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  1. Posted

    I think the best answer here would be to bring in new stock and let go of some of the chicks. You can always go for dominant mutations in the new birds so the variations in offspring are more common.

  3. Posted

    Funny story;

     

    I had a nest with four chicks inside all about 2 weeks old and a couple days. The oldest one had fledged so before I put him back in I checked the other three. Sadly one had died. Took the chicks out and cleaned the nest but the smell was unbearable so I made them a makeshift nest on the bottom of the cage, and place all of them in. The one that had fledged before decided that it just wont make due for him so he spent 4 whole hours struggling to jump from perch to perch until he finally snuck into the other pairs nest! 

     

    Then when they kicked him out he kept chasing his parents until they fed him and then he went into the make shift nest while the parents where feeding the other chicks to get a second serving. Now all he does is peck at his siblings then jump into and out of the nest. Its like you could hear him say it "come on guys its not that hard"

  4. Posted

    Sex linked alleles are carries on The Z chromosome, now the male has two Z chromosomes and therefore males need two copies of the allele for the affect to appear (like the recessive), Now hens have ZW chromosomes and therefore carry only one copy so the effect shows.

     

    Now If your hen is a CFW it means that on her Z chromosome she is carrying a CFW allele, The reason this hen can't produce any CFW hens is because she has to pass on her W chromosome for the off spring to be female. Confusing huh?

     

    Now when a cock is visual to CFW it means that he is carrying two copies of the CFW allele, When he mates he will pass on one of these two Z chromosomes to his offspring but since they both have the CFW on them it makes no difference. All his hen offspring will be CFW as they are carrying one Z chromosome the one he gave them. (the mother had to pass on the W chromosome for the offspring to be hens)

     

    Hope I could help.

     

    -Kareem

  6. Posted

    Your birds should be atleast 9 months before they breed. If you don't know how old they are I would keep them grom breeding for 4-6 months. Egg-binding is very serious and lethal so id you are not sure that the pair is in tip top breeding condition (age and health) the nest box shoulf be removed.

    Now this pair attacked the other pair to send it away from its territory, the small cage was probably too small and they could not share. Since the birds were in a cage there is no "going away" and therefor the pair claiming the territory decide to kill the intruder. Your cock bird attacked the other cock and once he was dead your hen decided she isint letting the other hen stick around either .....

    Now you might wanna keep this pair alone int he big cage, since they showed a history of violence. I have pairs sitting in a small cage too untill my aviary is complete. You should've monitored the condition and seperated the pairs when you saw the fighting.

    About the breeding, zebra finches breed all time. They adjusted to their home quickly, killed off the other pair why not breed? Ive heard of pairs mating on the ride back home ...

  8. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    about a month and ago I asked here http://zebrafinchforum.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic/6711-abandoned-eggs/ what I should do with my nest situation.

     

    Since then I had a nest with 7 eggs including one that was fostered. 5 were fertile and they all hatched. A week after they hatched one of the chicks died. Now 2 weeks later one fledged. I checked today expecting to see 3 healthy chicks but I found one dead. It looked like it had been dead for a day or two. I tried removing him from the nest but the smell would not go away, so I threw out the entire nest and kept the two remaining chicks in a small box filled with tissue paper in the bottom of the cage.

     

    So what do you think I should do?

    Will the hen keep feeding them?

  14. Posted

    Clare, 

     

    I thought that was their permanent home. sorry if I was a bit aggressive. 

     

    Btw, that one good looking hand made cage. could you give me some pointers? I've been struggling with an aviary.

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    http://zebrafinchforum.com/forum/index.php?/gallery/image/2525-img-1959/


    First Image

    http://zebrafinchforum.com/forum/index.php?/gallery/image/2523-img-1954/


    Second Image

    http://zebrafinchforum.com/forum/index.php?/gallery/image/2521-img-1953/


    Third Image

    In the First Image you can see her face showing clearly that it has no tear marks.
    Second Image she is the 2nd from the left. This image clearly shows her tail.
    Third Image again shows her cheeks and her chest.

    -Kareem

  18. Posted

    Hey all,

    First of all, i always thought a pair of breeding zebra finches needed 2-3 feet square of cage area? I will be building a 2..4m * 0.7m. How many finches can I fit in there? I thought 6 pairs but maybe im wrong? also what height would be good for these dimensions?

    Second can I house strawberry finches with zebras? Has anyone ever tried it? Do strawberries require any extra care?

    -Kareem

  20. Posted

    So right after I posted, which was right after i moved the eggs, I went back to see if the pair accepted the new egg. All is good there but the original parents have now laid a new egg!!!!! Do you think they could do that to replace the missing one so fast? Or was she just completing the batch that I stole away?

    All help would be appreciated as I am freaking out over here. I feel like a parent who dropped their baby kid or smthn ....

    - a nervous as they get Kareem Serry

  21. Posted

    Okay heres what happened, Today morning I decided that I should transfer the eggs to the good pair. And as I was doing that I candeled them, one was clear and the other was most definitly fertile. The fertile one is now sitting with the other 6 eggs in another nest. The clear one was damaged and is now in the trash. Then something struck me, if the parents haven't been incubating there shouldn't have been any development right? But there was. Is it possible that they were infact incubating their eggs and that I just took away their eggs for nothing?

    I am pretty sure It would be stupid ro return the egg again, so im keeping it with the others. Now im thinking theres no way they would do a better job than the original parents since they have 6 other eggs to incubate!

    And is there a way i could figure out which egg is the foster one when they start hatching? Something that wont require my hands in their nest again hopefully ....

    -Kareem

  24. Posted

    Thanks guys,

    Andy I made sure there is no excess material when i first saw the eggs, they still occasionally steal from the other pair.

    Now that you mention it, the other pair did try to nest in there too, even when they had eggs ... I did know that incubation starts at around egg 4 which is what happened to the other pair. This pair however stopped laying and didn't start incubating.

    Thanks sara and dmoore, Just to be on the safe side fosteriing out the eggs wont freak out the foster parents? I guess I will destroy part of the nest to encourage them to "restart"

    And also Andy, I got all my birds when they were 2-3 months old, they are now ranging from 6 (the ones not laying) to 9 (the two pairs that did lay) I thought it would be smarter to get them young since living conditions here in Egypt suck (for the birds).

    Just one last thing, the pair who have been trying to nest in the occupied nest already have a nest. And they built and lined it. I think its weird because at the start they fought for the nest they have now ....

    -Kareem

  25. Posted

    Hey Guys,

     

    I currently have a nest with 6 eggs thats going really well and is due to hatch on the 4th of October.

     

    My other Nest however is not going good.

     

    First there were 2 eggs, these were laid the same time the other nest's first two were. The next day there was only one, then the day after two. It has been 3 days and no more eggs have been laid. 

     

    At first I though it was just a small clutch, but the thing is the parents are not incubating the eggs.Do you think I should foster them to the other pair? or would that be too much to handle considering it'd their first time? (8 eggs)

     

    Is there anything I can do to encourage the parents to incubate or is it a lost cause. If they do not get back to them should I remove them and let them start over? Should I empty the nest or keep the nesting material?

     

    Thanks all,

     

    -Kareem