Cage & Aviary Birds

DIET PRINCIPLES: consistency, variety, quality

FINCHES

FOR any newcomer who considers taking on foreign finches, I have an invariable piece of advice: visit the breeder. The advantage here is that it gives you the opportunity not merely to ask questions but actually to see where the birds have come from, take note of the management systems used and – most importantly – to find out how they have been fed. This is not the case

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