ARTICLE BY: GEOFF BAILEY


BREEDING THE A


fter waiting for nearly two years I acquired a compatible pair of


Violaceous Turacos from David Jones. David had a young female and an older male but when they were put together for the first time it quickly became obvious that they were not compatible, so he kindly located another older female and exchanged this young female for it. When I picked up the pair at


42 BIRD SCENE


VIOLACEOUS TURACO (MUSOPHAGA VIOLACEA)


Easter, David felt that the signs were encouraging and that it was possible they would breed that year. I placed them in a flight which measured 7 by 2 by 2 meters and for the first night kept them in the shelter. It just so happened that it snowed heavily during the night and I was down in the aviaries at 3 a.m. making sure that they were warm enough. I wasn’t too concerned about the Violaceous


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