Keeping Canaries or Finches or other song singing bird together with Puteh

When Keeping Canaries or Finches or other song singing bird together with Puteh

The purpose of this post is to warn fellow Puteh keepers from hearing what some reputable bird shops will advise you to keep canaries or finches or other song singing bird together with Puteh. I don’t know whether you guys/gals know about it but Puteh has this inbuilt art of copying which means, it will learn all the undesirable notes from the other species of singing bird and incorporate into its own buka melody program. Once learnt, is permanent. You may end up having one nice buka Puteh giving you a buka remix consisting of silut notes. And mind you, this silut is not one note or two but infested throughout the whole buka melody, making your bird sounding undesirable. To me, it is horrible. I did not know about this phenomenon until I was enlightened by someone close to me and realized that I was sort of misguided all these years and that I regretted that my actions indeed spoil several good birds that I acquired not mentioning the amount of money that was splurged into the hobby.

Coming back, years ago I received negative comments from previous owners “condemning” me that, “What did you do to the bird? Before I sell you, the buka still loud and the mix is minimal. Now all I can see is this bird act in a funny way, there is one such avenue that the bird pick up the “dirty” sound from other birds. So I am serving this warning to all my beloved Puteh Fans here. If you happen to have such a scenario, either you choose to keep Puteh and forgo your singing bird or keep the later and forgo the previous. If ever you guys may think that the above mentioned is on baseless ground, try it for all you want and don’t regret.

I want to highlight here is that Puteh has this special technique of learning new notes from birds and usually is those not so desirable notes. Imagine you have a bird, the buka is to you perfect, the so called mix is when the one set of notes roll over to the next. When you let a canary coexist with the Puteh, it will learn those undesirable notes from the canary and incorporate into its buka. Many of times, most bird keeper may think that the bird is sick or something and hence begin to administer medicine in the form of antibiotics for the bird. But the bird is perfectly fine. So in the end, the bird may die, the conclusion draw was that the bird die of illness, but the fact is that the owner is the one that “poison” the bird with medicine when the bird is alright. So I just want to re-enforce the idea that if the bird buka in a funny way, there is one such avenue that the bird pick up the “dirty” sound from other birds, rather than is sick.

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Young And Old Putehs

Young And Old Putehs

The age is fairly difficult to tell without some fancy equipment. The good news is Putehs can live over 10 years if it's well cared for.

The easiest way to check if the bird is a young or old bird, then it'll have its baby feathers so feathers will be duller coloured. After its first molt you will start to see a deeper colours, old Putehs don't actually show signs of aging. Ailments might be more common like scaly feet, but this isn't a good indicator because it can happen at any age. Another sign for Puteh aging is the White Eye Ring as it will grow thicker when it get older.

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About 'chai' the Mata Puteh for form

It all depends on your hobby objectives. The usual thing for most bird-keepers to do is to hang their Putehs with other Putehs in hope that:-

(1) The bird will be used to performing even when placed amongst many other Putehs

(2) Some hope their Putehs will 'absorb' or learn to perform like the good ones

(3) That their Putehs will be 'teased' or 'provoked' or 'challenged' so that their Putehs will peak their performance. 

That’s the usual thing.

BUT if your objective is to simply enjoy their singing and companionship plus perhaps to enjoy their observing their behavior, then there really isn't a need to 'chai' your Puteh with other Putehs.

I believe that a bird will come into form due to other factors: mainly:

1) That their cage/aviary is clean and the environment is bird friendly

2) FOOD - this is a very important aspect which cannot be compromised

3) BATH - this is also very important. Contrary to what most people think, bathing is merely to keep bird's plumage beautiful, in fact bathing serves a very important function.
A bird depends very much on its feathers to be able to fly AND more often than not, its plumage will help determine whether it will get a mate. Any bird - whether a Jambul or Puteh or a Hornbill - will spend lots of time preening themselves to ensure their most precious possession, their feathers, are in tip top condition.

If you have observed birds in the wild, the ones with poor plumage condition will almost never get a mate and more likely to be chased away by other male birds whose plumage are in excellent brilliant condition.

The moral is: - the more often you bathe the Puteh (or any bird) you can be sure it will be in top form.

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