New Fire Finches sitting on two eggs

ranchnanny · Post by **ranchnanny** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 11:26 pm

Well the male fire finch made a neat nest and his mate has laid 2 eggs

and they are taking turns sitting. As far as I know this may be their first clutch so I have my fingers crossed that all goes well.

Will post photos as soon as I can.

isobea · Post by **isobea** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 11:55 pm

How wonderful! Congratulations! My fire finches always laid three or four eggs and raised their young without any problems as long as I was able to supply them with enough mini meal worms. I always offered those in a small plastic cup and one time I watched the male pick up 18 (!) in one fell swoop! It was amazing to see. Both parents took great care of them. The only fledgling I ever lost had fledged just before it got quite cool and rainy. His two siblings were OK, though.
Good luck with them, they are wonderful little birds.
Iso

ranchnanny · Post by **ranchnanny** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:02 am

Isobea I am excited since I just got them and I will give them more of the meal worms I don't use live worms

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Post by **lovezebs** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:17 am

ranchnanny
Congratulations on egg babies. I wish the fellow that I got my two boys from would come through with my two girls that I'm waiting for. What size are their eggs, by the way? These guys are so tiny that's it's difficult to visualize such tiny eggs .

Goodluck with up coming babies?

~Elana~

isobea · Post by **isobea** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 1:02 am

ranchnanny - for you to have them breed so soon after you got them is a good indication that they are young and healthy and like their new surroundings. Are the worms you feed them dried or frozen? I always just gave mine live meal worms because it was so easy ( there is a small company about 15 min. away that breeds meal worms, crickets and cockroaches).
Iso

wilkifam · Post by **wilkifam** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 1:52 am

Mine absolutely won't touch mealworms. Everything I read puts them at mainly a seed eater. Mine love millett and egg though.

wilkifam · Post by **wilkifam** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 1:58 am

so tiny that's it's difficult to visualize such tiny eggs

@lovezebs

Here is a picture I took of a society egg and a fire finch egg.

Sam007 · Post by **Sam007** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 11:01 am

Congratulations!

ranchnanny · Post by **ranchnanny** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:13 pm

I am feeding them dried worms I won't touch live ones YIKES!

There egg size is similar to Gold Breasted finches.

KarenB · Post by **KarenB** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:48 pm

In my case, I have found the fire finch eggs to be similar in size to the gold breasted waxbills' eggs. They are pretty tiny. I actually expected them to be a bit bigger than that and was surprised at how small they were.

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