Gouldian foster parents

Reubenvg · Post by **Reubenvg** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:00 am

I found a couple of gouldian eggs today in a seed hopper (don't have nesting boxes in aviary yet as waiting for gouldians to moult before letting them start breeding)

However I have a canary who has just started sitting and thought I may as well give her the eggs incase they are fertile.

If they do hatch would a canary raise a gouldian baby ?

chrischris · Post by **chrischris** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:47 am

I've never heard of a canary fostering a gouldian but you could try. The likelyhood of the eggs being fertile is probably slim in my experience if they were just laid in the seed hooper and abandoned. The other thing you could do is to leave them alone and see if they will make nest there and incubate the eggs.

Chris

FinchezRule · Post by **FinchezRule** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:33 am

I'd say no, canary eggs tend to be blueish from what I remember when I had them, and the begging patterns are very different. Not to mention the blue around baby gould's mouths...that'll probably cause the canaries to toss them or abandon their entire clutch all together.

atarasi · Post by **atarasi** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:09 pm

Not to mention the size difference. Canaries seem to also carry a lot of disease. Gouldians are more "clean" birds. If it were me, I would rather not have any hatch, than chicks that aren't going to be cared for and eventually die.

chrischris · Post by **chrischris** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:52 am

Talking about disease what about the diseases that can be transfered to gouldians from society foster parents. How does one get around this?

I have lost whole clutches from society fostering that I just don't do it any more.

Chris

Reubenvg · Post by **Reubenvg** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:57 am

Thanks for the info, I think I'll just throw out the eggs.