Aussie Finch Forum

Jay this is what mine got today ( it varies ) a salad of orange , apple , celery , corn , capsicum , carrot and broccoli, sprouted seeds + a large chines cabbage leaf + a piece of madiera cake this is on top of the bowl of pellets and the bowl of dried fruit and nut AND they eat it all .

In all honesty I had a verbal to get another pair but when I thought of what they ate every day I changed my mind , they eat the same amount of food as my mixed aviary with Kaks , Quarrions, Bourkes and Diamonds and beleive me the Kaks are good on the fang too.

Up to you Haydn and though the answers have been a bit negative it is only to fore warn you as to what they are like to own.

And having said that I wouldn't swap my pair for quids , they are funny buggers ( wont mention that the boy just tried to bite me through the wire )

and again I reiterate, with a slight edit, I would leave them to the professional, rural and WEALTHY!!!! that's got to cost a fortune in vege.
I will admit all conures are real jesters. they are one of the few creatures that have ever made me laugh until I cry, which no human could ver do to me.

The best Conure to start with, quiet, free breeding, even on a basic diet of seed plus the occasional green food you can expect atleast one nest per year. Make less noise than a cage of budgies. Just feel sorry for the poor bugger that paid $4000 for a pair back in '98 (more than I paid for my car at the time), only to sell young in '99 & get $500 a bird .

They did lose value extraordinarily fast .

its ok jay i know what you are trying to say, i know that they are expensive but i am willy to go the distence for any bird of interest, anyway i am only getting one for now until room is avaliable cause i own i did have 10 cockatiels but 1 got away 5 budgies but i passand 2 eastern rosellas
and does anyone know the reporduction period for rosellas cause they say they breed between argust-january in the wild but they say in captiverty they say from march or april-argust or september and i want to cheeck if this is true

I'm just sayin take it slow if you feel prepared it's the best time to act
I'm glad to see you're keen, we need blokes like you and your brother!
RE rosellas, I'll scan and PM you some pages out of my book, A guide to Rosellas
sorry to hear about your cockatiel my cinnamon king quail cock just got way too. I can hearhim calling a few houses down but I can't see him

thanks jay i dont want anymore birds i have too many as it is and it dosent count haydns or mums i hope u find him

thanks shanny, I heard him this morning, so the search will continue...

resuce party

hay jay and deb i am not going to get the conure as from what i find out about them is going to be difficult so i am going to leave the conure till i get some exp anyway i have only breed once and that was with my tiels and i dont want to be rushing to the hospital every time a conures mouth lathes on to my finger, so i am going to focus on the birds i have so far plus a new pair of eastern rosellas might be on there way to me as i might go and get them instead of a conure cause there bite is like a band-aid wound. i have been a rosella fan since i was a baby since 92

how do rosellas show love or how do i get them to wanting to breed

cheers haydn