VMD 513: Pet animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

Breeding of finches

BREEDING REQUIREMENT FOR FINCHES

• The true finches are passerine birds in the  family Fringillidae. They are predominantly seed eating song birds.
• Adequate supply of food material is essential for successful breeding
• Most of the species both male and female will very active in building the nest and rearing the chick.
•  Finches built their own nest with grasses, animal hair, and feathers.  Entire nest is built by the female and male will guard the territory. 
• Finches usually highly attentive to their newly hatched offspring and tend not to leave the nest for the first few days after hatching. live food is essential at this stag.
• Chick can be removed from the nest early and hand Reared so that the hen will come for next clutch and young can also be protected from aggressive cock.
• Incubation period ranges between 2 to 3 weeks depending upon the species. 
• Young finches fledge in abut 12 to 17 days, still they are fed by the parents and male will  feed less and less unit the young become independent. 
• During this time the young should be removed because the male become aggressive to the young now, particularly with the male young