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Lee Pycroft

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  1. Nice to look back at some of the birds i used to have 😁👍
  2. My personal answer to that question would be a definite "NO" Mégane. The chicks need feeding every couple of hours, sometimes more often than that, and like you say, if you're out at work all day that's way too long for the chicks not to be fed. The best way is for the parents to do it themselves as at least that way they'll get the amount of food they need along with nutrients provided by their parents. I understand you want a closer bond with your birds but Zebra Finches are not really the birds for that. That can be done better with budgies, lorikeets and Parrots but in general finches are very "skitist" and tend to be wary of humans and will fly away. I have on occasions had finches settle on my outstreched hand whilst in my avaries, I had a hand full of seed and it took along time for it to occur and even then they flew off after a couple of seconds. If you go onto "youtube" they're a few video's of people hand rearing baby zebbies but the time and effort required is intense and doesn't always end with babies reaching adulthood. Just enjoy watching and listening to the parents feeding them and enjoy watching them grow, and learning how to copy what their parents do etc..
  3. Er? What's gone here? C r a c k e r is the word that I put! No swear words. Lol
  4. yeah, that would have got my vote.. its a *******..
  5. Happy Birthday Fella.... hope you have a great day matey. ???

  6. Happy Birthday fella hope you feel better soon
  7. Hi Dave, if you are free this Sunday it' the first big Stafford Show ON Sunday...... A good chance to pop by the ZFS stand and similar clubs and get back in the swing again......
  8. Happy Birthday CFWs 

     

  9. Welcome Pat, welcome to the addiction we called, Zebra Finch keepers...???
  10. Looks a decent normal cock bird...is that a Black Cheek CFW behind?
  11. Cheers... it's an never ending story ???
  12. so here goes, couple of days earlier than I expected but couldn't wait any longer All paired up...............
  13. Happy Birthday fella, have a great day....:yahoo:

  14. Hope you have a great day...
  15. cheeky..... 43, the same amount of quality birds I'm gonna breed on the first round
  16. Oi Miss Emmy....... enough of this lovebirds chitty chatter, more talk Zebbie Zebbie..... ? got any BCCFW'S lol
  17. Cheers fella, still on the look out for the odd quality bird ???nudge nudge wink wink
  18. Gonna give this breeding job a proper go in the new year,new Bird Room bought a few months ago,I've started to kit it out how i want it.Just finished installing the new breeding cages with lights will post another video later when it gets dark to give you a better impression of the lights.
  19. its not just you fella, i gave up with the **** thing and just use this site now, it has more than enough information to keep you well informed and if you do facebook? i created a page called "My Zebra Finches" (took hours to come up with that title lol) i no longer run it as too busy but a few members off here took it on but has loads of pictures and answered questions.
  20. Is it your birthday fella? Many Happy returns.. hope you're having a great day! 

  21. Happy Birthday Claire, think you celebrate by sending me your best BCCFW's
  22. Happy Birthday Sarah, hope you're having a great day.
  23. to me the cock bird is showing visuals of maybe fawn to me so possibly yes?