Yeah I suspected as much. Sounds like now is not the right time for me to consider adding double bars, or more birds. Something to keep in mind for the future anyway.
I have another question. I was given a young male zebra finch (along with his two sisters) who has only just recently molted into adult plumage and separated from his parents. He was born and raised in a small indoor cage.
When I introduced him and his two sisters into my aviary where there were already six other birds, he straight away began terrorizing everyone. It was constant, he attacked everyone everywhere, chasing continually and making that "attacking" noise, even though he was in new surroundings. I was forced to remove him after I saw him grabbing one of my existing males by the wing and didn't let go, leaving him hanging there trying to get free.
He is now currently in isolation in a small indoor cage again for some "time out", where he can't hear or see the other birds. The aviary is now a lot more harmonious without him, and his two sisters have settled in perfectly and get along with everyone else.
My question is how long is long enough to give this young testosterone filled male an attitude readjustment in solitary confinement? A couple of days? A week? A month? He's just sitting there on his perch not moving or making any sounds so obviously he feels like he's in jail, but ideally I would like to reintroduce him into the aviary soon and be part of the flock. Should I try placing the cage inside the aviary for a while? The next steps towards total rehabilitation would be helpful! Thanks so much.
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Hi Magna,introducing a new cock bird into an already established small colony of zebs is never going to be easy or at all.The colony has already established a pecking order with the cock birds but usually hens will be accepted.Other than setting up a new colony you are probably better off getting rid of him as the new hens you have introduced will provide new blood.
Welcome to the forum,it's time to start a new post in Australian finches for your Zebbies.
Craig
Welcome to the forum,it's time to start a new post in Australian finches for your Zebbies.
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Hi and welcome to the forum
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I found if I mixed Zebs with other finches the Zebs can be very territorial, one aviary I had was 12ft by 8ft not one pair of other birds could go under the enclosure without being attacked, so I found it better to just have a aviary with zebs only, but that can just be the one pair that was over aggressive, I just had that happen with a pair of stars about 3 weeks ago, once they laid there first egg, they turned aggressive & attacked everything, the hen even pounded her mate with getting worked up chasing all, its so funny my friend told me he never puts stars in his mixed aviaries as they can be aggressive & I told him I have bred hundreds of them over the years & never had a problem, & now I get my first pair that is aggressive LOL.
Its odd the new male zeb you put in was the aggressive one, usually its the ones that own the territory & attack the new comers not the other way around.
We had same problem the other day with a kakkariki & princess parots, we decided to put all in the one aviary as the kaki had been in my bird room for a while & my son just bought 4 new princesses, so I thought be a good idea to put kaki in first so the princesses would think he was there first & not attack him, the damb kaki attack all the princesses like a demon possessed, it was so weird as we had that kaki for years but lost its mate so we thought seen the princesses were still young, so we tossed all in like it was a holding cage but had to remove the kaki, I was not expecting that at all.
Just another note, lots people wont breed Cubin's as can be aggressive, over the last 30 years of having Cubin's I only had one pair aggressive to the other birds in the aviary, of course they will kill any other Cubin males if you put more than 1 pair per aviary, also you have to remove there babies before dad gets aggressive especially like the last 2 nests with 2 young each nest were all males, & the 2 young just flying now are starting to look like 2 males, LOL .
Good luck
Its odd the new male zeb you put in was the aggressive one, usually its the ones that own the territory & attack the new comers not the other way around.
We had same problem the other day with a kakkariki & princess parots, we decided to put all in the one aviary as the kaki had been in my bird room for a while & my son just bought 4 new princesses, so I thought be a good idea to put kaki in first so the princesses would think he was there first & not attack him, the damb kaki attack all the princesses like a demon possessed, it was so weird as we had that kaki for years but lost its mate so we thought seen the princesses were still young, so we tossed all in like it was a holding cage but had to remove the kaki, I was not expecting that at all.
Just another note, lots people wont breed Cubin's as can be aggressive, over the last 30 years of having Cubin's I only had one pair aggressive to the other birds in the aviary, of course they will kill any other Cubin males if you put more than 1 pair per aviary, also you have to remove there babies before dad gets aggressive especially like the last 2 nests with 2 young each nest were all males, & the 2 young just flying now are starting to look like 2 males, LOL .
Good luck