Setting Birds Up For Breeding

What Kind of Birds are Right For Me? Choosing the right birds: Yesterday, I prepared the page on “Mate Aggression” — a condition that is specific only to birds kept in capivity. The compounding factors of putting parrots into breeding programs, that are hand-raised without the benefit of having learned natural parenting behavior; compounded by … Read more

EcoGTLC-40 Advance Parrot Brooder - with Humidity Pump for Precise Humidity Control

TLC-40 Advance Portable Chick Brooder / Intensive Care Unit

Useful Information: Breeders’ Resources (covers everything from handfeeding to potential breeding / chick problems) … Incubation Information … Information on Housing Chicks, Temperature Requirements, etc. Standard Units: Larger Units: For Sick / Very Delicate Birds or Small Animals, we recommend: Tough, efficient, easily cleaned and quick to set up, the TLC-40 Advance Parrot Brooder features: … Read more

TLC-50 Eco Portable Chick Brooder & Intensive Care Unit

  Brooder Temperatures and Other Information Useful Information: Breeders’ Resources (covers everything from handfeeding to potential breeding / chick problems) … Incubation Information … Information on Housing Chicks, Temperature Requirements, etc. Standard Units: TLC-40 Eco Chick Brooder TLC-40 Advance Chick Brooder Larger Units: TLC-50 Eco Portable Chick Brooder TLC-50 Advance Chick Brooder Available over our … Read more

Crop Burns

Crop burns occur when a bird is fed food that is too hot .This often occurs in handfed babies that are fed microwaved formula with “hot spots” due to improper mixing.

Aviary Management

Breeding Loan Agreements: What is a “breeding loan”? When one breeder has a mature male or female bird (Bird “1”) and another breeder has one of the opposite sex (Bird “2”), they can come to an agreement to loan one of the bird’s to the other breeder for the purpose of producing offspring. Typical Terms … Read more

Dead-in-Shell / Embryo Mortality

Related Web Resources: Incubation Procedures … Breeding Challenges Useful Information: Breeders’ Resources (covers everything from handfeeding to potential breeding / chick problems) … Incubation Information … Information on Housing Chicks, Temperature Requirements, etc. Causes … Signs of Deficiency in the Embryo Nutrient Unsuccessful hatches can be caused by infertile eggs or embryo mortality. Each of these … Read more

Incubation Humidity and Ventilation

Humidity and Ventilation A well-designed incubator should maintain temperature within 1/4 degree F and humidity within 1 degree F wet bulb temperature. Short term variations in humidity are not important. The average humidity over the incubation period needs to be near optimum to achieve the ideal weight loss. High humidity for the day or two … Read more