Their Hatching....

atarasi · Post by **atarasi** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:02 pm

Thanks Liz, congratulations on the baby society.
I learned from the guy whom I purchased the gouldian pair from that they were both parent-raised so that might add to the success of them being good parents. No chicks yet today. I'm not looking into the nestbox and the only sign I'll have is egg shells on the bottom of the cage.
My only fear is that if only one chick hatches and it's not fed.

chrischris · Post by **chrischris** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:38 pm

When you say breeding one of those chicks back to her what do you mean?

atarasi · Post by **atarasi** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:58 pm

Chris,
My favorite Goulidan color is a blue backed, black headed, white breasted male. The male I have just doesn't have a white breast. However, the spllit to blue female I have is white breasted. So, I was thinking if I bred this pair and then bred one of her son's back to her, I should get what I'm looking for. I've been told that too close of a breeding. I've asked the breeder if the male is split to white breast. If so, then I would hopefully get what I'm looking for in one breeding.

chrischris · Post by **chrischris** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:14 am

That is too close to breed a son with it's mother. Is there no way that you could gaet a male white breast or a split white breasted thru someone else. Your are breeding for a more inferior line and a weaker offsprings to follow. The blood line is too close.

Chris

atarasi · Post by **atarasi** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:34 am

A good try though, huh?
Laraine from ladygouldianfinch told me the same thing. All blue back birds are already related. I'll probably just trade birds with a more distant related line to breed back to her or one of the babies. (when they get here!)

jamezyboo21 · Post by **jamezyboo21** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:33 pm

Do any of the finch species like brothers and sisters breed together or with parents if they are old enough to? And is this bad for them to do and would the eggs be fertile?

Post by **Sally** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:51 pm

Related birds will definitely breed. Some people say it doesn't hurt to linebreed for one generation, but most breeders breed unrelated birds. I think Mother Nature takes care of this in the wild, as they have lots of mates to choose from. We put them in a cage, they can't get out to search for other mates, so they wind up breeding with their brother or sister, or Mom or Dad.

chrischris · Post by **chrischris** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:50 am

The closest breeding line you could do is first cousins and this would be fine.

Chris

Post by **Sally** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:10 am

Chris, I have a bunch of Stars, lots of them related. I have babies from my yellow-faced Star hen and an unrelated male (pair A). I now have one baby from a sister to the yellow-faced Star hen and another unrelated male (pair B). So these babies would be cousins, right? It would be OK, next year, to pair that one baby from pair B with one from pair A? Right now, I have a swap lined up for September, so it may be a moot point, but just in case, I wondered about that sort of pairing.