Notes on Breeding Budgerigars
1. Sexually mature budgerigars can breed all year round, and can breed 4 to 5 litters per year. However, due to the high temperature in summer, the physique of female birds is weak during the breeding period. If the female birds are allowed to enter the nest to hatch continuously, it will not only easily affect the health of the female birds, but also reduce the probability of hatching and brooding, and lead to poor physique of the chicks. , so it is generally recommended to avoid breeding parrots in summer.
2. During the incubation period of the female bird, if the weather is relatively dry, the owner needs to pay attention to spraying or watering outside the bird’s nest every other day. In this way, the air humidity in the nest house is increased and the chick’s survival is further ensured. Rate.
3. During the breeding period of budgerigars, a pair of heterosexual birds should be reared separately, and an appropriate amount of calcium-rich food such as cuttlefish bones should be added to their feed to give the female birds an appropriate amount of food. Supplement with sufficient calcium to meet the needs of female birds to lay eggs.
4. During the breeding period of budgerigars, females will gradually reduce their feeding and will appear less energetic, while males will feed the females. Female birds will lay about 3 to 5 eggs per nest, one every other day, and start hatching after laying the third egg. The incubator is generally about 21 days old. During the incubation period of the parrot eggs, the female bird will concentrate on incubating the eggs in the nest, while the male bird will guard and protect it. Sometimes, the male bird will also help the female bird hatch the eggs.
5. During the incubation period of the birds, the owner should try not to disturb them, do not often visit it or organize its nest, so as not to cause the mother bird to abandon the nest and stop hatching eggs.
6. Generally speaking, parrots can take good care of their chicks, but there are also very few cases where parrots attack or abandon chicks. Once this happens, the owner needs to take care of the chicks. Birds are artificially fed. The specific artificial feeding method is: prepare a syringe without a needle, put the paste feed in the syringe, and then squeeze a small amount of feed into the mouth of the chick.
This is the end of our introduction to the precautions for budgie breeding, hoping to help novice breeders.
