Hi there Sam,
Any updates from your side of the world? Are they or aren't they? I'm going to say pretty definitely now that the principle breeding time for them is late Summer/early Autumn- this being based on their internal clock. Having said that, I have bred them in Spring as I already said. But of my two pairs only one has bred in the Spring and both are breeding now. It's still early days as it's my first year breeding them but it looks to me like I will sick with this time in general. I will probably try with the young of these birds in Spring the year after next just to see. Anyway, I'm posting a link to my website here where I have put some photos of my birds. There's one great picture of the Green Singer parents with the three chicks. Another point which I'll mention here which I hadn't read before- I noticed that after the chicks left the nest the parents took it apart but didn't seem to be building again. After I saw that they had put a little bit of goat hair in the branches covering their first nest, I had an intuition based on a recent occurrence with my Parrot Finches (see the "Parrot Finch" question in the breeding section of this forum. I put another Canary nest in and gave it a bit more cover and gave them some extra goat hair. They finished the nest in one day and two or three days later had one egg laid. This morning there was another. I don't know if they would have rebuilt in the first nest- all I can say is they seemed very happy that I put in a second- something you might want to think about when you're planning nest arrangement in the cages...
One other thing- I've offered mealworms to both breeding pairs. They didn't show much interest so I didn't push it- Better for me if they don't want 'em! They're quite enthusiastic about the eggfood and soaked seed.
Here's the link to the pics...
http://eagle-eye11.tripod.com//id23.html
breeding green singers
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baby green singers
hi philipE,
yes, i have had success......with my green singers.....i left them alone for a while after providing all the needs i could offer to them for breeding, until, i realised the hen sitting in the nest at night....the nest was nothing flash, just abit of feathters and fibre....then i realised there were two eggs in there.....at first she looked keen but a couple of days later she was not sleeping in her nest and i found one of the eggs had dropped out of the nest .....i checked to see if the other egg was safe in the nest but there was nothing there ....so i thought they must of ate it or something...then i said , forget it.....but to my surprise , as if they were testing me out, a couple of days later shes in the nest day and night , not threatened by my presence being around , ...i then saw she had was sitting on two eggs...i was pretty confident this time round she will brood till the end and she did .....i have 2 beautiful baby green singers who have just fled out of the nest like in less than two weeks.....boy they grow really quick.....and both the parents and chicks are doing just fine....my green singers have bred in spring...its not summer here until next month, december...i hope they have another clutch but im not that worried if they dont....i havent bothered much with mealworms , but soaked seed and egg is important....fresh water and good seed.
i have also had a browse in your site , how wonderful.....especially your gouldians...they are so beautiful....have you bred the gouldians before?....they are very easy although i have heard of a few problems which may occur but mine bred just fine this year...i had mine in a breeding cage which i made out of wood.....1metre x 1 metre x 60cm and of course mesh at the front.....i had 2 perches from side to side , one higher than the other and enough space for them to hop on to and fro from each perch......you might keep this in mind , i had there food seperated.....i made a wooden long feeder and had seperated it in 5 spaces....in each space i only had the one type of seed on its own ...therefore i had the five main seeds all seperate....you will find that they prefer it this way.....you will need a gouldian nesting box with only wild grass as nesting material....you will need to stack heaps grass in the nest and cup it in the middle by closing your fist and turning around on the grass forming a nest like cup, then the male gouldian will go in and out tightening it ....it just makes it easier for the male cause they do take alot grass to build there nest and you will see they cover the top part of the nest as well if you slightly lift the lid ......my gouldians were successful and i didnt lose not even 1 bird out the 20...they do lay up to 7 eggs...also, i did breed them out doors and had no problems.....over here in australia, they breed from about autumn through out the winter almost 6 - 8 months of breeding .....you have a beautiful pair, they look so healthy and so do your other birds.....
yes, i have had success......with my green singers.....i left them alone for a while after providing all the needs i could offer to them for breeding, until, i realised the hen sitting in the nest at night....the nest was nothing flash, just abit of feathters and fibre....then i realised there were two eggs in there.....at first she looked keen but a couple of days later she was not sleeping in her nest and i found one of the eggs had dropped out of the nest .....i checked to see if the other egg was safe in the nest but there was nothing there ....so i thought they must of ate it or something...then i said , forget it.....but to my surprise , as if they were testing me out, a couple of days later shes in the nest day and night , not threatened by my presence being around , ...i then saw she had was sitting on two eggs...i was pretty confident this time round she will brood till the end and she did .....i have 2 beautiful baby green singers who have just fled out of the nest like in less than two weeks.....boy they grow really quick.....and both the parents and chicks are doing just fine....my green singers have bred in spring...its not summer here until next month, december...i hope they have another clutch but im not that worried if they dont....i havent bothered much with mealworms , but soaked seed and egg is important....fresh water and good seed.
i have also had a browse in your site , how wonderful.....especially your gouldians...they are so beautiful....have you bred the gouldians before?....they are very easy although i have heard of a few problems which may occur but mine bred just fine this year...i had mine in a breeding cage which i made out of wood.....1metre x 1 metre x 60cm and of course mesh at the front.....i had 2 perches from side to side , one higher than the other and enough space for them to hop on to and fro from each perch......you might keep this in mind , i had there food seperated.....i made a wooden long feeder and had seperated it in 5 spaces....in each space i only had the one type of seed on its own ...therefore i had the five main seeds all seperate....you will find that they prefer it this way.....you will need a gouldian nesting box with only wild grass as nesting material....you will need to stack heaps grass in the nest and cup it in the middle by closing your fist and turning around on the grass forming a nest like cup, then the male gouldian will go in and out tightening it ....it just makes it easier for the male cause they do take alot grass to build there nest and you will see they cover the top part of the nest as well if you slightly lift the lid ......my gouldians were successful and i didnt lose not even 1 bird out the 20...they do lay up to 7 eggs...also, i did breed them out doors and had no problems.....over here in australia, they breed from about autumn through out the winter almost 6 - 8 months of breeding .....you have a beautiful pair, they look so healthy and so do your other birds.....