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Lavender Waxbills - gender determination from calls
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Lavender Waxbills - cock calls and sounds. Determine gender from Lavender's calls). Many say that the easiest way to sex Lavender Waxbill finches is by their calls. This page presents some of their calls/ sounds. Three of the WFS's most respected members helped put calls and gender together. As a test, the gender of a number of birds was then determined from their calls. Each bird's gender was then confirmed by DNA testing. The indentification from the calls was 100% right. Call 1 - contact call. The cal...
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Lavender Waxbills - gender determination from calls
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Determining Lavender's gender from calls, housing, feeding and breeding. Gender determinination by call, confirmed by DNA sexing. Whatever other challenges Lavender Waxbills throw at you, after using this site at least you will know that you have pairs. Determing gender of Lavender Waxbills is not difficult. Experts say it's easy from their calls. They're right. What's the problem then? Seems we are good at describing colour and smells to each other but poor at describing complex sounds in writing. Can s...
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Lavender Waxbills - feeding is very straightforward
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Feeding with seed and eggfood. Richard's seed mix which I also use is -. Foreign finch - 15Kg. Japanese millet - 3kg. Red millet - 3kg. Plain canary - 2kg Niger. Grit and grated cuttlefish is always available and vitamins are supplied. Thawed frozen livefood is given daily in the form of buffalo worms and Pinkies. Thawed in water so they appear clean and juicy. Some pairs eat very little, some eat Buffaloes but not Pinkies. Others can't get enough. Paul de Nil's rearing food. Perhaps increase the weight ...
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Lavender Waxbills - listen to the hen's call
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Variation in hen calls and infrequency is a challenge. There is much less agreement on what is a hen call than the pure two-phase, classic cock call. Where there is agreement. The hen call is described as being softer or quieter than the cock call. It is a simple call. It isn't especially shrill. The same simple call is repeated 2 to 4 times. Note that hens call much less frequently than cocks. But what is the hen call? It might not be a single call, it could be several calls. So, how is it done? Wait fo...
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Useful Links
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Blue faced - intro and housing. Blue faced - feeding and breeding. Housing, feeding and breeding. Description of 'The Egg Factory'. Diagrams of 'The Egg Factory'. Photos of chick development. Housing, feeding and breeding. Graham - general comments. Graham - common diseases. Quarantining for new and existing stock. Excellent for New Zealand birds. Hopefully the links below will prove useful. Cuban - Carlos - now lives in Florida - beautiful site. Covers all parrot finches. Please use banner above.
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Lavender Waxbills - listen to cock call variation
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The complication of cock-bird call suppression has already been covered. Plus, there can be variations of the cock Lavender's call due to age and other birds around. Sound clip below is of a bird, now called Alan, sold to me as a Lavender hen called Elaine. As the calls evolved/ varied, a name-change was required to Alan. Recordings made of Elaine/ Alan showed how over a short time his calls varied. First half of sound clip is Alan in early May being very circumspect. DNA test confirmed - Alan. This site...
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Lavender Waxbills - gender determination from calls
http://www.lavender-waxbill.com//Gender_and_calls.html
Lavender Waxbills - cock calls and sounds. Determine gender from Lavender's calls). Many say that the easiest way to sex Lavender Waxbill finches is by their calls. This page presents some of their calls/ sounds. Three of the WFS's most respected members helped put calls and gender together. As a test, the gender of a number of birds was then determined from their calls. Each bird's gender was then confirmed by DNA testing. The indentification from the calls was 100% right. Call 1 - contact call. The cal...
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Lavender Waxbills - Breeding - Foster or parent rear?
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A classic scenario of one species appearing to be 'safe' but. All (most), of the 2006 successes were due to one breeder. Then, he, Richard Prosser emigrated. Look at what happened in 2007! Thanks to the WFS for permission to reproduce their records. Records for more Waxbill species can be found at www.waxbillfinchsociety.org.uk/Breedings. First pair to nest were totally tolerant. Sat happily in secluded compartment through their bob-hole while I inspected. Well, this pair did, for this round! A third pai...
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Parrotfinches - Keeping, breeding - Pin-tailed, Blue-faced, Red-headed, Forbes or Tricolor
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Visiting Auckland, New Zealand? The best bird-watching I've ever had. Was only 3 metres from a wild Kiwi! Blue faced - intro and housing. Blue faced - feeding and breeding. Housing, feeding and breeding. Description of 'The Egg Factory'. Diagrams of 'The Egg Factory'. Photos of chick development. Housing, feeding and breeding. Graham - general comments. Graham - common diseases. Quarantining for new and existing stock. Excellent for New Zealand birds. Click button for section on Blue-faced Parrot Finches.