Hopefully he really will be ready for bird company by the end of next week. We have even gone so far as keeping a five minute audio recording of finches in the room with him that we'll play at intervals through the day. He's THAT desperate for company and it pulls at my heartstrings knowing how poor a substitute we must be to him. When you approach the cage he'll immediately burst into song. He has always been friendly by finch standards and will come to the side of the cage when you talk to him, but the past few days that has gone as far as chirping for us, to which we respond by whistling back to him. The society finch, also called Bengalese finch, is a peaceful bird. For the moment he seems strangely clingy. We have decided to wait for a week or two and are looking to get Jude a new female friend once he has readjusted. I’m not sure there’s much you can do to help her, other that making sure she has everything. She’ll assess the situation and make her decision on her own. Unfortunately animals are pretty pragmatic. It took less than a day for her to abandon the eggs. I have since purchased books and trawled the internet to learn more about these funny little birds, but the books don't prepare you for their funny little ways and habits quite as well as the experiences of other finch-keepers, especially when it comes to a bit of a moral dilema, so thank you. My male finch died while the female was incubating a clutch as well. I knew my Mam had an old parrot cage, so we took them in as a temporary, urgent measure, though within a matter of days we were won over by their quirky charm and ended up keeping them ourselves. Sorry if that's confusing!īut thank you so much for all the advice and support! We only took these finches because they were getting badly bullied and had been housed in a really small cage with budgies and canaries and had been plucked and attacked to the point of baldness. It was Thor, (named obviously prior to sexing) that died. There seems to have been a bit of confusion over the sex of the birdy that survived. I, on the otherhand, think that for a Zebra Finch, loneliness will be harder for him.ĭo any members have any suggestions? We are lost as to what is the best way to approach this and how. My husband is reluctant to introduce a new bird too quickly, and is also concerned about how our Jude would take to it. She suggested a while back that we could adopt one of these to live with whichever survived their spouse. A friend of ours has an aviary and tends to bring any disabled or weaker birds to live in her house. Plus, we worry the new bird might bully our male, Jude. We don't want to get a young bird as we'll inevitably be left with the same scenario at a later date. We are devastated, obviously, but now worried about her partner who is left behind as we know these birds suffer terribly when not with other finches. This morning, when we uncovered their cage we sadly discovered that our female, Thor, had passed away in the night. They were male and female and have been like an old married couple from the start. Hello, please help us! Six years ago we took in two rescue zebra finch.
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