How Do I Start Raising A Goldfinch?

What do I need before buying a goldfinch?

One of the most important things you need before purchasing a goldfinch is to collect a lot of information, as you are currently doing on this subject.

You must also study the place where you will place the bird, because the goldfinch is very sensitive to the cold or direct sun throughout the day, and is also vulnerable to predators such as cats and birds of prey. The place should be quiet, without disturbance, and there should be no people around him all day.

After you know where you will put the bird, you must buy it from people known to be trustworthy in your area… Do not be tempted by the price, buy at a higher price and be healthy and free of insects and diseases, or buy it cheap with poor quality, and the worst thing is that he will give you a female instead of a male because it is difficult to differentiate between The male and female goldfinch, and the female does not sing as beautifully as the male.

You must ask the seller if this bird is from the wild, that is, it was caught or born to its owner. Because a wild bird that is caught is not easy to take care of, it is very afraid and is vulnerable to death due to lack of sufficient experience, because it is not accustomed to the cage, and it takes a long time to get used to it.

What do I need after buying Goldfinch?

The most important thing that you must maintain is the hygiene factor. As we said, the goldfinch is very sensitive to insects and diseases, more than other birds such as parrots. If your birds become infested with mites and insects due to poor hygiene, your bird will become weak, with many symptoms such as feather loss and baldness. The possibility of breastfeeding becomes double.

The water must also be changed every 8 to 12 hours, especially in the hot summer, because hot water exposed to direct sun may cause them to suffer from digestive diseases or smallpox.

Do not just give them millet, you should diversify the sources such as lettuce, semi-boiled eggs, cucumbers, apples and other fruits and vegetables.

some notes

If you are a beginner in raising goldfinch, or it is your first experience, I do not advise you to buy very expensive mutants, or large birds that are ready and trained to sing, because their price is very expensive, and you may not know how to deal with it and it may die in your hands.

Therefore, it is better to buy a young chick that has not yet changed its feathers. Its price will be cheap, and through it you will learn experience in how to deal with goldfinches. It has some of its many behaviors, such as during the mating season, changing feathers, illness, etc. After this period passes, you can start buying high-quality birds.

This was some of the information needed by every beginner who intends to buy a goldfinch or already has one. We will discuss in other topics the methods of training it to sing, or the methods of producing it at home…