silverbills

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For anyone who keeps silverbill finches, I would like to know how active they are?

[dfcauley]

For anyone who keeps silverbill finches, I would like to know how active they are?

I have them and they are not a really active bird. I would compare mine to about the same activity as a gouldian.

[monotwine]

I used to keep them. I did not find them very active either, you can actually get to watch them unlike with the parrot finches who dash off every second. Silverbills I found to be rather sweet birds.

[dfcauley]

They are very sweet and passive little birds.

I only have one at the time. I raised it myself and donated the parents to a school classroom. It had a little handicapped foot, but manages greatly in the aviary. It hangs out with my society finches and helps foster babies for me.

[Meagan83]

I agree with everyone else. They are not very active. Mine are pretty shy and like to hide out in fake greenery. And yes, they are VERY sweet and passive. I have a pair and often get babies from them. They breed in my flight cage, with lots of other species, and even when they have babies they are not aggressive.