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
ironic that for such a willing breeder, relatively few are 'got to the perch' in the UK needs are simple but many perish between egg and perch - often abandoned or ejected perhaps it has been too simple and breeders have moved on to more challenging species with the import ban unlikely to be lifted the need right now (in the UK) is for captive-reared birds in numbers the Blue-capped Waxbill is 'secure' in Australia - along with the red-cheeked Cordon Bleu perfect husbandry is for birds to parent rear but right now the need is for 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 (time will tell)
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) slightly prone to egg binding not always readily fostered by 'poor' Bengalese parent-rearing with wild caught can be problematic
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