young female of 2016 to go with my young 2016 male as it turned out. So now I could make up three pairs of Cobalts. I had also managed to source a pair of Brotogeris tirica or Plain parakeet (badly named I feel); this was a 2016 male bred by the breeder I was visiting. He had also swapped a bird for me from a fellow breeder so made up the pair with a 2014 female. As I write this pair are going through the motions of breeding; they are in the box lots during the day and chewing the box itself, other pieces of natural bark and offcuts of soft wood pit inside for them. But with the male being a 2016 bird I am unsure if he is still too young to successfully breed… we shall see. Back to 2017 and so far
my HR male ‘Charlie’ and his partner have had a successful clutch of four babies which are just about to fledge. The original mother and her partner might have been paired too late to breed this year
