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I'm very, very close to getting finches. In fact, I have the cage in the shopping cart online, but can't quite bring myself to complete the purchase. I want to look around at a couple of pet shops here to check out the possibilities a little more tomorrow. After reading, I've decided I want to...

As some of you know, I have a young zebra finch that I am handfeeding right now. I've named her Squeak, because she is VERY vocal when she is hungry! (And I'm just guessing on sex, as she is too young to show markings yet.) She is just old enough now to think she is a big bird, and started...

I have a pic of what I need, and would be willing to pay a reasonable amount for it. If you can build a bird house, you can build this. (I can't build a bird house!) They are basically three-sided houses (two sides and a top) with a perch running along the bottom. Their purpose is to allow...

Okay, so I understand that Gouldian finches don't "take" to parenting naturally, and that they have to learn how to be good providers, but I have one young pair who are definitely REMEDIAL!! It took them all last year to figure out that you are supposed to SIT on the eggs after you lay them...

Lucy just finished laying her clutch of four. And not to be out done, Ethel has begun laying now too. Only Ethel decided that rather than to lay in a nest, she's gonna lay in the food dish!! I moved it to the nest, she has noticed. and So has lucy, who snuck a sit down on it. Ethel is now adding...

I gave up on the scientist names becasue i couldn't remember them. I have sat watching these two. They seem to be trying to hatch some sort of crazy escape plan. They huddle together, peeping at each other. Occasionally spazzing out over this or that. They hop around their cages going in...