{"id":449,"date":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/should-i-provide-nests-for-my-birds\/"},"modified":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"should-i-provide-nests-for-my-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/should-i-provide-nests-for-my-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I provide nests for my birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zebra finches will sleep in a nest all year round if one is available. For domesticated_x000D_<br \/>\nzebra finches there is no difference between the two nest types (resting and breeding_x000D_<br \/>\nnests). Allow one nest to each pair. <br \/>_x000D_\n<\/p>\n<p>_x000D_<br \/>\n_x000D_<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t provide nests for my birds out of the breeding season. Our captive_x000D_<br \/>\nzebra finches are not subject to the same seasonal changes that wild zebras are, so there_x000D_<br \/>\nis nothing to prevent them from breeding all year if they have a nest. In the long run_x000D_<br \/>\nbreeding constantly is bad for our birds and will shorten their lives considerably. My_x000D_<br \/>\nrecommendation is that if you are ready to let your birds breed and the birds are in good_x000D_<br \/>\nhealth (remember, provide lots of calcium), then by all means do provide a nest. But once_x000D_<br \/>\nthey have bred three times consecutively remove the nest again for a few months. A few_x000D_<br \/>\npairs have been known to take breaks on their own, but in general, we have to stop them_x000D_<br \/>\nfrom breeding themselves to death. (the alternative is to either separate males and_x000D_<br \/>\nfemales, or provide poor quality food. First option is a recommended alternative, the_x000D_<br \/>\nsecond is not for obvious ethical reasons).<br \/>_x000D_<br \/>\n<br \/>_x000D_<br \/>\n<br \/>_x000D_<br \/>\n<br \/>_x000D_<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zebra finches will sleep in a nest all year round if one is available. For domesticated_x000D_ zebra finches there is no difference between the two nest types (resting and breeding_x000D_ nests). Allow one nest to each pair. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Personally, I don&#8217;t provide nests for my birds out of the breeding season. Our captive_x000D_ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-post","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebrafinch.info\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}