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when they start getting curious enough to start picking things up with their beaks is a good indicator. Some start picking at the bedding or droppings ect. And pretty muchly if there is things like corn kernels and fresh peas that they can have a play with they eventually work it out that its edibl...

I am handfeeding three chicks now. They are 28 days old, and I am following the "handfeeding agenda" that Melika wrote. But I wonder at what age do you use to intruduce "real" food? What to start with? Last time I handfeed any bird was two years ago, and I really doesent remember...

Wow aviarys like that must be awesome! We don´t have that kind of zoo´s here in scandinavian, we have a coupple but not that big I think. Love beeing in open aviarys were you can sit and watch the birds just flying around. My partner must always drag me from thouse places, I can stay forever there.

Here is some pics of my IRN´s http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4161/kokodidiwg5.th.jpg http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5056/halsbandisar021az6.th.jpg My two white once eating rosehips http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6559/halsbandisar025vh0.th.jpg http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/811/halsba...

Exciting, hope evertyhing goes well!

Hi, As I promissed to give you all some photos of my little flock here in sweden I might as well start here! My birdhouse inhabits 65-70 birds and well a mice or two as well , I´m doing my best to just keep birds in there Most of the birds are budgies. No showbudies, just ordinary ones. Then there i...

I thought I but up some pictures here today as I took some photos yesterday. But I forgotten the cable to the computer, stupid me! I promiss to bring the pics to you on monday. (I don´t have any computer at home, just this one at work) Give you this one now. It´s my birds from an show we arranged a ...

I had to pull my two IRN´s at the age of 5 weeks and handfeed them. The hen was beginning to pluck the poor chicks so I had no alternativ but pulling them. I had another more experienced breeder who showed my what to do and all. It was not so easy beeing the first time fore me and the IRN already re...

I will measure the first aviary an let you know, its big enough to put a couple of dividers in. What you may have to watch is the bonded pairs may gang up on the others. See mine are all young and at the time only oscar and skye had been in together, but skye was the main problem chasing the other ...

I had six in the one aviary, I watched them pretty closely and ended up moving skye out (hen) and cheeky (juvenile c). Skye is very dominant and cheeky was getting chased by oscar(c). I dont know how you would go with established pairs though. How old are your cock birds and hens? How big was your ...

When I did DNA test at my little IRN I just had to take a little blod from the cuticle. putting a small "hole" with a needle, easy no bleading afterwards or anything.

That test was send to south afrika for DNA result.

I can make the cages bigger if it´s nessesery. I Know that females can be real bitches some time, but is that also when they are not with a mate?? There must be someone here who has a lager amount of birds, do you all keep them just in pairs?? Of course I will keep an eye at them, my thougts were pu...

I just wonder, how do you keep your IRN´s? I do have mine in pairs. I did once put in a male in an outdoor aviary with two others a male and female. It ended up in disaster. They killed the poor guy. That misstake I will not do again! But it would help a lot if I could keep some of them together. I ...

My IRN´s all love pepper (red, green, yellow), carrots and apple.

They also love fresh rosehips, blueberry and cherries.

Well they tend too tast and love all sorts of berrys and veggies

Most of my birds have seed and fresh veggies and spouts. But I have one IRN who eats pellet and he likes Hagen the most, but i use to mix it with Kaytee. He also have fresh food and seeds. First he takes all fresh food, then he take pellets and if nothing else is left he takes some seed but just a l...

Thank you!

Well I guess I have to bring my camera into the birds place then.

Unfortunatly they don´t seem too like the camera but I will give it a try, just for you!!!

Hi, I guess I have to introduce myself again. I haven´t been here fore a wile so..... My name is Sylvia and I´m from Sweden. My spelling may not be so good but I hope you can live with that anyway. I´m 32 years old, lives outside a small vilage with my boyfriend and my animals. We have two cats, som...

I do agree that you should not let the temerature drop big time and then go back to normal warm temperature again the next day. But as I sayed, keeping them at low temperature like 45 Farenheit or 5-10 celcius is not a problem. But it should be in a sheltred area and a dry place. On stabil temperatu...

Thanks a lot!

Then i will start to intruduce small seeds in a bowl from today.
Milletspray is one thing I have to go shopping.
I dont use to have that at home.

And I will keep on going with five feedings per day until they start tasting some food by them self, I guess it will show.

I´m wondering at what age you intruduce "real" food to the baby´s that you handreare and how to do this best? When I look at Melika´s post and hand-feeding agenda, it say´s from 6 week´s just feed them one time in the evening. But I pull my baby´s five day´s ago and they were 35 dags at that time. T...

I can just tell you my experence, I locate my IRN in a cooler place in the winter they all take it verry well. If you can, just for sure, you can put in a heater a fan or something like that. Just to keep the temerature above zero, 5-10 degrees celcius is just fine. And of course feed them more fatt...

Thanks Julie! That explains the hole thing. I do only warm water, but it´s a big job keeping the formula warm during the hole feeding process. (Especelly if you are new at feeding and have two frightend chicks to feed.) But I just finished the dinner meel and they seemed okey with it, and I´m reliev...

As my english is´nt that good. I just wonder what the word "nuke" means? I have recently pull two chicks from the nest, they are 4,5-5 weeks old and the hen had started plucking the poor chicks head and back. I am in contact with a experienced breeder and he is helping me along with this, but its al...

I´m whaiting fore my trick video to arrive.
But I think it will be worth waiting.

Oh whiii how cute can you be? I´m melting *love*.
The yellow IRN are just soo fine, they are outstanding, just my point of view.

Cute little thing you have there!

So she likes to sit in the middle of that toy, maybe something to keep in mind later on here too.
I think I have to try that toy, so cute!

Tanks, im not verry good at this thing with pics.
But maybe I will later on

Hi, I´m from Sweden and are keeping parrots in differet sizes as a big hobby of mine. I have a tame Goffin too, I breed bugerigar and cockatiels and some large parakeets (portlincoln and crimson.) And I also have two pair of ringnecked parakeet. one green, one yellow and two white. Hope to learn a l...