Aussie Finch Forum

I am away most days from about 7:00 until 7:00 each day so I am reluctant to leave out wet food or anything that might spoil. I am leaving dry egg food, mealworms, cucumber at the moment. Sometimes doing a change if I am back in time around 6:30-7:00.

Any suggestions as this doesn't seem enough although my Gouldians are raising their 3 young very well.

AB.

Enough soaked seed they can finish in a day...

Sprouted seed is also good.

Store bought Madeira cake works for some canary breeders.

It all depends on what other birds you keep,gouldians will get their young through with what you are feeding now. Craig

Orange breasts also just hatched. How are they with such a diet really just once in the morning and the rest of the day seed?

AB

I think orangebreasts can cope ok if they are used to a particular feeding regime. If you are feeding livefood twice a day and you can't add an extra feed, just give more each time. Mine still raised young when I worked all day and could only feed them twice a day. Also, keep up the seeding grasses and they'll use this.

The biggest hassle is if somebody else hogs all the food. In general terms, I also try to keep only one pair of bug-hungry species in an aviary if possible but each species has its exceptions!

On the subject of when to feed, I feed my lorikeets in the evening especially during the hotter months. I
My reasoning is that they get a fresh feed, go to sleep, then still have fairly fresh food first thing in the morning. The food, I figure, has less chance of oing off during the cooler temperatures of the nigh time.