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William Astor
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Hello everyone,
I am feeding my African finches hard boiled egg finely cut fresh, germinating seed, fresh lettuce and cucumber, every 4 hours during the day from 06.00 hours onwards, 6-10-14-18.00 hours. But the orange cheeks and the bluecaps keep on throwing their young out of the nest and I find them dead on the floor most of the time.
Bluecaps Blaukopfschmetterlingsfink Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
Orange cheeks Orangebäckchen Estrilda melpoda
Someone told me that African finches will throw their young out of the nest in the first 2 years that they are breeding in your indoor flight [ voliere] but after the first 2 years, they start rearing the young to full adulthood with no problems.
Do you agree with this ?
Can you please tell me how long you had your African finch species breeding and throwing young out of their nest before they reared their young to full adulthood ?
What species ? What food did you give them ?
Have you found that it is necessary to remove the male when the female is feeding her young in certain species otherwise the male will throw the young out of the nest ? If so, what species ?
What times during the day do you feed your African finches ?
Maybe the African finches do not throw their young out of their nest because of lack of livefood. I have heard that there is a man called Paul de Nil in Belgium who breeds 500 African fiinches every year on just hard boiled egg and pinkies. No frozen ant pupae, no blowfly maggots, no mealworms, no whiteworm. Maybe he uses Bengalese but it is likley that his Africans rear at least some of their own young.
Does anyone know breeders who breed Africans like this ?
I know it is a very frustrating situation. I hope you can give me some leads.
Thank you.
William
I am feeding my African finches hard boiled egg finely cut fresh, germinating seed, fresh lettuce and cucumber, every 4 hours during the day from 06.00 hours onwards, 6-10-14-18.00 hours. But the orange cheeks and the bluecaps keep on throwing their young out of the nest and I find them dead on the floor most of the time.
Bluecaps Blaukopfschmetterlingsfink Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
Orange cheeks Orangebäckchen Estrilda melpoda
Someone told me that African finches will throw their young out of the nest in the first 2 years that they are breeding in your indoor flight [ voliere] but after the first 2 years, they start rearing the young to full adulthood with no problems.
Do you agree with this ?
Can you please tell me how long you had your African finch species breeding and throwing young out of their nest before they reared their young to full adulthood ?
What species ? What food did you give them ?
Have you found that it is necessary to remove the male when the female is feeding her young in certain species otherwise the male will throw the young out of the nest ? If so, what species ?
What times during the day do you feed your African finches ?
Maybe the African finches do not throw their young out of their nest because of lack of livefood. I have heard that there is a man called Paul de Nil in Belgium who breeds 500 African fiinches every year on just hard boiled egg and pinkies. No frozen ant pupae, no blowfly maggots, no mealworms, no whiteworm. Maybe he uses Bengalese but it is likley that his Africans rear at least some of their own young.
Does anyone know breeders who breed Africans like this ?
I know it is a very frustrating situation. I hope you can give me some leads.
Thank you.
William