Fighting Goldfinches

Hello Everybody,

I found another amazin picture about two males goldfinches fighting to conquer the external feeder
http://www.flickr.com/photos/climberhunt/3163707908/sizes/o/

Best Regards,
Nick

How to make sprouted seed

The most important food for Carduelis diet are Seeds Sprouter
There are 2 ways to make them, handmade or in automatic mode.

Handmade Way:
- Select canaria mix without cole.
- Wash in clean water more times
- Leave seeds into water for 24 hours or more
- Wash in clean water with a cup of vinegar
- Setup seeds into sprouter tray
- Soak seeds into sprouter tray for 8 hours and change water every 3 hours or less
- Seeds will be ready when sprout comes out







Automatic Way: 
- Select canaria mix without cole.
- Wash in clean water more times
- Setup seeds into automatic sprouter tray as this in photo
- Soak seeds into sprouter tray for 6 to 8 hours 

- Seeds will be ready when sprout comes out










DRY WELL BEFORE FEED TO YOUR BIRDS!

Any doubts? Leave a comment!

Nick 

Make your own breeding handmade mash!!!

During breeding season it's importat to feed our birds with high balanced food, most important thing is quote of proteins that should be, in my opinion, between 17% and 21% overall.
Since preparation time should start to feed incresing level of proteins and fat seeds, this is need to prepare partner at coopulation.

Ingredients: 

50 gr    Prepared polenta

20 gr    Cornmeal

25 gr    Soybean meal

1          Tablespoon of honey
4          Eggs
500 ml Milk
1          Pot

Instructions:
Beat eggs and keep apart.

Pour in pot milk and put on stoves, when temperature is hot then add eggs.

Adding slowly prepared polenta and spoon.

Continue with soybean meal and cornmeal, spoon until milk is boiling.

Keep boiling a little (never stop spoon) and add tablespoon of honey.

Continue to spoon while is hot and spread over a cold baking tin, reduce as plain height 1 cm.

You can cut in strips and store in fridge for 1 week!

That's all! You've done!

Feel free to leave a comment for more information!

All the best,
Nick

What do European Goldfinch eat?

Basically European Goldfinch's diet composed by 3 kinds of foods:

- Seeds:
canadian canary seeds, white and black lettuce, grassland seeds mixture, thistle seeds, small hemp seeds, small sunflower seeds,perilla frutescens seeds, few niger, few linseed.
- Vegetables:
carrot, zucchini, cucumbers, lettuce, chicory, radicchio, cabbage leaves.
- Meadow grasses/Wild Plants:
dandelion
- Mash:
occasionally, better handmade.

Ask for more informations!
Nick