lol you could give Gherkin a muddy foot and charge an extra $5 for signed photos lol.

I wasn't really interested in birds until my friend gave me my first pet bird an albino budgie. Over the years my collection has grown. My first finches were a pair of zebras but a cat got the male and it's leg was pretty much ripped off and yet it survived a whole day. The male I bought then escaped from the aviary so I got another which died from the cold and the week after the female died (also from the cold) which leads me to the female I have now but because the pet shops house different finch species together and bengalese and zebra females look the same I accidently got a bengalese female for the price of a zebra (bargain). Then something got into the aviary ripped all the finches to pieces babies and all the only survivors were all my budgies and the bengalese female which I still have. So I had to buy another finch so I wanted a Bengalese but all the shops had run out of them so I got a Zebra. The female has escaped twice but always comes back trying to get to her partner so I put all the birds in a cage in the aviary, leave the door open and the next morning the female is in the aviary. The cross bred finches look much better than the pure breds, and I can sell them to the pet shops for quite a bit more than they sell pure bred Zebra finches.

Unfortunately I haven't had any succes with breeding the budgies. I do apologise for the long story.