My Zebra finches laid eggs (advice needed)

[bckrazy]

Aww, good luck with your babies! Finches are beautiful. My sister had a pair, which she was told was 2 females, that ended up breeding but the eggs never hatched.

I know you have to culture Daphnia (it's like a little water flea), it's also fed to baby fish strangely enough -_-... and you have to order it. All of the items, except for mealworms and egg food which are at pet stores, have to be special-ordered as far as I know. It sounds like you could also feed grindal worms and white worms(which need to be ordered and cultured). There's also a good chance that you'll need to hand-feed the babies in order for them to survive, I have a friend who breeds Cockatiels and hand-feeds all of her babies for the best health and for socialization. It's VERY hard and demanding. Luckily, there are hand-feeding formulas that you can buy, and usually if you add the powder to your finches regular seed they'll instinctively feed it to their babies. Here's some link I found that might help....

http://www.finchworld.com/health/foo...ng_formula.htm

http://www.birdsnways.com/articles/spenser.htm

http://www.finchworld.com/Birds/Finc...h_breeding.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/7...inch_page.html (<--- good feeding info!)

[dogzr#1]

Thank you so much!! Those web sites were really helpful