Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Breeding Parakeets(?) (Was: 'keet and 'tiel romance...)
Keywords: parakeets, breeding, help!
Message-ID: <9662@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 91 02:52:53 GMT
References: <77145@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991May21.164351.5954@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991May21.164351.5954@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler) writes:
>>I have also been considering getting another pair of parakeets. If i
>>do, will the older pair be more likely to breed, or should i wait? It
>If you want to get into breeding then by all means get another pair.
>You will double your chances of success.  The more the pairs, the  
>better your chances.  But be careful, this breeding stuff is highly
>addictive! :^)

   In fact, it will do much more than double her chances.  Budgies
are colony breeders and seldom breed as a single pair.  She would
do best to place 3 or more pair into a flight with 4 or more nest
boxes placed high in the cage.  I'm not a budgies breeder either, but
I know a few.

  Stewart
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