hey monique.monotwine wrote:Congrats on your new youngsters!
Gouldian may not ever take to eating the egg food, but then you need to remeber that their natural breeding trigger is unripened or milky seeds. So give them half ripe green seeds (chickweed, grasses or homegrown millet) plus soaked sprouted seed and they will be happy enough. The sprouted seeds have higer nutritional benefits and they are softer and therefore quicker for the parents to prepare to feed young and easier to digest. With food easier to feed you may find they have bigger clutches. I find during breeding my Gouldian take alot of canary seed which if I recall is higher in protein.
The seed diet plus a good vitamens and supplement should be all they need to rear healthy happy babies.
My gouldians eat egg food now (and mealworms,as this is for my insectivorous finches), but only because they followed my other birds doing it. Before they had no clue what it was. So if you really want them to take egg food, after their breeding season try putting them with other trainer birds to discover new foods.
by riped or milky you mean to grow the plant here at home and feed it to them while its still green right?
thanks