![]() Let you know the outcome.Thanks for your suggestions great help to have you guys give information when you just don't know what to do. I will try and feed it again soon but would not be surprised if it does not make the night.Might prove me wrong but if not will be sad but done my best for the last 5 weeks. Society Finches are hardy, easy to take care of, come in a variety of color mutations and make excellent parents. Have put in back in a cage with the two younger finches is in the nest and the others are in with it. Will not pick at any seed, I have read where they can get yeast infections I am not sure what is wrong I do know it does not look well this afternoon. It has not had hardly anything all day and the crop is empty. kepted it in a couple of tissues all the way home it slept but when I tried to feed it this arvo it could hardly open it's mouth and looks quite fragile. It was pretty lively at my mum's wanting to be out of the cage all the time and sat on my shoulder. We had go out to-day for lunch and even when we got the prawns at the fish place I asked them for some warm boiled water and try to feed it again in the car. Thanks Diane and Deb, but to-day was okay this morning and to-day would not take any food at all. We are now taking it out with us and it's getting a bit hard. The crop sometimes blows up with air and looks like two balloons I stop feeding when that happens as they look like they may burst.I am thinking it has some deformities I am feeding it with a hand raising formula not full strength I mix it with egg and biscuit as the formula was to strong made it vomit.It seems happy enough, preens itself and is very friendly but my husband or myself have to be here to feed it all the time. It would be 5 to 6 weeks old now and I am still feeding it 4 times a day but does not take as much as it use to. Does anyone have any suggestions to why and also when do you think it will start to eat it self. My problem is it has lost all it's feathers now except the feathers on the wings and a little on it's head. It has been about 4 weeks now and it was probably 2 weeks old when I started feeding it. Some finches (such as the zebra finch and society finch) will mate out in the open, usually on a perch (although sometimes on the ground), while other species (such as the lady gouldian finch, diamond firetail, cut-throat, avadavat, and members of the genus Estrilda) 13 prefer to mate in the privacy of their nest box. Gives their bodies a chance to recover from laying, and ensures that they’re not also sitting on infertile eggs which are just gonna get gross quickly.Hi I have posted that I have been hand raising a baby finch. The finches 100% will not notice the difference, and will happily sit on those fake eggs for 20-30 days, after which they’ll sorta get bored of the whole thing and go back to their normal routines. Whenever you take an egg out, just toss a dummy egg in. You always have another shot at perfecting your incubator setup and preparing to hand raise babies.įor the finches at your pet store, I definitely suggest replacing the real eggs with some fake ones (they’re cheap, you can order em online). ![]() These finches will keep laying eggs, and some of them will be fertile. Society finches are actually used as foster parents for incubating and feeding certain types of finches who don’t tend to be as attentive parents, Gouldians for example. It’s taxing on their little bodies to keep producing eggs, but they are hardwired to try to do it as much as possible. ![]() ![]() Societies are so eager to lay eggs and sit on them that they’ll just keep laying and laying if their eggs are taken out of the nest. ![]()
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