Well, so far so good! I have been hand feeding this gould chick since day 1 ! It is now day 11. Lynda ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with...
Hi All, I bought blue pairs a couple of days ago. They are my first blue goulds. I am soooo happy with them. I am wondering what is his head colour? And how...
wow what color is this baby going to turn looks like a little frog Lynda Snyder <finch_house@...> wrote: Well, so far so good! I have been hand feeding...
Beautiful pastel blue you have. Head color is reportedly indistinguishable between YH and RH when the bird is a blue body. I can't speak from experience with...
First let me clarify (not sure if one of us misunderstood or not, sorry) that I did not mean to imply that a double-factor yellow bird will always die because...
Now I have seen blues with straw colored heads...I assumed that those were yellow heads....Was I right or wrong? Tonda Matthew Dingemans <finchnest@...>...
juan, he does look like a frog in that picture! his parents are both normal orange heads, but both split to blue, so we will have to see what color he is... ...
Unless I am mistaken, both terms "salmon head" and "straw head" are indicative of blues with some carotenoid pigment in the head, but neither red nor yellow...
What nesting material do you use? Is there any household items that you can use. I am going out later today to get nesting material because my gouldian pair...
I use coco fiber, sisal, dried bermuda grass & a few feathers. Lee ... ===== LEE __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo!...
Oh & also jute fiber. Left that out of my earlier post. Lee ... ===== LEE __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo!...
Garrett, You can buy a package of the Aspen shavings at any pet store. I use about a 1 1/2" layer of this in the bottom of the nesting box. Use your fist to...
Where does the sisal come from? someone posted that they get it at Wal Mart, but what does it look like? In a roll that you then cut up? I'm thinking you'd...
I bought a huge bag of it online. I'm sure a lot of places online sell it so you can compare prices but these places have a lot of good nesting material in ...
My Gouldians love jute fibers. You can buy jute, sisal, etc. from www.ladygouldianfinch.com. I also use Timothy Hay in the bottom of the aviary and have ...
Garrett Dryer lint for padding (free, easily obtainable, perfectly safe) at the bottom of nest baskets/boxes. 2 inch burlap strings (go to a cloth store, buy...
Can a baby finch be spoiled at day 16? He wants to be held! LOL! Lynda ps, he also needs a name if anyone has any ideas ... Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! ...
I am moving soon and my room that I am going to put my finches in is the bonus room, but there are no windows. What kind of full spectrum lighting should I get...
My 4ft light fixtures and tubes I got a WalMart and are hung above my flight cage with their chains.We had email about which lights and had many choices. I got...
Hi Garrett, When you buy any full spectrum lighting, you want to see that the CRI is 90 and above, and the Color Temp. is 5500 or higher. The CRI and COLOR...
How many would you need to light up a regular sized room? Or should you just use a regular light for that and put the full spectrum light on the cages? ... ...
Hi Garrett, It would determine how your cages are set up. Some people make one bulb take care of multiable cages, and others use them, 1 bulb per cage. There...
Hi Garrett-- I just did a search of the archives and found a recent large discussion we had about this. You might want to review a few messages starting from ...
Hi Connie- First off, really glad to see your site is back up! I for one missed it while it was down... Before I launch into this, a disclaimer: your mileage...
Lynda, I find it extremely easy to handtame baby gouldians that are handled daily from about 3 weeks of age. No need to handfeed them either. Some chicks seem...
Hi Mark, nice to hear from you again, we are sorry that we were off line for that week, but our web host crashed and sent a whole lot of us into a rage, but...
Can you send me your catalog? ... From: All Bird Products To: GPA101911@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [GPA101911] Lighting ...
Hi Alan, ... bulbs. ... Would you happen to know their methods of providing adequate D3 in the absence of special lighting? I would appreciate knowing WHY it ...