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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2013 14:18:15 GMT
Is it OK to have one female with 4 males in an aviary? I wanted all males for my indoor aviary but a cheeky female crept in, sold as a male. I only wanted males because I knew if I had females as well I would want to breed, and if I breed I will want to keep all the babies. Well, I want to breed . Will they be OK in the aviary or will there be fighting? I've heard it's the females that fight but wanted to check before I add a nest box.
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Post by skysmum on Feb 7, 2013 15:06:23 GMT
Interesting question, it is the females that cause the problems, they can wreak havoc in a colony breeding setup but ive never thought about this option, i can sort of see a problem with all the boys wanting a turn ::)sorry . Once the breeding behaviour starts it can causes a real commotion among the others which could in turn lead to fighting over the girl, but i could be wrong. I will be interested to hear what the more knowledgeable peeps say. Sorry i cant be of more help.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Feb 7, 2013 16:35:08 GMT
One female should be fine with four males.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2013 16:48:25 GMT
Thank you, that is good news. If I have any success there will probably be some females so I will have to invest in some breeding cages if I want to continue breeding but I'll give this a go to start with.
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Post by skysmum on Feb 7, 2013 17:04:57 GMT
Thanks from me too BB, it was an interesting question. Oooh good luck starlingqueen, exciting stuff. Keep us posted .
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Post by ruby 5 on Feb 7, 2013 17:48:52 GMT
I started off with what I thought were all males too. Two of them turned out to be females, one of those (Sydney... (was) Sidney!!) had a very strong bond with Freddie, they were always together. So I put them in a breeding cage as I didn't want to colony breed and they had 6 chicks. I couldn't part with them either, 4 of them are female so we now have 6 females and 8 males all in a very large indoor aviary. Up to now they are all getting along fine. I don't know if this will last though!! hope that's been of some help. Good Luck
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2013 18:50:18 GMT
I started off with what I thought were all males too. Two of them turned out to be females, one of those (Sydney... (was) Sidney!!) had a very strong bond with Freddie, they were always together. So I put them in a breeding cage as I didn't want to colony breed and they had 6 chicks. I couldn't part with them either, 4 of them are female so we now have 6 females and 8 males all in a very large indoor aviary. Up to now they are all getting along fine. I don't know if this will last though!! hope that's been of some help. Good Luck Thank you that is a help. I need to get some more males for the aviary anyway. I started off with 7 birds altogether but one died 2 days after getting them and one died yesterday. I rescued them from a couple who had 4 in a tiny hamster cage. The one who died yesterday was very old and we had no history with him. There is also a tiny little one with French moult. The one that died 2 days after we got them, well, I just don't know what happened to him, he just dropped dead at my feet when I entered the aviary.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2013 22:10:25 GMT
The males will fight over the hen but unlike hens they want fight to the death but can still do damage to each other. Also possibility of infertile eggs as one male hops on the other males will try to stop the mating by pushing him off this can result in no sperm entering the hen, she then lays infertile eggs. And the last thing is you want know who the father is, this can be a problem down the track when you want to breed with the young. Well there's some food for thought, good luck.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2013 22:54:09 GMT
The aviary they are in is quite big so they can get away from each other. They have already been bickering over her as they are in breeding condition, she however wasn't interested as there was no nest box. I have now added a box which will take her a while to get used to, plus her beak is turning back to it's pinky colour. If I see any fighting I will remove the box and buy a breeding cage.
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Post by Hezz on Feb 8, 2013 0:36:08 GMT
In the face of what Corie has offered up, I would be using a breeding cage. Could potentially save a hell of a lot of trouble.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Feb 8, 2013 6:50:11 GMT
The males will fight over the hen but unlike hens they want fight to the death but can still do damage to each other. Also possibility of infertile eggs as one male hops on the other males will try to stop the mating by pushing him off this can result in no sperm entering the hen, she then lays infertile eggs. And the last thing is you want know who the father is, this can be a problem down the track when you want to breed with the young. Well there's some food for thought, good luck. One female should be fine with four males. Sorry I have missed the breeding part of your post. I thought the question was just for keeping budgies in the aviary. If you try to breed in the aviary, you can expect all the problems which come with colony breeding.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2013 10:45:45 GMT
OK, thank you I will have to rethink things then.
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Post by BudgiesBuddy on Feb 8, 2013 10:56:25 GMT
You're welcome
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