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In being into
breeding a wide range of parrots, it is important in my view to have
good reliable foster parents. Aviculturists breeding mutations will
most likely have at least 3 to 4 normal pairs of birds set up as
fosters. The most widely used fosters would be normal grass parrots,
princess parrots, ringnecks, and rainbow lorikeets. All of these make
good natural parents, so slipping more eggs, or other type of parrots
under them would not cause a problem. People having problems with birds
leaving their young, so using fosters can also be used for this
purpose.
To successfully bred a good line of any mutation you must always
consider having some sort of foster parents to help out with raising
other birds young when necessary , as well as their own.
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here at DONPAULNA AVIARIES
are no exception to the use of foster parents, but only use them for
our lorikeets. We have 2 normal pairs of rainbows, and also 2 pairs of
hybrid lories, used for our foster parents The hybrids are only used
for fosters, and we have found that they have made the best parents by
far of all our breeding pairs. The reason for this is unknown, but they
have been very successful parents over the years we have used them. Any
of their own young are sold off, only as pet birds and are not
recommended for breeding with. We have had a lot of success with our lorikeets, and therefor
our foster parent lories are an important asset to us. |
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(Olive
and normal Rainbow used as foster parents) |
Yours in aviculture: Paul Stevens.
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