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Cage & Aviary Birds
|February 14, 2018
After a rather too eventful start to the breeding season, DAVE BROWN decided to evaluate his pairings, get his birds back on track fitness-wise and trial a new ingredient in his eggfood, which seems to be going down a treat.
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ZEBRA FINCHES
After a decidedly average start, with the vast majority of my choice pairs producing clear eggs, it was back to the drawing board. The birds were caught, inspected and those that were obviously carrying excess weight were returned to the flights for a few weeks of exercise. The fact that some were a bit heavy was confirmed when it took several of them a day or so to confidently reach the perches from the flight floor. A few had all the gracefulness of a wood pigeon when taking off.
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