Been following all your videos even for birds I don’t have lol 😂 but especially the gouldian finches currently have a pair on eggs in my own house at the minute hoping everything goes smoothly .
I just got 2 pair!!! I have setup my society finches to help as my friend that has been breeding has had major success. His were tossing the newborns or not sitting on eggs he has a great set up and those birds (like mine) eat better than his whole family 😂!!! I subscribed so I will reach out!!!
Try using those ceramic heating bulbs. They work great with the Inkbird Temperature Control Thermostat. I use those in my brooder when I’m hand raising my IRN.
I just began with Finches, I have two Scaly breasted Munia and one male Zebra, haven’t got the opportunity to find a female for the zebra, but I plan on doing so and to get a couple of Gouldians, finches are so lovely to see and hear, they are just awesome. I live in Puerto Rico, we have warm temperatures all the year so by temperatures I won’t have issues but I still will reed and do more research before I own more birds. New sub I love your content man👍🏻
Great video! Thinking in getting a pair of gouldians to breed. If I get the male and female should I have them in separate cages or with a divider until breeding season?
I just started on breed my Gouldian finches. I have 2 pairs housed with my budgies and they were sick with air sac mites. They are treated and recovered fully, and will all the supportive care they 'accidently' came into full breeding condition. The cocks singing and jumping up and down, the females beaks really black, and they the 2 pairs started really fighting, so I separated them, and immediately they all started carrying around nesting material and looking for a place to make a nest. I added a nest basket and they are in it nesting... they are FRANTIC to breed!!! This is my first time breeding them (even though I have them 3 years already) so taking you good advise and seeing what happens.
Good luck I hope everything goes ok for you. If they are still with your budgies I would separate them sometimes Budgies will raid other birds nests and toss the chicks.
Don't keep budgies with finches!! It is very dangerous to house them together even if they seem like they're getting along. Female budgies especially will harm the finches if they get too close and budgies love to chew nests apart. Not to mention their diets are different (seeds are too high fat for budgies, Budgies should be on a mix of parrot pellets and chop which consists of bird safe veggies)
Hi Chris, been watching your videos for couple years now. Whats the first thing you normally do if there is fluffed up gouldian and you see that his sick ? I try do put them on anabiotic‘s and heat but feels like it makes things worse and you still lose them.
Really heat if the first thing that I do everytime. and then I try to assess if it's antibiotics or maybe something like mites that I need to treat for. Sometimes theres just nothing you can do and the birds die unfortunately.
Just like Chris, I wouldn't start with antibiotics if you don't know what it is. You can give them some more protein because being sick takes a lot of energy. And ofcourse heat.
My Gouldians are in a large mixed aviary so I usually have babies from society or owl finches so I always have to offer egg food every day. Will the Gouldians always be in breeding condition or will they natural take a break ?
Hi Chris, I’m new to GOULDIANS. I have a male and a female. Two weeks and they’re already doing the mating ritual song and dance. Rather he is, she just looks at him like he’s an idiot! Best nest? Best nest materials? I used to have Zebra finches 25+ years ago, frequent eggs hatching but they never survived ~ I want these to survive! Help!
It sounds like the female is not receptive yet. If she accepts the male she will shake her tail back and forth very quickly and shake her head back and forth very quickly at the male. Nesting materials can be long strands of dried grass or coco fiber. soft feathers or ripped paper work for nesting materials as well.
birdnerd Thx BN! She does a few things such as the lowering of head and shaking it. She stays by his side - I actually told her to stop teasing him! 😁 They’ll work it out, hopefully! ❤️
I saw a pair at a pet store. One with a red head and one with a black head. I thought that meant one was a male and one female. I didn’t know that both sexes were colored with red heads. So is the black one I saw a different kind of Gouldian?
No they are all the same type of gouldians. Gouldians in the wild come in the different head colors Red, Black, and Yellow/Orange. Both males and females can have all of the head colors. Red is the dominant color though.
I have a pair sitting on eggs for about 12 days in basket nest that I can’t see how many eggs. Never see both out at same time. Hope they are fertile. Never planned on breeding but seem to be good parents. What kinds of food should I feed parents when babies possibly hatch? Currently have Health Diet finch food, Kaytee moulting and conditioning food with seed, cuttlebone, crushed egg formula from internet, millet, Vita-sol water supplement. Tried egg food recipe from internet but birds seemed uninterested. What else do you recommend.
Looks like you are feeding the right foods for them. I would recommend trying to feed the egg food again. Many times gouldians wont touch it until they have chicks in the nest and then they devour it and feed it to their chicks. So I would start tomorrow by giving them a spoonful of egg food and continue it every single day for the next 2-3 weeks.
@@birdnerd Thanks for the reply, I will do as you suggest. I also ordered some VitaSmart Egg Food Daily Supplement by Vitakraft, you mix with water into crumbly consistency. I will try that also if you think it won't hurt. Really enjoy all your videos and I have learned a lot. I've been reading several other websites and read that if your birds have different color faces that eggs may be mostly infertile or primarily male. Your site leads me to believe that isn't true since you have several mixed patterns of male and female birds. My female is black face, green back, purple breast and male is red face, green back, purple chest. Hope this is not a problem.
Hello Chris, just came back to this video as I finally have eggs with one of my pairs and have a question I hope you can help me with please. My pair rotate sitting throughout the day and my hen has started sitting throughout the night which i believe she would start doing after the last egg has been laid but on checking the nest there's only 2 eggs in there and everything I read online it says they lay 3 to 7, sometimes 8, have you ever had a hen start sitting through the night after only 2 eggs have been laid? Any advice and opinion would be much appreciated 👍🇬🇧
Is this her first time laying eggs? Sometimes for a hen the very first time that she lays eggs she will lay 2 or 3 eggs. Its not that uncommon. Make sure she is getting a calcium source everyday so that she doesn't get egg bound. If these eggs don't hatch let her try again and see if she lays more than 2 eggs.
@@birdnerd thanks for the reply, think I will check her nest once more after work tomorrow evening to see if there are anymore and maybe put a light in to candle to see if they are fertile as it's been about 5 days now, I have been providing fresh water every day with 2 drops of a product called calcivet along with boiled egg and shell, a dried eggfood mix and plenty of cuttlefish available so 🤞🤞
@@birdnerd 1 was infertile and the other fertile but for some reason they decided to ditch both out of the nest and start again? I do have a orange/yellow head Male and red head female tight sitting on 5 fertile eggs now too which are due to hatch in next 5 to 7 days so 🤞🤞 Thanks for asking, I did post a couple of videos a few days back of 2 of my pairs showing off their intense mating rituals but have no exposure on here so no one has seen them which is a shame 🙄
nice video and details, thank you .. but maybe the red light hurts them , i think it should be natural light and not strong , and i think we have to think about the details which make the best environment for them because they can not speak and ask for their needs ..
You’re right the details do matter. I don’t think anyone would ever know if the birds like red lights or not beacause the birds can’t tell you. But from experience I can say that I have not found a natural light that is not strong that can put off enough heat to keep the birds warm when they need the heat. So if you have suggestions of a natural light that is not strong but puts off enough heat for the birds to stay warm I would absolutely be open to the suggestions.
Thank you for the tips, but one more question sir, can i catch or hold the gouldian while their in molting season? Just want to seperate them and transfer into another cage.
You can hold them but moving them to another cage can stop the molding proces and you have to wait 6 months to start again and your gouldian finches wouldn't look great for couple of months.
Hi , my goudian layed 6 eggs and started brooding after the last egg. After continues brooding for 2 days , hen didnt goto nest on 3rd day night but resumed brooding next day early morning and brooding is consistent since then(5 nights completed) . Can the eggs still be fertile after this gap of 1 night?
They may be ok since she was so early in the incubation process. Let her sit on the eggs and candle them after about the 7th day and see if you can see any fertile eggs.
There could be many reasons why your gouldians aren’t breeding. Reach out to me on Instagram @birdnerd4 and send me some pics of your gouldians and I will see if I can help you.
A full and informative 25 minutes, thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍
Thanks for Watching
I was listening intently to your video but I scrolled up to like it for Mikey!
I did too, Rae!!
Again a great informative video. Keep up the good work and make the youtube finch community greater. Love it.
Thank you. Appreciate the support
@@birdnerd do you know what size your nest boxes here please
Very informative and helpful videos
Been following all your videos even for birds I don’t have lol 😂 but especially the gouldian finches currently have a pair on eggs in my own house at the minute hoping everything goes smoothly .
I just got 2 pair!!! I have setup my society finches to help as my friend that has been breeding has had major success. His were tossing the newborns or not sitting on eggs he has a great set up and those birds (like mine) eat better than his whole family 😂!!! I subscribed so I will reach out!!!
I don't raise gouldians anymore, but I like your videos, man. Look forward to more canary content, but I like all finches.
Thanks man I will be posting more on canaries very soon.
Try using those ceramic heating bulbs. They work great with the Inkbird Temperature Control Thermostat. I use those in my brooder when I’m hand raising my IRN.
Great Idea! Thank you
I just began with Finches, I have two Scaly breasted Munia and one male Zebra, haven’t got the opportunity to find a female for the zebra, but I plan on doing so and to get a couple of Gouldians, finches are so lovely to see and hear, they are just awesome. I live in Puerto Rico, we have warm temperatures all the year so by temperatures I won’t have issues but I still will reed and do more research before I own more birds. New sub I love your content man👍🏻
Great video! Thinking in getting a pair of gouldians to breed. If I get the male and female should I have them in separate cages or with a divider until breeding season?
You can keep them together generally they are kind to each other.
Mine are building nest. I have two nest baskets and they are building in both. Should I take one out? They are in breeding condition now.
I just started on breed my Gouldian finches. I have 2 pairs housed with my budgies and they were sick with air sac mites. They are treated and recovered fully, and will all the supportive care they 'accidently' came into full breeding condition. The cocks singing and jumping up and down, the females beaks really black, and they the 2 pairs started really fighting, so I separated them, and immediately they all started carrying around nesting material and looking for a place to make a nest. I added a nest basket and they are in it nesting... they are FRANTIC to breed!!! This is my first time breeding them (even though I have them 3 years already) so taking you good advise and seeing what happens.
Good luck I hope everything goes ok for you. If they are still with your budgies I would separate them sometimes Budgies will raid other birds nests and toss the chicks.
Don't keep budgies with finches!! It is very dangerous to house them together even if they seem like they're getting along. Female budgies especially will harm the finches if they get too close and budgies love to chew nests apart. Not to mention their diets are different (seeds are too high fat for budgies, Budgies should be on a mix of parrot pellets and chop which consists of bird safe veggies)
Hi Chris, been watching your videos for couple years now. Whats the first thing you normally do if there is fluffed up gouldian and you see that his sick ? I try do put them on anabiotic‘s and heat but feels like it makes things worse and you still lose them.
Really heat if the first thing that I do everytime. and then I try to assess if it's antibiotics or maybe something like mites that I need to treat for. Sometimes theres just nothing you can do and the birds die unfortunately.
Just like Chris, I wouldn't start with antibiotics if you don't know what it is. You can give them some more protein because being sick takes a lot of energy. And ofcourse heat.
My Gouldians are in a large mixed aviary so I usually have babies from society or owl finches so I always have to offer egg food every day. Will the Gouldians always be in breeding condition or will they natural take a break ?
I breed outside in California and they do fine when its above 95 degrees
Great video! Do they ever receive natural sunlight?
Yes after they breed I have a large outdoor aviary that they spend the rest of the year in.
Hi Chris,
I’m new to GOULDIANS. I have a male and a female. Two weeks and they’re already doing the mating ritual song and dance. Rather he is, she just looks at him like he’s an idiot! Best nest? Best nest materials? I used to have Zebra finches 25+ years ago, frequent eggs hatching but they never survived ~ I want these to survive! Help!
It sounds like the female is not receptive yet. If she accepts the male she will shake her tail back and forth very quickly and shake her head back and forth very quickly at the male. Nesting materials can be long strands of dried grass or coco fiber. soft feathers or ripped paper work for nesting materials as well.
birdnerd
Thx BN! She does a few things such as the lowering of head and shaking it. She stays by his side - I actually told her to stop teasing him! 😁 They’ll work it out, hopefully! ❤️
I saw a pair at a pet store. One with a red head and one with a black head. I thought that meant one was a male and one female. I didn’t know that both sexes were colored with red heads. So is the black one I saw a different kind of Gouldian?
No they are all the same type of gouldians. Gouldians in the wild come in the different head colors Red, Black, and Yellow/Orange. Both males and females can have all of the head colors. Red is the dominant color though.
Do you know what weather they should be in or is it already in the video
I have a pair sitting on eggs for about 12 days in basket nest that I can’t see how many eggs. Never see both out at same time. Hope they are fertile. Never planned on breeding but seem to be good parents. What kinds of food should I feed parents when babies possibly hatch? Currently have Health Diet finch food, Kaytee moulting and conditioning food with seed, cuttlebone, crushed egg formula from internet, millet, Vita-sol water supplement. Tried egg food recipe from internet but birds seemed uninterested. What else do you recommend.
Looks like you are feeding the right foods for them. I would recommend trying to feed the egg food again. Many times gouldians wont touch it until they have chicks in the nest and then they devour it and feed it to their chicks. So I would start tomorrow by giving them a spoonful of egg food and continue it every single day for the next 2-3 weeks.
@@birdnerd Thanks for the reply, I will do as you suggest. I also ordered some VitaSmart Egg Food Daily Supplement by Vitakraft, you mix with water into crumbly consistency. I will try that also if you think it won't hurt. Really enjoy all your videos and I have learned a lot. I've been reading several other websites and read that if your birds have different color faces that eggs may be mostly infertile or primarily male. Your site leads me to believe that isn't true since you have several mixed patterns of male and female birds. My female is black face, green back, purple breast and male is red face, green back, purple chest. Hope this is not a problem.
@@SCSbjones Yeah you should be fine. I wouldn't worry about infertility if their head colors are different.
Hello Chris, just came back to this video as I finally have eggs with one of my pairs and have a question I hope you can help me with please. My pair rotate sitting throughout the day and my hen has started sitting throughout the night which i believe she would start doing after the last egg has been laid but on checking the nest there's only 2 eggs in there and everything I read online it says they lay 3 to 7, sometimes 8, have you ever had a hen start sitting through the night after only 2 eggs have been laid? Any advice and opinion would be much appreciated 👍🇬🇧
Is this her first time laying eggs? Sometimes for a hen the very first time that she lays eggs she will lay 2 or 3 eggs. Its not that uncommon. Make sure she is getting a calcium source everyday so that she doesn't get egg bound. If these eggs don't hatch let her try again and see if she lays more than 2 eggs.
@@birdnerd thanks for the reply, think I will check her nest once more after work tomorrow evening to see if there are anymore and maybe put a light in to candle to see if they are fertile as it's been about 5 days now, I have been providing fresh water every day with 2 drops of a product called calcivet along with boiled egg and shell, a dried eggfood mix and plenty of cuttlefish available so 🤞🤞
@@gouldianuk9875 Any update on the eggs?
@@birdnerd 1 was infertile and the other fertile but for some reason they decided to ditch both out of the nest and start again? I do have a orange/yellow head Male and red head female tight sitting on 5 fertile eggs now too which are due to hatch in next 5 to 7 days so 🤞🤞 Thanks for asking, I did post a couple of videos a few days back of 2 of my pairs showing off their intense mating rituals but have no exposure on here so no one has seen them which is a shame 🙄
@@gouldianuk9875 What's your video called i'll go on and subscribe and share with all the bird forums that i'm on. Best of luck with them.
Awesome vid buddy.. cheers Chris & Sam
nice video and details, thank you ..
but maybe the red light hurts them , i think it should be natural light and not strong , and i think we have to think about the details which make the best environment for them because they can not speak and ask for their needs ..
You’re right the details do matter. I don’t think anyone would ever know if the birds like red lights or not beacause the birds can’t tell you. But from experience I can say that I have not found a natural light that is not strong that can put off enough heat to keep the birds warm when they need the heat. So if you have suggestions of a natural light that is not strong but puts off enough heat for the birds to stay warm I would absolutely be open to the suggestions.
Thank you for the tips, but one more question sir, can i catch or hold the gouldian while their in molting season? Just want to seperate them and transfer into another cage.
You can hold them but moving them to another cage can stop the molding proces and you have to wait 6 months to start again and your gouldian finches wouldn't look great for couple of months.
Yes agreed, you can hold them but I wouldn't do more than that so that you don't stress them out and they stop molting for you.
Thanks for the advice, more power to you both sirs! Keep safe and Happy Birding!
Put swings in their cages
what type of seeds do you soak for your gouldian fench
Can these birdd breed in a flock or should they be sepearated ?
Yes they can breed in a flock.
Why do you have lighting on the sides ?
Thank you for sharing.
Hi , my goudian layed 6 eggs and started brooding after the last egg. After continues brooding for 2 days , hen didnt goto nest on 3rd day night but resumed brooding next day early morning and brooding is consistent since then(5 nights completed) . Can the eggs still be fertile after this gap of 1 night?
They may be ok since she was so early in the incubation process. Let her sit on the eggs and candle them after about the 7th day and see if you can see any fertile eggs.
Have a question my finches layed 5 eggs and none of them hatched. Please clarify. Using wooden box only but my cages are outside my house in portigo.
that gonna help you:ladygouldian.com/content/determining-fertility-your-breeder-s-eggs-kristen-reeves
I want to bay male gouldian finch, how much is it?
Do they survive outside in California’s 100 degree weather
Yes we get above 100 degrees in Utah during the summer. Just make sure they have shade provided to them and fresh clean water during the hot times
Yup I breed in California
Hi there I am struggling to breed my black headed purple male with my red headed white chest female and I don’t know what going on
There could be many reasons why your gouldians aren’t breeding. Reach out to me on Instagram @birdnerd4 and send me some pics of your gouldians and I will see if I can help you.
What's your cage size for one pair of finch?
Typically I wouldn't go any smaller than 2 feet long by 2 feet wide and at least a foot tall.
Do you sell as well as ship your birds in large quantities?
I only sell them locally for now.
I don't why ,many of my bady bird just died after feather changing.
I'm sorry to hear that. Were they old?
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Mating dance