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Tame gouldian finches(entire cage). Every gouldian was artificially incubated from day 1 and hatched in an incubator. Successful hand rearing does not insure a tame gouldian finch, as a few clearly prefer I go away. However it does make nail clipping and other necessary handling less traumatic on all birds. If you have extensive knowledge of rearing delicate birds and experience hand feeding parrots you might be successful raising them from eggs or chicks that are abandonded, floor layed eggs, or eggs laid in feeders, etc as was my case...Instead of tossing these eggs out, they were incubated and amazingly hatched and survived and thrived... It was a tedious effort that I am reluctant to do again because of the work involved in keeping all the chicks alive. It was worth every night awake and the most difficult attempt to raise baby birds, but against so many odds they are here!!!! They hatched January 23, 2011--February 7, 2011...took 56 days to hand rear...not 4 weeks(please) after 55 days they can eat Totally on their own, before that they still need to be fed several times a day well. They fledged at 27 days and flew all over the place....they all molted into their colors after 4 months exactly. They are good breeders and can incubate their own babies with no problems contrary to what many experts claim(much nonsense) Also if isolated from other gouldian finches that carry air sac mites they will be free of them and require NO life long treatments to control the mites in their lungs.