What do you need to pay attention to when breeding a budgie parrot?

Nesting budgies can breed almost all year round, with 4-5 litters per year. However, the weather is hot in summer, and the female birds are very fragile during breeding, and continuous nest hatching not only affects the health of adult birds, but also reduces the hatching and brooding rate, and the young birds are not in good health, so the breeding should be suspended in summer.

Precautions during breeding:

1. During the breeding period, a pair of breeding birds should be raised in a single cage, and usually provide more calcium-containing nutrients such as cuttlefish plates in the feed to ensure that the female birds need to lay eggs.

2. During the breeding period, the female of the parrot will gradually reduce her feeding, and the male will feed the female, and the female will appear less energetic than usual, as if she is very tired. Females lay about 3-5 eggs at a time, one egg every other day, and the incubation period is generally about 21 days. During the incubation period, the female will concentrate on incubating the eggs in the nest, and the male will be on the side to guard and protect the eggs, and sometimes some males will also assist the female in incubating the eggs.

3. If the weather is too dry during the incubation period, it is necessary to spray or sprinkle water outside the nest every other day to improve the air humidity in the nest and ensure the survival rate of the chicks.

Fourth, the general parrot can skillfully take care of the chicks, but there are also a very small number of attacks or abandonment of the chicks, if in case of finding this situation, it is necessary to adopt artificial feeding methods. Beginners can consult experienced friends, the general method is to put the paste feed in a disposable syringe with the needle removed, and the chicks will generally open their mouths and squeeze the feed into the nestling's mouth.

5. Don't disturb the parrot during the incubation period, don't look at it often or tidy up its nest, in these cases, the parrot usually doesn't hatch the eggs.

1. The preparation before breeding is rotten and grinding

Before you start breeding budgies, you need to make adequate preparations. First of all, it is necessary to ensure that the environment of the breeding site is clean and hygienic, and the feed and drinking water raised by parrots should be clean and hygienic.

Secondly, before choosing a parrot for breeding, it should be checked to make sure that they are healthy for internal parasites, diseases. Only healthy parrots have the ability to reproduce.

In addition to this hunger, make sure that the parrot is getting enough nutrients, vitamins and minerals. You can add some nutritious foods such as vegetables, fruits, eggs, etc. to your daily feed.

2. Pay attention to the file matters when breeding

Before you start breeding budgies, you should choose a mature pair of parrots to mate. When breeding, two parrots should be placed in a cage large enough with the bedding, drinker, etc. they need.

During mating, parrots may exhibit some normal behaviors such as minor arguments, trimming each other's feathers, etc. In addition, the incubation time of bird eggs needs to be mastered, and the incubation period of budgies is generally 21-23 days.

Once breeding is successful, close attention should be paid to the hatching of the eggs and the growth of the chicks. Clean the cage and change the diet in time, and take good care of the birds.

3. Management after successful breeding

After successfully breeding budgies, breeding management should be done. First of all, it is necessary to track and care for the short period of absence. Attention should be paid to nutritional balance and adequate food during the feeding process.

In addition, attention should be paid to the cleanliness and hygiene of the breeding environment, and the cages should be cleaned regularly and the diet should be changed to ensure that the young birds get a good environment for growth.

4. Analysis of the causes of reproduction failure

If the reproduction fails multiple times in a row, the problem needs to be investigated and analyzed. Possible causes include environmental problems, improper diet, disease infection, etc. The problem needs to be double-checked and corrected.

At the same time, it may be necessary to change the breeding target or find a better breeding method to improve the breeding success rate.

Females are more sensitive to external disturbances during incubation, and try to keep the environment quiet to avoid abandoning the nest after the parent bird is frightened, which will affect hatching and brooding. In winter, the room temperature of breeding birds should be kept above 20, the relative humidity should be 45%-50%, and indoor air circulation should be maintained.

The peak breeding period of budgies can reach 3-4 years, and the reproductive rate gradually decreases after that, in order to purify and rejuvenate the breeding birds, the breeding birds should be constantly renewed. The average lifespan of a budgie is 7 years.

After the parrot enters the breeding period, if the owner wants to pair the parrot, it is best to choose a bird of the opposite sex that is not much different from the species, body type and age, so as to prevent the offspring from having "four dislikes". After the two parrots are successfully paired, they will start mating and breeding, and the owner should prepare a wooden breeding box in the bird cage in advance for the parrot to lay eggs.

Before budgies lay eggs, the mother bird will frequently enter the nest (i.e. the breeding box) and sometimes stay in it for a long time to prepare for laying eggs. After conception, the female bird's droppings will be thicker than usual, which can be easily detected by the owner when comparing the feces of the male birds.

1. Environmental preparation

Budgies are highly fertile and adaptable birds, but they need to be given a good living environment before they can be prepared for breeding. The first is the living space, which needs to have enough space for the parrots to move and fly. The second is the diet, which needs to provide abundant and balanced nutritious food to ensure that the budgie is well fed and well-fed.

In addition, it is also very important to create a quiet and stable breeding environment, which can reduce the stress of budgies by controlling factors such as ambient temperature, humidity, light, etc., and improve their reproductive success.

2. Health status

Before preparing for breeding, a comprehensive health check-up of budgies is required. The first is to make sure that the parrot does not have any infectious diseases, if there is a need to carry it out**. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the nutrition, weight, feathers and other aspects of the parrot jujube are in good condition, if there is malnutrition or disease, it will affect the success rate of reproduction.

During the breeding process, it is also necessary to pay close attention to the physical condition of budgies, and if you find abnormalities, you need to seek medical attention in time.

3. Breeding pairing

Budgies are social birds that need to be paired for breeding. If you are raising a pet budgie at home, you need to pair them, and generally choose to pair them with the opposite sex. When choosing a pair, it is best to choose two healthy, adult budgies with complementary personalities and mutual attraction, which can increase the success rate of breeding.

In addition, it is important to note that placing two budgies in the same environment requires them to gradually get acquainted with each other and build a relationship. If there is a hostile or untimely situation between budgies, they need to be separated and readjusted in time.

4. Preparation for reproduction

Before preparing for breeding, budgies need to be fertilized. The fertilization process can be facilitated by providing budgies with the right food and nutrients, adjusting their living environment, etc. In addition, after budgies are fertilized, they need to be kept healthy to ensure successful reproduction.

When budgies are about to lay eggs, it is necessary to create a quiet and welcoming environment for them to improve their reproductive success. After the breeding is completed, it is also necessary to continue to pay attention to the health status of the budgie and do a good job in diet, life and health care.

Precautions for budgie breeding

1. Sexually mature budgies can reproduce all year round, and can breed 4 5 litters per year. However, due to the high temperature in summer, the female bird is weak during the breeding period, if the female bird continues to enter the nest to hatch, it is not only easy to affect the health of the female bird, but also reduces the probability of hatching and brooding, and leads to the poor physique of the chicks, so it is generally recommended to avoid letting the parrot breed as much as possible in summer.

2. During the incubation period of female birds, if the weather is relatively dry, the owner needs to pay attention to spraying or sprinkling water outside the nest every other day, so as to improve the air humidity in the nest house and further ensure the survival rate of the chicks.

3. During the breeding period of budgies, a pair of heterosexual breeding birds should be raised separately, and an appropriate amount of calcium-rich food such as cuttlefish plates and bones should be added to their feed, so as to supplement sufficient calcium to the female to meet the egg-laying needs of the female.

4. During the budgie breeding period, the female will gradually reduce her eating and will appear less energetic, while the male will feed the female. Females lay about 3 5 eggs per nest, one every other day, and after laying the third egg, they begin to hatch, and the incubator is generally around 21 days. During the parrot's incubation period, the female will concentrate on incubating the eggs in the nest, while the male will be on guard and guard, and sometimes the male will also help the female to incubate the eggs.

5. During the period when the birds incubate the eggs, the owner should try not to disturb them, and do not often visit them or tidy up their nests, so as not to cause the mother bird to abandon the nest and no longer hatch the eggs.

6. Generally speaking, parrots can take good care of the chicks, but there are also a very small number of parrots attacking or giving up the chicks. The specific method of artificial feeding is to prepare a syringe without needles, put the paste feed in the syringe, and then squeeze a small amount of feed into the mouth of the chicks.

That's it for Dr. Pawpaw's introduction to the precautions for budgie breeding, hoping to help novice breeders.

I have a pair of budgies, and when it's mating time, I want them to breed a litter, but I don't know what to do? I am afraid that the young birds will die if they do not accompany the fiber week, this problem is the first time that their friends who breed parrots at home will encounter, in fact, it is not as complicated as you think, you only need to pay attention to these points when breeding your own parrots.

a) First of all, isolate the pair of parrots you want to breed, raise them separately, and add more calcium-containing feed to the feed to ensure that the female bird needs to lay eggs, in fact, this is similar to giving birth to a child, calcium supplementation is crucial.

2) Female parrots in the breeding period will gradually reduce their feeding, their mental head is not as good as before, and they look particularly tired, and the female parrot lays about 3-5 eggs at a time, and it is not laid at one time, but one every other day.

3) If your budgie is born in dry weather, you will have to spray some mist outside the nest every other day to increase the humidity of the air in the nest, as too much dry is not conducive to the survival of the young birds.

4) During the budgie hatching period, you don't need to do anything in general, the parrot mother will take good care of the child, of course, there are very few cases where the mother parrot gives up taking care of the young birds, once a similar situation occurs, don't panic, it is best to ask an experienced bird friend, give you a demonstration, teach you how to feed the young birds with a needle, put the paste feed in the needle to remove the needle, squeeze the feed into the mouth of the young bird, the process must be careful, do not hurt the mouth of the young bird. In addition, you had better not disturb it, and do not clean its nest, once disturbing the parrot's mood, it is very likely that it will not hatch eggs.