FEATURE


2009 breeding season


This breeding season we decided to let our Lady Ross Turacos try and parent rear their youngsters, so we were delighted when our adult breeding pair laid their first clutch of two eggs at the beginning of March. They successfully incubated these and on the 7th and 8th of April they hatched two chicks. Unfortunately however, the two chicks were only reared for five and six days before both were found dead on the aviary floor.


Our disappointment was short lived because at the end of April, the female Lady Ross surprised us with two more


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eggs. These eggs were successfully incubated and on the 24th and 25th of May both eggs were hatched. All was going well with both adults being really attentive to their new charges. Then on a cold wet June morning, after rearing their chicks well, we found one of the chicks dead in the nest. However it’s not all doom and gloom, as they have now successfully fledged the other chick, which will shortly be sexed and hopefully be off to another collection to form a new potential breeding pair of these fascinating, if not frustrating, birds.


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