Aussie Finch Forum

Mine seem to be fine with it. I'm doing a little talk at the next meeting about them so yeah you can ask me anything then.
Not that I'm an expert or anything at all but they seem quite easy to maintain

I wouldnt inspect Silverbill nests too closely. They are a great bird in the aviary.
If you know anyone who is after Silverbills, we can supply them.

Hi,
I kept silver-bills and If fed the right way they just keep on breeding and breeding...... had so many that I gave them away. Nice little guys and easy to breed.
My soft food mix with them was as follows
1 egg ''boiled and crushed with shell''
5 spoons of avi plus egg food
0.5 spoon stress pack
1 spoon Niger seed
1 spoon jap millet
Will try to put up some pics of my nests that they liked the most.
Good luck

My nests

Thats right, all a nest inspection for me is opening a nestbox to view for minimal time. I never touch or put my hands in a nest that i cant easily access.

So yeah I only inspect mine if they build in a nesting box which has happened twice now and both times they have remained on the nest.

they are very off on with nesting one minute there keen as mustard the next their not interested and both flying around the cage