Aussie Finch Forum

Hi iv just breed silver headed nun male .. With mannician female... Has any one done this or breed because the chicks. Are a fantastic colour I have 5 young chicks... Thank you

mate without taking this personally. did u mean that u bred two differant species of munias together... thats how many a species of bird gets messed up and pure strains of birds are lost forever.because of that down the line some poor bugger will buy a pair of birds that will give of a differant species... unfortunatly those type of hybrids are not sterile.....pete

Just to let u know they are in a mix aviary didn't choose nor think they will breed for they ( which I thought where paired up already..

It has taken us many generations breeding Silver Nun to Silver Nun to get back the white head because a few years ago some Person!!!!!! decided to cross Silver Headed with a Black headed Nun. Hence some still turn up with dirty heads which is a real shame.
Anyone who houses a Bengalese with any Munia is really heading for trouble.The chances of a hybrid are odds on.
Please don't try and pass them on as Nuns,keep them in your collection as oddities and split the pair up before they breed again.
I am not being Judgemental just worrying about pure lines for the future.

Quite some years ago, mistakenly thinking I had true pairs. I had Chestnuts and Bengos in the same avairy and they crossed. It is wisest to never have 2 types of Munias in the same avairy. But if you do and an accident like this happens the thing to do is keep them (unless you come across a collector of oddities) and do not breed them. This is what I did. The last of those birds is seeing out his retirement here now. Silver heads are a little short on and people get a little upset when the purity of rareish birds is risked. I hope you are right Pete, but closely related Munias are one type of bird that will occassionally breed fertile Hybrids.
LML

An addition to the crossing of a White Headed Nun to a Black Headed Nun resulted in people selling them as Burmese Nuns.
They got away with it for awhile but it did back fire on them eventually.

Both the black and white are so beatiful, why would you want to cross them?
LML

They have been seperated... I foreshore will not this happen agian.. What should I do with the chicks..1.. They must never breed.. 2..let them go.. 3.. For need advice

As per my previous post. Keep them in avairy with no other Munias, and preferably no nests. Or if you wish, sell them to an oddities collector, who understands and is told what they are. You could offer them for sale on here, but if you do just be honest about what they are.
LML

what i dont get is bird world are offering a hybrid bird that is redcap cross rosella that is sterile and they want $450 for it....a wise choice to seperate the birds as u have to look at it from the point if view would you be happy if you bought pure bred birds from someone to find out later they were not....pete