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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.

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

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

wildbill

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