The best way to breed them is placing each pair in a different cage with a large nest box use coconut fiber and make sure you have dividers were each pair has privacy and there not trying to court with the opposite sex in the cage next door. Good sead mix and egg food mix high in protein is a must along with egg shells or a cuttlebone for calcium and clean fresh water daily. You will also need at least 4 separate pairs of society finches for each Gouldian pair. These will serve as foster parents because Gouldians are horrible parents. The society finches will lay on the clutch of eggs, hatch them out, and feed them. This is the best way to mass produce. Trust me I use to produce over 1000 babies every breeding season. I no longer breed them but I was one of the biggest breeders in south Florida.
@@rosaliecarpio7768 I am in south Florida. I would pair them up in late September. They will breed all year long if you keep them together. In larger aviaries they become stronger flyers and become very aggressive when put in small cages they try to bite the wire cage to get out. I have only seen this from a breeder that use to keep them in large aviaries.
I recently got my Gouldian finches like a month ago.....they are still pretty young, i would have to guess a couple months old. Though I have seen the male do his mating ritual. We had them paired with a few societys finches, but since they were laying eggs we moved them so they wouldnt be bothered. The female is really social she dosnt mind people and isnt shy. However the male is really shy and wont stepout of his comfort zone. The female had made a nest(i made it for her and she just improved it) and is currently sleeping in it while the male is sleeping right outside of it. Soon we will be moving the societys back in with them. We have currently put some dry pinapple in there to much on and i have to say the female really likes it.
I have the same birds. They should only be boiled eggs with shell on.. very important. If you have two birds per cage then only need 1/4 of the egg in each cage. I boil eggs then smash whole egg shell and all. In a blender. Just enough so the shell is bite size. You said your feeding egg to them everyday. Please stop that. They only need it twice a week. Also use a box that has an open door. Wish I could send you a photo of mine. They also need other greens. I feed a four leaf salad mix that has spinach and other bright coloured greens purple and so on. Kale, you can hang a leaf of that from the top of the cage and place it to where they can eat it. Also, millet is a huge part of their diet, so hang a millet strand as well in the cage. They love it. They need a bath as well. So place a shallow bowl like a dog bowl to bath in. But more then anything. It sounds like it’s your nesting box. These finches are shy to breed with other finches watching. Also, they will tell you when they are read to breed. Males get almost an egg white beak, females will get a black beak and will also do a little dance up and down to attract a male. Hope this helps.
So, my pair are laying eggs but only had 1 fertilized. It did not survive because they did not care for it. I waited too long to try to help (plus I had never hand fed a bird before) Why are no more eggs being fertilized? suggestions
Hey the male gouldian is going to have more vibrant colors vs the female who will have faded colors. Example the male will have a dark purple on his chest while the female will have a light, almost lavender purple on her chest
I struggled like you in the beginning, and I learned a few lessons based on trial & error, so I am going to share them with you. When I first started, most breeders recommended that I put one pair in a cage. That didn't work for me for about two years. I decided to give up and put them in a larger flight cage (took 2 flight cages and combined them), put 6 Gouldians inside (3 males, three females). I decided to put some nest boxes up and within three weeks I had eggs and babies. Once the first pair started, the other pairs followed suit. Yes, they can be territorial, but if the flight cages are big enough, they are fine. In fact, all my Gouldians are parent raised, and the fledglings feed their siblings like a big community. The parent Gouldians will go right back into the nest box after the first clutch are out. They will lay back to back clutches. The moral of the story is to let them pick their mates and get good quality stocks. After you determine how they are paired up, next summer you can put them into individual pairs. I now have a colony of the babies that I kept and my original parents are moved into individual cages since they are older and my foundational stock breeders. You can see my videos that I made two summers ago. I wind up having about 40 Gouldians from the three pairs. Blues, pastels, split-to-blues. This summer I re-focused and now breeding into Silver. I just recorded my first Silver (full white) baby and also a pretty boy Dilute Blue male.
