HANE TAMED FEEDING BEN EXOTIC PARROTS FARM.
Our priority is to ensure that each of our babies has a healthy and happy start in terms of nutrition and psychology. We feed each bird in hand feeding formula that meets their species and individual nutritional requirements. We ensure that our infants are weaned in accordance with their individual maturity rates and health requirements. Before shipping our birds we ensure the following:
– The correct shipping address from our clients in case the shipping label is detached from the package.
– We do check the weather condition in our client location to ensure that the climate will not pose a threat to his / her bird at the time of shipping.
– Contact your local post office for the delivery schedule that will minimize transit time and ensure delivery on a business day.
– Informing our client of the expected delivery time so they will be able to unpack and care for the birds as quickly as possible.
– Placing Litter or bedding in the bottom of the box to collect moisture, reduce odors, and provide a foothold.
– provide feed and water for adult birds prior to shipping.
At the beginning of this summer, we visited a well known Czech aviculturist Zdenek Vandelik. Zdenek keeps many rare South American parrots in amazing facility. Read following interview which we have made at his place.
In 2000, my friend came to me and said that we could start breeding birds. At the very beginning I had common finches like Zebra Finch, Society Finch etc. In total it was seven species and I have bred them all. After three years, it became quite boring and I needed a new challenge. At that time, I started with parrots. My first species was the Maroon-bellied Conure. In the next year, eleven chicks were raised from two pairs. This was a huge motivation for me and therefore I decided to set up a collection of Pyrrhura parrots. I achieved to have 12 species and one of them, Sulphur-winged Conure, was bred by myself for the firt time in the Czech Republic.
Our first experience with keeping and breeding of Pyrrhura hoffmanni gaudens.
After one year keeping them outdoor, last May something was different. In particular, one pair finally spent sometime in the box during the day, with lots of noise. I decided to provide an additional calcium source in order to prevent any problems with eggs laying. After a couple of weeks, in fact, the first egg was laid. Actually this wasn’t the most sexually active pair of the two. The other one was very active during the whole year, copulating often. Anyway, the second egg was laid after three days from the first. A total of 7 eggs were laid with the same frequency: the female started to incubate them from the third and sat on them with constancy. In the meanwhile, when the fifth was laid, the second pair had spent many days in the box too, and so a look in their nestbox should be done: the first egg was laid there too. Second pair laid a total of 6 eggs.
All the 13 eggs turned out to be fertile and well incubated by the pairs. During incubation a small amount of egg food started to be provided mixed with dried fruits. After 23-24 days from the beginning of incubation, first chicks hatched. They were monitored constantly and the quantity of egg food was increased day by day. After the fifth chick, the first female left often the box so the other two eggs didn’t hatch. The same happened with the other pair: after the fourth chick, the last two eggs were left in the box. A total of 9 well fed chicks filled the boxes which were checked daily.
As soon as the eyes were open, they were ringed with aluminum rings. Chicks started feathering up and finally the first one was out of the box the third week of June. The other four followed him day by day. All five chicks were handled daily before leaving the nest, and surprisingly they still look calm and confident with me, feeding from my hands. Other four were not checked daily because of the male territoriality which led me to give them more privacy. And so the first week of July, the other four chicks left successfully the box.
Once completely fledged, when they were still in the nest, chicks were took to take feather samples for DNA test. There was a negative halo surrounding me during feathers collection. DNA test in fact have been always one of the main issues with Pyrrhura hoffmanni gaudens after lack of calcium. I heard many North European breeders keeping me warned about their past experiences of more than 80% of males in the clutches. I was quite tense because of this, but luckily after receiving DNA results I was happy to read they were 5 males and 4 females!
