Grey Pates On There Maiden Voyage

[gnasher16 30,217]

Around a month and there weaned and fending for themselves,i'd personaly give it another week or two for them to find their feet a bit better then i'd move them,if there's room to leave them be there'll do no harm to the parents next nest and have read sometimes they will help feed any other chicks the parents rear and on this note i'm not totaly sure i've not seen one of my mules feeding it's mother who's sat on eggs as i found it odd she was feeding it while sitting on a nest but some food exchange was taking place and the mule was above the sitting hen.I'm leaving them be as i'm busting to know if what i saw was what i saw and if it'll help feed the next round.

wow i find this sort of shit fascinating.....crackin little hobby this i wish id clocked onto it years ago !

[salclalin 240]

 

Around a month and there weaned and fending for themselves,i'd personaly give it another week or two for them to find their feet a bit better then i'd move them,if there's room to leave them be there'll do no harm to the parents next nest and have read sometimes they will help feed any other chicks the parents rear and on this note i'm not totaly sure i've not seen one of my mules feeding it's mother who's sat on eggs as i found it odd she was feeding it while sitting on a nest but some food exchange was taking place and the mule was above the sitting hen.I'm leaving them be as i'm busting to know if what i saw was what i saw and if it'll help feed the next round.

wow i find this sort of shit fascinating.....crackin little hobby this i wish id clocked onto it years ago !

 

It's Addictive Alright.I'm trying to Stifle the Urge to get a Couple of Finches Again

[Millet 4,497]

Go for it Salclalin ..

[mule1943 291]

well done good pics

[goldfinch2007 2,332]

nice 1 millet

[brookie 1,193]

She's your bird mate ,be silly to break up a proven pair and a grand offer ,i will be taking you up on .

The moult ,well i've never had a problem myself.I do really believe it's a lacking dietry thing and i just go ott with the wild food,loads of everything i can find and so far so good,I just won't drug a animal for the sake of it and i know it can fire back in my face but surely drug free birds that have bred themselves will produce naturaly stronger young than a drugged bird would,natural anti bodies being passed during feeding type thing?????.Who knows but i sure don't worry about loosing birds during the moult but i do keep a keener eye on any fluffing of the birds and would act straight away on it if it occured.Feck me they don't all drop dead in the wild and it's only diet that's different for our captive birds than the wild ones and i just do my best to balance that out.

good post as usual fireman . just out of interest mate .as soon as you notice a finch fluffing up . whats the course of treatment you take . ?

[brookie 1,193]

Belters Millet and a good hen you got yourself there ,well deserved mate

she is a very good hen and obviously kept well .is she captive bred fireman ? im very interested .only one i ever seen before as good as this hen ,was years ago .she was caught on a local tip an aged hen always looked down and dirty looking .yet the boy that had her done like millet has he had two clutches from her and of all places indoors in a double breeder .and that was first season in a box ..

[fireman 10,931]

 

She's your bird mate ,be silly to break up a proven pair and a grand offer ,i will be taking you up on .

The moult ,well i've never had a problem myself.I do really believe it's a lacking dietry thing and i just go ott with the wild food,loads of everything i can find and so far so good,I just won't drug a animal for the sake of it and i know it can fire back in my face but surely drug free birds that have bred themselves will produce naturaly stronger young than a drugged bird would,natural anti bodies being passed during feeding type thing?????.Who knows but i sure don't worry about loosing birds during the moult but i do keep a keener eye on any fluffing of the birds and would act straight away on it if it occured.Feck me they don't all drop dead in the wild and it's only diet that's different for our captive birds than the wild ones and i just do my best to balance that out.

good post as usual fireman . just out of interest mate .as soon as you notice a finch fluffing up . whats the course of treatment you take . ?

 

First thing i do is get them in the warm mate,a very important thing to do is get them warm but it depends on what time of year and what the sex of the bird is.Spring time and hens fluffing may well be egg binding but if it's a cock then look at other symptoms and try to work out whats wrong and i'm not affraid to ask others who know more than i do and that's where joining a local bird club can help as there's only myself and a couple of others at my local club who keep natives but the old boys there have hundreds(and i do mean hundreds) of years experiance of bird keeping between them and once i have sussed whats wrong then i will treat.I won't just start firing antibiotics into them without knowing whats wrong first but unless you have a avian vet near by it's usally a guessing game at whats really wrong with them in the first place but quickness in diagnosis and treatment is needed when a bird is fluffed as it is a sign the bird is struggling.

On the goldfinch hen Millet has,she is captive bred by me last year and i gave her to him in the spring but he's done well by her giving her all she needed and the results show that for sure ,but she does seem to be a good un and she'll only get better at her job so next year he'll probebly be over run with quality goldies and won't that be a pain?

[the_stig 6,614]

The hen is back down on another clutch Gnipper..if she continues to keep doing what she is doing aswell as my 2 greenie hen's ..the big aviary will be very worthwhile.. ..but i fear it is not going to be big enough..

soon be winter

[the_stig 6,614]

 

Around a month and there weaned and fending for themselves,i'd personaly give it another week or two for them to find their feet a bit better then i'd move them,if there's room to leave them be there'll do no harm to the parents next nest and have read sometimes they will help feed any other chicks the parents rear and on this note i'm not totaly sure i've not seen one of my mules feeding it's mother who's sat on eggs as i found it odd she was feeding it while sitting on a nest but some food exchange was taking place and the mule was above the sitting hen.I'm leaving them be as i'm busting to know if what i saw was what i saw and if it'll help feed the next round.

wow i find this sort of shit fascinating.....crackin little hobby this i wish id clocked onto it years ago !

 

its getting you gnash

[Millet 4,497]

Here is the other nest and they wont be long on leaving..they was five egg's but only 4 hatched one chick died at 1 day old and fook know's wht happened to the other one.. ..the good thing for these chick's though is they is a canary hen and the goldie hen feeding them so they wont be short of food..

 

[the_stig 6,614]

wheres pete --wanking material on here for him...

[Shamo 319]

 

 

She's your bird mate ,be silly to break up a proven pair and a grand offer ,i will be taking you up on .

The moult ,well i've never had a problem myself.I do really believe it's a lacking dietry thing and i just go ott with the wild food,loads of everything i can find and so far so good,I just won't drug a animal for the sake of it and i know it can fire back in my face but surely drug free birds that have bred themselves will produce naturaly stronger young than a drugged bird would,natural anti bodies being passed during feeding type thing?????.Who knows but i sure don't worry about loosing birds during the moult but i do keep a keener eye on any fluffing of the birds and would act straight away on it if it occured.Feck me they don't all drop dead in the wild and it's only diet that's different for our captive birds than the wild ones and i just do my best to balance that out.

good post as usual fireman . just out of interest mate .as soon as you notice a finch fluffing up . whats the course of treatment you take . ?

 

First thing i do is get them in the warm mate,a very important thing to do is get them warm but it depends on what time of year and what the sex of the bird is.Spring time and hens fluffing may well be egg binding but if it's a cock then look at other symptoms and try to work out whats wrong and i'm not affraid to ask others who know more than i do and that's where joining a local bird club can help as there's only myself and a couple of others at my local club who keep natives but the old boys there have hundreds(and i do mean hundreds) of years experiance of bird keeping between them and once i have sussed whats wrong then i will treat.I won't just start firing antibiotics into them without knowing whats wrong first but unless you have a avian vet near by it's usally a guessing game at whats really wrong with them in the first place but quickness in diagnosis and treatment is needed when a bird is fluffed as it is a sign the bird is struggling.

On the goldfinch hen Millet has,she is captive bred by me last year and i gave her to him in the spring but he's done well by her giving her all she needed and the results show that for sure ,but she does seem to be a good un and she'll only get better at her job so next year he'll probebly be over run with quality goldies and won't that be a pain?

 

This time of year, the first thing I would look for would be Mites, spread like wildfire during the mating season especially. I always carry out a pro-active parasite control regime however, so a fluffed up Bird is uncommon. 'Full spectrum' lighting is a must, when your Birds rarely get the chance to venture out into a 'flight'. Never a good idea being 'reactive' all the time, with any livestock........a good 'Hospital Cage' has saved many Birds over the years and not hard to make, if money's tight.

Edited July 12, 2013 by Shamo