Is there a problem??

[NorthernFinch]

Hello Everyone,

My Black-Hooded Nun-Finch has been lacking calcium. We gave her some and she is back to normal. I have a perch on th bottom half of my cage, and one on the top half. My other finch hops from perch to perch, but she stays on the bottom one, and on the bottom of the cage. She hasn't jumped up to the higher one. Is she hurt???

Thanks,
-NorthernFinch

[H2015]

If her legs seem fine and she's able to stand on them with no problem then she's not hurt, her movement will change if she's injured (such as lifting one leg at almost all times).

And if they are fighting, you will be able to tell easily, the other one will be aggressive and you may notice it picking on her, if not then she just prefers sitting at the bottom perch. Many of my finches have favorite spots or corners that they spend a lot of their time in.

Also I read somewhere that it takes awhile for birds to recover from calcium deficiencies, so if she's not as active as she used to then she's still recovering and will need time.

[Hilary]

She either isn't feeling up to par or the other bird is hogging the upper perches and is making her stay low. I've had that happen where a more aggressive bird will not let the others use the "better" perches.

[Geordie]

My birds were constantly fighting, well actually only one was really aggressive, but I introduced a sin-bin, where the aggressive bird has to spend about 1 hour in the small cage while the other gets the freedom of the flight cage, it seems to have worked a bit. When I take the aggressive bird out of the sin-bin it is always full of apologies to me and is good when going back into the bigger cage...for a while at least. The reason I started doing this is beacuse the other bird wasn't getting a chance to eat/drink/be merry without the other one attacking it