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6E Farm's Aviary

Birds have always been a passion of mine and so I was finally able to scrape together the money to buy a couple breeding pairs of Gouldian Finches and a pair of Red Factor Canaries. They are beautiful little birds that fill the house with their soft, pretty songs.

Besides being beautiful, they are spoiled little birds. Each morning their water cups are taken and soaked in a little bleach water for at least 10 minutes to kill any bacteria that may be in the water. Each cage is given their Finch or Canary seed with vitamins in it, Abba Green egg food, Oyster shell for Calcium and spray Millet. Each morning we give each cage hard boiled egg mashed up with the shell. The Canaries also enjoy pieces of apple too.

Gouldian Finches are quiet birds that do well in a mixed aviary, but are often bullied by more aggressive species like Zebra Finches. They are slow to mature, being born brown, they do not get their colorful adult plumage until they are almost a year old and it's a very stressful time for the young birds. They are usually unsuccessful in their first attempts at being parents often pushing eggs and or babies from the nests. As Gouldians mature they will often become better parents. If not, Society Finches make excellent foster parents hatching, caring and rearing the young as if they were their own.

The Canaries we have are red factor Canaries, although ours are not as red as they could be. Male Canaries have the most beautiful song when kept alone. They can be bossy if kept in mixed aviaries, but I have seen people with them in them and they seem to do fine. Hopefully we'll have babies for sale sometime in the future.