Feeding them...

[JannFann]

Curious to know what type of food you guys make or get for your finches while they are breeding?

[Diane]

Mine get
Natures Harvest Finch Seed mix
pannicum seed
commerical egg and biscuit mix
boiled eggs and shells
Mike Fidlers Soft food mix
some chopped veggies, whatever I have in.
mini mealworms
millet sprays
greenseed heads
grit and cuttlefish

They dont get it all at once of course and I give all the above most of the time not just at breeding.

[dRAG_jUNKIE]

Mine have seed avaliable at all times, the seed also has a vitamin and mineral supplement dry mixed in with it. They get a mix of shell grit and crushed egg shell (every now and again I put in some cuttle bone) every day. I alternate daily between a commercial egg and biscuit mix, a finch cake I make and softfood (paswells finch softfood mixed with chicken starter pellets, greens and grain seed mix and tonic seed mix. I also offer these on the same tray on alternate days aswell fozen Australian peas and corn, sprouted seed (grown in a pot) and a mix of taste of Africa seeds and herb seed mix. Also they get seeding grass heads daily. I put some wombok in every few days aswell and silverbeet once a week. The cordons, oranges and masks get lots of termites and mealworms occasionally.

[jusdeb]

Mine have mixed seed and insectivore available always , greens most days , charcoal /grits/eggshell mix always and milk thistle when available and thats it have tried all else and they wont eat it so why bother lol.

[GregH]

I can't boast of fantastic breeding success buy my daily food consistst of my basic 24h
Seed mix (various millets, panicum and canary seed)
Grit mix (river sand, cuttle bone, eggshel & charcoal)
vinegar flies from the covered fruit bin

The extras fed in the morning
Green seed
Sprouted seed
Boiled mashed quail egg
mashed vegetables (only eated ny the Java sparrows when they have nestlings)
Meal worms
Mango and other fruit peels

[Jayburd]

interesting about the fruit peels greg

Mine get:

Mealworms,
fresh grass
seeding grass
leafy vege and also cherry tomato
grit & cuttlefish
millet sprays

[GregH]

The fruit peels are actually part of the vinegar fly "trap" I figured that they are clean and fruit is often given to parrot-finches (which I don't have apart from Gouldians) so itr can't harm them. I've never actually seen the birds feedin from the "trap" but the option is there should anythning feeling insectivorous be interested (eg my stars, Hecks, Diamond Sparrows & cut-throats with young).