Blue capped Waxbill - successful foster breeding, housing & feeding


Blue Capped Cordon Bleu Waxbill (Blue capped/ Blue headed/ Cordon Bleu Waxbill) Foster breeding, housing and feeding
Blue Capped Waxbills - more attractive than the red-cheeked Cordon Bleu but that is just down to personal taste parent-reared Cordon Bleu cock How many names does he have? Blue-headed Cordon Bleu Blue-capped Cordon Bleu Blue-capped Waxbill Blue-headeded Waxbill Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
for such a willing breeder, relatively few were 'got to the perch' in the UK pre-2007 needs are simple but many perish between egg and perch - often abandoned or ejected perhaps the species had been too simple and breeders had moved on to more challenging species fortunately several UK breeders took the Blue-capped seriously in 2007 numbers bred are now good - (UK WFS - 2007 = 162, 2008 = 173) perfect husbandry is for birds to parent rear but even now the need is to ensure a stable, sustainable UK population fostering delivers with good Bengalese/ Society Finches - a breeding stud can be easily trebled in a year, even by newcomers to Waxbills the resultant F1 youngsters show no signs of imprinting indeed F1's are calm, used to cages and eggfood and.... may be more willing to breed in smaller quarters than wild-caught (not evident in 2009 with F1's)
Pluses and minuses of the Blue-Capped Cordon Bleu
Positives very attractive, moderately sized waxbill quite active/ calm/ not prone to stress/ intelligent easy to care for easy to sex (even at fledging)	Negatives 1 breeding pair of Cordon Bleu's only per cage/ flight seed sweepers (empty container to find what they want) only very slightly prone to egg binding not always readily fostered by 'poor' Bengalese parent-rearing with wild caught can be problematic
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