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Pictures Coming Soon....
Right now I currentally keep Budgies(aka parakeets) Cockatiels, Lovebirds, two pair of Rosey Bourke Parakeets, and a pair of Indian Ringnecks. Right now I'm breeding my cockatiels. I have a box full of babies now 2009-02-25 and they will be ready to go within a few weeks, so e-mail me if your intrested.
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Budgies
I have several pair of budgies which I'm breeding out of. Although now that winter is here I'm not breeding the keets now because I don't have the space in my house to do so. Once spring gets here I will be moving them outside to their aviary and will start breeding again. Also in the spring I'm going to be cleaning out my basement and I'm going to build larger aviarys down there so I can keep my keets and other parrots down there all year round with out having to move them inside for winter and back out for spring. Over the winter I have expanded my flock a little bit and I now have a lovely lutino hen who I plan to work into my breeding program and hope to raise some nice lutinos. So far I have been letting the parents raise the babies and once I start breeding again in the spring I plan on hand raising a few as it makes the babies better pets for people when I sell them as they are more friendly and social.
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Lovebirds, Bourkes, and finches
Right now I have 5 lovebirds. 2 peachfaced males who I'm looking for females. A pair of breeder Pieds, their parents are peachface and lutino, out of different pairs of course, so I'm hoping I get some lutino babies out of them. Then I have one hawaiian blue(aka Dutch blue)hen which I'm not going to breed as she's more of a pet and is handtame so I don't want to make her wild again. The pair of pied lovebirds did lay 2 eggs on the bottom of the cage but did not sit on them, I didn't have a box set up for them because I wasn't planning on breeding them as of yet. I took the eggs and put them in my incubator, but they weren't fertile. I put a box in their cage and they pretty much live in it. They did lay one egg insde the box, which I'm not sure if they sat on or not. Either way it didn't hatch and wasn't fertile. Since then they have yet to lay any more eggs. I think they are too old to breed. Although now I'm questioning the sex of my peachface males. All the sudden they started sitting at the bottom of the cage and the one appeared to be pleasuring his-self. I made my own box out of cardboard just to see what would happen and they love it. They pretty much live in the box as well and no eggs as of yet. I'm going to get them DNA tested to find out for sure so I know what to look for.
I still don't have a box for my bourkes, but I'm still planning on getting one. I was planning on getting another pair from the breeder when I saw him at a pigeon show but he had sold out of all his parrots. So I'm looking for another breeder of bourkes so I can get a couple more pair of them.
I now have a pair of zebra finches. They are just normals, but they carry a lot of different colors, including whites. They have laid 4 rounds of eggs all of which were eaten. On the fourth round once I noticed the first egg I took the male out so I could find out who was eating the eggs and the egg was gone the next day proving the hen was the egg eater. Although I'm hoping she's gotten over it. The last egg in the clutch is till in the nest. I don't know if she knows it's there or not because the male moves the nesting material around all the time and I thought she ate it but saw the same egg in the nest when the male was moving some of the material. Although he's not sitting on it unfortunatly. So I'm planning on getting another pair, plus another hen to breed.
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Cockatiels
I have 7 cockatiels now. I have two cinnamon males and two normal females. I also have a normal pearl-pied cock, a whiteface cock and a heavy pied cock. The whiteface and the heavy pied were more of rescues and the pied has something wrong with it's wings, it can't fly at all. I'm looking for just the right hens for the pearl-pied and WF male. I want to get a WF hen for him. I have the cinnamon males and normal hens in a cage with the pearl-pied male and they have nest boxes and the cinnamon males use the nest but show no intrest in the hens and the hens show no intrest in any of the 3 males. Once I move the keets outside I'm going to put one pair in their cage and see if I can get them to breed like that instead.
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