Gouldian Finches: Everything About Purchase, Housing, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Diseases

By Matthew M. Vriends

Book Overview

Here's advice and valuable information from a renowned American bird expert on all aspects of feeding, housing, health care, and keeping a happy and healthy Gouldian Finch. Approximately 30 full-color... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812045238
• ISBN13: 9780812045239
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Finch Info

Book has very good detailed info for breeding and keeping Gouldian Finches, recommended

A Great Place to Start

This book is very accessible, has solid information for the beginner or person who just got a bird and needs to quickly know the basics. The photos are lovely, and I would highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in a good overview of gouldians.

Very thorough treatment

If you are serious about raising these beautiful birds, this book is a must. It covers everything I needed to care for my Gouldians. The pictures are also quite nice. The section on genetics is very important for us who want to breed them, which is a lot of fun.

A good to buy book!!

I found this book very interesting, and providing helpfull information for the average finch keeper. I have been raising and breeding exclusively gouldians for about 13 years now, so I find the genetics section in this book (though not VERY elaborate) of primordial importance. I also liked the vivid description of the nuptial dance, the sound and chirps etc... as well as the pictures. So, if to say, on a scale of ten, 1 being a very silly book and 10 an extensive genetical analyisis and nutritional guide for expert breeders, I give this book a well-earned 7.

A Good Place To Begin

This book is one of a series of pet books which do actually tell you most of what you need to know if you want to keep the pets concerned.For once, I did things the right way round and bought the book BEFORE the birds, and as a result I have learned a number of tips which I hope will make my keeping of these beautiful birds more successful.The photos are excellent but I query whether the average finch keeper would need quite so much detail on finch genetics - and am left amazed that breeders seem to be going to such lengths to breed all colour out of a finch whose chief attraction, to me at any rate, is its bright plumage!