On two occasions when I have had a solitary cock bird for a while it has rapidly come to hanging on the cage front and nibbling one of my fingers – with a little patience they would make excellent pets. I presently have three youngsters that vie to hang nearest to the corner of the cage
extent I found that to be true, although they bred irregularly and, if deprived of a nest box, very quickly became steady. Certainly if you give them a box year round they will tend to use it. Unless your birds are outdoors this is unnecessary – I only give my birds boxes during the breeding season and find that even then they only “hide” in the box when they are serious about breeding.
The eldest at 31 days. Three chicks are clearly cocks.
On two occasions when I have had a solitary cock bird for a while it has rapidly come to hanging on the cage front and nibbling one of my fingers – with a little patience they would make excellent pets. I presently have three youngsters that vie to hang nearest to the corner of the cage to monitor the progress of the breakfast trolley. Much has been written about nest
box requirements for Mountains, based on their being burrow nesters in the wild. One recommendation is a box about 6” – 7” cube, accessed by a tunnel around 36” long. Another is a centrally partitioned box of 14” x 7” x 7”, possibly with coco fibre filling the inner section. I have not tried the tunnel system but I made up special double boxes. They found limited acceptance when they were furnished with wood chips but when I added
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