Restarting

[Brisbane Breeder]

Gidday everyone, this is my first post. I've got three 3.6m x .9m x 2.4m (H) conventional flights spare after having sold a few parrots. I'm thinking of trying some finches again (bred natural gouldians, a few stars, very few cut throats ect in the past) both in the empty flights and sharing with single pairs of breeding natural scarlets and blue wing parrots. What are my choices for birds if I want to avoid providing live food. The aviaries are in a heavily planted rainforest setting with a lot of privacy but with serial disruptions from resident bush turkeys fighting and possums at night.

[vettepilot_6]

If it is a rainforest setting...dampness would be a concern I think...not a good combo for finches...although Blue Faced Parrot finches may work

[Lachlan1]

I'd say Gouldians, Zebs, Bengalese, Silverbills, BFPF, Stars and maybe a few others like Double bars, Red-brows, Yellowrumps, Longtails, Parsons, the 3 asiatics munias. There is probably a few more I cant think of right now but almost all of these birds will do better with just a little bit of live food in their diet. If you don't offer live food try and offer everything else in the book. Good luck mate!

[Brisbane Breeder]

We have wild red brows, double bars, chestnut breasteds and spice finches, and I have successfully bred gouldians for years so I'm not too worried about it being too damp. Our average rainfall is only 1000mm. I also looked after a few blue faced parrot finches for a year for a friend. I love natural gouldians, but find them hard to sell particularly because I would breed stacks of cocks in some years and stacks of hens in others. I was thinking of trying natural Diamond Firetails, but can't recall if they have high live food requirements.

[SamDavis]

I know of people who have bred diamonds without livefood but is not easy. Mine have always had livefood.

[Finchman1]

I have bred 10 diamonds in the last few months without live food.I have just started my fly box back up so the upcoming nests will receive live food which will provide additional protein to the chicks.
My diamonds receive plenty of greens,sprouted seed and boiled eggs

[finchbreeder]

Welcome to the forum. Your average rainfall, is what we in the dry old midwest of WA call a flood.
LML

[Brisbane Breeder]

Welcome to the forum. Your average rainfall, is what we in the dry old midwest of WA call a flood.
LML

We've already done one flood in January 2011, got 5 metres of water over the slab downstairs and 1.2 metres over the floor boards upstairs which is more than 3.5 metres above the concrete. Moving the birds and the business took up all our available reaction time so we pretty much lost everything but over 100 birds (including 65 2 day old ringneck pheasants and chukka partridge) were safe with no losses.