Aussie Finch Forum

Silly question,

But in painteds who incubates mum, dad or both????

I have a cock bird who spends more time in the nest then the hen and I am wondering if he is incubating or just hanging about....

I think the hen scored well with this rooster...

I think that most cock birds in most birds incubate more during the daylight hours with the hen only sitting at night. Craig

crocnshas wrote:I think that most cock birds in most birds incubate more during the daylight hours with the hen only sitting at night. Craig

Thanks for that crocnshas

Being a former budgie man and current canary dude I am used to the hen doing the hard yards.

I look forward to seeing some young this weekend then!

agreed with Craig, my male has done most of the sitting in the day, I can only assume the hen does it at night

All estrildid finches share incubation duties. Fringillid finches only the hen incubates.