Description
Written by Western Australian aviculturist Phil Digney, this guide to Parrot Incubation and hand raising parrots covers all necessary requirements needed to successfully take an egg through to a fully weaned chick. Beautifully illustrated with color images throughout, this valuable title also includes many charts and diagrams, and informative text laid out in the easy-to-read format.
Contents include Incubation: artificial incubation, meet the egg!; choosing an incubator/hatcher, equipment, handling the egg, incubation, hatching details, problems, and troubleshooting, egg weighing; Hand raising parrots: the goal, fundamentals, brooders and brooding, formulas, feeding instruments, feeding the newly hatched, growth phase, peak/weaning phase, weaning black cockatoos, pulling chicks, troubleshooting.
Product details
- Condition: New
- Paperback: 104 pages
- Publisher: ABK Publications (1998), 1s Edition
- Language: English
- Illustrations: Color photos
- ISBN-10: 095871021X
- ISBN-13: 978-0958710213
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.5 x 0.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 277 g
Contents:
Artificial Incubation
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Equipment
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Choosing an Incubator/Hatcher
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Incubation
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Problems and Troubleshooting
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Handraising Parrots:
The Goal Fundamentals
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Feeding Instruments
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Peak/Weaning Phase
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Brooders and Brooding
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Feeding the Newly Hatched
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Weaning Black Cockatoos Pulling Chicks
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Formulas
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Growth Phase
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Troubleshooting
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