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    A Guide to Parrots and Parakeets - A Concise Guide to Buying and Caring for These Beautiful Birds
    A Guide to Parrots and Parakeets - A Concise Guide to Buying and Caring for These Beautiful Birds
    A Guide to Parrots and Parakeets - A Concise Guide to Buying and Caring for These Beautiful Birds
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    A Guide to Parrots and Parakeets - A Concise Guide to Buying and Caring for These Beautiful Birds

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    This fascinating book contains a concise guide to buying and caring for parrots and parakeets. The perfect handbook for current or prospective owners of parrots and parakeets, this comprehensive guide is detailed and accessible, and constitutes a great addition to any collection of avicultural literature. The chapters contained within this antique book are: 'The Budgerigar', 'Egg-binding in Budgerigars', 'Zebra Finches and Budgerigars', 'Manipulated Birds', 'Talking Lories', 'Taming Cockatiels', 'The Hobart Town Swift', 'The Carolina Parrot', 'Fits in Parrots', 'Parrots in Health and Disease', and 'Nesting of Australian Parrots'. This text has been chosen for republication due to its significant educational value, and is proudly republished here complete with a new introduction to the subject of aviculture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781473356238
    A Guide to Parrots and Parakeets - A Concise Guide to Buying and Caring for These Beautiful Birds

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      A Guide to Parrots and Parakeets - A Concise Guide to Buying and Caring for These Beautiful Birds - Anon

      PARROTS AND PARRAKEETS.

      Budgerigars—Egg-Binding in Budgerigars—Zebra Finches and Budgerigars—Cocoanut Husks for Breeding in—Manipulated Birds—Other Kinds of Parrakeets—Talking Lories—The Quaker-Vested Cockatiels—Taming Cockatiels—The Hobart Town Swift—A Parrakeet Aviary—The Carolina Parrot—Fits in Parrots—Parrots in Health and in Disease—Nesting of Australian Birds.

      THE BUDGERIGAR.

      THIS large family of the parrots deserves a chapter to itself, and at the head of the phalanx we unhesitatingly place our old friends the budgerigars, concerning whom we wrote in The Bazaar as far back as 1876, giving an account of our success in breeding these charming birds, which was less common than it has now become, when every tyro in bird keeping can boast of rearing his budgerigars by the dozen, or score. For our part, we have been very successful for some years in breeding the above pretty and interesting little birds. They are much easier to rear than canaries, and give much less trouble. In the spring of last year, having got rid of all our old stock, we bought two pairs still in their nest feathers, and turned them into a large empty room with a southern aspect, in company with many canaries, zebra finches, saffron finches, and other small birds. The window was so arranged that it could be opened at will to admit fresh air. We hung a number of boxes round the room with a round hole near the top of each; also some hollow logs, and cocoa-nut husks. Our four birds soon increased to twenty-five, and the two old hens continued sitting, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. We never used these birds to artificial heat. We think we need not say much about our success; that is self-evident. We fed on canary and millet seed in equal proportions, gave abundance of flowering grass in the season, plenty of water, and sand always, with cuttlefish shells. We had no trouble as regards egg-binding in the year 1879, not having lost a single bird from that cause, or, as far as we are aware, even had one ill. The canaries bred freely in the same room, and so did the zebra finches; the rest of the birds did not lay, though several mannikins built nests, as did also zebra waxbills and silver beaks, but did not lay. The next year, under precisely identical conditions, we lost nearly all our hen birds egg-bound; last year not one bird, as we have already said.

      We have bred budgerigars for the last seven or eight years, and though we have gone to great pains to get them suitable logs to burrow in, we have never had a single bird hatched in anything but a cocoanut husk, and intend in future to discard all the rest of the nesting paraphernalia.

      The writer of the next Note takes Mr. Gedney to task for stating that budgerigars will not breed for two years after their arrival in this country, and we must say that our own experience coincides with his, for we have had newly imported hens go to nest and lay and rear young a few weeks after being purchased:

      As Mr. Gedney states that imported budgerigars will not breed for two years after their arrival in this country, I beg to give my experience regarding a pair now in my possession. I obtained a pair some nine months ago from Mr. Cross, of Liverpool; the hen died about one month afterwards. I purchased a hen on 21st. January, 1879, from Mr. Abrahams, of St. George’s-street East, London, and they now have three eggs. They are in a large breeding cage in a room seldom used, and the nest is a large cocoanut husk. At the time I was supplied with the hen by Mr. Abrahams he had a number of young ones bred by himself that season from imported birds.

      T. BRADSHAW.

      Budgerigars, if very tame, will breed in cages. We have known them do so in a common canary breeding cage, but they must be kept in a quiet place and not be interfered with; in no case should the cage be made wholly of wire; the back and sides should be of wood, well whitewashed; and the larger the cage the more chance of the birds going to nest.

      It is not necessary to keep the birds in a dark warm place, as someone has asked; on the contrary, they require light, air, and sunshine, but draughts are utterly to be deprecated.

      They do not require any special food during breeding time, though a few oats may be added to their bill of fare, if the nestlings are numerous. Canary and white millet seed in equal quantities form the best diet; it is useless, if not mischievous, to give egg food. Tufts of flowering grass and broken-up oyster shells or cuttle-fish bones are necessary, the latter to prevent egg-binding, to which most foreign cage birds are so

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