Weaning Advice

[pappabear 128]

hi all i have been handraisng what i think is a goldfinch chick for a week now and it is feathering up nicely just started trying its wings and is coming on great , my question is i have been feeding canary egg food with boiled egg yolk and couscous as gets fed to my canaries but is there a food to use to wean it onto seed mix or do i just move onto soaked seed .

any advice from anyone that has actually hand reared goldfinch would be greatly appreciated

[fireman 10,871]

Well done on rearing the little thing ,not hand eared a gogfinch but have a goldie mule and when it came to weaning it i put another bird in the cage with it with bowls of a few different foods,egg food,seed and some wild food bits and bobs and just topped him up when he needed it.He just picked it up from the other bird and just coppied it and believe it or not i'm sat watching a greenfinch fledgling out my windows as i type who fledgd 2 days ago pecking at some dock and milt thistle bits i put in here ealier so it's in them to peck at things and trial and error on their part will find the food bits for them.Hope that sort of helps and keep us updated on progress, ,i'm just getting a few last things together before hand rearing a few birds myself this year and when it comes to weaning time that's how i'll be doing it as well .

Yes it is a goldie by the way and was it a wind fall out of a wild nest?.

Edited May 29, 2014 by fireman

[pappabear 128]

thanks fireman , its my mrs that has done most of the feeding , it was brought to us by a woman in town , her son found it in his friends garden they tried looking for a nest but couldnt see one and didnt want to leave it there because they have cats .

 

i have put a bengalese hen in the triple breeder cage with it so hopefully it will watch and learn