Gouldian nests ive used this year

[spn1979]

I was asked to post some pics of nest I've used this year. First is my red head pair. A small stick nest wich I don't like. I bought the pair as proven and it was the nest they came with but I won't use again. For whatever reason they only wanted to raise one chick both clutches this year and the other babies were somehow sacrificed. Not sure It was the nest.

[spn1979]

Red heads 2 clutches

[spn1979]

My blue pair used this bamboo nest for 2 clutches. There young and we're unsuccessful. He was such A good builder it was all most impossible to do nest checks. I gave them a different nest wich I'll show and went for a 3rd and now a 4th with better luck.

[spn1979]

Same blue pair with a wooden box nest wich they readily accepted. They started a 4th clutch well before there baby fledged.

[spn1979]

Dad and baby blue.

[spn1979]

Pair 3 are yellow heads with a wooden box type nest. Dad was scatted from his previous owner wich may have affected his fertility. They only managed one dead in shell baby in 2 clutches so far. I was having some succes using them as fosters for a little more than 2 weeks before they decided they didn't wanna do it anymore and the chicks died.

[spn1979]

Pair 3 hen with foster babies. My blue pairs 2nd clutch wich I presumed abandoned after a case of nite fright.

[spn1979]

Pair 4 salmon head wb/bb male with a rh/pb/gb hen. My stubborn pair, finally after 4 months and several nest options they settled on the bamboo nest I took away from my blue pair. Luckily he's not as good a builder and I'm expecting some hatchlings next weekend.

[spn1979]

Pair 4 male on eggs

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Pair fours eggs

[ac12]

Nice assortment.
Interesting that your gouldians use the open front box. I was told to use ones with a small hole, to give them more privacy. But I guess a nest is a nest is a nest. If they want to mate they take what they are given.

I use outside hanging nests, makes for much easier nest checks and cleaning than an inside the cage nest. Although I have had to cut the rods of some cages to make a door and be able to use an outside cage nest with those cages.