Cannibal King Parrots
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:10 pm
I know this is an IRN site but maybe this problem has been experienced by an IRN owner too....
My King Parrots have been together for 3 years and are a mature pair. I have been waiting forever for them to lay eggs and have done everything i possibly can to help the process. It has been very expensive and exhausting but i have done it regardless. Anyway, there were no eggs but Mrs Kingy was in teh box all the time. Yesterday i went into the aviary to change food and water and i noticed Mr Kingy eating an egg. IT WAS HIS OWN BABY!! Upon investigation, i found another half an egg stuffed in a tree trunk (part of the aviary).
I have heard that King Parrots are bad parents and break their own eggs through clumsiness but I didn't know they would eat them. I don't really want to take him out of the aviary because i have nowhere to put him because my new aviaries are still not ready.
Have any of you suffered this problem? Not many people breed King Parrots and so there is absolutely NO information (apart from tourist crap) on the net to help me. So I turn to you guys. Thank you
My King Parrots have been together for 3 years and are a mature pair. I have been waiting forever for them to lay eggs and have done everything i possibly can to help the process. It has been very expensive and exhausting but i have done it regardless. Anyway, there were no eggs but Mrs Kingy was in teh box all the time. Yesterday i went into the aviary to change food and water and i noticed Mr Kingy eating an egg. IT WAS HIS OWN BABY!! Upon investigation, i found another half an egg stuffed in a tree trunk (part of the aviary).
I have heard that King Parrots are bad parents and break their own eggs through clumsiness but I didn't know they would eat them. I don't really want to take him out of the aviary because i have nowhere to put him because my new aviaries are still not ready.
Have any of you suffered this problem? Not many people breed King Parrots and so there is absolutely NO information (apart from tourist crap) on the net to help me. So I turn to you guys. Thank you