Gulf Coast Finches
Requests for some of my past articles have gotten to the point where instead of attaching files to emails, I thought it would be easier to put up a website where all were available in one place.
At this point, no frills are intended, but if I find something of interest to add, then it will be done.
The Green Day Diet is the foundation for everything that’s been accomplished here in terms of breeding. I developed it in 2008 and since then it has proved to produce healthy finches. My original breeders are still busy at work, and the 500-plus additions have taken to the diet without any complaints. Even my pair of Parakeets love it!
I have 30 species of finch in my program--from Africa, Australia and Asia--which indicates it not only is standing the test of time, but is universal in appeal.
The Egg Food portion of the diet has replaced the need for any live food as a source of protein, but it is only part of the scientifically-researched diet. It’s called The Green Day Diet for good reason. The vegetables used have been selected for a balance of vitamins, minerals and carotene, digestibility, ease and success of breeding and a host of other reasons.
The best part of the diet is it is all natural, and its components can be found at almost all grocery stores.
All of the finches bred here have been parent-reared with no live food. Everything a parent can impart to its offspring—calls, inoculates, genetics—remain intact. These are true replicates of the parents.
I consider Gulf Coast Finches to be every bit as much a research station as a breeding facility. Constant research, application, observation and compiling results is what I consider the “mind” portion of what is done here, and the husbandry is a process that is created by it.
The two areas I concentrate on are Digestive Efficiency and Adaptive Behavior. These are referred to in several articles.
I have a passion for birds and it is extremely important to me that breeders have information that gives them a good prospect for results. Here in the United States, we face the peril of losing our source of imports, and it is my effort to make breeding of wild-caughts easy enough that most people with a reasonable effort can maintain a larger pool of bloodlines. Any of these articles may be freely re-published in hopes that more people are equipped with what I consider honest and true breeding information.
Comments and questions are always appreciated in the spirit of preserving the future existence of the various finch species.
Doug Taylor
Beaumont, Texas, USA
I often get requests to republish some of my articles and I thought it would be easier to put up a website where all were available in one place.
I've got some good news. I'm starting to add some pictures to the site, so you can better visualize a few of the things I describe.
The August edition of Breeder's Notes is now published. It covers such things as Production, Cages, Nest Facings, Seed, Converts, Zebras and Catering To Their Needs.
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Introduction
The Green Day Diet is the foundation for everything that’s been accomplished here in terms of breeding. I developed it in 2008 and since then it has proved to produce healthy finches. My original breeders are still busy at work, and the 500-plus additions have taken to the diet without any complaints. Even my pair of Parakeets love it!
I have 30 species of finch in my program--from Africa, Australia and Asia--which indicates it not only is standing the test of time, but is universal in appeal.
The Egg Food portion of the diet has replaced the need for any live food as a source of protein (see the July 2010 Breeder's Notes about trials on a protein boost), but it is only part of the scientifically-researched diet. It’s called The Green Day Diet for good reason. The vegetables used have been selected for a balance of vitamins, minerals and carotene, digestibility, ease and success of breeding and a host of other reasons.
The best part of the diet is it is all natural, and its components can be found at almost all grocery stores.
All of the finches bred here have been parent-reared with no live food. Everything a parent can impart to its offspring—calls, inoculates, genetics—remain intact. These are true replicates of the parents.
I consider Gulf Coast Finches to be every bit as much a research station as a breeding facility. Constant research, application, observation and compiling results is what I consider the “mind” portion of what is done here, and the husbandry is a process that is created by it.
The two areas I concentrate on are Digestive Efficiency and Adaptive Behavior. These are referred to in several articles.
I have a passion for birds and it is extremely important to me that breeders have information that gives them a good prospect for results. Here in the United States, we face the peril of losing our source of imports, and it is my effort to make breeding of wild-caughts easy enough that most people with a reasonable effort can maintain a larger pool of bloodlines. Any of these articles may be freely re-published in hopes that more people are equipped with what I consider honest and true breeding information.
Comments and questions are always appreciated in the spirit of preserving the future existence of the various finch species.
Doug Taylor
Beaumont, Texas, USA
