parents must be split for something...

[annague]

If I had to pick a word to describe your aviary, Colorin, I would call it 'serene'. Birds are great stress relievers most of the time, aren't they? Thanks so much for sharing!

[colorin]

these chicks are soooo naughty!
Poor plant...

and poor bamboo too.. it might end up with no leaves at all


but they seem to be happy and that's what really matters!

[debbie276]

Love the pictures!
Naughty birds

[CandoAviary]

Looks like my spider plants
They love to nibble, shred, play, and uproot... but like you say, at least they are happy

[colorin]

uproot... yes, I had a pot where I planted cat grass, for several weeks I watered it, I waited until it was all green and lovely and placed it in the aviary. In just a couple of days it was eaten/shredded/uprooted. All gone

[annague]

Such cute little bad finches!

[MLaRue]

What a gorgeous bunch of babies! I love the pictures

[colorin]

now again, those two chicks that had a paler green when fledged.. this is one of those. It's still paler than the others, in the picture it looks almost yellow, but it's not. It's just a lighter green


and this is my small apple tree... well, whatever it's left of it!

[colorin]

and some more pics:
a male singing:


a hen that might be missing her "husband":


a chick's tongue:

[lovemyfinch]

Those are just too cute

[MLaRue]

Lovely pictures

[debbie276]

Adorable!!

[6finchfriends]

You must be very proud of your bounty! Your birds and babies are so beautiful and healthy looking. Love all the photos!

[annague]

Awwww.... special pictures of beautiful birds...

[ac12]

It is fun when you get a surprise that you were not expecting.

I had a pair of what I thought were RH-PB/WB-YB. I got 2 chicks out of them before the hen died ; RH-WB-YB (yay, it what I was breeding for), then the surprise OH-PB-YB. The breeder told me they were /WB but did not say they were /OH. Now I'm sad that the hen died, as it will be hard to duplicate this again w/o 2 different hens RH-WB-YB to get my WB and OH-PB/WB-YB to get another OH.

I had another pair OH-PB-GB male, BH/YTB-PB-GB hen. The chicks were OH-PB-GB and LB-PB-GB. The LB was a real nice surprise to me. So both parents were /LB. But this time I lost the male.

The LB hen is promised to a friend. I have other color combos that have higher priority for my few breeder cages. I'm just waiting for the weather to get warm enough to ship her.