Cherry Finches

[Gráinne Barrett]

Hi everybody, I currently have 3 pairs of cherry finches in a flight cage. It is large so it will fit in another 2/3 pairs of birds. Anyway my point is what species hybridise with cherry finches, I did check this on finchinfo.com but I don't think there is a section for them.

[wessel]

I've seen hybrids of cherrys with almost any other kind of Australian grassfinches, these were bred on purpose. I don't think you will have to worry about accidental hybrids with cherrys.

[Gráinne Barrett]

Thanks wessel , in another question I set up about this sort of question but for all species and I was told if they are paired there is not too much worry for hybridising. I'm new to flight schemes as I usually use double breeders but i now have a few flights.

[MiaCarter]

Another thought: some pull their birds from flights and put them up as a pair for the breeding process. Some harder-to-breed species seem to do better this way anyways (I don't know if cherries are in this category) and you don't have to worry about parentage questions.

[Gráinne Barrett]

I've heard that cherries are not that hard to breed but they wouldn't be as easy as zebras and bengalese. Most of my birds are in a cage setting but as I said I have a few flight cages.