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Blue capped Waxbill - successful foster breeding, housing & feeding
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Feeding - seed and rearing mix. Feeding (cont.) and conditioning. Photos - chick development. Blue-capped Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Blue capped Blue headed Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Foster breeding, housing and feeding. Blue-capped Waxbills I think are more attractive than the Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu. But that is just personal taste. Parent-reared Blue-capped Cordon Bleu cock. How many names does he have? Perhaps they are too simple and breeders had moved on to more challenging ones. Pluses and minuses of the Blue...
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Blue-capped waxbill - photos showing chick development
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Feeding - seed and rearing mix. Feeding (cont.) and conditioning. Photos - chick development. Blue-capped Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Blue capped Blue headed Cordon Bleu Waxbill. 4 Blue-capped Waxbill eggs. Note grey colour of full eggs which are 2 days from hatching. 1 artificial canary egg for size reference - nest B). Waxbill chick at day 1. Probably only hatched an hour or even less. Note tufts of down. The chick is nearly dry. Large egg is dummy canary - for size reference - nest B). Day 11 - eyes are open.
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Blue-capped Waxbill - parent rearing - natural
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Feeding - seed and rearing mix. Feeding (cont.) and conditioning. Photos - chick development. Blue-capped Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Blue capped Blue headed Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Parent rearing - it's the natural way. Pluses and minuses of Parent Rearing Blue Capped Waxbills. Generally Cordon Bleus are good sitters. Proves husbandry is very good. Parent-reared chicks to date fledge earlier than fostered. Usually fledge in very good condition. Earlier fledging could be due to more livefood from parents. To minim...
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Species Information - Happy Bird Place
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Since I've been able to successfully breed more species recently, I'd like to provide some basic information, links to more comprehensive websites for each species, as well as my own experience in what works for me for caring for the species of birds I keep. Please see Care Information section for general care advice. They breed very well per pair in individual breeder cages of at least 24"x18"x18", prefering 30" cages. Main note on breeding is to avoid breeding blue/silver birds to blue/silver birds in ...
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Blue-capped Waxbill - foster or parent rearing
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Feeding - seed and rearing mix. Feeding (cont.) and conditioning. Photos - chick development. Blue-capped Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Blue capped Blue headed Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Fostering makes sense initially. Due to numbers now being bred, fostering versus parent rearing is no longer an easy decision. Especially as all birds are now captive-bred. In my first season, the only parent-rearing success was from a captive-reared hen. In those days, wild-caught were still available. If initially results aren't good...
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Blue capped Waxbill - successful foster breeding, housing & feeding
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Feeding - seed and rearing mix. Feeding (cont.) and conditioning. Photos - chick development. Blue-capped Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Blue capped Blue headed Cordon Bleu Waxbill. Adding 'lead' to the cock's pencil. Add pollen to the rearing mix described on the previous page ( feeding. To bring cocks into condition. DO NOT use mix with pollen once laying has commenced. Pollen in powdered form can be bought from health food shops. UK mail order supplier - www.bodykind.com. Added when making your rearing food mix.
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Lavender Waxbills - gender determination from calls
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Lavender Waxbills - cock calls and sounds. Determine gender from Lavender's calls). Many say that the easiest way to sex Lavender Waxbill finches is by their calls. This page presents some of their calls/ sounds. Three of the WFS's most respected members helped put calls and gender together. As a test, the gender of a number of birds was then determined from their calls. Each bird's gender was then confirmed by DNA testing. The indentification from the calls was 100% right. Call 1 - contact call. The cal...
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Lavender Waxbills - gender determination from calls
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Determining Lavender's gender from calls, housing, feeding and breeding. Gender determinination by call, confirmed by DNA sexing. Whatever other challenges Lavender Waxbills throw at you, after using this site at least you will know that you have pairs. Determing gender of Lavender Waxbills is not difficult. Experts say it's easy from their calls. They're right. What's the problem then? Seems we are good at describing colour and smells to each other but poor at describing complex sounds in writing. Can s...
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Lavender Waxbills - feeding is very straightforward
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Feeding with seed and eggfood. Richard's seed mix which I also use is -. Foreign finch - 15Kg. Japanese millet - 3kg. Red millet - 3kg. Plain canary - 2kg Niger. Grit and grated cuttlefish is always available and vitamins are supplied. Thawed frozen livefood is given daily in the form of buffalo worms and Pinkies. Thawed in water so they appear clean and juicy. Some pairs eat very little, some eat Buffaloes but not Pinkies. Others can't get enough. Paul de Nil's rearing food. Perhaps increase the weight ...