RC Cordon bleu or parrot finches?

[Redwing]

Can you add me to that info as well Poitta? I'm also tossing up between parrot finches/cordons and cubans for my next challenge.

[Tiaris]

If mealworms are your livefood I'd go for PFs. Cordons don't adapt to mealworms well - just mostly bite the heads off & leave the rest. PFs gobble them very efficiently. PFs will adapt to a non livefood diet much better than Cordons & will breed quite well if greens & softfoods are the focus.

[djb78]

Never had parrot finches but would like to give them ago, had cordons a while ago but not with much success but this was due to my inexperience, giving them another shot this year. Which type are you leaning to the most that's the one I would try and there's always time later to try the other one.

[E Orix]

I think it is great you planning ahead, if more did that then they would have less losses and better collections
As for Gouldian/Parrot Finch crosses it has happened but very rare when you concider the amount of chances they have to cross
There was even research done where birds were paired specifically to cross and the results were quite poor
Both species will add to your collection but my choice would be a pair of Normal Red Faced P/Finches.They are active don't cause problems
may compete with the gouldians for a nest box so put extra in. If you do decide to buy a pair buy young birds,bright fully coloured from an unknown person or pet shop may result in birds that have been bred out

[Pete Sara]

yes the gene pool on redface has become a rather lucky dip these days.....pete

[Redwing]

Sorry to jump in your thread here Flap.
Am leaning more towards parrot finches, either RF or BFat the moment, can provide plenty of mealworms but no other live food.
Do you mean small gene pool Poitta or inbreeding?

[Pete Sara]

Redwing what I mean is , the gene pool probably fits it more as you could buy a redface form a shop and it could be split for seagreen or carry pied genes, so its a lucky dip because they can look normal.....pete

[vettepilot_6]

If mealworms are your livefood I'd go for PFs. Cordons don't adapt to mealworms well - just mostly bite the heads off & leave the rest. PFs gobble them very efficiently. PFs will adapt to a non livefood diet much better than Cordons & will breed quite well if greens & softfoods are the focus.

For Cordons I drop mini mealworms in egg n biscuit mix...They eat them then...One year off one pair fledged 12 young out of three nests