Society finch breeding attempt

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:49 am

And there are babies! Nothing in the other nest yet, but they were a day behind. Do I start adding soft food now?

Fraza · Post by **Fraza** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:53 am

Yay u have little babies haha yeh u need to start gonving boiled egg to parents now and I can't believe one of your finches is the same as mine can u add another pic the brown and white wing pied

Fraza · Post by **Fraza** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:55 am

Here looks the same from the back

Post by **Babs _Owner** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:06 pm

Rob

Yay!! You betcha!!! Pile on the boiled egg! Congratulations!

Post by **lovezebs** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:07 pm

Rob

Congratulations Rob!

I see they decided to arrive on a rainy day, lol.

Offer eggs, spray millet, some greens, and the regular seed mix

First babies, are so exciting

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Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:16 pm

lovezebs Babs

Thanks! Is it ok to freeze portions of boiled egg? Or leave chopped up pieces in the fridge? And is it better to mix everything together, or leave the veggies separate?

@Fraza

I'll see if I can get a good picture. They don't like posing for me usually ha.

Post by **lovezebs** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:23 pm

Rob

Quite a few people freeze their egg food portions, although I always feed fresh (the kids are picky, lol). Yes, you can certainly keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge for 2 or 3 days, but I wouldn't go much longer than that.

Enjoy your babies.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:36 pm

lovezebs

Ok thanks. My rule is always, if it doesn't look good enough for me to eat I won't feed it to my pets. And I don't think I'd eat egg from the freezer either haha.

Post by **lovezebs** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:54 pm

Rob

Haahaa... I know what you mean, blah, but it works well for quite a few members, lol.

I usually cook 6-8 eggs, make my egg food, and it's gone that day, but I'm feeding quite a few birds, so it's a different story.

Fraza · Post by **Fraza** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:14 pm

Rob yeh I give my boiled egg frozen and they eat it when they can and I just rip up bits of greens and abit of carrot and drop it in the constrained with the frozen egg on top

Fraza · Post by **Fraza** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:15 pm

That's for 2 breeding oairs

Icearstorm · Post by **Icearstorm** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:47 pm

Rob
Nice! It looks like the hatchlings have food in their crops, so that's good news.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 3:44 pm

I was lucky enough to watch one hatch the other night. They tossed one of the remaining eggs and are still sitting on the remaining one (they had 6 in total). I've seen them all eating the boiled eggs, just not as much as I expected. I need to remind myself their stomachs are only so big.

And in the other nest I just found the first hatchling

Fraza · Post by **Fraza** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:15 pm

Everything going great for u

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:19 pm

At this point I still have unhatched eggs. In the nestbox with the single hatchling, I saw an egg with a hole or two poked in it, but nothing has come out, this was a few days ago, and the others are just laying there. Do I continue to leave them be?

They're getting comfortable with me peeking in on them now, so it's hard to get a good look. How long does it take for feathers to come?

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