Pied Red Billed Firefinches Australia

[wildbill]

I purchase 4 pair of these pied fires about 3 weeks ago with a package including 4 pair of pied cordons. overall these are very nice pieds especially the hens. I like the fires as they are pretty easy to breed under outside aviary conditions and I have had great success with them.

ive decided to run all 8 pairs cordons/fires in the one aviary which is a fair size and branches off into several sections so the birds can get along better.

I feel this is working fine as all 8 pair were placed in their new surrounding all on the same day which should limit fighting by the cordon cock birds if I had dominant pairs residing and added new stock.

a couple of the fire cock birds have been carting grass and feathers so they are most likely setting. I have not got a great deal of time to get these birds nesting as the weather will turn nasty by the end of may.

after that I will have to decide if to carry on with them and if so they will have to go to heated quarters and share with the gouldians

I have reared quite a few ruddies on soaked seed and lettuce alone...no live food. unfortunately these are housed with cordons so I guess live food in on the plate for these guys.

time will tell how that idea pans out. plus I will try and round up some photos.

[GouldianGuy]

Very cool, it'll be interesting to see the pied look of the fires!

[Jen]

wildbill
Can't wait to see photos of your new birds. Best of luck with them!

[lovezebs]

wildbill

What in heaven's name do pied African Fires look like?