Goldfinch Song Teaching

To start with, there are a few important facts that everyone should know. The goldfinches have a permanent song. Once they have learned it and grown up with it, it is nearly impossible to change it.

• The goldfinch sing, but it does not sing the entire year, it is not a player that you enable or disable.

• You cannot teach more than one goldfinch at the same location, that is if you are using a player – like a tape player or CD player – to teach it the new language.

• You can teach one bird the other bird’s song.

 

Now, we will go through things you have to take care of when finding a bird.

1. You must take a 7-8 days old goldfinch from its nest. That is the best to do.

2. If you do not have a bird that is that old, you must buy one with a gray beak, not the head only, but the beak too must be gray. That is to be sure that it is a young bird.

3. After you find a bird with a gray beak, it is good not to buy it at the beginning of season. Because the father might have had some faults in his song, and this can affect the young bird. Especially in the beginning of the season, where the father is full of energy. In the middle or in the ending of the season, the father is not that wild.

 

 These are the steps you have to do in order to teach the chosen bird.

1. Make sure that you have the specific song you want to teach the bird. And also that you have it in a format you can easily play it.

2. And then you put the bird in a solid place.

3. Same thing with the player. It must be placed in a solid place.

4. Do not change the location of either the bird or the player. That goes for the space between the player and the bird, plus the height. They must be at the same level of height.

5. Make sure that the bird clearly hears the player. 

6. The room must not be empty and the walls should not be made of baton. This is because the sound would echo back to the bird’s ears. This will make some of the tone letters double and longer.

7. It is recommended to cover the cage’s roof. We do this in order to make the bird stay calm and not look up all the time.

8. It is also recommended to make it listen to the tape at least 4 hours every day. Make sure to split this time throughout the day, and also be sure to play the tape when he is hungry or eating in the morning. When the bird is hungry, it tries to listen to the tape.

9. We keep this going on until the bird is old enough to marry. Then the song stays permanent in its memory.

 

You do this process with hybrid birds too. But you stay playing the tape for it, at least for 3-4 years, that depends on what kind of song it is you are trying to teach it, and which letters is used within this song. Also you should not put it with another bird for a long period throughout these years.

            After the 1 year we can use the hybrid bird to feed young goldfinches as the father, this will help to teach the younger birds the tone letters. When the younger birds are 35 days old, we take the hybrid bird away from them. We then continue with the younger birds from the same song tape, that the hybrid father used.

 

This is how you teach a bird and a hybrid bird a new song. Please be patient for now, we will post a new topic regarding how to treat this bird in the moulting process.

 

Sincerely,

Mossa