What species do you have?

zookeeper · Post by **zookeeper** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:23 pm

I got me a dog, a guinea pig, 2 bunnies, one tiel, one budgie, and some odds -n- ends of finches. Including 3 gouldians, a black-head white breasted female, and 2 RHN males.

A friend of mine thought that this perch was a model of a diseased intestine from American Science and Surplus, ha!

martin · Post by **martin** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:00 am

Hi! I'm a finch newbie. Last week, I got myself three pairs of finches local to the Philippines, and one pair of Zebra Finches. The local ones are sopranos and the Zebras are tenors. I am planning out my 10 by 7 feet aviary with double doors adjacent to my daughter's bedroom window and the kitchen window (any health concerns on that?). In the meantime, they now swing with a fruit tree where I tied their 24" x 20" metal cage. I wove basket vines through the slots for perches and stuck in two live vines with live branches of the tree. Yes, I do sympathize with them now.

Can anyone tell me what my local finches are called? The males are pure black and the females are brown.

I know I will enjoy this forum. Thanks for allowing me to join!

Martin

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:13 am

hi martin
they could well be combassous,as the male is all black and the female is a brown sparrow like colour

ken

JeannetteD · Post by **JeannetteD** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:08 pm

There's a photo I uploaded of the indigobird, aka combassou.. Is that your bird, Martin?

Jeannette

martin · Post by **martin** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:08 pm

Hi JeannetteD, Ken. Ken is right about the description but I cannot seem to find the uploaded picture that you mentioned, JeannetteD.

These birds are high strung. They panic each time I approach their cage even as I whistle their tune. The Zebras are friendlier.

Bad news. While taking my coffee this morning, I discovered one black male missing. Then I saw feathers. My first suspect was my little snake that got away a few months ago. But then again, I figured that he would be stuck in the cage with that lump in its stomach. So it must have been a shrew or one of those sewer rats. I didn't have to call Ace Ventura for that crime.

My solution - I wrapped my guyabano (soursop) tree trunk with tincan. It's an old trick farmers here in the Philippines do when rats invade fruit trees so that the rats slide down instead.

So this morning, off I went to the Finch guy (5 miles away!) and got myself a lone zebra male (black/grey/red/orange with a beautiful black and white bib). I wonder if I can cross breed the two species!? I also got them the squid stuff for calcium and that string of orangy seeds that he said came from Belgium. Geez, I can't even get myself my Belgian chocolates! In time I will know finch terms.

I will have to content myself with four pairs until my aviary is done. Ed, the finch guy, advised me to set a layer of hollow blocks at the base of the aviary so that predators cannot dig their way through. I think their little dormitory now will belong to a mina bird that I am contemplating on adopting.

JeannetteD · Post by **JeannetteD** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:07 pm

Sorry to hear about your loss! The picture posted is in the Gallery, under Adult finches, and it's on the second page. There's apicture of indigo with lavenders.

Most african finches are skittish and I find they are even worse than zebras for flightiness. Most of my zebras dont even fly away when I go to put their food and water in the cage now, but the africans do all the time.

Finches really aren't meant to be tame. I've heard that with handfeeding babies you can raise them to be less skittish, however I've also heard that ify you put that one in a flight with birds who are skittish it will return to it's natural behavior.

Jeannette

ViperX · Post by **ViperX** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:37 am

I have two Society Finches and five Zebra Finches right now. I also have two cats.

These are my finches
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These are my cats
http://personalitiez.com/gallery/animalz/images/sox.jpg
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kenny · Post by **kenny** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:23 am

hi viperx

they are all beautiful,i also love cats

ken

germac · Post by **germac** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:41 am

Hi...I've got 35 canaries....pairs of Java Sparrows, Belgenese, diamond firetails, hecks grass finch orange weavers..7 Gouldians and 6 Zebra finches..2 dogs, ( a German Sheperd and a yorkshire Terrier)

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:23 am

hi germac
sounds like you have got your hands full there my friend

ken

arcadam · Post by **arcadam** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:14 pm

We have got 2 Zebs, 2 Owls, 2 Goulds, 2 Orange Cheek Waxies, 2 Societies, and 2 Schnauzers.

jonvill · Post by **jonvill** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:50 pm

Thirteen red factor canaries,
Four European Goldfinches,
Three glouster canaries.

Beep · Post by **Beep** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:55 pm

We have:
one ring necked dove.......rescued injured from outdoors

two parakeets

one cockatiel....15 years old, given away by owner
one love bird....8 years old, housed with the above cockatiel, they came together

Five Zebra Finches.......adopted through PetSmart since they couldn't be sold in the store

Orange Weaver Finch female...Adopted through PetSmart, survived an in store injury and only has one leg.

Society finch......Adopted through PetSmart, born in store.

3 cats, one from pound, one homeless, one from owners

one mixed breed dog.......from pound

One chocolate female hamster......one eye, adopted through PetSmart

One Male hamster......mangled foot, adopted through PetSmart

White Rats....two, they're the daughters. rats make excellent pets

Dwarf rabbit adopted through local pet shop because it was returned as being nasty, it's such lover though.

Three white mice......two are store bought, one was confiscated from kid in middle school who brought it in to torture and kill in front of his friends.

Three tanks of Red Wag Platies, almost ready to start trading them back into the fish stores.

9 fish tanks in my office at work.....Working on a 3/4 Black guppy breeding program.

Post by **Hilary** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:37 pm

Ken, you are definitely my kind of guy! My house is full of rescues as well!

Hilary

newfinchmom · Post by **newfinchmom** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:38 am

I had two cordon bleu finches until yesterday. Now I just have one. I also have two russian miniature hamsters.

I have a very special Westie mix dog from the animal shelter that I have had for nine years now. He had a tag on his cage that said he was going to be put to sleep the next day and I couldn't resist. He has been the best dog I have ever had. Of course. . .my terrier is not particular fond of the hamsters or the bird.

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