Egg Storing

Here at Beauty of Birds, you can get the information about the Correctly Storing Eggs for Maximum Hatchibility / Aufbewahrung der Eier.

Chronic Egg Laying

Chronic egg laying will deplete calcium, thus causing myriad health problems. One of which is the condition known as hypocalcaemia – With calcium at a low level, the uterine muscles are unable to contract and push the egg out resulting in egg binding.

Parrot Incubation Data

Incubation Data for (average size, clutch and incubation): For miscellaneous parrot species, scroll down … Data includes: Average Eggs per Clutch / Days of Incubation Amboina King Parakeets (Alisterus amboinensis) Antipodes Green Parrot or Antipodes Island Parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor) Barraband’s Parrot or Orange-cheeked Parrot (Pionopsitta barrabandi) Barred Parakeets (Bolborhynchus lineola) Blue-bellied Parrots / Purple-bellied Parrots … Read more

Infertile / Clear Eggs

Infertility in birds is the failure of a true pair to produce eggs with viable embryos. It differs from low hatchability where fertile eggs fail to hatch. Egg candling allows you to assess whether low hatchability or infertile eggs are the problems.

Red-crowned Parakeet cross

Kakariki Breeding – Cyanoramphus Reproduction

Cyanoramphus / Kakariki are generally prolific breeders and adjust well to captive conditions. The continued existence of some of the species may very well depend on setting up captive gene pools of the various sub-species to guard against possible catastrophes that could lead to their extinction in the wild. The recent decline and extinction of … Read more