Aussie Finch Forum

IMO Singers are too dominant for them when the seasons overlap.

Off topic indeed! Lol. Well I cant tell you from personal experience as never done it. Have heard it can be a disaster. When I say 1 pr per section, its 1 pr of Red Siskins and nothing else. I specialise in Reds now and have for years. I personally don"t believe in "mixed" aviaries. May look good but you cant meet different species requirements when you have 12 different species unless you have a lot of time! I only keep Red Siskins, Goldfinches (absolute favourite) and a few Greenfinches (newbies) prs. All 3 have different diets and nesting requirments.

I am hoping by the time the young hatch and the ten days pass, it would be end of the month, hopefully the weather will start to warm up here in Perth. The green singers are finishing their breeding season now, I haven`t had a problem with the siskins and singers together during the breeding seasons, though this year I have removed all green singers and most of the Gouldian's out my main aviary to give the red siskins more space and less competition for food and so forth. Bone how many did you breed last year and from how many pairs. What all do you feed yours during the breeding season.

alvin wrote: ↑04 Sep 2017, 21:52 I am hoping by the time the young hatch and the ten days pass, it would be end of the month, hopefully the weather will start to warm up here in Perth. The green singers are finishing their breeding season now, I haven`t had a problem with the siskins and singers together during the breeding seasons, though this year I have removed all green singers and most of the Gouldian's out my main aviary to give the red siskins more space and less competition for food and so forth. Bone how many did you breed last year and from how many pairs. What all do you feed yours during the breeding season.

I had a new aviary setup and so wasn't sure on how they would go as didn't even have finished properly until late August. Set up 4 prs although 1 pr was very young (under a year) Had a shocker as lost a great reliable hen in oct. Bred 11 or 12 I think last year. Nothing special while breeding seed wise, but lots of Dandelion/flat weed, Greens, Seed heads of Niger, Rape, Millets ect ect. Sprouted seed with plenty of sunflower in the mix. I don't feed any live food to Siskins and haven't for years. My dry seeds are Aussie Niger, Rape, Linseed, Canary mix, Sunflower kernals, QFS Tonic mix, Hulled oats, Chia.

Thanks Bone, I feed mine a similar breeding diet, I would be happy to breed 10 for the season.

Mine go with a gouldian pair. Different nest requirements so not too bad but there is heaps of space.

I have found over 2 last 5 yrs they seem to have a pattern of off years and on years breeding. Maybe the weather as i dont change routine and mine is similar to bone. Dandelion is the key plus niger imo.

Goid luck with tbe upcoming season to all the red siskin breeders.

Ill be in Peru seeing them in the wild hopefully!

Yes good luck boys. Lets touch base once breeding season kicks in to get updates. Best pr i had 2 years ago bred 14 young from 5 nests!! They had 4,then 3,3,2,2.Absolute brilliant feeding pr..

3 or 4 young in nest about to fledge from 2nd year breeding pr.

BONE wrote: ↑21 Oct 2017, 10:03 3 or 4 young in nest about to fledge from 2nd year breeding pr.

Good on you Bone.I have 2 nests, one has 2 the other I don`t know, Waiting to say those words (about to fledge), I lost a few nests on one cold night here in Perth a few weeks ago. I also have had nests of 3 and 4 eggs, all infertile, so no counting until they on the perch for me.

Hi BONE


Spot on well said, here in England we obviously breed the European Siskin and in fairness breeding em is pretty much the same, yes ok one can breed em in colonies but only if yer avairy is big enough IE like E orix " David Holmes " avaires or such like but the majority of people would struggle to have large avaries like this as many of us are very much limited for space.

I'd much prefer to breed Siskins in 1 pr per small avairy set ups where you've got far more control over em, the cocks half of the time are just to spiteful and will constantly bicker and have a tendency to wanna pull other nests about, one consistently needs to be on the ball when breeding in colanies and take out any cocks that appear to be troublesome,

If people appear to do well when colanie breeding Siskins I can only generally put this down to shear luck rather than skill, only time and experience will prevail ones decision in how they think best to breed em

Be lucky