Breeders or Wanna~be's - Page 2

07-11-2007, 02:45 PM

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I would like to put up a post about eggs in nest & chick progression.. Maybe also a weight chart...

Denise I think this idea would be very educational as well as helpful to those that are new to having babies in their care.

07-11-2007, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by 2horse

I am in mid winter right now. The ringies are working the nest box.........but they have worked before and done nothing. I think I have to put them in pairs because maybe they don't like a colony. The suns (in pairs) are having a rest and breed from spring into the summer. This past season I got some autumn babies. The budgies (colony) have boxes,only because of the snow, but they are not doing anything right now. They should not be breeding in winter anyhow. I would like to exchange information although I have to say I don't weigh and record that often anymore, only if I think there is a problem. The other part of breeding records, like eggs, hatches and bands I am ok with recording. I did deworm my birds and will be doing the second deworming very shorty. They are still on winter feeding and I will change probably next week, but for sure by the end of July.

This is really interesting to me Angie,

I have never bred any of your kind of birds (except budgies, years ago)
I think the Ring Necks are so elegant looking... It would be so cool to watch them from eggs on through feathering... (You do have a good camera, ready & waiting right?)

Now do you pull for hand feeding?

Now My birds breed all year long... I just give them breaks and only allow the 3 nests a year... For my Linnies & P'lets...

Canaries only breed from Dec. to April.. and allowed 2 nests...

The Suns are also such a beautiful bird.. I would love to see them grow up..

Do you pull them for hand feeding?

I would love to see a whole post on nest boxes, nesting habits, egg laying..
The whole process... Maybe we could start them on this board... So people looking for that could find it here....

What do you all think?

07-11-2007, 03:59 PM

I certainly think we could start a whole post. I take the suns at about 4 weeks depending on the baby. That way they have lots of parent time and then they get hand feeding to make well balanced pets. Budgies I sometimes take at about 18 days, I cant leave them longer because they fight hand feeding. The ringies I will probably leave the first clutch because I need my parents to know the process. My birds are outside so they get to experience natural daylight and temperature changes and this influences breeding.

07-11-2007, 05:23 PM

OK... so you are breeding with natural lighting... How nice for you...
I artificial light mine.. We do not have nice reliable weather here...LOL

This is really exciting for me...

07-11-2007, 05:38 PM

I MIGHT become a breeder again

Not to breed to the common public, but to help buy land, and be a conservationalist, and breed endangered/rare birds and rehab them into th ewild. I rehab baby birds I get in the summer back into the wild and to be honest I rehab them pretty good and I have seen most of the babies sitll thriving that I have released a few years ago. Not as tame, but they let me throw food for them and get ery close compared to the more wilder ones (refering to Robins, Wrens, House Sparrow, Starlings, Chickadees, (the crows and seagulls I helped rehab at Sarvey Wildlife Center) and this one type of bird thats all grey, chickadees size with red above its eyes (I used to know the name of the specie))

In the future if I ever do what I say, I would liek to breed endnagered and rare birds and help them repopulate back into the wild, and make sure ther eis still some of their species left if worst comes to worst.

I do NOT NO NO, DO NOT believe in warehouse breeding, like with what those ex breeders that auction their birds off do.. I do not believe in not supplying toys and entertainment and only have a perch and food dishes and once a year a nest box, NOT what I want to become!!!!

I want to have (if my this dream comes through) a wildlife exhibit, and have HUGE aviaries and have a few pairs aka mini flocks of a certian specie in this huge aviary no smaller than 60ftlong 50ft wide and 20ft tall, and this is for the large macaws or cockatoos, and get a bit smaller for the smaller birds, and no smaller than 20ft x 20ft 20 ft for the smallest birds I want to breed.

And I would do my HARDEST to make their aviary/habitat in captivity almost like their native home..

Just me here.. and my beliefs

07-11-2007, 05:47 PM

Welcome Beautiful Birds. You give me hope that your generation will take a more compassionate and active role in how animals are treated by humans.

07-11-2007, 06:00 PM

Welcome beautiful birds. I think I believe in the same things you do. My birdies are housed in full flight aviaries not suspended cages. They also have toys and branches for entertainment. My next aviaries are going to be fully planted. My birds also have separate bath dishes big enough for shallow swimming pools. The babies get to be with the parents for a way longer time than is considered normal and are raised in groups with my older pet birds. I am very against factory breeding.

07-12-2007, 10:30 AM

I myself do not have the room or luxury of fully flighted cages... It is in the plans for the future. An addition to our home, with running water, electricity, lots of windows & skylights, all the necessities, is what is in our plans. I can't wait to get them to the main floor of the house. My pairs are all in 30x30 breeding cages, they all have toys, mixed perches, boings (vertical & horizontal). They are fed fresh food 2x a day year round, & prior to breeding season, & 4 to 6x a day after chicks start hatching. I feed them what I feel, is the best foods, I have available and in season. We also add vitamins, & supplements, for healthier, stronger, more nutritionally balanced birds.
I am very proud of the breeding program that we have established.
We have raised some very sweet, outstanding young chicks, and I have a wonderful extended family because of it.
I am happy you are planning on making your way back into they breeding aspect of birds. It sounds like you have done a lot of research and are heading into it with a better understanding of the whole process.
Please keep us updated on your progress. As you can see we do have a lot of people who enjoy, the wonderful world of the developing life of our chicks.

07-16-2007, 01:05 PM

I'm always interested in any info!

I have two wonderful male LC Amazons I hope to eventually possibly breed. Other than that I have no real interest in breeding birds. I just have one male LC in particular, a wild caught older guy - who is such a fantastically intelligent, healthy little guy, I think he has great genes! And for that reason, I'd love to see him have the chance to be a papa bird, in his lifetime. He is "in Love" with one of my macaws, though. So I don't know if he would be interested, in this point, in having a mate of his own species.... My thought was that if I can find a mature female LC zon I will get her, and if he isn't interested, hopefully his younger buddy will decide he fancies her. Also that would give the female a choice, effectively, of two males. I would accept whatever the birds decided. LOL

07-16-2007, 01:11 PM

Maybe 2 male zons would fight to the death. I have heard stories about male zons.