Hand Rearing

AFRICAN GREYS NOW BEING REARED!!!!!!
TWO RED LORED AMAZONS!
photo taken 5th  August 2005
50p coin for scale

Red lored Amazons 15th august 2005

another veiw 15th August 2005

photo taken 20/8/2005

Out of the box.
They are out of the brooder box for a full week.
perching on their own, almost fully fledged and as lovable as they can be.
photo taken 3/9/2005.
Hand Rearing Ring Neck Parakeet Chicks
As you peruse these pictures you will see how these two chicks develope into tame and cuddly parrots. These chicks hatched on tuesday 14th and thursday 16th May 2002. Hand feedng commenced on sunday 19th May. Picture taken on Tuesday 21st May.The chick in the foreground is probably going to be green & the one in the rear is probably lutino(yellow). A £2.00 coin is shown to give scale.

9 & 7 days
Thursday 23rd May 2002 5 days in to hand feeding and their eyes are now starting to open. the first signs of down or quills are appearing on their wings. They are now taking approx 2.5cc of food every two to three hours.

14 & 12 days
Tuesday 28th May Growing very quickly and with an increased apetite. Now taking up to 5cc of rearing food(Kaytee) every three hours. Eyes are open and recognising when I handle them that it is feeding time. You can now see first pin feathers appearing on the body of the larger chick.

16 & 14 days
Thursday 30th May 2002 The chicks are really growing quickly now and are taking about 5cc of hand rearing food every 3 to 4 hours. with extra at their last feed.The feed is made progessively thicker as the birds get older so they get more food value as they get bigger from the same quantity.

20 & 18 days
Monday 3rd June Both birds are really growing quite fast. They are taking increased volume of food now with the larger chick taking up to 8cc of feed and the smaller one 6/7cc each time. They are both still on three hourly feeds but able to go from midnight till 6am with no worries.

20 & 22 days
Wednesday 5th June At three weeks old now taking 10cc food every three to four hours.

27 & 29 days
Wednesday 11/6/02. Now at four weeks they are starting to look like birds at last and not quite like something from Jurassic Park. The larger bird is turning out to be an olive green colour. They are starting to stand up instead of their legs being splayed apart.

33 & 31 days
Tuesday 18th june and now at five weeks old we can see the proper colour of the two chicks. Their appetite is growing as fast as the birds, they are taking 20 cc's of food every five hours. Also they are starting to experiment with millet spray in their box.

41 and 39 days

Wednesday 26th June 2002 Perching and in a cage. They are starting to wean by sampling millet as well as still taking three 20cc feeds per day.

At 8/9 weeks old these two went to new homes!