlier and more sympathetic ownership.
All birds need a bath of some kind and as the average macaw on a stand hardly ever gets one, its plumage suffers accordingly. Either the bird can be put out on its stand in a shower (not a deluge) of rain or else it can be periodically sprayed with rainwater.
This they so much appreciate and look forward to that one quite looks forward to the operation oneself. The instrument used must give a fine misty spray, and the birds will soon get to know its appearance so well that they will start spreading their wings and ruffling and shaking their feathers as though they are already wet through before one has even started!
Macaws should be fed chiefly on sunflower seed and monkey-nuts to which may be added a little wheat, groats, oats, and canary, as well as a small quantity of maize and hemp. Brazil nuts would remind them of home, and the larger species, at any rate, deal with them as easily as a zebra finch shucks millet!
They are not a necessity, of course, but an occasional one would not only provide nourishment for the bird but healthful exercise for its beak as well. Fruit such as sweet ripe apple should be given regularly, and they also enjoy the midribs of seakale-beet, or ordinary spinach-beet, as green-foods.
Young macaws appreciate a little sweetened bread and milk daily, and as an addition to their usual diet I make a practice of giving this twice a week to adult specimens as well.
To sum up: a pet macaw should be enabled to take plenty of exercise; should not be kept in too hot a room; should be regularly given something to amuse it and exercise its beak on – such as an empty cotton-reel – and should receive a great deal of attention and affection from its owner. This, after all, it only a just and reciprocal arrangement, and. if there is no affection between a bird and its owner the sooner they are parted the better.
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How do you take care of zebra finches?
My zebra finches (one male and one female)look like they are pretty bored. They have been eating finch mix for a long time, use a cuttlebone, lay eggs that never hatch (they peck at it), and the male bird only goes on the bird swing. What else do zebra finches like to do? What other necessities do they need?
P.S. the birds are smaller than the ones at any PetsMart store.
Hi,
Your finches may be bored with their diet. Finches in the wild don’t eat just seed. You can feed them whole foods, like what’s in your refrigerator, too. These give more of the necessary nutrients, and it gives them more variety in their day. You’ll have to play trial-and-error for a while until you find what your birds like, but you can try almost anything in the kitchen, provided it is low in salt and fat and the flavors are moderate – nothing too spicy, sweet, etc. Just make sure you give them only a small amount – what they can eat in one sitting – and take it out when they’re done with it, otherwise it grows bacteria very quickly.
You can also add crushed eggshell to their food to help supplement the cuttlebone. Cuttlebone is a great way to give calcium if the birds chew them, but eggshell sprinkled over their food is also an excellent choice. Wash the eggs thoroughly with hot and soapy water before using the shells. You can also drop them in boiling water for 30 seconds or nuke them for a few minutes to kill the salmonella.
They might also benefit from some toys. Finches don’t play with them as much as larger birds, but they do enjoy the challenge. You might consider something like Shredders (woven palm leaves), a thick cotton string with a few knots tied in it, tied up straws, wadded up streamers of adding machine tape… you can also experiment with weaving fresh green leafy vegetables through the bars.
Try sprinkling the finch mix right over a freshly washed romaine lettuce leaf and let your finches pick it out of the crevices. They are ground feeders, so it gives them the perfect opportunity to forage for their food in greenery, like in the wild. Just be sure to remove it when they’re done playing with it, otherwise they might poop on it.
Have fun finding out what your birds like to do! It really gets interesting if you get into it!
Charcoal Zebra Finch
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