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Hi Dan. I will try a box I think I see how they get on. Thanx also for the advice regarding the supplements etc. it really does help all your great advice. Thanx again

Thanx Emmy With regards to using the seed dish as a nest, the male seems to be the more broodier (is that a word??) of the two. He's forever sitting in the seed dish cheeping away while the hen just sits there looking at him as if he's gone daft! Lol. Your advice has given me more confidence to give them a try for chicks. Thanx again.

I posted last November regarding my two Zebras who were only 7months old at the time and unfortunately were to young to look after chicks they had and they died.. I have left it until now to try and let them have another go at raising chicks. The one thing I worried about last time was the amount of nesting material to give them No matter how much I put in the cage last time the male would put it all in the nesting basket. Also would I be best with a nesting basket or box? Do I need to get them extra vitamins before letting her lay eggs.? Also she is always laying eggs as I keep finding them broken on the bottom of the cage. Is this normal? There are so many things to worry about because of the chicks dying last time which I know now was due to them being to young and inexperienced. Any advice would really be appreciated. Thanks guys

Thanx Dave I have taken out nesting box. Not going to try again like you say until Spring next year. Let them have a bit of the "young lovers" fun until the kids come along! Sue

Hi Paul They had egg biscuits and all the other usual bits and bobs. I think what you and Emmy said that they are still too young. I am going to leave the nesting bit for a few more months now. They both seem ok tonight. I have taken the nest out and they are happy enough snuggled up on their perch. Is there anything else I can do next time to help them? Sue

Hi all. I am new to this forum and very upset that the chicks my finches had made are dead. I found one of them out of the nest dead and when I checked the nest there was another one dead. There were two eggs left but they haven't hatched. This the first clutch of eggs for my zebra finches. Don't know where I have gone wrong. So upset. Did the finches have too much nesting material? Did I not do something right or the finches too young. They are both 4 months old. Is this too young? I really am lost as to where to go from here. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanx