Aussie Finch Forum

So wanting your thoughts advice as I just started I didn't have any nest materials so no November grass so I stayed with I think panic grass leaves / stems and found the eggs went everywhere so my dog chews coconuts so I made nests out of coconut husk fibres seems to work for my gouldians in my other mixed aviary birds are making nests with the coconut fibres not so much with panic leaves all are young birds so didn't expect much and today placed a nest cylinder with tea tree leaves in it and waiting to see how it goes will I have to wait till the leaves die before they explore the nest cyclinder?

Be careful of coconut fibre, birds legs can become tangled in it with bad results.

Cheers

If its for Gouldians, just use grass seed heads which they eat the green seed from.

They should be straight into the tea tree cylinders if not too tightly packed. I cut or pull any thin leafed or thin stemmed grass out from around fences, etc, where it is at least a foot long, and use that for nesting materials. They will select what they like. And coconut fibre and white feathers of course.

Cylinders are ok but boxes work best

Gouldians also like plastic fish floats and cardboard boxs (min 10cm cube, max 30cm). I find that couch grass is popular with most finches, cut into 30-40cm lengths for weaving. And white tissues torn into thin strips.
LML