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Breeding of the Yellow-shouldered Amazon. PART I
Read also the second part of this article: Breeding of the Yellow-shouldered Amazon. PART II a I was a young and inexperienced aviculturist when I first met Ramon Noegel. For decades Noegel the doyen...
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Q & A: “What’s the cause of infertility in parrots?”
Infertility is the vane of the breeder. There is nothing more disheartening than discarding a clutch of eggs because they are infertile. This problem of infertile eggs affects all species, but is most...
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Tony Silva: Understanding parrots is my obsession. PART I
Interview collumn is a very popular part of Parrots Daily News website. What a shame that we haven’t still interviewed our editor, well known ornithologist, aviculturist and author of the new...
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Tony Silva: Hand raised parrots can become excellent parents if we treat them...
Read also te first part of this interview: Tony Silva: Understanding parrots is my obsession. PART I . You have collected data on differences between parent raised and hand raised parrots in regard of...
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Is parrot hand-rearing natural or does it produce a generation of parrots...
Hand-rearing is a relatively new tool in aviculture. If we accept aviculture as having centuries of evolution—the Roman´s kept parrots and there in evidence from the American Southwest that macaws were...
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Q & A: “Animal protein as part of parrot diet ?”
During the mid 1980s I spent considerable time in South America observing parrots in the wild and gathering data on the development of chicks being parent-reared. This information was later compared to...
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Q & A: “How should we feed our parrot in breeding and non-breeding season?”
Except for areas very proximate to the equator, parrots rely on two factors to come into breeding condition: an increase in daylight hours and a flush of foods. In south Florida, for example, Tabebuia...
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Q & A: “Why is it good to feed with sprouted and boiled seeds?”
Diet is one of the most important husbandry aspects in maintaining a parrot healthy; when caged parrots are fed a poor diet their health will soon reflect this. Obesity, white plaques in the mouth from...
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Q & A: “What is the cause of parrot plucking?” PART II
Read also the first part of this article: Q & A: “What is the cause of parrot plucking?” PART I . 3) Though parrots have been kept as pets since before the advent of Christianity, we really know...
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Q & A: “What is the cause of parrot plucking?” PART I
Read also the second part of this article: Q & A: “What is the cause of parrot plucking?” PART II . If I were to compile a list of parrots that are prone to plucking, I would list cockatoos,...
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Q & A: “What is optimal diet and aviary design for Amazona parrots breeding?”
Amazon parrots are strictly neo-tropical in origin, being found from Mexico and across the Caribbean to northern Argentina. Many species come from drier areas and undergo post breeding movements to...
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Q & A: “How to choose the best incubator for parrot rearing?”
Each breeding season, aviculturists across the globe will be faced with issues common in nesting parrots: the birds will prove anything but reliable parents. Unless the breeder takes the initiative,...
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Q & A: “Do African Grey Parrots need dark cages to breed?”
During the heyday of the bird trade (mid-1970s to mid-1990s), the African Greys Psittacus erithacus was a common trade species; it still continues to be exported to Asia, but Europe, the USA and South...
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Q & A: “Can parrots be bred successfully indoors?”
Many years ago, before moving to South Florida, I kept my birds indoors. They had no exposure to sunlight, but they bred and I reared large numbers of a multitude of species, ranging from cockatoos...
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Basic principals of parrot handfeeding
Hand-rearing is a time consuming task, especially when the chicks are small. On hatching all species require feedings every two hours from 0600-2300 hours. Most species can forego a night feeding at...
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Q & A: “When should we medicate our birds?”
As I travel the world, I see dramatic differences in husbandry protocols. In Europe there is a great adversity to using medications on parrots. In contrast, in Asia some believe that medication should...
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Q & A: “What is better hand-rearing or using foster parents?”
Hand-rearing is a time consuming task, especially when the chicks are small. On hatching all species require feedings every two hours from 0600-2300 hours. Most species can forego a night feeding at...
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Q & A: “When should parrot chicks be taken for hand-rearing?”
I was recently asked what is the best age to take chicks for hand-rearing. As in all matters concerning aviculture, there is no simple answer. Rather that decision needs to be based on a multitude of...
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Q & A: “How to prevent obesity in amazon parrots?”
Amazon parrots are gluttons. They will sit in front of their food bowl and eat until the food is done. This gluttony predisposes them to obesity, especially when they are fed a diet of fatty seeds...
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Q & A: “How many clutches should a pair be allowed to produce per year?”
Parrots can be divided into categories depending on a number of characteristics. There are bonded and non-bonded species, species that undergo physical changes during breeding and those that display no...
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