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Re: My Flight

Post by DanteD716 » Wed May 16, 2012 10:01 pm

Rancel, it looks great!! And congrats on the new PF's!!!! Who will be living in the flight?
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Re: My Flight

Post by bugaboo5 » Wed May 16, 2012 10:02 pm

Wow, love the new flight and the Blue-faced Parrots!!! My golly, they are gorgeous!!! Are they a confirmed male and female pair? They have tons of room to fly so the parrot finches should stay nice and lean. I love how decorated your aviary is -- it looks like a tropical rain forest. What did you end up trading? Canaries? Your gorgeous vibrant fire finches?
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Re: My Flight

Post by Martie » Wed May 16, 2012 11:03 pm

Your flight is beautifully planted - and the BF Parrot Finches are breathtaking! Great photos!
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Re: My Flight

Post by kheather » Wed May 16, 2012 11:20 pm

very nice flight and your finches are gorgeous!
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Re: My Flight

Post by Piciorusm » Thu May 17, 2012 3:55 am

Your pictures seems to be a real game! A game named: " How many birds you can see ?! " I saw 8 ! Are there more?
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Re: My Flight

Post by debbie276 » Thu May 17, 2012 6:02 am

Great aviary and great pictures!
Best of luck with it
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Re: My Flight

Post by dfcauley » Thu May 17, 2012 6:21 am

It's an I Spy Game! Beautiful aviary and beautiful finches!! Congrats!!! =D> =D>
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Re: My Flight

Post by dan78 » Thu May 17, 2012 7:46 am

Very nice, well bushed up. So Green, PF will be hard to find as they blend in well. Are all the plants fake or are you using a combination of live and fake.

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Re: My Flight

Post by Sally » Thu May 17, 2012 10:05 am

Paradise Aviary wrote:Plus I was told by the owner that the female I have is split to lutino so I could get some lutino chicks :mrgreen:
Beautiful aviary, your birds should be very happy with it!

Isn't lutino sex-linked? If so, the females cannot be split, they are either normal or visually mutation. If your male is split to lutino, if paired with a normal hen, you have a chance of getting lutino hens.
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Re: My Flight

Post by PrettyBird » Thu May 17, 2012 10:10 am

very nice rancel. looks like a little rain forest :)
verrry jealous of your bf parrot finches :mrgreen: im working on getting a pair as well!
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Re: My Flight

Post by annague » Thu May 17, 2012 11:29 am

Beautiful, Rancel! Your birds will like all that cover -- they will feel they are in the wild.

I absolutely adore PF's and I know you will love yours too. Be sure to keep us updated on how they are doing.

I have Lutino BF's but they are two females and I've been so busy I haven't even tried (yet) to find them split or Lutino BF males. (Plus $$ is kind of tight right now :roll: ).

Let us know how your new space works out with your birds and what you might do differently as well -- I'm always trying to learn how to improve my own cages/aviary.
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Re: My Flight

Post by dan78 » Fri May 18, 2012 8:39 am

Thanks Rancel it was hard to spot them in one of the pics so I do understand it would be hard to see them. Fake plants will work best when there is little to no Sun so stick with what works. I was just curious as there seemed alot of plants and such a vibrant Green I was wondering if there was a live one in there. As for the lutino PF they are a weaker than the normal and I have known a guy that was trying to breed them and he found that alot did die after fledging and only a few would survive and this is why they have a high price value. Once the mutation becomes as strong as the normal and babies are being breed in higher numbers then the price will start to drop.

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Re: My Flight

Post by Grale » Wed May 23, 2012 9:05 am

Very nice =D> . Can you please put a picture of the whole cage from the outside. How do you plan to clean poo from all this plants? What do you use for ground covering? Sand?

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