Someone gets himself one parrot and teaches him to speak, and someone wants to try breeding budgerigars, so he buys a couple and is looking forward to the offspring. What do you need to know so that expectations are not in vain?
Instructions
Step 1
Parrots also know how to love, therefore, pairs are not always obtained from those birds from which we would like. If you observe an ideal pair of parrots, you can immediately see how the male carefully touches the female with his beak, lovingly fiddling with her feathers, and treating her with a delicacy.
Step 2
It is advisable to take young, unrelated birds for breeding, but the female can only be laid from 1-1.5 years old. By this time, she will be fully formed and will be able to lay the first egg without harm to her health.
Step 3
If you provide 16-hour daylight hours and full feeding of parrots (fruits, vegetables and herbs), then you can breed at any time of the year. The main thing is to observe the temperature regime, for the embryos it takes from 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.
Step 4
The incentive to start breeding is a special nesting house for budgies, although some females can lay eggs on the floor of the cage without waiting for the owner to equip the nest. It is a wooden box with a removable lid and a small round hole in the side wall that hangs from the outside of the cage. To do this, several rods are removed in the upper part of the side wall of the cell.
Step 5
At the bottom of the nesting house for eggs, a recess is made below the floor level by 2 cm, with a diameter of 10 cm, and hardwood sawdust is poured, mixed with 1 tablespoon of dry medicinal chamomile in a layer of 3 cm.
Step 6
Parrots are heavily fed with foods containing many vitamins, a mixture of boiled eggs, semolina, carrots. Crushed chalk or calcium gluconate is placed in the trough.
Step 7
The female begins to prepare the nest, then plucks out the feathers near the cloaca, becomes slow, sits in the nest almost all the time. She lays the first egg in 3 weeks from the date of appearance of the nesting house. Reduce mineral supplements immediately to limit egg-laying. The female lays up to 12 eggs every other day.
Step 8
Chicks appear 17-19 days after the start of incubation. They are naked and blind. Only on the 10th day do the hemp of the feathers begin to grow. And two-week-old chicks of budgies are already completely pubescent, have small feathers on the tail and wings.
Step 9
Chicks grow quickly and leave the nest in a month. After that, they are kept with their parents until they learn to eat on their own. Then young parrots are transplanted into a separate spacious cage.
