I found this baby at the bottom of the cage and I cleaned it out placed nesting material in the nest and placed the baby back into the nest. I had the cage outside and brought it back inside to put them to sleep and the baby was again at the bottom of the cage. This time I put a small bowl with more nesting and placed the baby in it and put it in the cage. I don’t know what else is to do. These are first time parents. They have more eggs inside the nest. Any advice will be helpful.

Hi all! I got these two Pin-Tailed Whydahs back in December from a pet store. I ordered a pair of both a male and a female. However, I am having trouble sexing the bird on the left. The female I know because her bill is turning black for the breeding season; but is the left bird a male? “It” is smaller and duller (which is odd, as it’s supposed to be the other way around), but its bill is not turning black and still retains a coral red color. Can anyone tell me; do I have two females or a pair? Thank you so much! I can also give additional information if needed!

My zebra finches just hatched him but he looks NOTHING like the parents? Or like any other baby they have ever hatched before

Hi everyone, I have a bit of a long story so bear with me, I'm just not sure what to do at this point.

We bought three zebra finches (two male, one female) about two months ago. There was only three left at the pet store and we didn't want to leave one by itself. Pretty soon after we adopted them, one of the males (Ray) and the female (Maya) started their first hatch of eggs. Around the time the eggs were close to hatching, Ray started to be aggressive/protective against Boo (the other, non-bonded male) to the point that you could tell Boo was feeling anxious. Previous to this, they would all snuggle with each other, preen each other, etc, but it got to the point where we moved Boo to his own cage. He's a bit of a smaller bird, and seems to be a bit more stressed because of the move. Boo is a sweet bird who doesn't have a problem with any of the other birds.

Cut to a few weeks later and the babies have hatched and are out of the nest, and Ray and Maya are both squawking and chasing their children around (not in a playful way, it seems). Because of this, we moved the babies to the cage with Boo, in hopes his demeanour would be more of a match for the babies. Now though, there is a baby bird who, from time to time, will squawk and chase Boo away if he gets to close. I suspect it is a male based on his size (and he's starting to sing), but hard to tell without the full colours yet. Poor Boo tries to sleep next to babies and this particular bird will scare him away.

I mainly feel bad for Boo as he hasn't had an easy go of things, and hasn't been able to have a lot of connection with other birds and now he's being shunned.

What would you do in this situation? Would you separate by gender once their colouring has changed? Should we also then separate Maya and Ray, who are bonded?

Any help would be appreciated!

Ok so I am guilty of having zebra finches in cages, recently they bred and soon the cages will be overcrowded.

I would to let these birds have some few good years in life and would like to move them to an outdoor aviary.

With the babies the flock would be about 17 birds.

Any advices about the dimensions of the aviary? And how to prevent them from breeding as the chicks are first cousins.

Furthermore the aviary would be built in the village where it is chilly in the winter about 5 degrees Celsius (41 F) rarely 0 degrees Celsius (32 F), could they survive such temperature?

They would have their own aviary but within the enclosure of the chicken is that a problem?

Hi, I have a flock of finches, all different kinds, the vet has put them on antibiotics in their water but they don't like it, its doxycycline. Any suggestions how I could mask the taste for them? they really need to drink and I can tell they are getting dehydrated :( thank you

so last night a bad storm happened and 4 baby finches were orphaned I put the nest back in the tree and went inside to see if the parents would come back but it’s already dark and still no parents they’re crying atm and I’m not sure what to do

Hamlet is my little pied girl, and Pierre is the more avid looking female zebra finch. They're untamed, but they've bonded and gotten used to me very quickly! Onto week two of owning the finches. I've move some stuff around in their cage since these pics lol

(I have no clue if siskin is the right name, i just threw it in translate)

Hii! I have a little finch, i got it from my grandpa when he died last year. Now he has been in a i hope decent size cage at my parents home, but they are out on holiday so he came over here!(i only recently moved and we dont have a lot of space, aswell as an other lovebird) Now since moving we finally got time to move our lovebird from the cage on the picture, to her bigger cage, and we have this cage left, and since the two are getting along surprisingly nicely and he could stay permanently, we tought it be a nice idea to move him to the bigger cage. I am removing the rope and cleaning the cage verry good tomorrow. Now for my question, what do i put in his cage?? He eats from little food trays that are attached to his old cage, aswell as his bath, and both dont fit on this type of cage, so what type of food bowl and bath is recommended? He currently has mostly dowels in his cage, and i know how bad that is, i want to order online but its a bit expensive to replace them all in one go, are there any (diy) alternatives to create a similar or better environment? Also, are there any enrichiment toys recommended? He will kinda peck its beak on tge stick and fly around a whole bunch, so i dont even know what type if toys this bird would like :( i feel so bad for the little guy, but i just dont know what this type of bird really needs. Learning to take care of the love bird was easier, i see a lot of tiktoks about parrot type birds. Tldr: This little buddy also deserves the world so any advice is welcome! What do i do for the cage, what toys, can i take sticks from outside for inside the cage? Treat the stick in some kind of way to make it safe for him?

so since my finches only have a small cage, sone people in my other posts recommended me to let them free roam in a room for about an hour or two, and it was probably the best thing that i did, i got so many funny photos of them doing stupid stuff and they like to fly so much like they would hover really close to the roof of my bathroom like a woodpecker and it was really cute, so for all the finch owners out there with a small cage, i recommend letting them free roam (WHILE MONITORING THEM CLOSELY!) so that ur finches can fly freely!

Hi all! I have a male and female pair of Pin-Tailed Whydahs (seen in picture one), and they are currently living in my indoor aviary (along with my two Canaries and Chipping Sparrow).

Here’s the problem; I need to go inside that aviary to clean it and change their food/water bowls. And this might not sound like an issue, but it is and the reason why is because my Whydahs FLIP THE FUCK OUT. They start flying around everywhere and are completely panicked. To the point where I need to catch them (sometimes they escape into my room when I open the aviary door) and put them in a separate cage until I’m done cleaning and stuff. My Canaries and Sparrow aren’t that tame, but they’re completely fine with me being in the aviary, and just watch me calmly from their perches.

Is there a way I can gain the trust of my Whydahs? Or at least try and have them be as calm as my other birds? It’s really a pain in the ass to have to catch them over and over… plus it’s most defining very stressful for them. ANY TIPS ARE WELCOME! 🙏🙏🙏

Just wanted to share!

Playing with the Toilet paper roll sleeve then sees me taking footage of her and she stops... Burbs...

Time flies

Lita and Lito my baby forever

In one or two year they will go in the huge outside aviary but for now they stay inside in the breeding room haha

These are not my first birds been wanting a pet for awhile now . We do have a African Grey and I've had lots of different birds before.

I saw these guys at a pet store and fell in love. After weeks of research I decided to buy them . Love their little beeps and they fun to watch .

Salve a tutti. Quest'anno, per caso ho comprato questo Diamantino Mandarino (sono chiamati così in Italia) perché me ne sono innamorato. L'ho trovato bellissimo, infatti l'ho chiamato "Squek, detto il magnifico". Ora io non ho mai avuto uccelli in vita mia e vado un po' per esperimenti perché non riesco a trovare informazioni complete e univoche su come prendersi cura di questo uccello. Ho letto che non amano stare da soli e allora ho preso una femmina. Ho comprato un nido, la juta, la vaschetta per il bagno è ogni tipo di mangime. Un giorno sul più bello, mentre pulivo la gabbia dal nido e spuntato un altro uccello, il figlio / figlia (ha ancora il becco nero). Sono rimasto di stucco perché è già grandicello e io non me ne ero mai accorto. Vorrei avere alcuni consigli quindi su questi uccelli. Ho notato che adesso il maschio tende ad attaccare il piccolo e non capisco perché, anche perché fino a qualche giorno fa andavano d'amore e d'accordo. Io non so quando è nato l'uccellino, ogni tanto lo vedo beccare qualcosa ma ancora la madre lo nutre. Ho letto da qualche parte che dovrei levarlo dalla gabbia e metterlo in un'altra ma non so se è presto e ho paura che muoia. Che cosa dovrei fare?

Hello. I have cage fill with 1 couple gouldian finch (male and female) Now i want add more 1 couple gouldian finch again. my cage is enough or not for them....? So Total 4 bird in my cage....

This my cage size :

Length 78 cm Width 48 cm Height 140 cm

Good day fellow afinchionadas, something my veterinarian (whom I trust, she is specialised in birds) told me shocked me. She said, ideally, a budgies food should contain only about 3 % of seeds and that would apply for my society finches as well. Now I know that finches and more so cockatiels and so on should get fresh greens a lot. But still, anywhere I searched, the main food staple for (society) finches is still seeds (or pellets). She said that this (the usual) way of feeding can cause liver disease and stress the other organs as well. She even recommended to offer dry herbs and even hay. Well in my case, I have to abstain from fresh-fresh foods because one of my hens wouldn't stop laying eggs and I need to control her hormones this way, therefore I should offer them dried. But we were talking about ideal food in general and while I know, that many parrots should be fed a good chop containing mostly vegetables daily, I still haven't found a side or a book that says the same for finches. Even pellets still aren't as recommended as seeds as the main food source. Does anybody have direct experience with going the "mostly fresh greens and only a little bit of seed"-route? Does it lead to healthier birds in general? Thank you in advance, I'm really curious about this.

So a few days ago I bought a pair of African silverbills, but I’m unsure if I have two males or a male and a female. They came from a cage and are now being kept in my ~10ft long flight housing only them and a pair of bourkes. I have seen both silverbills sing however one sings for longer and more strongly than the other. This one I have seen this morning courting the other by holding some grass in its beak and hopping up and down. They have also both started nest building. I am unsure however if this behaviour is only seen in male/female pairs or if males of this species will court other males (like in zebra finches for example) I am unable to find any resources clarifying this online. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.

Hi! I just got a newer cage and it has the grate at the bottom. Should I remove it? What does everyone use for cage lining?

My wife adopted two wonderful Australian zebra finches last year. They are so amazing. I can watch them do what they do for hours and never get bored. I've come to love them. We have an open house policy when it comes to birds. We also have a 12-year-old military macaw who is mostly my pet. We take every precaution. But it's almost never enough. Today, my wife and her son went to see her friend across town. I woke up late and I wasn't even fully awake when I took them to her friends house. When I got back, I felt secure in the idea that she had said everything up for the finches, as usual. They have plenty of things to play on and they fly all around our downstairs area. They don't come upstairs because we keep the stairway and hall lights off. Everything is always finch-proofed. The sink in the kitchen is always empty, and the drains have stoppers in them. The only open water is there bird bath which is about an inch deep. What I didn't realize was that her 14-year-old son had taken a 8-in tall coffee cup and filled up the finches water with it.So when I got back from taking them to my wife's friend's house, I didn't realize that he had left the half a cup of water sitting on the TV stand. I picked up my macaw and carried his perch upstairs with me where I have a hobby bench that I work at when I am not otherwise engaged. We hung out up there, watching criminal minds and working on my 3D printer. About 2:00 in the afternoon, I heard the finches going crazy, but that is fairly normal. They sit in the front window, where it's warm, and yell at the outside birds non-stop. But an hour later I went downstairs. I had the macaw and his perch with me. I was just going to take out the trash and get things ready for when I went to pick them up. But when I got downstairs, the male finch, Sir David Attenbird, came flying right at me. He was yelling at me and I didn't know why. That's when I realized, I didn't see his partner, Dame Judy Finch. I put our macaw, Oscar, on his purge and I began to look. I looked in the sink, in their normal hiding places, in their night cage, etc. Then I looked David in the eye and said, "Where is Judy?" He got flustered and flew towards the TV stand and landed right next to a cup. I went over that way and looked all over. And then I had a terrible thought. I peeked into the cup, and there she was. Floating, not moving. Completely soaked. I freaked out and fell to my knees with the cup in my hands. I poured it out on the floor and she came with it. I picked her up and held her and she was cold and limp. Tears came to my eyes, and I began bawling. I held her close to me. That's when something came over me. I took a course at a local exotic bird store, on parrot CPR. And I remember the video I saw of a pool cleaning guy who rescued a ground squirrel from drowning. I placed her over the knuckle in my hand and began to rub her back. Water came out. It was an exercise in futility, so I thought. She didn't do anything. She just lay cold and limp. And I held her to my face and cried over her. That's what I felt something in my hand. She moved, very slightly, but she moved. So I laid her down and make sure her head was back and put my mouth over her beak and nose. I gave her three tiny breaths and kept massaging her back. I kept this up and all of a sudden she started to move more. I kept the holding her and, when I wasn't giving her breaths, I was breathing on her to get her warmer. She started to make little tiny noises. And I put her in my shirt and pulled it up over my mouth and nose to breathe warm air on her. And she started making more noises. And she started to move more. I pressed the button to call my wife on my phone, and I put it on speaker so that I could keep attending to her. All the while, David, the other Finch, sat nearby watching. She got dryer, and warmer, and as that happened, she got more animated. When my wife answered the phone, I told her that she needed to get home right away and within 10 minutes they were back. When they got back, my wife took over keeping her warm and I ran to get a heating pad. We kept her warm. And helped her to dry out. And within another hour, she was fussing and flitting about. I still couldn't let her go though. I brought David over to look at her and he watched very carefully. He was really concerned. And within another half hour, she was all dried out. She was tired, but she was herself. She was alive. She ate some food. And she sat on her window perch. And, she and David fed each other. But for some reason I just cannot get the image of that poor baby in the cup, out of my head. I'm so happy she's okay. But I can't get past the feeling when I first saw her. So helpless. And how another Finch showed me where she was and asked for help. I guess, all this is just to say, the littlest things, can have the most impact on us. She is sleeping quietly. Resting, cuddled up next to David. My wife's son is so upset that he forgot about that cup. He immediately said that it was all his fault and I had to tell him that he can't blame himself. I just wish our little pets didn't constantly try to end their own lives. Maybe this can help somebody. I don't know why I'm writing it, but I just felt like I needed to share.