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From: GA.MAY@forsythe.stanford.edu (mitchell)
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Subject: Re: Breeding Parakeets(?) (Was: 'keet and 'tiel romance...)
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Date: 23 May 91 17:07:58 GMT
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In article <9662@cognos.UUCP>,
stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter) writes:
>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
>--
>Stewart Winter               Cognos Incorporated   S-mail: P.O. Box 9707
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>The bird of the day is .... Timneh Parrot                  CANADA  K1G 3Z4

One additional bit of advice:  just be sure that there
is an excessive number of nest boxes.  We've found
this out the hard way in our own budgie horde - lots of
fights, but fortunately nothing permanently harmed, includinng
the two brooding pairs (with 4 and 1 (more to come) eggs).

this is our first year of budgie horde propogation - it was
their idea, not ours.

Mitchell
ga.may@forsythe.stanford.edu