Bangersanmash 2,792 Posted March 30 Report Share Posted March 30 Well a bought the wife a pair of bully's for her bday. I've helped her out showing her how to condition them & she's done well. At first the pair was chasing each other about. And the wife was disheartened abit thinking they wouldn't pair. A told her it takes time correct amount of seed plenty of time spent with them. Anyway a told her to separate the cock bird for a full day yesterday and this morning introduced him back into the flight. And soon as he went in space of 5 mins this happened. The hen went to him not him chasing her. So the wife has done well I'm proud of her. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bangersanmash 2,792 Posted April 1 Author Report Share Posted April 1 (edited) Well today I've made a little peep hole so that I can film the young being fed. Not only that bully's have a strange thing of not feeding chicks when they don't lift their heads up. So when I'm in there first thing , when adding the eggfood to the pairs. " I hang about makesure she's not just jumping onto the nest then leaving if the chicks don't know she's there. And lift their heads up to be fed. Used to do this before when I kept bullfinches. A would tap on the side of the cages or flights where the nest was makes the young lift up. Only gentle not bang f**k out of side if anyone is thinking of doing it with their bully's. Lol. Just gentle so it gives abit of vibration through the nest. Edited April 1 by Bangersanmash Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sambo123 593 Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 27 minutes ago, Bangersanmash said: Well today I've made a little peep hole so that I can film the young being fed. Not only that bully's have a strange thing of not feeding chicks when they don't lift their heads up. So when I'm in there first thing , when adding the eggfood to the pairs. " I hang about makesure she's not just jumping onto the nest then leaving if the chicks don't know she's there. And lift their heads up to be fed. Used to do this before when I kept bullfinches. A would tap on the side of the cages or flights where the nest was makes the young lift up. Only gentle not bang f**k out of side if anyone is thinking of doing it with their bully's. Lol. Just gentle so it gives abit of vibration through the nest. Has she started building yet then mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bangersanmash 2,792 Posted April 1 Author Report Share Posted April 1 (edited) 7 minutes ago, sambo123 said: Has she started building yet then mate She's just started today with the cock bird. He's been passing her nest material over. Coming from one side of the flight on the floor talking to her then passing it over common behaviour in bullfinches when in condition. Edited April 1 by Bangersanmash Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bangersanmash 2,792 Posted April 1 Author Report Share Posted April 1 Are both your birds in condition. A shared a video clip of them together. They start dancing puffing the feathers right up doubling in size. You want your hen to go to him not him chase her. You'll see on the video clip her accept him. At first she was running him away last week. Soon as a started giving them more leaf & bud matter and a liquid of blended down dandelions. That was it not even a full week. Took him out for one day. She started calling for him back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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