MrMe3257
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I'm nearly considering paying the extra for the black breast and then paying near 100 for triple blacks and oranges to have them delivered
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Expensive petshop has a black breast cock for 5 times the original price and triple black/ triple orange are no where to be seen near me..
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My oh my
I imagine it would be hard work to hand feed them, i watched my tiel grow over two years ago but it was parent raised. Thinking of handfeeding tiels myself or at least learning how to.
Stephen.
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I have been handfeeding a zebra finch chick for nearly 3 weeks.. Buck is fully feathered, flying and picking at seeds but not cracking them, will he wean himself or how do I do this? First time handrearing a bird.
Thanks, Stephen.
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Its not often petshops can tell the difference in sexes just a heads up.
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Some of my zebra chicks who are just about weaned still beg and get fed by my socities when their original parents. Lovely lil birds, mine raised 3 youngsters last year
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My societies had two eggs that were fertile.. after a week and a half of them hatching I realise one isn't a society.. waiting for the other one to get feathers so hopefully I have one society
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Since the previous forum went down I sold all my flock of over 20 finches and moved on to budgies and two red faced lovebirds. Hopefully I'll have space in the future to get more zebbies although I did keep on BC hen as she had an lump on the wing which I removed and she seems to be recovering well.
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I cant post pics as it says I do not have permission to do that. I have emailed the address given so in the mean time ill just keep taking pics and upload them all at once.
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I am removing them so when the chicks have all their feathers I'll let her go broody as itll be just the end of summer so she has autumn to brood and hopefully stop laying for the winter.
Its so easy to see the feathers on yellow chicks compared to darker chicks. Their so adorable and great to watch, hope all goes well with them
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Mother hen has laid another egg, do I leave it to encourage her to go broody as the fathers looking after the chicks or do I remove it?
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Its unbelievable for such little legs they go about 6 feet in a few seconds.
There still scared when I walk in but after that they come up pretty close with dad which is pretty good seeing as the parents use to jump 5-6 feet high at the sight of the door opening.
Stay tuned for feather pictures tomorrow
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Heres just a few of the many I took, feathers are coming in now
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How unfortunate that both died
If I had an incubator Id have to kick my family out of the house to house all the quails Id have so many 
Its pretty cute if only they stayed that size
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My bobwhite hen has started to become broody but ive no male or eggs
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I chose the lid as it has a small dept around the edges so they could fit their beak in while standing on either the lid or the ground.
I read about marbles in their water but their doing fine the way they are so not too bad
Stephen
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yeah in a small pringle lid as well as one of them finch waterers that have a reservoir at the back. Both are placed on the ground and the lid is replaced 4-5 times a day.
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Faracat I cant wait till she lays again as I'll be definitely keeping that box maybe making more the exact same as it for future pairs. Getting very optimistic here.
Emmy Its great that they feed themselves as I don't have to depend on parents and I watch them to see how their coming along and when the mother calls them to go under I know its time to leave. She doesn't want me there
Tony For a camera phone they were good may rob my fathers expensive camera (he's a photographer) to get them in great detail.
Thanks guys and from what I read the male's don't usually help with the chicks, is that true?
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I've had two buttons for a while now and when they started laying I took their eggs from them as I read they hardly hatch their own chicks. When my cockatiel's started incubating infertile eggs I replaced them with button quail eggs which got so close but failed to hatch.
So I put in a old finch box with a small bit of the roof removed and shavings inside for the eggs. I left the eggs to see if she would incubate them and hey presto I have five little buttons waddling around.
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I have 3 bengies after reading about foster parents etc. I never used them as fosters yet but I have paired them up first before my zebs so hopefully ill have more foster parents when the newbies are paired up.
Stephen
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The eggs should hatch next week so Ill know if he's split Cfw then.
They had eggs end of last autumn but never hatched out, covered eggs but never laid more.this year seems better.
Thanks
Stephen
Can never find mutations when i'm looking for them!!
in Black Breasted/Orange Breasted
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I'm in ireland so if anyone from around here id love to buy a pair of triple black and triple orange zebras.