Aussie Finch Forum

I currently have stars, RFPF, Cubans (and canaries) together, daily they get, broccoli heads, shredded silverbeet and carrot, a mixture of fresh grasses, flowers and seedheads (dandelion, dock, summer grasses etc) soft food, millet and have cuttle fish and grit. Im hping I have that side of their diet pretty right?? However I just feed them normal ol finch seed mix as I know nothing about seeds, If I were to buy it separate and mix it myself for them which seeds would I be using??

I have seen quite a number of avairys where each of the canary and milletts are offered in seperate small bowls, this way you only top up what is being eaten, and have less waste. A good idea if you have the room for a couple of seed stands and seperate storage bins.
LML

I use White Millet/Red & Yellow Panic/Plain Canary,have tried Jap Millet but could not get them interested.
Also sprouted Canola when the Canaries have young,Niger and Sunflower kernels for the Red Siskins.
Jack

For the species you have a mix of white & Jap millet, red Pannicum & plain canary would be good. The parrotfinches & canaries like extra plain canary so a little extra of this in the mix or a separate bowl of canary seed would be good. Canaries also like a small proportion of oilseed especially when breeding. Niger is the best of these but rape (canola) is ok too & much cheaper.

Here's a typical US Dept. of Agheads response to unclean Nyger seed from overseas. Require heat treatment for ALL of it, don't ever allow any clean live seed into the US that would sprout. No small quantity importation that would allow the plants to be produced here without their noxious counterparts. It isn't that Guizotia abyssinica is on the list of noxious weeds that are not allowed to be imported, it is what might come with the seeds. So we can only sprout rape (canola) seeds here in the USA. Nyger is not an option. I saw that there was a finch breeder here who was selling fresh "live" seed, along with other finch supplies, and is now shut down. .