| Title: | Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN! |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 10 1988 |
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In the past I have tried to breed my two keets with no success.
(yes I know they are male & female) This past fall I borrowed another
female from a Church friend for breeding (checked with the Minister
on the morality issues first). Through the winter the three
keets have been in the same large parrot cage with Rosey the teil
leading happy lives.
Wellll- spring is in the air!!!
I have the proper cage and breding box .... Any hints on timing-
is spring o.k. ? Is it o.k. to have the breeding cage in sight of the
other birds or is privacy a question? What about providing nesting
material?
I am a frustrated breeder as this male and a now deceased female
once had three clutches of eggs that didn't hatch. I want babies!!!!
Sorry, I'm starting to sound like my wife ;-)
Seriously though any hints would be greatly appreciated.
Chet
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| 674.1 | My brief experience with breeding keets. | AIMTEC::SIMPSON_L | Fri Mar 20 1992 14:04 | 27 | |
Hi Chet,
I don't have any hints from experience but I'll
gladly tell you what a parakeet breeder told me when I was trying to
breed them.
I had 2 pars of keets. One was just your standard
American keets. The other was a show-quality
pair of English budgies. I got them from this breeder I mentioned.
Anyway, I was trying to breed both pairs. No luck.
I got quite frustrated and called him. I had nestboxes on both cages,
nesting material in the boxes, privacy, but no eggs.
He said that the keets ar very social birds and like to feel that
they are living in a big colony. His advice to me was to get more
pairs.
Maybe he was just trying to get me to agree to buy more
birds from him. I don't know.
I got out of the keet breeding business sometime later.
Just thought I'd give you the advice I'd get. Hope others can help.
Good luck.
Laurie
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| 674.2 | Budgie Love | ABACUS::BOURGAULT | Tue Mar 31 1992 15:06 | 19 | |
Chet,
As the last noter mentioned, it does help to have additional keets
in separate cages nearby. Since I have always had a variety of keets,
in my bird room, my keets are always ready to breed and do so very
successfully (too successfully!). Even my English Budgies are now
doing their thing. I have had a few keets that took a while to breed
once the nest box was set up, however most do so regularly. Feed them
plenty of greens and veggies (i.e. corn, broccoli and carrots are my
birds favorites. Oh yeah, they also like alfalfa sprouts that you can
buy in the produce section of your grocery store.)
Try another pair of budgies in a cage next to theirs, and I bet you
get results fast!
Keep us posted!
Good luck!
Denise
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| 674.3 | exit | GERBIL::MAGEE | Wed Apr 01 1992 00:24 | 31 | |
Thanks for the advice-
I would love to have more keets in additional cages yet
my wife would not approve. She is NOT a bird lover and might slay
me in my sleep if I bought more!
As I must deal with what I have I'm lookink for the ideal
set-up based on that.
What I have:
Three Keets (1 male, two female)
1 teil ( approx. 6 mths. old)
1 large parrot cage
1 large keet cage
2 traditional size cages
1 breeding box
Presently all birds are happily sharing the parrot cage with
the breeding box on the outside accessed thru a side door. I
borrowed one of the females from a friend in the fall figuring
two females + 1 male = twice as much chance.
Should I seperate the male and one female ????
I've considered letting them watch appropriate National Geographic
television shows so that they might catch on to "natures way" 8).
Chet
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| 674.4 | BUDGIE WOES | BRAT::BOURGAULT | Thu Apr 02 1992 17:17 | 24 | |
Chet,
That might very well be your problem! I would suggest that you take
one of the females with the male (See which female the male favors
if possible) and put them in a separate cage with a nest box attached.
Then I would find another male for the lone female and there you
have it! Two possible breeding candidates! And you now have
companionship for them. Otherwise, you might be waiting a VERY
long time, since both females will want to capitalize on the
one male.
I have a large flight cage that once was shared by 2 female budgies
and a large male english budgie. They got along well together until
I attached a nest box then all hell broke loose. One female dominated
the nest box and the other dominated the male. It was quite funny
until they started squabbling all the time. I then removed the female
that dominated the nest box and the other two went right to nest
and I had 5 beautiful babies in no time.
FYI.
Good luck!
Denise
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