Aussie Finch Forum

Just wondering what everyone is using these days to pre line their Gouldian Nest Boxes. Anyhting they seem to favour more than other material? Thanks for your input in advance!

I use dried Panicum seed heads as it's the only grass I have in abundance. They don't suppliment the nest with anything else . Their second nest preference is to invade a star finch's nest (made from scatch in the aviary brush or live shrubs) lay their egg and let the stars raise the young.

I use coconut fibre in the bottom and swamp grass, they dont seem to like feathers at all, even to the point of removing them from nests that I tried with feathers.

They are theiving little buggers ... I threw some swamp grass and white feathers in this morning , went back an hour later and the goulds nest is about to bust it has so much stuff in it .

jusdeb wrote:They are theiving little buggers ...

I will agree with that! I put the coconut fibre and the swamp grass in every box and I also made and put in another holder with feathers, swamp grass and coconut fibre ( the emblemas are nesting the the "real" nesting material holder) and I still see one or two gouldians dragging grasses out the boxes and stuffing their box with it

Great! Thanks for the feedback all