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When I am truely paranoid I do the basic scrub down with a general disinfectant that you might use around the house. Then rinse it down with clean water. Then damp a cloth with vinegar (just plain old cheap vinegar) and go over the entire thing. Then lastly hit it with Aritopet cage cleaner spray (v...

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One method I had with a problematic bird that just couldnt stop till it seriously drew blood and then you HAD to get it away from you was a toy. After a few seriously ignored efforts... without any luck, I would shove a boring soft rubber toy in its face. It would chew that till it got completely bo...

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Yah, I have been asked to send a few pics of them being themselves and playing with people all around Australia now. Have freighted a few up to QLD and one to Sydney so far this year. Yet to get a complaint heh. Seems to be a larger interest in birds that are more than just hand reared and fresh fro...

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Heya, From a Blue /cinnamon cock with a Grey Hen actually produces: Cocks:: Blue /cinnamon Blue Grey /cinnamon Grey Hens:: Blue Grey Blue Cinnamon (sky blue) Grey Cinnamon (silver) You will not know if males are split or not till you breed with them. A visually grey bird has both grey and blue genes...

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Heya all.. i said I would post a few updates so here they are. The creamino just lives to explore... and yah.. im the guy with the head cut off in one of those pics These guys are quite the most tame bunch of birds I have bred so far. Not one single bird has turned from wanting to be a pet (generall...

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Yeah

My turquoise hen throws very very blue turquoise babies... almost impossible to tell between blue and turq till about 12 weeks of age.

I find this turquoise wash quite lovely.

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Below are a few misc. pics of this years babies from three clutches. Clutch 1 gave our world one Creamino (turquoise ino) and a Turquoise Grey It was a first time breeding pair of just two years old. The mum is a creamino with a grey gene (didnt know till we had a grey bub lol) and the dad is a blue...

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I honestly dont think you will have a hard time retraining a year old Indian. I have had young birds that I had to put in aviary environments with its wild parents that I have pulled out and 2 months later had a very tame (if not a little cautious) pet bird to be placed in a new home As cooky as it ...

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oki dokie.. before people get excited Cannabis sativa (seed) is what they put in bird seed mix... think like birds... its a type of cannibis... if your going to smoke C. Sativa... good luck Its main role in the world is not its drug use Its strain is highly used for the production of rope / alternat...

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The parents job as parents is not learned behaviour ^_^ Its instinct. Thankfully it seems a pretty small occurance (saying small... but have not experienced any myself nor know someone who has here in south australia anyway) that parent Indians ditch their young... and its mostly due to heat. I know...

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Oh I am sure he is correct in many regards, just curious as to the frequency with Indians. Would be pretty small I would guess from what I have heard from others personal experiences.

Pretty damn hardy breeders these guys are.

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I would like to hear a little more about this or any research done for parrots. Kings are very very different to Indians with their capacity regarding young. Kings are difficult and very fussy to breed with from what I have heard. Friend had a pair of Indians that never raised a clutch older than 4 ...

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I am very tempted to look into the genetic constraints behind the blending of the two (alex and irn).

Check out this site http://www.irnmutations.com/

I might have to get into this myself.

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From the sounds of it.. you have them all in the one aviary? If so... it could be your problem. I have not known a single person to successfully breed colony indian ring necks in decent aviaries. Birds dont die or have problems due to bad luck. It is due to something being wrong. There are key thing...

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I would love to get a breeding pair of Blues set up. Heck even a blue with a split blue would be incredible.

I love their size and beaks. Just not a fan of the green. Its a gorgeous colour... but everyone has prefrences

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In all honesty... the breeder should not sell the baby to you until it is weaned unless you have had experience hand rearing yourself. If you have not hand hand rearing experience on anything before I would just wait another short few weeks... or get the breeder to train you very well on the hand re...

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Yeah. I know a minority of sources where you can get split blues etc but they are all part IRN mutations that were "spliced" generations ago.

Considering their size difference it is supprising the two species get it on like that

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oh my god they are gorgeous...

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It is more for their pre-fledge stage than anything else. And when I am playing about in the box it doesnt hurt to have that touch extra while I need the light. It is also for when I get birds from less open avairies when young. My previous experiences with young birds from heavily sheltered avairie...

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This is a good article on the basics behind photoperiod for birds as well as a quick guide to light and birds. m Use the link at the bottom to go to the index.. lots of interesting things for some... lots of very boring things for others. Vitamin D3 is produced by natural sunlight. These are some ti...

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I highly commend the idea. But here in Australia you have to be into some pretty high brow birds to be a business breeder... or own a bird store at the front and breeder out the back kinda setup. The closest person I know to being self sufficient and making profit thats livable from breeds things li...

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Yay grats My friend did the same with me. She had a rather homicidal IRN hen that actually dug through the soil to get into other avairies to go on a killing spree. She couldnt have it in an isolated avairy with her chosen mate with a solid flooring so I look after it now. I dont mind. It gives me m...

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My friend has the most gorgeous pet sun conure. The poor thing had its wing damaged before it started to pin feathers and as a consequence it has only half of a wing.. the part from the "elbow" as such and onwards doesnt exist. It lives quite a happy life and even though you see it wanting...

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Well I decided to go all out for my main brooder... and make a smaller brooder using above ideas for very young hatchlings. I got something that can handle everything I hatch at the moment.. including another 3-4 clutch sizes (up to easily 30 bubs lol) which I only need enough for 4 clutchs atm... 1...

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Nice Thats a good design idea I didnt think of... with the seperate compartments for water and heat divided into a horizontal patern like that. I am thinking of buying a small budget vivarium (about $250) from URS (ultimate reptile supplies) as it should be able to hold (using 15cm high dividers for...

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Heya

I was a Territory boy myself

Darwin.. Pine Creek.. Groot Eylandt in the gulf etc...

Now based in Adelaide

Glad to see more Aussies.

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Anyone here made a brooder before and have a few brand / parts pointers? I refuse to pay the prices commercial brooders cost.. I mean.. $600 for a brooder from brand names that carry only one clutch of birds O.o Decent commercial brooders in excess of $1600 for larger solutions :/ I was thinking of ...

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Should have told him what they were

Otherwise someone less scrupulous will take advantage of it.

Its funny... I nearly got a pair dirt cheap once... but I just dont like the look of them >.< Still funky birds.

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cute birdie..

my boys would kill for that play gym hehe

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Eye.. when said like that it sounds more like one of those competitions with an air rifle you have at a carnival etc instead of the... cept you dont get a fluffy prize till about 2 months later O.o

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Heya, good to see people getting into the breeding world... Whether you keep your boxes in year round or just before breeding season is personal choice I think or what the birds are used to already... I have 3 pairs going myself.. all with box year round (they actually huddle in them in truely bad w...

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They say Indian.. but tis darker plumish red beak lean more towards African... also... it does look quite alot older than 1.5 years O.o it could be anything from 2.5 years + Ringnecks to my knowledge dont even start colouring up till at best their first year.. and even then.. its a far cry from comp...

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I wouldnt jump to any conclusions but I could actually say at a guess its a turquoise not a standard blue. One of my turqs was originally nearly sold as a blue (it had not one touch of green till about 4-6 months of age). Refusing pellets is not odd. I have had some IRN's that once they had a taste ...

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Apparently after 3-4 days of crazed nature... over 8,000 (zomg) homes were without power / still are. YIKES! Adelaide was nice and peaceful heh.. though where I used to live (in the gulf between NT and QLD) we had a cyclone of decent nature go right over us every two years... cat 2 and cat 3's... th...

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Coolies... I might have to join the slather at petlink.. I must admit.. few real IRN breeders around where I am so that can lean in my favour a little. Last year was my first breeding season that went on sale.. with a few sad moments (just hate seeing such good little bubs leaving).. but I know they...

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Heya, I dont want to make this an "I want to sell this.. etc". What I do want to know is how people in Australia find the best way to price / guage market on their breeding stock and hand reared lovelies... also how they go about selling them through what sites... if any? I am contemplatin...

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I find them just as diverse as humans. Just because they are from all aspects... the same lifestyle.. and same heritage... they can quite just as easily hate each other as us.

Some people you just dont get along with. Birds I feel are the same.

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Yeah.. oranges are one of the cheapest fruits available here in Australia. My breeders and pets love them.. its fed basicly to them all year round. When I cant get them from a friend who has year long tree's, I buy them.. most it usually costs is about $2 a kilo. Adelaide is the world of the market ...

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Since I do an elaborate little clip on my pets... I generally enlist the help of another person and a towl to make things easy and calm for the little fellas.. they hate it.. but are over it pretty fast. I wouldnt worry about the wings being permanently damaged.. just seriously hacked up. I too woul...

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My little prima dona Naemh, never likes any bird to begin with.. but doesnt actively try to hurt them. Given time and reinforcing mutual behaviour.. like hand feeding at same times etc and giving them scritches and cuddles and singing to them in their little whistles breaks them in pretty fast. Then...

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It actually looks very similar to a Golden Olive (grey green cinnamon). I used to have one. Gorgeous colour imo. Second from the left is a Golden Olive. http://www.adelaidebirdclub.com/gallery03/irn4.jpg left to right... turqoiseblue, grey green cinnamon, grey, blue and a green

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OK... I am semi offended that you compare the importance of an issue off a google result count. Not to mention a search of completely unrelated issues at hand in this topic... "canser meat consuption" was your search string... two of which words were even spelt incorrectly. You searched fo...

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Not a photo shy bub there

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Heya, glad to see you join.

People here are pretty friendly... but some like me are hopeless with photos hehe

/points at self

Hope to see some of your bubs around here sooner or later aswell.

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Freaky I am sorry for how your thread was semi hijacked lol. Cocoa as nil stated is toxic for IRN's. There are listings of what is good and bad for parrots but I must advise you give them a touch of caution. What is edible for a quaker parrot may not be for an indian ringneck for example. Parrots ar...

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Unfortunately we were not talking about hand rearing formula, as it was in general perspective to freaky's post about human soy products. Soy protein is just that.. a unique extractable form from a product. Not the product itself. Though there are "perspectives" that even that is not good ...

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Note: New Zealand consultant toxicologist Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick was approached in 1991 by an American rare bird breeder to confirm his suspicion his parrots were dying from their soy bean feed. After examining soy every which way, the doctor and his team discovered “that soy contains toxins and plant...

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Nil where did you find that soy products are fine? m Soy products are quite possibly one of the nastiest things you can feed your parrot. As the effects act like a product called DDT, an infamous pesticide that completly disrupted many situations in the wild. The effects of soy will not only damage ...

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Quite a cutie.

South Africa eh? Have been through Namibia and east a little. Was only in South Africa for a very short time.

The places I went werent really up for tourism situations while I was working heh so I do hope to go back to see some more of the wildlife that Africa has to show off.

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Grats on the app, they are always on the lookout for help. I saw a large flock of green IRN's in Western Australia when I was little. Was quite a site.. then I saw a movie when I was a child about a recently migrated family, and their Australian born son who had a few IRN's and went to WA over a fam...

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