Chickadeedeedee
Well-known member
Hi everyone.
This is a bit off topic but I would like your advice please. I have Orange Weaver Finches (Euplecies orixftanciscana) as pets. They have laid eggs and hatched chicks for me since the year 2000. They have either killed the chicks or destroyed the eggs every single year. :-C
This year they laid eggs again and tossed them from the nest ... destroying them. I noticed I got a second clutch 5 days ago! I took the eggs out of the nest knowing there was a 99.99999999999999% chance they would perish at some stage based on past history. I have made a make shift incubator and as of today the eggs are still alive and who ever is inside is developing more blood vessels and growing! As they say in America: Whowoulddathunkit?
So after all this rambling ... do you think that I should get some surrogate finches to continue to brood and raise the Weaver chicks and what may be the best species to get? The Weaver eggs are a beautiful sky blue in colour. Or, do you think another species would destroy these eggs and again I would be without Weaver chicks?
I seem to be caught in a no win situation. If the eggs do hatch I think I could hand raise them as I have done with other species of finches and wrens.
Any and all comments and suggestions are tremendously appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!
Lydia
This is a bit off topic but I would like your advice please. I have Orange Weaver Finches (Euplecies orixftanciscana) as pets. They have laid eggs and hatched chicks for me since the year 2000. They have either killed the chicks or destroyed the eggs every single year. :-C
This year they laid eggs again and tossed them from the nest ... destroying them. I noticed I got a second clutch 5 days ago! I took the eggs out of the nest knowing there was a 99.99999999999999% chance they would perish at some stage based on past history. I have made a make shift incubator and as of today the eggs are still alive and who ever is inside is developing more blood vessels and growing! As they say in America: Whowoulddathunkit?
So after all this rambling ... do you think that I should get some surrogate finches to continue to brood and raise the Weaver chicks and what may be the best species to get? The Weaver eggs are a beautiful sky blue in colour. Or, do you think another species would destroy these eggs and again I would be without Weaver chicks?
I seem to be caught in a no win situation. If the eggs do hatch I think I could hand raise them as I have done with other species of finches and wrens.
Any and all comments and suggestions are tremendously appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!
Lydia