Hi Firs Time Bird Lover and Breeder from South Africa

[Liefie]

Hi I have a pair of ringnecks that i want to breed for the first time. my male (Blue) is older than 7 years and my female (green) just over a year

[Liefie]

When she starts to lay eggs, is she most of the time in the nest or can she be out side and only go inside to lay the egg???

[Little Buttercup]

Hi Liefie, welcome.

I'm just wondering why do you want to breed your birds when you do not know anything about breeding?

Ash

[Skyes_crew]

Hi and welcome. Your female is too young yet to start breeding. Hens normally begin breeding in their second season. There has been a huge increase of inexperienced breeders wanting to breed lately and I think before you wind up in situations like theirs with babies on their hands and no clue what to do, maybe a little research is in order. I'm not discouraging you from breeding. I'm only asking that you learn all you can about the birds and breeding before you take on such a huge responsibility.

[Liefie]

Hi Liefie, welcome.

I'm just wondering why do you want to breed your birds when you do not know anything about breeding?

Ash

Ash, i didn't want to breed, its just happened on its own.
my male was my parents for some years now and they got the female a while back and recently decided to give the birds to my daughter
they were in separate cages, but i don't have the space for 2 big parrot cages, so i put them together (i only found out recently that the female could have killed my male). Luckily she didn't, but i saw them a couple of times mating, so i build them a nesting box, put it on the cage and only few days, started researching them.

[Liefie]

Hi and welcome. Your female is too young yet to start breeding. Hens normally begin breeding in their second season. There has been a huge increase of inexperienced breeders wanting to breed lately and I think before you wind up in situations like theirs with babies on their hands and no clue what to do, maybe a little research is in order. I'm not discouraging you from breeding. I'm only asking that you learn all you can about the birds and breeding before you take on such a huge responsibility.

Skyes thank you, i did see that i needed to do more research, so i'm studying them in all my free time!
So much i didn't know, i can tell you!!!!
most of the birds history, do's and don't ext. i found, but they say very little about the breeding proses.

[Dixie-1]

Hello and welcome to the forum Liefie

[Liefie]

Thank You Dixie