Aussie Finch Forum

Hey every one sorry for posting my lovebirds on a finch forum but i do hope that some of you like the mutations that i have. The aviary that they are in was built last year just after my 15th birthday haha my only present was 6 sheets of mesh but its the thought that counts and was finished and added birds on new years day. Any way i designed it myself and pretty much built it all my self just got a hand to flip sides over or got someone to hold the shaky ladder while i was welding on the roof. At the moment i have about seven breeding pairs of Peach face Lovebirds that are bred three times a year with breaks in between. I hand raise alot of their babies and enjoy selling them to people that like them so much that they order more. I don't have many rare pairs but i have just found out that i can produce birds worth about $150 each yet the parents are only worth $30 - $40 each so i am pretty stoked. They will be absolute gems but i won't be home to breed them as i am leaving next year looking for station work. So my younger brothers will have to breed all the good stuff for me. Anyway here are some pics of my birds.

Very nice birds!

What's station work?

Congratulations and well done, there is some unusual looking peaches among that lot. Craig

That's a really nice collection of birds you've got there.

Lovebirds are great. I have a breeding colony of Masked Lovebirds myself, though I'm currently trying to sell them to make more room for finches.

You want to be a jack-a-roo? Not much time for birds for a few years if you go doing that.
LML

Station work is working on a cattle property mainting everything that has to do with livestock. So yer Dads been a stockman his whole life and same with his farther and now me. Yer i will have to give up on my birds for some years but i have a 14yr old brother and one 6 yr old and a 4 yr old so they should be able to look after them, tho i will cut rite down to only the best mutations so that they don't have to much to do. And hopefully somtime in the next ten years i will be able to pick up my aviary and my birds that have been bred from the best. My plan is to breed Lutino cinnamon opalines as i can do that with to cinnamon opalines that i have here. I am going to leave all the breeding instructions for my brother so that he can breed the Lutino cinnamon opalines while i am gone.

Great photos and well done.

I kept peachfaces and masked lovebirds for many years. Great fun to watch as they have great personalities. Always thought they were mis-named as they can be the most vicious birds - even to there own kind!

My daughter was hand raising them quite succesfully - but always seemed to get the odd painful nip!

Thanks for sharing.