How do I breed them I always have a few nest boxes available in the inside flights for the Javas to roost in, but during the summer I put up a shelf of boxes in the outside flight across the back wall. It takes about 10 budgie boxes which seem to work well giving enough choice that I’m not aware of squabbling. I haven’t previously made much change to their diet during breeding in the past (they’ve seemingly ignored egg food), but having recently read a book on avicultural diets by KC Lint of San Diego zoo (Feeding Cage Birds) I’m starting to


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augment their diet with mealworms and trout pellets. Time will tell.


What colour Java Sparrows do you like I started with 6 birds (4 grays and 2 silver) and now have over 30 from that original core. It’s not been a meteoric explosion but enough to keep me happy. I do like the wild grays for all the


reasons I outlined at the top and the silver is a muted form of that still showing those distinctive patterns. I don’t like the whites as they don’t exhibit those exciting contrasts.


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