FEATURE


pleasurable moment for me hatching my own baby Brotos. The young grew at a rapid rate and the parents fed them well. I wanted them to carry on with their parents as I hadn’t been planning on hand rearing these. However, maybe a week or so before fledging, I started to notice that the babies’ heads were being plucked and their crops were no longer full. I quickly topped them up with some hand rearing formula which was easy as I had not long reared a nest of Bronze Winged Pionus so everything was ready. I fed them for a couple of days before deciding enough was enough; their heads were getting very patchy and no parent


food was arriving at all, plus I was worried the parents might turn on them completely. So the hand rearing began proper. They were fully feathered at this point and were jumping around everywhere so I put them in a cardboard box like their own nest box into a makeshift Brooder with no heat as they clearly weren’t in need of extra heat, but at night I did put them in a warm room just for comfort. These were great little parrots to HR and in a few days they were flying around the room. I put them in a metre long wire cage a week or so after removing them and they seemed happy as can be


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