FEATURE With regards to the results from the
other three pairs I am afraid that these were not good. One hen died from egg binding when she tried to pass an overlarge egg. The other two pairs laid but none of their eggs were fertile which was rather unfortunate.
ensure that the young are developing correctly, that the nest box is not becoming too fouled with droppings and that rings have stayed on the babies little legs. To enable good record keeping it is important to ring your young birds with current year rings obtainable from all ring suppliers, I use Avian ID in Truro, Cornwall email
info@avianid.co.uk Tele 01209 212775. If you ring your young Budgerigars you can exhibit them in the current year bred classes at exhibitions just to see how closely your birds match the show standards for this species.
Budgerigars are normally fed on a mixture of canary seed and mixed millets, there is quite a large range of mixtures and the leading suppliers will have at least 8 varieties, generally the mixtures with the highest percentage of canary seed will be the most expensive. With regard to the experiment of
providing ordinary Budgerigar nest boxes and parakeet style boxes the pair that successfully bred used the ordinary box and the other three hens selected the parakeet boxes so at present it seems that the ordinary box has produced the best results even though only one of the four pairs selected this style. The results from very small scale ‘experiments’ are always difficult to interpret but as I will do the same next year and add the results
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