Flirting with the girls

[bushie4242]

press 8

[bakochick1]

yeah i showed my finch to his sister and he also tried to court with her

[Lumak1]

hey you have beard!

[hannah15239]

my female finch and the male finch had to be separated because she was plucking his head feathers :T

[damianhankins2000]

Can u tame a 3 month old finch?

[Lia825]

man i wish my zebra finche stays on my finger like tat...when i try it just flys away then i have to go catch it...but i guess its like that bc i only got it for a few days...lol...but it would be so cool to be able to have the finch sit on my fingers...

[fishpimp100]

Do you know if you have to have the finch from very young to have it tame? or can you buy a already mature finch and succesfully train it?

[flowerpod]

@fishpimp100 I have never heard of an adult zebra finch that was tamed. Some other finches, like gouldian finch, Erythrura/Chloebia gouldiae are easier to tame. I know two girls who have tamed their gouldians rather easily. In my opinion (and note, it's just my opinion), zebra finches are extremely hard to tame, but they will get used to people, like our wild zebra finches did. The only really tame finches we've had are the ones we handfed.

[ZizZarkava]

Aww cute zebbie! I do love handtame finches!! I tame all of mine, i only have a couple that will have nothing to do with me. I love how yours retains a bond to you alot even in the presence of other finches. My hand tames will happily sit on my hand but if its a choice between me and their flock, 9 times out of 10 the flock wins. Do you think it is because you hand reared yours?

ps How diffficult is it to hand rear, i would like to know in case my finches abandon their nest in future?

[flowerpod]

@ZizZarkava I think it's because mine are hand reared. Hand rearing is not difficult. You just need a lot of patience and willpower as you have to wake up many times to feed your birds, and if you work or go to school you have to arrange a babysitter. Feeding the tiny birds is extremely difficult unless you can find proper equipment. But the trouble is forgotten as soon as you witness their first, proper flight, and they fly to you. <3

[ZizZarkava]

@fishpimp100 My little zebra finch Ziz was a pet shop buy, and to this date is the tamest of all my zebra finches. I dont hand rear any baby zebra finches, however all of my baby zebra finches have been very handtame and human friendly. Most of my zebra finches will more than happily eat from my hand as ive built up trust with them over time. I think some of them have a natural predisposition to trust. If you check out my channel you can see various videos of my tamest one Zi he's a sweetheart!

[rick369258qaz]

yea thats ture



[Angelgrave1982]

wow a tamed finch.. how did you tame yours? i have 2 finch 2 months ago and now they are four and the parents are still laying more clutches. would want some of the new clutch to be tamed

[SingSumKun]

did not realize finches could become so tame! very cool

[pcred566]

Tame finch? WTF...

[FlummTube]

heheheh these reminds me of my birdies :D

[ElectricTear20]

quick question:

is it good for the finches to let them out of the cage and fly around the house?

[flowerpod]

@ElectricTear20 Finches are excellent flyers and they won't hit windows or stuff. But if it's daylight out they might see through the window and think there's a lot of room outside (or an escape) and occasionally they might hit the window. We keep curtains in front of the window when our finches are out of the cage.

[ElectricTear20]

@flowerpod sweet...how much poop do you have to clean up when you let them out? lol and this is a serious question lol

[flowerpod]

@ElectricTear20 most of the time none - but if they are in a careless mood, a whole pile but luckily in one place.

[goonger35]

i just got one baby zebra finch and i was wondering what does it meen when its beak is dark black i dont get it is that a gender or is it suppose to do that

[flowerpod]

@goonger35 Baby zebra finches have a black beak. It'll turn the right color when they grow up.

[Olyckan90]

Zebrafinches are so cute :D I have one myself, the birds name is Janne :)

[Thefalconman681]

mine are tame too! By the way, how many finches do u have

[LovableLust]

INCEST

[Carmador]

you sure the bird isnt gonna hit the glasss?

[flowerpod]

@Carmador Never did. Not one has.

[iluvpie1223]

Man your so lucky yours are tamed .

[MrPuffaluffagus]

thats not slightly disturbing O.o

[tuntyq7292]

is your hand training the reason that they will jump on to your hand???

[flowerpod]

@tuntyq7292 Nobody knows. It's hard to ask them what made them friendly ;)

[nobody1723]

hum... i was wondering if this was a pet store or something? cauz i'm lokking at your videos and i'm always like: hum... so much birds

[flowerpod]

@nobody1723 Ummm.. yeah. we have six zebra finches. Hardly a pet store.

[vickyz1990]

haha he is soooo cute♥

[kylie41602]

I work in a pet store and just took home a male and female Zebra Finch that were brought back to us. A young girl got them, became bored with them, wouldn't care for them so her parents brought them back. We didn't want to separate them again (we keep the males and females separate) so I bought them and took them home with me. They are so cute. I love these birds!

[emilytodd28]

Hey ladeeeesssss, bet youve not seen a big like this before!!?

[xXMissDinsyXx]

can the zebra finches adapt to me? I got them one month.

[Zebrafinch18]

This is so cute=] and I think it's so awsome how you hand fed him,he's a beautifull bird!

[TheLilmizzzz]

Thats one bad boy LOL

[Vazula677]

my birds r stuppid. :-(

[madman10able]

@Vazula677 if you think birds are stupid your stuppid why did you wacht the vid in the first place

[SophiaProd]

@madman10able He said "my". :3

[murhudu]

haha cheeky littel finch =)

[kattowitz4]

Incest... :P

[SparkleCherryLullaby]

i had this playing with no earplugs and my parakeet, wolf, heard it and went crazy!

[BudCatcreations]

how are your finches so tamed are they handraised?

[sclavuss]

bad boy :P

[DimisWargame]

can you someone train this kind of bird like training a budgie.?? need help

[lilyaulani]

nice beard XD reflection :)(:

[Steelix1796]

lolz PLAYER!

[tomboy895]

you can train finches...?!

my finches hate me even if they hatched from an egg hand training doesn't work for me =(

[lexmark136]

@tomboy895 i trained mine to say swear words

[sivabaland]

put your hand in a male finch neck and pick it up if it doesnt come do it like 30 min thats what i did

[porkramen21]

It's hard to get em like that. I tried. From hatch desensitizing them to humans, feeding directly into baby's mouth. Nope, they still hated me and hurt me if I tried to touch any of them. So I killed em. nah I didn't really

[kaenna87]

Cute! I'm having the same problem with my own finches, my pair recently had 4 little ones... and 3 turned out to be males... and now they are all turning on their sister, LOL. Going to move them into their own bachelor pad soon, I suppose.

[Schwarmer]

This little dude is a player :D

[Tyannalyn]

hahahahaha

[StopFear]

Hello, can you explain what you mean by hand fed? We currently have two finches whom we hand feed seeds from the hand. We fed them since they could eat on their own but weren't able to feed them from a syringe. How did you hand feed them?

[flowerpod]

Hi, by hand feeding I mean feeding the birds with syringe from the day they hatch or some days depending on how long the parents have had interest on them.

[ritzzieks]

i love them!they r so cute! i hav 4 pairs of white & 2 of brown finches!

[chindle2007hindle]

Dirty little Finche!

haha thats funny

[BuFFonRossi]

What can I do that my Zebrafinches aren´t  scared of my and I can put the on my hand.

sry for bad english. I hope you understand what I mean

[LokiDuck]

Aww I know the feeling. My three male birds all have a thing for their mother and sister in the next cage. And what's sad is that the one male that isn't related to any of them is with the girls and neither of them like him.

[BedazzleGlitterGal]

aww that is so cute!!! just showing its luv... lol

[Lisastarpro]

Awe they are so cute

[jenniferheartsriver]

He wants her bad.. lol! :D

[jenniferheartsriver]

Aww.. i wish i could get my birds to do that. Finches are the sweetest little birds..

[bernsteinrussiaa]

They are WILD!!

How can I handle them??

[S0XF0X]

Haha, I can't help but notice that people are freaking out over the male finch flirting with his sisters, but some humans have been known to do it to. Also, it used to be very common (in Europe, before the understanding of genes) for people to marry their first cousins! However, humans try to avoid breeding with close relations because we understand that we'd have a higher chance of creating a child with bad genes.

[mumugamer2006]

lol i also got a few finches (8) and this one in ure vid looks like one of mine :D

[carebearnmbr46]

If you think it's gross, then why exactly are you encouraging it? @_@

[flowerpod]

We had to keep the boy apart from his sisters (for obvious reasons), but keeping him alone was breaking my heart because they love other birds their kind. So we had to let them "talk" to each other, added with a little eye contact.

[tecnoali]

nice french beard

[JoshuasBabyGirl11]

That would be nasty if it was humans but birds they need mates even if it is family

[NaleyJones]

wtf why cant i hold mine!?!?

it flys away it won't ever come near me :'(

[ProSiNNeR]

Dude read the description, it says that it's hand fed..

[piyaleela]

sooo cuteee! i luv it

[flyingSnakess]

may seem gross but many commercial bird breeders imbreed birds with their siblings or parents, cousins etc for some many generations to get a fancy colour pattern. also happens with guppies, finches, buderigars, cockatiels, parrots list goes on.

[flowerpod]

I'm not sure what to think of it. I think they themselves don't care, but I still feel it's a bit sick. I would never do that but I don't breed birds for sale..

[piyaleela]

OMG! that is sick!

[StopFear]

It is true, but I read it is not harmful in small animals like it is in humans or primates.

[flyingSnakess]

that is the whole point why people do it to animals, because it fucks with their genes and dna, maybe not hamfull as such if you do it to humans and primates, different colour patterns, fluffy feathers ect ect but deffinatly not healthy. instead with humans, your more likely to get a kid with 4 toes, two noses and no ears instead of brightly coloured hair and skin...

[youngme1991]

awsome, took mine along time to sit on my hand but it is really confident now. my female hoever seems terified and i dont no y.

[DarkRisingProduction]

LMAO IT IS GROSS XD =D Cute little things though ^_^'

[socallmenothing]

I love the set up you have for them!

[crazyghost360]

how do u train then? cuz we have and their like crazy they do anything they want lol

[draconite420]

patience i heard, lots of it, star with a stick or somthing first

[BirdFantastic]

key word here is hand fed.

[flowerpod]

Hand feeding is not a quarantee. We've had pet store wild birds go soft on us and hand fed birds go wild. They have their own characteristics, too, you know. For crazyghost360: Do not use your hands at all, when near. That's a start. If they fly on your head, do NOT shoo them away with hand, but shake your head..

[dexscottxboxlive]

i have 5 zebra finches, 2 are albino, unfortunatly i had to take one of the albino females out of the main cage today becuase she was veery violently attacking the mother, currently she is in a tiny old hamster cage, but im goin out to get her her own cage, i wana tame her, she is around 4 months i think, is she too old to start taming?

[flowerpod]

I think taming finches depend on their nature. Some will tame at any age if their human is patient enough, some won't. You'll just have to try ;)

[hoover226]

how do you get your zebra finches to be so tame?

[tribulation138]

can u show a video of how your cages are set up??

[brageyboy]

lol I love how those sound, my gran had three of them but she had to give them up because she couldn't take care of them :( lovely birds though, could sit and listen to them for hours!

[springloadedchicken]

yeh, that one was for the ladies!

[gravy666ugetpwnt]

My finches won't let me touch them at all. They fly away whenever I go near them.  They don't want anything to do with me :(

I noticed that my finches also hit on their siblings -.-

According to the lady we got them from, they forget that they are related...

[macawlover2]

What kind of finch is the light tan one that's at the front of the cage? Is it just an unusually light colored zebra?

[bananaPLEASE]

He's all, "See here! I'm handsome one, yes that's right!!"

[1unitedfan]

bird brains, they're so funny

[CreatleLove]

i could only kiss mine but i couldnt touch it wid my hands. lol

[CreatleLove]

mine was not that tame...

[Devin120495]

my birds are just like that but they arent as tame...could you help me

[macawlover2]

He is so tame!!! When I hand feed finches, they're very tame until I put them back into the aviary. Then they bond to the other birds instead of me.

[Djinnlover]

aww, thats so cute

[THEREDCARMAN]

HELP ME I just got 2 zebra and 2 white finches

they are about a month old and i would like to get at least one of the to sit on my finger

HOW COULD I DO IT

[flowerpod]

You'll have to offer your hand, maybe with some goodies, like peeled apple, water melon, food altogether. You'll have to wait for them to come. In time, they'll learn your hand is a good thing and little by little you may leave the goodies off. Do not force them to come to your hand. Make sure nothing can scare them while your hand is close by (sounds, lights, fast movements) It will take some time and patience..

[mshrum555]

yea! he likes what he see

[darkprincess17cvf]

aww i want to train my finch to let me hold him

[Cooooki8]

Lovely bird. How can you macke your Zebrafink

tame ? My birds don´t go on my hand. Tey´re frightened of me !

[xSelenaGomezRoxx]

i no!she just fly like crazy.she doesnt let me touch her!:-(

[ladydawn1973]

Yeah it is a good idea to separate him from his sisters so they siblings will not be feeble small and live short life. I had zebra finches myself as well. They should never mate with family member..ur birds are so cute :)

[keetlover]

Lol..

such young bird to be flirting don't you think?

[flowerpod]

Well they are already 1 year old :)

[keetlover]

Yeah.. but still kinda gross. :)

[xSelenaGomezRoxx]

how do u make ur finch stay on ur hand???plz tell me!

[nonskids]

What a handsom finch.