Finches?

[IRescue452]

Yeah you want to be able to watch them interact

[Giselle]

Finches are nice to look at...That's about it I haven't heard of many tame *pet* finches so I can't help you there. However, don't buy a cage with bar widths larger than 3/8". 1/2" is too big. I won't even buy 1/2" for my keets and tiel and a finch is about 3/4 the size of my birds. Even if the finch can't fly out, they can get their head stuck and I have seen that happen before.

I don't much about finches and fighting, but no matter where you buy your finch - ALWAYS quarentine! Keep the birds in separate cages for about 3 weeks to a month before you slowly introduce a new bird into the cage and you should be fine. As long as the cage is roomy, you shouldn't have many problems. I would say that a large horizontal cage would be best for 10 finches.

[IRescue452]

Yeah I guess even 1/2 inch was bigger than we had. The fewer the better with finches.

[husky_lover]

One thing I know about finches is that if you get a male and female you will have babies no to long after you bring them home. My grandmother had finches and she ended of with about 25 of them with in 3 months!

[Husky_mom]

I have no expertice on finches but theres someone who might help, theres this person known as "Finch" .......on www.tailfeathersnetwork.com and she knows a lot about finches........you can aske her about taming tecniques and all......

[Argranade]

Actauly clipped finches are easy to tame, after there molt and they can fly again there still stay tame because there used to being held when there wings where clipped.

All the finches I had where always tame, there great pets .. I love to watch them fly around the toom and listen to them sing to each other.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Finches are wonderful little birds. At the place I used to work we did pet rescue and we had many finches. We had mostly zebra finches, a few society finches, and a few goulden finches. We also had two Java Rice finches, those were my favorite.

Like Cathy said you'll need a flight cage. The one she linked to is a good size, however the bars are too far apart. This is a good cage and very simular to the one we used for the colony of Zebra finches we had. Finches like to fly up and be high, so having a tall cage is important.

[MagicForPets]

Actauly clipped finches are easy to tame, after there molt and they can fly again there still stay tame because there used to being held when there wings where clipped.

All the finches I had where always tame, there great pets .. I love to watch them fly around the toom and listen to them sing to each other.

I would love a tamed finch but I'm not too "into" clipping wings... it's rather cruel if you ask me. If it causes pain to an animal, it's considered cruel... to me anyway.