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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 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: “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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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: “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: “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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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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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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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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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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