Good evening (perhaps morning in Kuwait) all,
I live in a small country town in a cold bit of NSW. Nonetheless, my various australian and exotic finches seem happy here and are breeding as prolifically as I am.
I havejust started breeding up some liveys for the spring rush, and have a strong lad coming at 0700 hours to help me put another 80sq.m. under wire, using the flimsy pretext of a new chookhouse. ("Isn't this rather a lot of timber for a chookhouse, dear?").
Looking forward to learning much, and maybe swapping a few birdies: I currently have too many blue-faced parrot finches, and would love some plumheads or redbrows.
Yours,
mm.
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mattymeischke
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Avid amateur aviculturalist; I keep mostly australian and foreign finches.
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
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TheFinchMan101
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Hi and Welcome to the forum. 
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mattymeischke
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About four and a half hours, about southeastish, from Dubbo.
A bloody long way from warm.
A bloody long way from warm.
Avid amateur aviculturalist; I keep mostly australian and foreign finches.
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
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mattymeischke
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Yes, the blue-faces were doing alright until I read something about them using bamboo litter for nesting. I gave them some wide green blades of Phalarus which they have really taken to, and they are going off despite a hard winter and the removal of most boxes, and managing about three fledged/clutch. I heard it was something to do with their habit of not clearing faecal sacs out of the nest, so they require a sort of septic sump, but I have seen them cleaning out the brood so I don't know.
Avid amateur aviculturalist; I keep mostly australian and foreign finches.
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
