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Post by FinchG on Dec 15, 2012 6:12:42 GMT -6
Another Bird Fair FinchG on 25th August 2011, 3:05 pm .I enjoy Bird Fairs and go to all the ones in my area. There are also some things I don't like. When you go know what species you want and also write down what species are aggressive to other finches. This is something else I just learned at the bird fair on 8/6/11. I was looking for a spice finch and this lady had them for $5.00 each so while I was waiting for her to catch it I saw three other finches that I had not seen in person and the sign said $5 so I asked what they were and she said Orange Weavers, well I didn't know about them so I ask and she said they get along with other finches and said they were all three females. I said I would take two of them and then she said "oh" they are $10 each, hmmm, they were just $5, ok I will take 2 and she wanted me to take all three but I didn't. When I got home and started looking them up they are one of the most Agressive Finches!!!! and need to be kept seperate from mine in their own cage especially when they are in breeding mode and the male is worse, he should have at least females and should be in a large aviary by their selves. I know I won't be getting a male. How could this lady keep telling me to my face they get along with the birds I have, knowing they were aggressive? Did she really not know? Maybe they were not her birds and she was selling them for someone else. Was that why she wanted me to take all 3 so she could get rid of them? Do your research before buying finches, now I have to keep a seperate cage just for them which is not what I wanted to do. .   |
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Post by FinchG on Aug 21, 2015 8:39:40 GMT -6
August 21, 2015 Its been 4 years since I bought the Weavers. They have always been in their own cage because I was not sure how they would be with my Societies and Gouldians. The two that the vendor said were females was wrong again. One turned out to be a male , and the reason I know this is when he started turning orange and black. Once he molted into his orange and black feathers he has never went back to his original feathers in the four years since I bought him. The female has laid eggs (they are blue) but has never sat on them and never sat in a nest although I put different nest in there. I know the male makes his own nest but I guess I never gave him the right material to do this. I never intended for them to breed because I don't think too many people wanted them.
He is my avatar. I posted pictures in Finch Species.
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