Les Rance, Editor, The Parrot Society UK |
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am writing this Introduction on 19th August and as I do I think of the 2019 breeding season that has in just two words ‘been challenging’ as far as breeding successes have been concerned. Generally I keep the same stock each year and carry out similar management, my birds are used to their aviaries and the excellent array of food that they receive but those constants have not produced results as good as 2017 and 2018, in my opinion the blame lays squarely with the weather, it has been too cold and changeable for most of this summer and my results have not been as good as the previous two years. I know of UK breeders who have had success with their stock but generally they are in the minority. I think the Report for 2019 will read ‘Could have done better’ it reminds me of my school days!!
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in the hobby. In the UK because of our maritime climate we have not been so affected by global warming, only this week I had a visit from a German hobbyist breeder who told me that in northern Bavaria where he lives it is becoming too hot in the summer to breed his small parakeets. He has been forced to move the birds indoors and breed them in the winter even though it is cold at this time of the year and he has to supply heating to the rooms he uses for his birds.
There is no doubt that bird breeding is not an easy past-time, there are many challenges that we encounter and we need to spend a considerable amount of time both looking after our stock and watching our birds to decide what we can do to help them have an easier and less stressed life. However, I guess that if bird keeping and breeding was easy we would soon lose interest
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As a comparison last year I wrote ‘For many years bird keeping has been a relaxing past-time, however, for hobbyist breeders that keep their birds in unheated aviaries through the poor weather experienced this spring and it did not last long, it can also be a worrying time, however, now that the weather is much warmer the birds seem more relaxed and there are plenty of reports that birds are breeding well this year in the UK. Those who keep their stock in breeding rooms where they can easily turn up the heating however are in a far more satisfactory position.’
In this edition of Bird Scene there is an article by myself on my experiences with Budgerigars which I spent quite a considerable time writing, I do hope
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