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A Guide to Incubation and Handraising Parrots
Written by aviculturist, Phil Digney, this 104-page title covers all the necessary requirements needed to successfully take an egg through incubation, hatching, booding and development into a fully weaned chick.A Guide to Incubation and Handraising Parrots
Written by aviculturist, Phil Digney, this 104-page title covers all the necessary requirements needed to successfully take an egg through incubation, hatching, booding and development into a fully weaned chick
Beautifully illustrated with colour images, charts and diagrams supporting the informative text
An invaluable reference for any serious bird breeder
CONTENTS
Incubation
Artificial Incubation
Meet the Egg!
Shell
Albumen
Yolk
Germinal Disc
Choosing an Incubator/Hatcher
- Hand-turn
- Auto-turn
- Fan Forced
- Still Air
- Hatchers
Equipment
Handling the Egg
- Hygiene
- Candling
Incubation
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Turning
- Fertility
- Development
Hatching Details
- Records
- Internal and External Pip
Problems and Troubleshooting
- Damaged Eggs
- Death
- Overdue
- Hatch
- Egg Weighing
Handraising Parrots
The Goal
Fundamentals
- Weighing
- Records
- Hygiene
Brooders and Brooding
- Brooders
- Brooding
- Containers
- Bedding
Formulas
- Commercial
- Homemade
- Additives
Feeding Instruments
- Spoon
- Syringe
- Crop Tube
- Feeding the Newly Hatched
- Rehydration
- Crop Stretching
- First Feed
- Formula
- Weight Gain
- Temperature
Growth Phase
- Feed Instrument
- Crop Stretching
- Formula
- Feeding
- Weight Gain
- Leg Bands
Peak/Weaning Phase
- Feeding
- Regurgiation
- Weight Loss
- Weaning Cage
- Foods
Weaning Black Cockatoos
Pulling Chicks
- Inspection
- Nest Problems
- Consequences
Troubleshooting
- Weight
- Underfeeding
- Slow Crop
- Crop Stasis
- Infections
- Regurgitation
- Overstretched Crops
- Splayed Legs
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