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Well today turned out to be bad this morning found dead zebra finch in my outside aviary by the time i saw it they had pulled a lot feathers out poor thing . later in the day I was showing a friend my birds about 3 hours later my hen red parrot finch was dead,have no clue as to why she was fine eating well very active no sign of illness am sure she wasn't egg bound ?
I had a gouldian chick in a hospital cage for two days with wet vent and just sleeping alot she didn't make it ether.
These birds were all in different cages I really hate that most of the time you just don't know why they die,the rest of the birds in the same cages all seem fine. The last bird I lost was 3or4mos ago.
Now I need to find a hen red parrot finch as the male is going crazy,it took me about 3mos. to find her,they never got down to breeding,he won't stop redoing the nest put in take it out never stopped

Sorry to hear about your losses. I hate when that happens to when they die and you have no reasons for why it happened.

Oh, I am so sorry for your losses. It's tough enough to lose any of them, but three in one day--that's got to be hard. I think one of the most frustrating things about keeping finches is that we rarely know what happened when they die. There is an avian vet near me, but the one time I took a finch in, he had never treated a finch before and really wasn't able to tell me much--a waste of money.

B CAMP wrote:Well today turned out to be bad this morning found dead zebra finch in my outside aviary by the time i saw it they had pulled a lot feathers out poor thing . later in the day I was showing a friend my birds about 3 hours later my hen red parrot finch was dead,have no clue as to why she was fine eating well very active no sign of illness am sure she wasn't egg bound ?
I had a gouldian chick in a hospital cage for two days with wet vent and just sleeping alot she didn't make it ether.
These birds were all in different cages I really hate that most of the time you just don't know why they die,the rest of the birds in the same cages all seem fine. The last bird I lost was 3or4mos ago.
Now I need to find a hen red parrot finch as the male is going crazy,it took me about 3mos. to find her,they never got down to breeding,he won't stop redoing the nest put in take it out never stopped

I'm sorry for your losses. Nature has a way and we don't always understand it. You did what you knew to help them. I'm glad Sally gave her reply..

nature sure can be a *, sorry to hear about your losses.
if only someone was able to publish a "dummies guide to finches" a new book for each species

I'm very saddened to hear of your losses. Never easy to bear and 3 in one day must be very rough. I hope you can find a RH Parrot Finch hen soon.

Thanks for the replies,I do hope I can find A red parrot finch soon for my male and myself,I really wanted to get them to breed,but the male is so active hope he settles down soon

mickp
When you write that dummy's book put me down for one

So....so sorry to hear of your bad news. It happend to us all, but is never easy.

Sorry to hear about your birds Bill.

Too bad you aren't closer to me....my friend who breeds Gouldians mentioned that he has 3 pairs of parrot finches and they keep producing. I'm sure he'd have a hen for you.

That would work for sure but way to far
I will find one just don't know when?

the only book I could ever write would be full of blank pages waiting for each peron that bought it to fill in. most times it takes me about 5 minutes to type each post that I put in the forums. the first attempt is typed as I would usually say it then I have to rewrite it minus the unwanted naughty words and also move bits around so it may occasionly make sense

mickp wrote:the only book I could ever write would be full of blank pages waiting for each peron that bought it to fill in. most times it takes me about 5 minutes to type each post that I put in the forums. the first attempt is typed as I would usually say it then I have to rewrite it minus the unwanted naughty words and also move bits around so it may occasionly make sense

mickp
Don't think your the only one that has that same problem I do the same every time,thankfully I have spell check or you couldn't read my post at all

Sorry for your losses Bcamp, never easy losing 1 bird let alone 3 in one day. Hope you find a RHPF soon, they are one of my favorites.