Aussie Finch Forum

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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