Gouldians used to have the reputation of being very hard to breed.  I bred them for a while and found them to be very easy.  I had humidifiers and full spectrum lighting.  They use a small nest box rather than a cup type nest. My 5 pairs raised about 50 babies in my birdroom with a scarlet macaw, a couple of loud amazons and about 8 other big birds. I finally wore out from the cleaning chores and sold them to other breeders.  In Oklahoma I couldn't get that much for mine. When I first started they sold for $65 each and later even less.

You may find that breeders will sell them for less than stores do.

They are exquisitely beautiful, aren't they?

The males have a very high pitched song and he's the cutest thing when in breeding condition.  Bounces up and down on the perch with his head tucked down toward his breast and sings like crazy. Males will sing like this without a mate during the normal breeding season. They don't sing as loudly as canaries and the song sounds nothing like a canary.

Annie

 

Wow ... 150 is cheap!  They go for aprox 250 -300+ here in the Va Bch area!

 

Smiles!

 

Kristi

hi

 

l have lady goulian finches ..they wont stop laying the eggs ..now hand feeding them ....lucky me ....

 

l got mine from a pet story male -pong  female -ping ..ping and pong lol ......anyways they were 139.00 each ....now l dont see pet stores keeping them ..l have two beautiful males ..three females ...

one male is red head ..the other is grey with a nice teal body ....

 

so now l know they can go up or come down in price but wow .that is pricy but well worth the little guys ..sing so nice ...

Aside from hard to breed (although scociey finches make EXELENT foster parents) it also takes so long for the colors to be in full  spectrum, that is also partly why the price is high. I found them to be charming and wonderful little birds with an amusing personality, song and dance, I paid $150.00 for a pair from a breeder. :)