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I have a dilemma: I had two female society finches and one female zebra. A week ago I brought home a male and a female zebra, hoping that the one male would work well with two females. Unfortunately, the female zebras started fighting and after one lost a lot of feathers, I have had to remove her from the cage.

What to do? I really do not have space for nor want to manage two cages, and the weaker female is lonely alone. I doubt putting her back in will result in anything different, so do I rehome her, or would getting a different male for her possibly work?

My cage is fairly large: 30" (76cm) wide, 36" (91 cm) high and 18" (45cm) deep. I have two small plants, branches for roosting and no nests. The society finches are mostly oblivious to the zebras.

Thank you for any advice!!

General consensus is that three couples in a cage are better than two, and if I'm getting the dimensions of your cage right, three couples could work, especially if they aren't going to be breeding and the Society girls keep to themselves. We have a couple of cages that size and have had three couples (Zebras) in them with no real problems.

My guess is with couples you will soon get eggs, so you need to be prepared to deal with that. Either to let them breed, or just remove the eggs. My zebra hen would lay her eggs any place that looked like a bowl.