If you have finches, and you want to make Zebra finches happy, active, and healthy, and also breed well. So you must do these three things for your birds.
- Good environment
- Food that keeps Finches Happy
- Providing a Bathing Bowl for Finches
1. Good environment
If we talk about a good environment, then the cage size should be right, the birds should be provided with sunlight, and precautions should be taken to prevent lice and mites.
Cage Size
Finches actually like to live in colonies. If you want to keep 10 or 15 pairs in one cage, you can keep the cage size 4 feet wide, 3 feet deep, and 4 feet high. And A stick is necessary for the finch to sit on inside the cage. if you have a limited area to utilize and there are only one or two pairs, the cage size can be kept 2.5 feet wide, 1.5 feet deep, and 1.5 feet high.
Keep one thing in mind: if you want to keep 10 or 15 pairs in the colony, then shift all the pairs to the colony at once.
Sun light
If we talk about a good environment, it is very good for finches if morning or evening sunlight comes into the cage for a short time. Sunlight will give them new energy. Sunlight also helps eliminate bacteria from the cage.
Preventing the growth of lice and mites in finches
Spray insecticide on your birds and their cage once every 15 days. The pesticide should be from a good company that is for birds. Because if lice and mites infest a bird and its cage, So your birds will be stressed. Your finches will never be happy in such a situation. Nor will the finches be able to breed properly, and due to lice and mites in birds, birds will pluck their feathers, and there may even be mortality in a colony of finches.
You can use any one of these three sprays of bird mites and lice, or whatever else you like.
2. Food that keeps Finches Happy
Let’s discuss what Finch’s favorite food is.
Finches eat boiled eggs with great enthusiasm. You can give them mashed hard-boiled eggs 2 to 3 times a week. This food is packed with nutrients. This soft food is very healthy, even for newborn finch babies. This will greatly improve the health of the finch and its babies. One boiled egg is enough for ten to fifteen finch pairs.
Apart from this, you can also give spinach and alfalfa 2 to 3 times a week. Which will meet the nutritional needs of finches very well. And you will see that the finches are eating green leaves with great pleasure.
And one more important thing, don’t forget to give your finches a cuttlefish bone. Finches avidly eat cuttlefish bone to meet their calcium carbonate and essential mineral needs. I call cuttlefish bone a treasure trove of minerals that comes out of the sea for birds.
3. Providing a Bathing Bowl for Finches
Bathing is a favorite activity for finches. If you want to keep your finches happy, you will have to arrange for them to bathe. All you have to do is get a wide pot of water, which should not be more than 3 to 4cm deep. It is most effective to put the bath bowl in the cage in the morning.
Note: After the finches have bathed, you should remove the water pot within an hour. The reason for this is that the water must have become dirty. And if finches drink dirty water, it can be very harmful to them.
We have mentioned three basic things in this article: a good environment, food that keeps finches happy, and providing a bathing bowl for finches. If you follow them, it can definitely be said that your finches will be happy, and your finches will also breed well.
If you have any questions, you can ask them in the comments or by contacting me. I hope that this information will be very useful for your birds. If you liked this information, then you must share it.