Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Keeping Your Bird Healthy

In my little knowledge and experience of keeping birds, health are one of the keys of successful producing of offspring. Bear in your mind, those healthy birds can easily breed and produce eggs. They have the ability of managing of their babies when they are in good health. Like human being, people can raise their children when they are in good health. They can settle all the problems they have.

Pet bird caring starts with accommodation for your bird. There are a number of options when thinking about the types of bird houses for your pet. You can offer a very large bird cage or a smaller cage alongside with a play area exterior of the cage, regularly utilizing a playpen. You can make a flight cage for usual exercise or have an aviary. Aviaries can be either an outside or indoor aviary. Indoor aviaries can even be a 'bird room' type.

Keep a close eye on your bird health. A well bird has bright and clear eyes they have also a shiny cere and beak. They have tough shiny bright feathers. When you bring in a new budgie into your home and you already have birds, make sure to put the new bird in quarantine for a minimum of 30 days to make sure they are not carrying any disease that could be passed on to your current birds. The new one stays in different cage for quarantine.

You must give them variety of foods like fresh fruits and veggies, mixes seeds, a good and regular exercise. Clean and sanitized cages and nest boxes is important especially in breeding parakeets.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Easy Ways on How to Breed Parakeets

There are many easy ways on how to breed Parakeets. These particular birds are easy to breed. Parakeets are one of the commonly kept birds in every country in the world. These wonderful little birds came and originated in Australia. Before, they are living in the in their natural habitat. When the days pass, many people kept them as a buddy. And now, pet lovers kept them for breeding. In other country they were keeping the birds as a source of income. Breeders discover easy ways on how to breed parakeets. Philippines are one of the largest productions of parakeets. They are also called budgies (budgerigars). In United States they called them keets.

If you have room in your backyard colony breeding is a good choice for you. This way requires a space to make a large flight when they are normally kept. If you preparing to breed three pair you should put more than three nest boxes so each pair would have their choice. This easy ways on how to breed parakeets is proven. Parakeets are colony breeders and nesters. In other way of saying they can live close together. Budgies are seed eaters, meaning most of there diets are seeds. Eating sand is one of their diets to help them to crush the food in their stomach. Parakeets have no gizzards. Females have white nostrils while the males have blue. Mature birds have white eye ring while the young’s have solid black eyes. Fully developed budgies have solid colors of nostrils and beaks only the young parakeets have patches colored beaks. They have ten to fifteen years of lifespan. Parakeets have millions of color combinations you can breed what ever you want to.

Budgies are a good companion. When you are choosing a bird you better look at the bird carefully, they must be in a good condition, and they are not suffering any respiratory disease, nasal and eye discharge, fungal infection. Also choose a bigger size. It is very important to choose mature and healthy keets to ensure the healthiness of their offspring.

Breeding parakeets is easy. One of the easy ways on how to breed parakeets is individual pairing. Individual pairing is proven. They can breed and mate freely. Most of the breeders say that this method is effective even medical authorities agree of this easy way on how to breed parakeets. The result of breeding them may be better when you put the cages near together so that they can see each other.

When you are breeding parakeets there are things you have to buy and provide. You need still cages, nest boxes and wooden perch. When all the equipments are ready and you put it in a proper place and the budgies are mature enough and ready to breed they begin to mate. After mating, soon the female will lay her eggs. The clutch of eggs consist of three to eight eggs and the female will sits all by her self on the incubation period while the male birds feeds on her. Parakeets incubate their eggs between eighteen to twenty days.

Breeding Parakeets

There are many easy ways on how to breed Parakeets. Parakeet breeding is pretty simple. Bird keeping is enjoying hobby and you can earn money. These beautiful little birds are good companion and intelligent mimic. They have the ability to create and repeat different kinds of sounds.

Breeders have learned easy ways on how to breed Parakeets. Colony and individual pairing are good and effective methods on how to breed Parakeets. Colony breeding requires a big flight where the birds are normally kept. Put a lots of nest boxes so they can choose their private place.

Individual pairing, meaning each pair have individual cage and they can see each other. These easy ways on how to breed Parakeet are effective even medical authorities agreed.
Breeding them needs a time to time visit of cages diets and rodents.