Aussie Finch Forum

my recently purchased gouldians are revolting. there is no denying it.

they hate me. they swoop my head every time i enter the aviary. they have no fear of me whatsoever. i can practically touch them on the perch. i could handle this. but what i can't handle is the bullying of all my waxbills. my once rather peaceful aviary is in chaos. i no longer drink my coffee each morning to the delight of twittering little birds, warming themselves up in the sun. instead i see two revolting birds zooming around the avairy at high speeds swooping anyone they see just for the pleasure.

my cuban cock, who was a picture of good health, was found dead in a suspiciously defensive position on the avairy floor yesterday afternoon. he was last sighted just an hour or so earlier, with no signs of ill-health whatsoever.

i thought gouldians were considered docile? i feel like crying, how i loved that cuban.

advice? anyone else found goulds to offset their beauty with revolting personalities?

Are they RH? I have heard that the RH can be the most feisty of the Gouldians.
Maybe they had an aviary to themselves before you got them.
All I can think of is either move them into an aviary of their own, or maybe a cage inside the aviary till they settle down and get used to the other birds flying around.

Cant have the peace broken by horrible little bullies , take the little bastards out and put them in a cage on their own or rehome them ...anything for peace.
Pity theres no tiny little newspaper you can roll up and give them a whack with ....works with most dogs ( not mine lol)

bluebutterfly213 wrote:Are they RH? I have heard that the RH can be the most feisty of the Gouldians.

Interesting you mention this. I have a black head cock that is the nastiest piece of work you could ever imagine. Guarding his nest box like a rottweiler, hissing and spitting at everything that gets close, even the red head cocks. His bride is a red head and she is nasty as well. I guess once they have a box to protect they can all become a bit feisty, irrespective of head colour.

Thus far my Gouldians have been well behaved, apart from a little aggression to each other as they sort out/re assert dominance within the flock. They are mostly YH with a pair of RH in each of the 2 avairys that contain Gouldians. They share with everything from O/B to Java in the main avairy. And the Cubans aren't being bothered.
LML

great comments

Cranberry i hear you i have a similiar cock bird..black head and he hisses and carries on when his wifes in the nest box hehe.

Ben

they seem to have settled down for now.

just asserting their authority were they ? gotta say my Goulds do have an attitude . All I can say at times is " lucky they're cute " come to think of it I say that about the grandkids too and the princess ...all spoilt rotten