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except from little difficulties – is easy. A speciality of Lineolated Parakeets is colony breeding, where young birds are reared and raised successfully in a group of Linnies. If provided with enough space Lineolated Parakeets are still friendly and hardly territorial during the breeding season. That’s why the chicks, which hatch after approximately 21 days incubation time with white down, often not only are fed by their parents but also by older siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents or any other Linnie that passes by. After six weeks the young are independent but should still remain in the flock for several months, or several weeks at least, to learn proper social behaviour.
Please always keep in mind: If you are
Later on you might observe copulations where the cock mounts the hen from the side, and a few days later there will be a telling bulge on the female’s cloaca, meaning she is nearing the time to lay her eggs. Three to eight eggs are laid between every one and three days. However the hen usually doesn’t start incubating before the second egg appears. The first Lineolated Parakeets were imported into Europe in the 1900s. Breeding them turned out to be very difficult because the parakeets caught in the wild were susceptible to illnesses and stress. Now there are no more wild Linnies in Europe, and breeding them –
not able to keep all the chicks look out for a nice place for the young birds BEFORE you allow the parents to breed. If you don’t want parakeet offspring, remove all nesting boxes and provide sleeping boxes without bottoms instead. Or replace the eggs with plastic eggs and wait. Usually the hens leave the clutch after four weeks then.
Home sweet home Though the above quotation was about young Linnies doing their first flights it’s also true for some adult birds sometimes. A Lineolated Parakeet’s flight pattern, while by no means elegant, is strong, fast and practical. This allows them to cover
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