Green Singing Finch

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:58 pm

How many people have experience with this type of finch. I'm getting a new pair of finches and it is between a pair of green singers, a pair of orange weavers, a pair of owls, or a pair of stars????

It is a hard choice!!!!

Are green singers very sensitive to cold temperatures?

Whoever I get will be eventually going into my flight cage which consists of 2 societies, 2 oc waxbills, 2 rosy rumped waxbills, and 2 gouldians.

Crystal · Post by **Crystal** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:24 pm

I haven't kept green singing finches, but with the species you already have, I think adding owl finches or star finches might be your best bet.

Post by **Sally** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:52 pm

I have a large type Green Singer male. I used to have a pair, but he killed the female. I didn't realize they could be so aggressive to their mate, but have since read that they should be separated except for breeding. They are pushy, so don't think they would mix well with what you have already. I keep this male with my Zebra pair, and they are pushy enough to stand up to him. His song is wonderful, and the reason he is still around. I've never had Orange Weavers, but they are also supposed to be pushy types.

I have Owls and Stars and would recommend either of them. I favor the Stars, just because mine are so full of personality, very curious and ready to try anything new. The Stars love to bathe, several times a day, and the males have a squeaky little song. I haven't bred the Owls yet, so don't know about that. Stars are pretty quick to go to nest and lay eggs, but sometimes they abandon the nest, or once the eggs hatch, they will lose interest and toss the babies.

Boothcreek · Post by **Boothcreek** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:23 pm

I love my Weavers, I have Black winged Red bishops(were sold to me as orange bishops.... oh well no matter I like the looks of these much better).

I have read that they are pushy but I must say I haven't had any problems. They are very solitary birds, they got their own lil perimeter around them, about as far as they can reach without moving a foot from their original spot. If a finch lands within that Perimeter they get hissed at, but if they are out of reach the Weavers wont bother.
Also if the weavers land too close to another finch they will rather go to the next branch instead of chasing away the other finch.

They avoid close contact with their own kind as well, but also avoid any direct confrontation even if they get too close accidentally.

Weavers were my first finches I have ever owned and I must say I will always keep a few, they might not sing much but they are pretty and just such interesting characters(out of all the birds in the aviary I would even call them the smartest).

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:02 pm

Wow... it is so hard to decide what kind of finches to get when you have opportunity to get new ones... I wish I could buy them all, but money and space are both issues! I have a huge flight cage and four other big cages, and they are all how I want them, well kind of...

Two of my big cages house one zebra pair each, and one of those zebra pairs are to young to breed, so I could put more in that cage, but then the zebras are mean to whoever I put in there with them.

My huge flight has 8 birds in it... It wasn't going to be a breeding flight, but my societies were making nests everywhere (like just in the corner with now nesting material) so I finally let them make one, and am about to have 6 more babies from them.

So this new pair I'm getting, I'll have to figure out where I'll put them!

Hope · Post by **Hope** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:21 pm

I'm partial to my star finches. My male is a character and loves to perform when I whistle at him. He's always dancing holding a piece of lettuce in his mouth that is usually twice as big as he is.

My hen has been prolific in laying eggs but my male is lame so we've not had any fertile eggs.

The only problem is that when I bought them at the pet store they had stubbie tails. I didn't know they were suppose to have a longer tail.

I'm still hopeing they will grow in.

Does any one else have ones with stubbie tails

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:25 pm

How long ago did you buy these star finches? I know younger/babies have stubbier tails or finches that have been plucked so many times that it just doesn't grow back...

The star finches I'm getting are yellow faced and have very long tails... I've had one pair of star finches in the past also (red faced) and the female was also consistently laying eggs and the male was alwasy building a nest, but the female never layed the eggs in the nest...

Post by **Hilary** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:41 pm

Lucky you to have yellow-face stars available. I have two yellow males (brothers, sold to me originally as "a pair"), and can't find them little girlfriends!

EmilyHurd · Post by **EmilyHurd** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:50 pm

There are a lot of yellow faced stars here.. in fact, I know where to get many different types of finches. There are a lot of resources in Colorado.