Best nesting boxes for Gouldian?

[BOF33]

Hi all, I've read of peoples success and failures with L-shaped nesting boxes for Gouldian Finches. What have people had most success with in terms of shape, material used etc?

[grasswren]

Hi I breed mine in normal finch boxes, But I put in a fair amount of nesting material in the boxes and a selection of material on the ground. I put 2boxes per pair because not all will breed. I have 1 pair that actually builds their own nest of coconut fibre feathers and a smal lamount of fine grasses hope this helps

[Misso]

I have used the budgie style nest boxes for my gouldians with good results for 5 years, im now going to try a couple of L shaped boxes to see if their is a preference, but i will always give them a few different options for nesting sights.

Swamp grass is my choice of nesting grass which is really soft, but i also have some other varieties of dry grass i offer for them to pick and choose.

[Diane]

I use the budgie style nest box and I picked up some Mike Fidler style boxes earlier in the year so Im putting those in too. I line the bottom of the nest box with coconut fibre and then swamp grass. I leave some swamp grass in the aviary for the birds to finish off to to their satisfaction. Best sound is a gouldian tapping around in the box.
I hang the boxes from wire frames in various parts of the aviary.

[flap]

Ours go for either the gouldian ones or the budgie ones.

[BOF33]

Thanks everyone for the advice. I've put together some rectangle nesting boxes this afternoon I'll wait and see how they like them!

[vettepilot_6]

I've used budgie style and also this style in picture....both worked fine

[1000HrZ]

In my breeder cage's i use this one http://www.geonshopping.nl/images/D/Gould%20b.jpg

Not realy big but i haven't had any problems so far

In my common aviary is use

http://www.ostbelgium.be/foto/87112081.JPG