Red-Cheek Cordon Blue, Bird fair Orlando

[M1chaelP]

Hello everyone,

After two years of No birds (reason: studies), I finally decided to gift myself with a pair of pearl societies and the beautiful looking cordon blues. If you can please help me with some tips and answer some of my concerns it would be great.
1) Societies and Cordon blues, are they ok to be housed in a LARGE flight cage? I noticed tension from the societies yesterday as I introduced the new pair into the cage, so I decided to buy a new LARGER Flight cage.
2) How to maintain the cordon blues?
3) Apartment AC is at 75 or 76 F almost throughout the day with the flight cage situated in front of a window with lot of sunlight. None of the windows are open apart from a brief 30 minutes in the evening.
4) Currently the birds are being treated with S76
5) There are seeds, Egg Food, Egg shell crumps, Water in the cage currently. What other things apart from occasionaly live worms are advised.

Im asking so many questions because I did not research a lot before buying the birds. So any inputs are really appreciated. Thank you.

Best regards,
Pratheek Michael,
Orlando, Florida

[cindy]

powder your egg shell and offer in a finger cup... avoids jagged sharp pieces from cutting internal tissue, organs which opens the birds up to bacteria to enter those tiny cuts.

gut load your meal worms with pellets or washed peeled carrot, slice of the inside of a sweet potato, kale broccoli... what the mealies eat the bird eats.

House your societies separate from the cordons, cordons when breeding do not like to be disturbed. societies can be a bit nosey and intrusive.

Advise if not using a pellet in your seed you use a good multivitamin, mineral amino acid supplement like AviTech's AviVita Gold in the soft food as directed on the container. If not getting direct unfiltered sunshine the D3 in the vitamins of AviVita Gold will be beneficial.

[cindy]

http://www.finchinfo.com/birds/finches/ ... axbill.php

[cindy]

just a note, unless you know for a fact the societies are clean I would not house them with other species. Societies can carry three different issues that will not harm them but can harm other species.

[M1chaelP]

Hello thanks for the advise. However at this point I will not be able to house the societies separately. Is there a way to deworm or remove parasites from the societies which will be beneficial to the cordons??

[M1chaelP]

On a contrary note. I left the cordons in the large cage. The societies in the breeding cage. I'll try to follow the other suggestions thank you.

[cindy]

pm'd you