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 The Zebra Finches eggs weren't fertile, I think I will have to find the males a good home, If I don't the females will just keep laying eggs and it will wear them out.Here are a few recent pics.     image1.JPG (55 Kb, 50 downloads) |
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You can see the males are paired with the females, the males have a redder beak and have an orange spot on the side of its head.  image2.JPG (53 Kb, 48 downloads) |
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CFP Founder |
That's a really good picture of them.
 Yvonne, they lay eggs often? I would love to hear more. I've never had finsches.   |
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CFP Pet Lover |
My female peach-faced lovebird, Nibbles was a human-only bird and laid eggs CONSTANTLY! We kept a cuttlefish bone in the cage and that was pretty much all we could do
Nibbles laid lots of "duds" and died around 5 years of age.A Native American saying: "We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children." Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. -- George Bernard Shaw        |
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CFP Founder |
What do you do with the eggs? Is that how long they live? 5 years?
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CFP Pet Lover |
they are so cute....
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CFP Pet Lover |
they are beautiful. i'm sorry you have to give them away
is there anything else you can do?   |
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 I'm only going to try and find a home for the males, the females will just keep laying eggs and they will die earlier, Barbi the unfertile eggs are thrown away, if they are fertile then you have more Finches, which I don't want, thats another reason why I need to get rid of the males. they will just keep mating with the females , until they are wore out basically. I should have read up on these birds before I got the males .  Also if the eggs do hatch then at the young age of about 2 and a half months the males will try to mate with the young ones, if they are not separeted, so that poses a problem too . |
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CFP Pet Lover |
I own few zebra finches. You can separate the 2 pairs in different cages. They need vitamins and calcium to make the eggs shells hard, if they are not strong, they broke and they don't hatch or are throw from the nest. they also needs sun light or artificial light. In the site www.Drfostersmith.com you can find a great variety of things to birds, from food to toys. Hope this can help you. Mayra
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CFP Pet Lover |
try putting scotch mints, or maybe white marbles in the nests, we did that with my bird but the mints got sticky sometimes
it helped... A Native American saying: "We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children." Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. -- George Bernard Shaw |
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MODERATOR |
 Mayra for that info, and the website !Lalania what does the mints or marbles do?  |
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CFP Pet Lover |
geez i was thinking about this today and what a short reply i made, doh
the marbles / scotch mints / fake eggs trick the bird into not laying MORE eggs that's what I should have said! sheesh! A Native American saying: "We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children." Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. -- George Bernard Shaw |
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MODERATOR |
Thanks Lalania I will have to try that. |
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CFP Pet Lover |
welcome Yvonne
 A Native American saying: "We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children." Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. -- George Bernard Shaw |
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MODERATOR |
Lalania wouldn't they breed anyway? |
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