How to Breed Your Own Zebra Finches And take care of it

                                               How to Breed Your Own Zebra Finches

This is how Zebra Finches birds should be raised :

Zebra is one of the most popular types of sterilized birds in Central Australia and in the world. It is not like to live in cold southern humid areas and avoid staying in tropical regions in the far north. Zebra also lives in Indonesia and in East Timor and some other countries. The zebra bird may reach 18 cm in length, and loves to eat grass seeds and grains, and makes beautiful peeps and frequent quick calls. The zebra bird resides in large areas of grassland and forests, probably near water. The zebra bird used to live in human-inhabited areas, as well as exploiting man-made water sources and areas where forests were cut down.

Life span of Zebra :

Zebra’s life span varies based on specific sinusoidal factors, for example, and the environmental factors surrounding a bird, while its average age when it lives in nature is seven years, while its average life when it lives outside nature is from eight to eleven years or even twelve years.

The basic nutrition of zebra :

Zebra, like many birds, depends mainly on grains, such as food, because it has been able to cope with peeling grains automatically without help, as millet seeds are preferred, but it may eat other types of seeds, and most zebra birds that are raised in cages eat a meal Eggs. Also, the zebra birds are voracious birds that move a lot and cause chaos and disperse seeds everywhere. Doing this behavior in nature helps spread the seeds of plants in many places, and the availability of water is very important to the life of this bird, so he will drink whenever he sees water. 

NestingAll zebra finches need a large enclosure in which they can fly and play. After all, because they aren't typically handled, that enclosure is often their only space for exercise. The minimum cage size for a breeding pair is 30 inches long, 18 inches high, and 18 inches wide with bar spacing of a half inch or less. For optimal mental and physical health, it's a good rule of thumb to provide your birds with the largest cage you can fit and afford.

The most important steps for mating zebra :

If the male and female did not fight at the beginning, then most likely, they will agree, and they may need two months to agree, but if they do not agree within three months, it is better to separate them from each other, and it is preferable that the new couple be placed in the cage without a nest for two weeks. When a male is placed in a nest in which the female was, the nest must be removed from the cage before placing it, while it is possible to place a female in a cage with a male nest, this bird does not easily mate, when placing the male and female for mating, make sure not to fight them in the beginning 'and must Smooth substrates are available until the pollination process takes place, the female must have a male compatible with it two weeks before the first egg is laid, otherwise the eggs will not be fertilized,

Egg-Laying and Incubation Time :

Zebra eggs need from two to three weeks to hatch, in the event that it does not hatch after one and twenty days have elapsed, this indicates that the eggs are not fertilized, but in the case of unfertilized eggs it is better to separate the male and the female and attach each of them to a new husband, The bird should not give a lot of building nest materials so that the chicks do not fall before their departure time, and the chicks are kept away from their parents when the black beak becomes creamy in color by the first quarter of the length of the beak.