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Since my java hen died, my cock's been alone for months. So I decided to find him a mate, and I ran to the bird store. I saw 2/3 type of Javas there: normal gray, fawn, and white. I don't like white much, so I tend to bring home a fawn, but I saw there 2 type of birds with the same bronze brown colour, one is pretty dark, and the other is very light(the head colour almost turn into light yellowish brown). I just want to ask, is that kind of colour call fawn(no matter how dark or light the bird is?)

Hi!
there is a lot diffrent colours but Fawn och Cream is the once you talk about I think.
check this link
http://www.javafinch.com/coulor/colour.html

They are all beautiful - I would have a very hard time deciding on one if they were all in front of me.

I keep seeing them here on kijiji for $20 each. I would love to pick some up, but I wouldn't know where to put them

I used to own Javas years ago. They have such personalities. The site Mattias refers to I use to reference a lot. If you go to the home buttom on the top right it will take you back to the index, this guy has a ton of advice and knowledge about Javas.

Enjoy them, congratulations.

lovemyfinch wrote:I keep seeing them here on kijiji for $20 each. I would love to pick some up, but I wouldn't know where to put them

More cages!!

L in Ontario wrote:

lovemyfinch wrote:I keep seeing them here on kijiji for $20 each. I would love to pick some up, but I wouldn't know where to put them

More cages!!

I need a bigger house. Or....I could always build the boys an igloo and use their bedrooms

lovemyfinch wrote:

L in Ontario wrote:

lovemyfinch wrote:I keep seeing them here on kijiji for $20 each. I would love to pick some up, but I wouldn't know where to put them

More cages!!

I need a bigger house. Or....I could always build the boys an igloo and use their bedrooms

What? You don't have an igloo in your backyard all year long?

If I saw Javas for $20 each on Kijiji local to me - I'd have to snap up a pair!
(*Going to check Kijiji right now!*)

What? You don't have an igloo in your backyard all year long?

If I saw Javas for $20 each on Kijiji local to me - I'd have to snap up a pair!
(*Going to check Kijiji right now!*)

With 20$ I can get 3 javas here.

We can get them for $15.00 here. I'd love to get some but I would have to disguse them and sneak them in past my husband as zebras!!!

There are lighter and darker Fawn Java mutations, as some people have said, but also keep in mind immature Fawn Java Sparrows are lighter in color. When I got my Fawn as a newly-fledged baby, it was very light in color with no head markings.

Here are some photos of my Javas from the 1990s. I got all 3 as young birds and tamed them all. They would fly to me when I called them!





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They were beautiful and amazing Ron!

Is it true that they have to be housed on their own? There is a breeder here, in St-Jerome, that almost always has them for sale on kijiji. I might try and get a pair or 2 in the future.

Janine,

I think in a cage, Java Sparrows should be housed only with other Javas. They aren't necessarily mean but they are big compared to many other finches so they might intimidate them. I think in an aviary, they are more compatible with other finches.