Birdhouses & Feeders!!!

Spring has come! then it's Breeding time!
Well, for most part of wild birds, it's time to make family !!!
This is an hard situation for birds, they have to find a safe tree, right partner, nest building material, water and food!
Wow, sweating time for these birds, isn't it??
Ok, how could we help these birds during this difficult period of life?
A good way can be setup a free feeder in our backyard or in the garden, or over a safe tree.

If you're pratice of DIY, can create wood feeder! it's quite easy and chipier!

There are tons of links that teach how make it!
Keep in mind 3 important things while choise your fauvorite:
1 - setup in safe place, be careful rats or other animals can't reach food!
2 - fill feeder once per week
3 - create a place where can collect clean water

Take a look around to find your fauvorite! Spent time will get you nice surprise!

Regards,
Nick

European GoldFinch: how turns face red?

Let's start from the beginning... the very important thing is to keep goldfinch healty... if miss this point all the other tips will fail.
If your European Goldfinch is healty then is following a good diet can pay with impressive results!

During moulting time, a very stressful period for every birds, you have to provide fatty meals, that means more "heavy" seeds in the seed mix.
An important trick could be increase percentage of crushed safflower!

You can switch in diet between safflower seeds and mashed carrots, results would arrive at the end of moulting time...steady & patience ;)

The other important factor is SUN, place your birds under "Sun's shower" everyday if you can!

That's all!Simply isn't it?? The very difficult thing is to apply with constancy these tips!

Try and enjoy!
Nick

What do European Goldfinch eat?

Basically European Goldfinch's diet composed by 3 kinds of foods:

- Seeds:
canadian canary seeds, white and black lettuce, grassland seeds mixture, thistle seeds, small hemp seeds, small sunflower seeds,perilla frutescens seeds, few niger, few linseed.
- Vegetables:
carrot, zucchini, cucumbers, lettuce, chicory, radicchio, cabbage leaves.
- Meadow grasses/Wild Plants:
dandelion
- Mash:
occasionally, better handmade.

Ask for more informations!
Nick

How should be Cage Breeding?

A good cage for breeding should be in zincate steel at least or more large than 23 inches (60 cm), the best is use a kind with 4 doors on frontal.

Best pratice is to setup few things inside cage, few and clean, this is the motto.

Can't miss at least a manger for seeds and a good container for hard-boiled egg or mash, twizeer for vegetables, dark-blue siphon for water and during love season the nest with nest holder.

The container and twizeer should be cleaned every use, instead manger could be clean every month.
Water should be changed everyday and to clean siphon also.

Very important, for goldfinches in particular, to use tray with grid, for keep away dejections from birds, grids have to raise from tray bottom of 2 inches (5 cm).
I use to arrange cat's litter on tray bottom, this because absorbs and keep dejections tied and dry, and reduce malodorousness.

Interesting the use of grid separator during first phases of "couple building", but I'll speak next post about that!

Enjoy your breeding!
Nick

How should be good Aviary Breeding? External Aviary

Nowdays it's hard to get a good aviary, because needs space, and a set of good tools, this could be expensive...
Now we're going to figure out the main important features, but before we have to distinguish between internal (room, climate control) aviary and external (wild) aviary.

Today we're going to speak about External Aviary:
summarized it's more easy to mantein, because of cleaning but more hard to setup moreover during startup of aviary!
During startup phase you must check well the structure of the aviary, because of weather factors like raining, intense sun, cold, hot temperature, and predators, cats, rats, raptors!!!
The good sides of this choise are natural environment. This allows good healty birds and natural process of breeding.
Every breeder would have an external aviary!

Feel free to ask any question!
Nick

Sesso del Cardellino

E' molto difficile individuare tra i sessi Cardellino a causa della sua bassa discrepanza tra i due sessi, soprattutto prima maturazione sessuale, quando i maschi ancora non cantano e altri fattori sono molto meno evidenti.

Andiamo a fissare alcuni punti di riferimento per determinare il sesso del Cardellino ancestrale, di quanto avviene in natura, senza mutazioni.

Caratteristiche Maschili:
- Maschera rossa carnicino che trasborda sulla parte superiore dietro gli occhi.
- Colore nero intenso e marcato
- Barratura dell'ala gialla ben definita e marcata
- Spalla non infiltrata di marrone ma chiaramente nero
- Testa appiattita
- Ampia base del becco
- e naturalmente ... canta!!!

Caratteristiche Femminili:
- Maschera meno rosso spesso infiltrata di marrone, talvolta non trasborda sulla parte superiore dietro gli occhi.
- Colore nero poco intenso, non è ben marcato
- Barratura dell'ala sottile, il giallo non ben definito e marcato
- Spalla non è chiaramente nera ma sporco nero di marrone
- Testa arrotondata
- Ampia base del becco
- Non canta

Qualche dubbio? Contattami!
Nick

Learn how to grow up your goldfinches and canaries healthy!

Welcome into Goldfinch's Kingdom

Welcome everybody, this blog will talk about goldfinch, exactly European Goldfinch "the king of birds!
This kind of bird is very common in Europe, also known as Carduelis Caruelis, or Jilguero.

This bird is so wonderful as delicate to grow up.
To keep healty this bird and able his to reproduce you need to apply a lot of tricks and good feeding.
This blog has scope to show how that is possible, and how to do that.

As all kind of breeding birds, Goldfinch needs to be grown in love environment and pay attention to his healty, grown is not a joke, or a simply hobby, to grow up is an act of love.

I want to remember everybody: All wild native birds are protected by law!!!

I do not wish to encourage anybody to purchase European Goldfinches without proper awareness of their needs and I do not support the trapping and importing of wild birds!!!!

I hope you enjoy and find into this blog a good tutorial to growup your goldfinch best!

All the best,
Nick