http://www.finchme.com Your Philippine Online Guide to Everything Finch Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:18:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finch me looks like it could do with a new article so I’m posting a quick one.  I’ve just come back from 7 weeks in Australia during which I visited the Kimberly region of Western Australia which is the home of most of the Philippines favourite finches.  I’ve got some ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/07/31/12-months-of-philippine-bird-keeping/  My interest in this subject is fairly new as I thought I was doing the right thing with my birds - they were breeding and I’d overcome the air-sac mite problem that that plagued the female.  The juveniles, who shared the aviary with the adults, had almost completed colouring up ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/05/13/moulting-and-seasonal-decline-in-gouldian-finches/ Recently I’ve been contemplating the origin, practices and future of aviculture in the Philippines. I hope that my philosophy isn’t at odds with the local authorities. I can’t speak as an avicultural or regulatory professional - just as an interested party looking at the information available on the internet and ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/04/22/where-are-all-the-finches/ Sorry for not posting for the last month. Many tasks prevented me from updating FinchMe, but now I have the time to do so and I am planning to output an article at least once a week. In the meantime, I would like to thank everyone who keeps visiting ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/04/02/my-10-footer-wire-meshed-cage-for-my-finches/ As most regular Finchme readers would know I’m not a local so my way of keeping finches offers a slightly different perspective and I want to share my experience. I have a single outdoor aviary (4 X 2.5 X 2.2m) with a mixed collection.  This certainly saves all the hassle of ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/02/18/six-months-of-philippine-bird-keeping/ Just got a text message from Sir Benji today, telling me he now has a Triple Black zebra(BBBFBC). I have yet to see a Triple Black, even in a picture, and I can't wait to see it from our next FinchMe Featured Breeder, Mr. Benji Sengson of Bulacan. As with ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/02/09/benjamin-sengson-finchme-featured-breeder/ I think you already know what I'm talking about. That's right! Here are my neighbor's cats looking at me while I'm feeding my finches. This is how it looks like EVERY morning. The best thing I was able to do to keep the cats off my finches was to provide a ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/01/31/finch-enemy-no-1/ Now here's a better video with both parents feeding their fledglings outside of the nest. The babies are now three-four weeks old, and you can still see the markings on their mouth. http://www.finchme.com/2008/01/29/feeding-the-babies-part-2/ I took this video over the weekend, and I just can't explain to you how happy I was when the first nestling explored the outside of their nest. Usually, nestlings would fledge three weeks from hatching, and will explore the cage without regard to their parents and even you. ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/01/29/25-days-old-zebra-finch-fledglings/ Videos like this are hard to come by. It is just fortunate on my part that my zebras are now used to having me near them that I was able to record Ryan, my male zebra, while he is feeding their two week old chicks. In this video, ... http://www.finchme.com/2008/01/25/zebra-father-feeding-the-babies/