Aussie Finch Forum

As a kid in the mid 80's i had some success with Masked, Longtails and chestnut breasts. All trapped ones I was led to believe. Beginners luck I reckon. More recently it has been Painted, Pictorella's and one pair of Melbas.
Had very limited success with Tri Coloured Parrot Finches, and no success with Blue Caps and Yellow Siskins.

The easier scale so far for me still with many years to come: cordons, gouldians, plumheads, jacarinis all seem to do well

Hard: crimsons, rf parrotfinches, yellowrumps (hoping to crack them better this season)

I think something interesting in this would be to know the location of people and see if similar birds seem easier/ harder to breed in the same locations. I am from Canberra and in general know of 3 people who have or have had yellowrumps and unable to breed them here... It is the same case for me so far having very limited success. Also don't want to steal the post just was curious to location as well as easy and hard

Depending on the season and the Gouldian mutation.

Easy:- Gouldians, zebras, orange breasted waxbills, Emblema, BFPF, RFPF, Canaries.

Hard:- Gouldians, cubans

Easy: Both normal and mutation gouldian,star,plumhead,double bar,both masks,diamond,blackthroat,blueface,painted,zebra

Hard: redbrow,crimson, pictorella,yellowrump,chestnut,longtail (I have not had longtails for years but I would imagine easy now)

As Matt has eluded already. Location geographically.aviary set up,luck with obtaining the right prs for your setup will be an advantage.etc...etc....

Easy: YH and RH stars, Cutthroats, Blue faced parrot finches, (Gouldians, sometimes have trouble with clear eggs, but overall very successful), Green singers, Javas.
Hard( Painteds, have had a few pairs sit on clutches turning out to be clear), (Cubans lay only 1-2 eggs and fail to incubate, possibly due to disturbances, not sure) (Auroras havn't had them for very long but have produced 2 infertile clutches, may be time to get some new blood and mix them up a bit)

Please let me know why and how is it easy to breed the Green Singer, I have tried for years with limited success.

Spitfire wrote:Please let me know why and how is it easy to breed the Green Singer, I have tried for years with limited success.

I kept 3 pairs of green singers in a planted aviary for around 2 years with no success, i decided that i would house them as individual pairs in breeding cabinets, mind you the cabinets are quite large 60cm deep 120cm long, and a few weeks later they began to lay, 1 pair is now raising its 3rd clutch of 2 young this year, so i think that's a pretty good number considering they usually raise from 1-3 young per nest, the other 2 hens however had some trouble with egg binding, this was overcome by using cod liver oil, so i would say the overall success varies depending on available conditions (just like with any other bird or finch), of course in a bird room where the birds will obviously have less access to direct sunlight than aviary birds, even though it has a 4ftx8ft skylight in the roof you will still get problems such as egg binding now and then, due to the lack of UV light which is blocked unless you have a skylight that can be opened daily, which i plan on installing in the future, my bird room has only been built very recently, and i had to take a few shortcuts to work with budget, using clear polycarbonate sheeting as my skylight was a mistake on my behalf that i had discussed several times with my brother the importance of UV light to the birds, and i was wanting to install something that could be opened, but he suggested clear poly would be fine. and that's why i prefer to aviary breed most of my birds although it can be overcome using some supplementary feeding techniques, i have since tried housing pairs in single planted aviaries with no success, so i think i will stick with cabinet breeding for now for the singers anyway, but in the near future i certainly hope to breed some in aviaries.

Location geographically
If you look to the side under the Avatar pic this is listed.
LML

I agree, can be an annual thing, related to colony size, stock rotation with respect to aging birds, vermin and climate.

Easy - Gouldians, Emblemas, Jacarinis ( with livefood) Masked,

Frustrating - SH Nuns (always deserting - colony not balanced?), Tri_Col PF (egg bound hens), Stars ( keep throwing chick out)

In Central Vic, Gouldians are prolific but over winter you will loose a few over winter outside. So best to keep youngsters that last the winter (snow last Friday and three fledged-all ok)

For me, easy but frustrating - RH Siskens, good and bad years....
This year?? But great bird!

I have a mixed aviary and they all live together ( no breeding cages).
Managed to breed Java Finch, Red panted, Cuban, Zebras and Gouldian. Had baby RFPF, however found it on the ground, returned to nest with no luck.
Looking forward to this season.
Birds that did not breed: Orange breasted, European goldfinch, Red cheek cordons, Star finches,