Zebra finches

[Pretty pink fairy]

Ha no, i have grown very fond of them over the last few hours but my partner is adamant she hates them. They even sit in my hands, cute!

what about the birds ?

 

[severnside gull]

I have been worrying about their fate throughout Christmas

 

[cheshunt seagull]

We were given a pair a few years back named Mavis and Derek. They were pretty inoffensive and low-maintenance apart from a tendency to flick seed across the room, cleaning the cage can be a bit of a chore but nothing too onerous, although care is required when poking the nozzle of the Dyson into it. Alarmingly after years of apparent harmony Derek attacked and pecked Mavis to death. He lived on in solitary for another couple of years before falling off his perch and lying motionless and claws up on the bottom of the cage. We never had any more birds.

 

[Questions]

We were given a pair a few years back named Mavis and Derek. They were pretty inoffensive and low-maintenance apart from a tendency to flick seed across the room, cleaning the cage can be a bit of a chore but nothing too onerous, although care is required when poking the nozzle of the Dyson into it. Alarmingly after years of apparent harmony Derek attacked and pecked Mavis to death. He lived on in solitary for another couple of years before falling off his perch and lying motionless and claws up on the bottom of the cage. We never had any more birds.

Being cooped up with a bird for too long can do that to a male.

 

[NMH]

Easier to own than Finch Zebras, which are messy and have dangerously large beaks (hic)

 

[daveinprague]

My old mum kept a whole bunch of birds back in the day and my dad wasnt so keen... he converted a pen into a blowpipe and assaulted them through the evenings firing bird seed at them... my mother could never catch him and couldnt understand why her birds were going mental every five minutes, as using bird seed, there was never any evidence...

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

I bet she wouldnt have complained if you'd gotten her a pair of the Rolls Royce of Australian finches, The Gouldian.

 

[daveinprague]

imagine thats what sparrows would look like, if you were under the influence of LSD

 

[Blackadder]

Not exactly rats.

(I had to google. Had no idea what Zebra Finches looked like)

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

We are incredibly lucky down under to have some magnificent looking finches.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

 

[WATFORD zero]

We are incredibly lucky down under to have some magnificent looking finches.

Think i've had one of yours in my garden

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Think i've had one of yours in my garden

Actually they are one of your beautys.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Finches are for life,not just for Christmas

 

[severnside gull]

from memory, as well as nice pairs of finches, you have some fine pairs of tits in Oz