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Dealing With an Aggressive Finch

February 6, 2021

My pair of gouldian finch have a brood of 3 chicks. The chicks are about 15 days old and quite demanding. Recently I have noticed that the male is becoming aggressive to his mate and not allowing her to feed or sit in the nest. She wants to feed her chicks and care for them but everytime she gets close the male chases her off and starts pecking at her.

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How can I stop this behavior? I'm getting quite concerned for my female. This is the pair's first successful brood.

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February 6, 20210 found this helpful
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You absolutely need to separate them as soon as possible.
A male can become so aggressive he may kill the female.
He wants to keep her mating with him. Not sitting on the eggs or raising the babies.
Please remove him to another cage as soon as possible.
Males will sometimes attack and kill their own chicks as well in order to keep the female mating with him.
It's horrible, but sadly true.

 

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February 8, 20210 found this helpful
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Hopefully, since the aggressive male has calmed down, he will continue caring for the babies and refrain from being aggressive with the female. Although this will not help your current situation, I would suggest that you buy some Society finches and read up on the process of having society finches incubate the Gouldin's eggs and raise the babies once the eggs hatch.

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Society finches make excellent foster parents for various types of finches that aren't very good at parenting.

 
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