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Personal experience breeding So I had my two pairs. At first they were absolutely fine together in one cage. I had only open fronted cages at first but I now prefer all wire cages as I prefer to clean them and you get nicer views of the birds all the time. After a few weeks it was obvious a pair had formed between a pair of the PR birds; my HR male was a year younger so he was lower down the pecking order. They didn’t really fight being all together but they did get boisterous when piling into the box that I had provided at night time. I did want to breed them so I decided to split them in the hope that the pair bonds would form better. My PR pair laid their first egg in early February 2016 and three more followed,


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each a couple of days apart. I had got them in October so was quite happy they were feeling comfortable enough to settle and breed. The HR male who I named ‘Charlie’ would regularly spend a bit of time out of his cage playing and exploring, and he very quickly got used to me after being a little nippy at first. Apparently Brotos don’t generally breed in their first year so I was not expecting Charlie and his girl to breed. I was hopeful as the female was a year older than him, but it wasn’t to be their year. It was obvious about half way through


incubation that one of the eggs was infertile and I proved it by candling them. Three eggs hatched in the order that they had been laid, a couple of days after each other. It was a proud and


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