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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 31 10:29:04 2015
    hi, so i have this baby finch one or two month old, who got injured now his parents are attacking him, so i put him in a separate cage. now the female is trying to hatch other eggs, should i separate her from her babies when they hatch and are grown
    enough. it seems that they doesnt like more than one in the cage. and how can i know if the baby finch is female or male? i have so m any questions pff

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 7 14:00:50 2016
    On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:29:04 -0800 (PST), [email protected] wrote:

    hi, so i have this baby finch one or two month old, who got injured now his parents are attacking him, so i put him in a separate cage. now the female is trying to hatch other eggs, should i separate her from her babies when they hatch and are grown
    enough. it seems that they doesnt like more than one in the cage. and how can i know if the baby finch is female or male? i have so m any questions pff

    I think what the parents are doing is simply an instinctive behavior
    that you see throughout the animal world.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 1 21:12:28 2017
    I have 2 questions. I have had 2 finches for a year and a half. A first the female laid a clutch a month for about 10 months. We got one baby from the first clutch, then after he learned to fly, we gave him to the pet store. Out of the other clutches
    we got 1 other, but it died after 3 days. She finally started laying again, after another 10 months )But it was not fertilized) Anyways, my fist question is, is this normal?

    My second questions is that I think the male is pecking all the feathers off my female! The back of her neck is bald and she no longer has any tail feathers. I'll separate them for a month or 2 and she'll grow some back, but when I remove the separator,
    he attacks her again. We have nesting material, a fluffy toy, everything I've read about to deter him, but it doesn't seem to work. We were even trying to give her extra feather growth medicine, but that didn't help, either. Any ideas?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 17 15:23:54 2017
    Your cat is just doingvwhat cats naturally do. It is up to YOU to put the bird cage out of his reach. When I have birds & cats I find hanging the bird cage from the ceiling via a swag hook works great. (A swag hook is usually used to hang light fixtures)
    . It's win/win for just a few bucks for the hook & the chain.
    But PLEASE don't ban your cats for instinctive behaviour. They are sentient creatures the same as humans, and they feel your rejection. Don't stop giving them your love because you brought birds in. It's nit their fault.
    like I said....try the swag ceiling hook & chain. It works very well.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Marie Gemmell on Sat Oct 14 18:47:15 2017
    On Friday, May 21, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Marie Gemmell wrote:
    Help please ! My baby finches ( zebra's) just came out of their nest and my male finch is attacking one of the babies! It is an all white baby could
    that be why ? What should I do ? Right now I have the male separated from my female and their 2 babies but it seems pretty distressed !

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 6 05:31:42 2018
    My male finch is attacking another male finch what should I do

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 11 06:56:07 2020
    Iam also did this

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