They are a male society and female zebra. I gave them together and they get along very well! I'm just wondering if they need friends?

I just recently got her, and I noticed whenever I hold her, she puffs up sometimes The pet store told me it means she’s comfortable, but the internet tells me otherwise. What does it mean? The puff is accompanied with chirps sometimes too.

Posting this under a fresh account as I don't necessarily want this linked to my main one for privacy reasons. There is a pet store I live near that I tend to buy my bird food and some of my birds necessities from. Really reconsidering continuing to buy from them though because of what I saw today, one of their birds (I think it was a saffron finch but I am not actually positive on this), was in pretty gnarly condition. He had a bad scissors beak, his tail and one of his wings looked messed up and the feathers were bent up, and his legs and feet were grey, scaly and sort of puffy(?).

Is there anything that I can reasonably do for this guy? I have my own group of finches and worry that if I were to take him home that he might spread something to my current birds. I've also heard that saffron's can be aggressive (I've never owned a saffron finch before so I have no idea how true this is), and feel hesitant about the idea of him being around my other birds because of this. This whole thing leaves a kind of sour taste in my mouth cause of the condition he's in and I really wanna help the poor bird if there's some way I can without risking the health of my own. I also do not wanna pay any substantial amount of money for him as I don't feel right supporting this pet store anymore and that's part of what's holding me back.

I have first time parents that are raising a clutch of 5. The nestlings are 22 or so days old and trying to fledge but parents are preventing them from leaving the nest. Anyone dealt with this? Anything I should do?

He's getting better I've been giving him vitamin b for 4 days now he's still a but unbalanced but he is getting more balanced and is starting to fly around more.

I have had my new finches for 3 days in this cage and FINALLY I will be able to upgrade to a bigger one!!! My father said I have to wait till he gets his payment and he will be the one buying a new cage and even some new toys!! Good for me because this way I don't have to wait more until I get the money for a new cage

Please do tell me what should I buy for the new cage!! Keep in mind I don't have huge pet stores like pet smart in here and that I don't want the to nest

I have recently paired a female finch who lost her mate(😢) with a new finch. We hoped that it would be a female, but as the feathers are coming in it’s clear we have a new male finch.

Our finches have always laid eggs, but was never an issue as they were both females. Now it’s safe to assume we’ll have eggs that could hatch!

What’s the best practice here to avoid them having a clutch that hatches? So far we have simply taken the eggs out of the nest, but that does seem to distress them a bit.

All advice is welcome. Thank you!!

I got two finches, they have where to sit yet they choose to sit on the food thing with their ASS right on top of the opening so when they shit they shit in the food.

Like what do I do? I can't just let their shit there nor waste money on new seeds every time because SOME finches choose to have their toilet in the kitchen.

I had a very serious talk with them, but I don't think they want to listen to me because I got them like 3 days ago. I told them nicely NOT TO shit there yet they that right in front of me into the food. No respect from this newer generation.

Seriously, how to I make these little fuckers stop?

So to start, my zebra finch pair has 6 fledglings and one of them really looks like it could be blind.

My suspicions grew when the mama bird went to feed them and i saw that it was facing the wrong way and only rising his head above himself and turning around to the noise as if it was trying to find his mom. He only has "begged" for food if he hears his siblings "begging" too. I also think he grooms/scratches himself a little too much, which had caused him to bleed a little. I know there's a possibility of him not being blind but this isn't my first time having a blind bird though . I used to have a baby zebra finch with the same problem only that he had a neck problem which caused its head to keep moving to their left side. Unfortunately it died from malnourishment after a few weeks. Even though the baby is still getting fed I'm worried about what I'll do when it becomes older since I won't be in the house to supervise him for most of the day.

I dont think the vet can help with much so thats why im asking for help/advice.

Recently went to my family member's house and their five year old finch looks terrible. He has balance problems and falls down off his perch. He is very unsteady. He will lie on the floor of his cage and shake at times. I wanted to do something for him, but I don't even know what is happening to him. She said that she is taking him to the vet Monday. He has been like this for a week. I'm afraid he won't make it until then. Could it be a stroke? Or seizures that he is experiencing? Please help 💔

I`m planning to get society finches and wanted to ask about purchasable finch seed mixes. There are lot of brands with various prices, but mostly the same contents. Does it matter much if there are added minerals, oister shells, peaces of fruit or vegetable or other ingredients like chamomile? Should I rotate different brand foods or just stick with one with most ingredients? Finches will receive fresh stuff too, but grains are their main diet therefore this question.

I have a pair of zebras that laid eggs and the babies have finally started to grow some feathers. But one the babies is fully white with while the other is a brown/grey color. Neither of the parents are white in color and are normal grays. Online I only really see the brown/grey color so i’m wondering if the white is normal or some weird variation?

Hello all! Hope you are doing well! I have few questions that I was unable to find online.

How often do society finches lay eggs? Last clutch hatched February 8th 2024.

I noticed the same parents grabbing nesting material from one nest and taking it into a feeding area, which is a box exact one like in picture. Does that mean they will lay eggs soon again?

Is that too soon?

They do sleep in other nest that is in the cage but they keep moving things into that feeding pen box. I switched out the existing nest with this same box (had multiple) but took out the plastic compartment inside so they have more space. They used it for sleeping but during day they are still moving the nesting material to the other one where food is.

Is there any way I can re-route them to be in provided nest or should I just let me do what they are doing?

Thank you!

Clover and Tinkerbell 🍀✨

Hello everyone I made a little bit of an oppsie. Right now I have a full cage of 4 zebra finches. It is a tiny bit crowded as is with the 4 finches and now two babies have hatched in one of nests with two unhatched eggs. I have another empty cage right next to their cage but ended up letting them all stay together after the mate of one of my males passed away. Splitting them into pairs did not work out the best, he was depressed by himself always staying on the side closest to the cage with the remaining 3 birds. Things were working out well with the 4 birds in one cage with two food bowls and two water bowls.

Now I am having multiple concerns and unsure how to proceed. First I have never allowed my birds to raise more than one baby at a time. Now there are 2 babies with potentially 2 more coming. I would like to remove the unhatched eggs but I am unsure of the ethical concern since they may be far along in their development and hatching soon. Second I am not sure if I should disturb the nest by removing the eggs while there are babies inside.

My next larger concern is that I would like to remove my two other birds who are not the parents from cage but if I open up the cage as I usually do I am afraid the parents will leave as well and neglect the babies.

I know I should have been more on top of removing the eggs. This is the first time I have let this happen with so many babies at once. I will need to invest in some dummy eggs following this experience.

In sum I am looking for some advice about how I should deal with this crowded cage problem. Any tips or previous experiences would be greatly appreciated.