Speratura delle uova

Ciao a tutti!
La primavera è arrivata e con buone speranze avrete anche voi il probloema di fare la speratura delle uova.
Perchè fare la speratura? Perchè lasciare che la femmina covi uova vuote quando puoi risparmiarla un pò di salute e lasciarla covare soltanto le uova piene..
Covare è un lavoro duro per tutte le femmine di uccello, per farlo ha bisogno di aumentare la sua temeratura e quindi brucia più energie, questo è un periodo molto stressante per leit, meglio ottimizzare e migliorare al meglio questa fase.

Quando è possibile fare la speratura?

Secondo me non prima del 5° giorno di cova continua, questo è infatti il tempo minimo necessario per una corretta crescita da uovo ingallato alla prima forma di embrione.

Come fare la speratura?

Puoi utilizzare una semplice torcia, ma ... fate attenzione a non rompere le uova!
Puoi comprare una semplice torcia come questa, per effettuare il controllo direttamente nel nido senza disturbare troppo la femmina, o puoi costruirtela da solo come ho fatto io!

Eccola all'opera, ho scoperto un uovo vuoto!

Dubbi? Lasciatemi un commento!

Nick

Pastoncino artiginale

Durante la stagone delle cove è importante alimentare i propri uccelli con un with cibo altamente bilanciato, la cosa più importante è la quota proteica  che deve essere, secondo me, tra il 17% ed il 21% complessivo.
Since preparation time should start to feed incresing level of proteins and fat seeds, this is need to prepare partner at coopulation.

Ingredients: 

50 gr    Polenta precotta

20 gr    Farina di Mais

25 gr    Farina di Soia

1          Cucchiaio di miele
4          Uova
500 ml Latte
1          Pentolino

Preparazione:
Sbattere le uova intere e mettere a parte

Mescolare nel pentolino latte e mettere a riscaldare, man mano che sale la temperatura unire le uova già sbattute.

Aggiungere lentamente il preparato di polenta e mescolare.

Continuando a mescolare aggiungere la farina di soia e quella di mais, portare ad ebolizzione.

Far bollire un pochino ed aggiungere del miele continuando a girare.

Continuare a mescolare rendendolo un comporto unico, versare su una superfice piana, e distribuire per 1 cm di altezza.
A questo punto lasciar raffreddare.

Quando è freddo può essere tagliato in strisce e conservato in frigo per una settimana.

Ecco fatto! E' pronto!

Lascia un commento per ulteriori informazioni!

A voi,
Nick

Ibrido di Cardellino - Cardellino X Canarino

It’s popular crossbreeding in Europe, usually it’s most common between finches breeders and canaries lovers.
This crossbreeding creation’s principal purpose is to create a perfect singer, with the canary’s vocal power and goldfinch’s melody.

Usually to get this result it needs crossbreed a male goldfinch with a female canary.

Some breeders prefer the opposite crossbreed, more difficult to realize, the resulting hybrid will have the female canary’s silhouette and the male goldfinch’s vocal system, the final look may be illusory for an inexperienced eye, the result will be a very good singer goldfinch.

In both crossbreeding males and females children will be NOT fertile.

Females hybrids can’t sing at all and are not fertile, but they can be used as very good nurses.

Usually copulation will happens from half April to July (in natural light condition), so the reproducers must be raedy, in fact goldfinchers goes on heat a month later then canarys.

Tip: In case of male goldfinch with a female canary, is possible let her to brood on not fertile hatch until the natural leaving of nest by the female. So we can take off the nest, and replace after a week again along male golfincher.

This problem don’t verify in the opposite case and it’s possible join the couple directly when female golfincher just starts build new nest.

There are many thing to say about this subject, I postpone them to next post!!!

Any questions? Leave a comment!
Nick

Birdhouses & Feeders!!!

Spring has come! then it's Breeding time!
Well, for most part of wild birds, it's time to make family !!!
This is an hard situation for birds, they have to find a safe tree, right partner, nest building material, water and food!
Wow, sweating time for these birds, isn't it??
Ok, how could we help these birds during this difficult period of life?
A good way can be setup a free feeder in our backyard or in the garden, or over a safe tree.

If you're pratice of DIY, can create wood feeder! it's quite easy and chipier!

There are tons of links that teach how make it!
Keep in mind 3 important things while choise your fauvorite:
1 - setup in safe place, be careful rats or other animals can't reach food!
2 - fill feeder once per week
3 - create a place where can collect clean water

Take a look around to find your fauvorite! Spent time will get you nice surprise!

Regards,
Nick

European GoldFinch: how turns face red?

Let's start from the beginning... the very important thing is to keep goldfinch healty... if miss this point all the other tips will fail.
If your European Goldfinch is healty then is following a good diet can pay with impressive results!

During moulting time, a very stressful period for every birds, you have to provide fatty meals, that means more "heavy" seeds in the seed mix.
An important trick could be increase percentage of crushed safflower!

You can switch in diet between safflower seeds and mashed carrots, results would arrive at the end of moulting time...steady & patience ;)

The other important factor is SUN, place your birds under "Sun's shower" everyday if you can!

That's all!Simply isn't it?? The very difficult thing is to apply with constancy these tips!

Try and enjoy!
Nick

What do European Goldfinch eat?

Basically European Goldfinch's diet composed by 3 kinds of foods:

- Seeds:
canadian canary seeds, white and black lettuce, grassland seeds mixture, thistle seeds, small hemp seeds, small sunflower seeds,perilla frutescens seeds, few niger, few linseed.
- Vegetables:
carrot, zucchini, cucumbers, lettuce, chicory, radicchio, cabbage leaves.
- Meadow grasses/Wild Plants:
dandelion
- Mash:
occasionally, better handmade.

Ask for more informations!
Nick

How should be Cage Breeding?

A good cage for breeding should be in zincate steel at least or more large than 23 inches (60 cm), the best is use a kind with 4 doors on frontal.

Best pratice is to setup few things inside cage, few and clean, this is the motto.

Can't miss at least a manger for seeds and a good container for hard-boiled egg or mash, twizeer for vegetables, dark-blue siphon for water and during love season the nest with nest holder.

The container and twizeer should be cleaned every use, instead manger could be clean every month.
Water should be changed everyday and to clean siphon also.

Very important, for goldfinches in particular, to use tray with grid, for keep away dejections from birds, grids have to raise from tray bottom of 2 inches (5 cm).
I use to arrange cat's litter on tray bottom, this because absorbs and keep dejections tied and dry, and reduce malodorousness.

Interesting the use of grid separator during first phases of "couple building", but I'll speak next post about that!

Enjoy your breeding!
Nick

How should be good Aviary Breeding? External Aviary

Nowdays it's hard to get a good aviary, because needs space, and a set of good tools, this could be expensive...
Now we're going to figure out the main important features, but before we have to distinguish between internal (room, climate control) aviary and external (wild) aviary.

Today we're going to speak about External Aviary:
summarized it's more easy to mantein, because of cleaning but more hard to setup moreover during startup of aviary!
During startup phase you must check well the structure of the aviary, because of weather factors like raining, intense sun, cold, hot temperature, and predators, cats, rats, raptors!!!
The good sides of this choise are natural environment. This allows good healty birds and natural process of breeding.
Every breeder would have an external aviary!

Feel free to ask any question!
Nick

Sesso del Cardellino

E' molto difficile individuare tra i sessi Cardellino a causa della sua bassa discrepanza tra i due sessi, soprattutto prima maturazione sessuale, quando i maschi ancora non cantano e altri fattori sono molto meno evidenti.

Andiamo a fissare alcuni punti di riferimento per determinare il sesso del Cardellino ancestrale, di quanto avviene in natura, senza mutazioni.

Caratteristiche Maschili:
- Maschera rossa carnicino che trasborda sulla parte superiore dietro gli occhi.
- Colore nero intenso e marcato
- Barratura dell'ala gialla ben definita e marcata
- Spalla non infiltrata di marrone ma chiaramente nero
- Testa appiattita
- Ampia base del becco
- e naturalmente ... canta!!!

Caratteristiche Femminili:
- Maschera meno rosso spesso infiltrata di marrone, talvolta non trasborda sulla parte superiore dietro gli occhi.
- Colore nero poco intenso, non è ben marcato
- Barratura dell'ala sottile, il giallo non ben definito e marcato
- Spalla non è chiaramente nera ma sporco nero di marrone
- Testa arrotondata
- Ampia base del becco
- Non canta

Qualche dubbio? Contattami!
Nick