Breeding Red Eared Firetails
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Pictorella
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Good work! Fingers crossed for more young ones
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Top effort!
Breeding Project 2020-2025.
agate mosaic canaries, agate yellow mosaic canaries, red zebs, self bengos and goldfinch mules.
agate mosaic canaries, agate yellow mosaic canaries, red zebs, self bengos and goldfinch mules.
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Congratulations, hope the other pairs follow their lead.
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mattymeischke
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Well done. How many did you fledge and how are they going?
Interesting that they will take maggots; mine never have, and I haven't heard of others, but that would make it much easier...
I have had a go, but have not succeeded with them yet; will detail my dramas with them in a new topic.
There has been cynicism in certain quarters about how many people are managing to breed them.
Great to see your success, gives me hope.
Interesting that they will take maggots; mine never have, and I haven't heard of others, but that would make it much easier...
I have had a go, but have not succeeded with them yet; will detail my dramas with them in a new topic.
There has been cynicism in certain quarters about how many people are managing to breed them.
Great to see your success, gives me hope.
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Avid amateur aviculturalist; I keep mostly australian and foreign finches.
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
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mudgbreeder
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Hi Matty,
My Red Ears have 4 young going strong, still with their parents.
At this stage i'm going to leave the young in with them until fully colored up.
The pair look like they are going to go back to nest, very hard birds to work out what going on sometimes.
Cock chases the hen, hen attacks the cock and now the young will hunt the parents off the soaked seed at times.
They only ate maggots when feeding in the nest, chickweed, soaked seed and winter grass was their only other food.
Still waiting for the other 2 pair to show some young, hard to tell at this stage if their feeding babies yet.
My Red Ears have 4 young going strong, still with their parents.
At this stage i'm going to leave the young in with them until fully colored up.
The pair look like they are going to go back to nest, very hard birds to work out what going on sometimes.
Cock chases the hen, hen attacks the cock and now the young will hunt the parents off the soaked seed at times.
They only ate maggots when feeding in the nest, chickweed, soaked seed and winter grass was their only other food.
Still waiting for the other 2 pair to show some young, hard to tell at this stage if their feeding babies yet.
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mattymeischke
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Great work, mate, that's tremendous. You must be stoked.
Avid amateur aviculturalist; I keep mostly australian and foreign finches.
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
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congratulations mudgbreeder
hope they are all going well.
we need more pics!!!
hope they are all going well.
we need more pics!!!
CC
Aussie finch tragic.rodent/snake terroriser.
Aussie finch tragic.rodent/snake terroriser.
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mudgbreeder
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How many other forum members are breeding red ears?
Another pair have just brought out 2 more babies and i am still waiting for my share of bad luck, that we breeders can get from time to time.
.Also i have a confession, my birds are in large planted aviaries 9 x 2,with at least 3 other pairs of birds and i have never seen the red ears even push another bird off a food dish or attack if too close to their nests.
Am i just lucky so far or do you think they are just very territorial between themselves and other red ears.
Dave
Another pair have just brought out 2 more babies and i am still waiting for my share of bad luck, that we breeders can get from time to time.
.Also i have a confession, my birds are in large planted aviaries 9 x 2,with at least 3 other pairs of birds and i have never seen the red ears even push another bird off a food dish or attack if too close to their nests.
Am i just lucky so far or do you think they are just very territorial between themselves and other red ears.
Dave