Building up in experience

[amalan11]

only 2 I have not seen are the pictorela and aberdeen both lovely birds hope I get a chance to see them sometime in the flesh

[vettepilot_6]

only 2 I have not seen are the pictorela and aberdeen both lovely birds hope I get a chance to see them sometime in the flesh

Have a breeder close that has 3 unrelated pairs of Aberdeens....have to go check them to see if they are not crossed with Cut Throats (learnt a tell tale from Buzzard as well as my own)...I have an order for a pair if they are pure

[amalan11]

lets hope they are pure .I thought they looked a little like cutthroats.I was warned against them as I have a busy avery cage and they are aggressive .Pretty patterning though

[djb78]

The only point which I feel is important, doesn't matter what peoples experiences are there is always new ways/medications/ foods ECT that new and old bird fanciers need to keep an open mind about. Myself I thought I knew enough to get by but since talking/reading posts on this forum I only have a drop of knowledge compared to the ocean full of knowledge on here with younger and older keepers on here. I myself have a few issues breeding simple breeding birds such as the gouldians ( not getting the best results) where as I have had blue caps which is considered more harder to breed and got better results. So i feel that some bird keepers can do better with some speices and not very good with another, so as long as people are willing to listen and learn hopefully the more rarer birds will be around for a long time. I do believe that the rarer birds should be left to people that will do everything possible to keep them around for many years to come, i personally won't be undertaking any rare speices as my facilities may not suit their requirements and the cash flow if replacing 1. I have thought about this long and hard and decided that i might stick with what i know and what i can take care of, future purchases for me would be pintail whydah or a weaver but this will be a 5 year process if at all.

[maz]

OK I'm a newbie and to be honest even though I have a good understanding of genetics and such I wouldnt even dream of trying the harder species yet, I'm planning on starting with simple stuff if I have good sucess then I might try something different to be honest I can't understand why anyone without experience would even try to breed any of the harder species o even try to keep them

[vettepilot_6]

lets hope they are pure .I thought they looked a little like cutthroats.I was warned against them as I have a busy avery cage and they are aggressive .Pretty patterning though

Actually the Aberdeen is less agressive then the Cutthroat...although a slightly larger finch

[Weaver]

Under $50 how about Javan Munias (now mostly hybids) or pure Red Faced Parrot Finches (w/o Sea Green or pied blood)

[Jayburd]

RFPFs are getting much more expensive now, while their tri-coloured cousins go steadily down... when I joined the hobby Red faces were $40 a pair or $15 each unsexed, now they're $80 a pair, while TCPFs were $250 and now they're $150... please tell me the parrot finches are not going to slip into the dreaded munia cycle!!!

[Nathan Morleyy]

What on earth is the munia cycle?.

[Tiaris]

Thsi is just the cycle of popularity & unpopularity which most "drab" coloured finches seem to follow. I doubt very much whether any of the parrotfinches will fall into this kind of cycle too deeply due to their bright colours & hence stable popularity. The TRi-colour falling in price isn't as a result of falling popularity just an indication that their numbers are much larger than a few years ago - supply side of the market equation.