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| How to raise parrots |
This is how to raise parrots for beginners, starting with choosing healthy sires. As long as it's painstaking, surely your parrot livestock will produce clots.
As a special bird because it is capable of imitating human voices, parrots have a fairly expensive selling price. Its ever-decreasing population also makes this beautiful black bird more difficult to find. Then, why not just try to block it?
Parrots raising is not easy. But if done carefully, it can be a business with bright prospects. Here are some ways you can apply so that the parrots you care for can reproduce properly.
1. Choosing a Healthy Mother
To get quality saplings, the first thing you need to consider is the selection of healthy sires. Healthy parrots are characterized by their activity in ringing and jumping up and down. In addition, there are also other features, such as the condition of the hair that is not dull, clear eyes, and eating that is gusty.
If this is the experience of maintaining parrots for the first time, it's a good idea to choose small parrots or chicks. Your togetherness in giving food and practicing speaking every day, can make these parrots more docile and faster at mastering words. In addition, you can at the same time ensure that the parrots are free of disease because you have been taking good care of since childhood.
2. Giving Nutritious Food
Giving nutritious food for parrots can be useful to maintain its health and stamina so that it is always excellent. Some foods that you can provide include: voer, fruits, vegetables, insects, and kroto. In order for parrots not to get bored, you should provide food with a varied menu.
Parrots also need fresh water to avoid dehydration. For that, replace the drinking water supply twice a day. Also make sure the water container and food used are always clean, so that bacteria are not contaminated which can endanger parrots' health.
3. Maintain the cleanliness of parrots
To avoid coming bacteria from outside, parrots should be bathed every day. Since parrots are intelligent and independent birds, you only need to prepare a bucket of clean water every morning or evening. After that, let the parrots bath themselves.
4. Providing Clean Enclosures
Cages for raising parrots must be made in a size that is large enough, which is about 2 m x 1 m x 2 m. At the corner of the cage, provide a nest box with a size of about 30 cm x 30 cm x 50 cm. The box is useful for laying and incubating parrot eggs. While for perch needs, you can use tree branches that are strong enough with a diameter that is adjusted to the size of the parrot leg.
You can clean the cage regularly with wet towels and cleaning fluid. For parrots to feel comfortable, as long as the cage is cleaned, you can remove it first. If it's dry, parrots can be put back into the cage.
5. Matching Parrots
Parrots can already be paired when entering the age of 11 months. To find out whether a male and female parrots are matched or not, you can place the two parrots in an adjacent cage. If both of them are often close together at night, it's a sign that the two parrots are suitable and ready to be placed in one cage.
Inside the cage, you also need to observe the movements of both of them. Parrots who are matched generally will follow other parrots.
6. Caring for parrots
After mating, parrots will usually produce 3-4 eggs. During incubation, try to keep the atmosphere around the cage calm. Parrot eggs will hatch in about 14 days.
Within a week, you can let the parrot child be cared for by the mother. After that, move it to another cage, then give nutritious food by breaking it. When the puppies are two months old, you can practice talking until the parrots grow up and are good at imitating human voices.
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