Cockatoo hybrids?

[yazzmin]

I've just been looking around the internet for baby cockatoos and I found a few people selling hybrid cockatoos. so far I've seen Galah X Sulphur Crested and Galah X Short billed Corella babies that are either for sale now or have been sold, and they were all significantly more expensive than regular toos.

it got me wondering, what are the effects of creating hybrid cockatoos? from what I know, apparently it's okay to cross breed Macaws, but not Lovebirds, and I can find absolutely nothing about hybrid cockatoos. I'd love to buy one of these babies because they are super gorgeous but I'm not so sure I'm comfortable with buying something there is so little information on. I really don't want to fall in love with a bird only to have it get sick and die prematurely. if anyone has any experience with or knows anything about hybrid COCKATOOS specifically please share your knowledge :b

thanks

[avinet]

Most aviculturists frown on deliberately breeding hybrids - and in fact in most, if not all, states in Australia it is illegal to deliberately breed native hybrids. That does not apply to exotic species such as lovebird sand macaws but most consider it unethical to do so. I won't get into the reasons why - it is a subject that has been done to death many times on the Internet, and probably on this Forum as well.

There are no significant health issues with hybrids in birds and hybrid cockatoos should live just as long as their pure cousins. It is rather like breeding a horse with a donkey to get a mule - the mule will live just as long as it's parents. However like mules, some (but not all by any means) parrot hybrids can be infertile.

cheers,

Mike

[birdz]

I have to agree with Mike,
get a galah if you want a cockatoo, they're playful, funny and love cuddles!!!
there is also Major Mitchell x galah it isn't right ... stay with the pure ones

[birdz]

I have to agree with Mike,
get a galah if you want a cockatoo, they're playful, funny and love cuddles!!!
there is also Major Mitchell x galah it isn't right ... stay with the pure ones

[birdz]

oops...

[lestarash]

I have no idea of it.

[jaleightonelectrical]

I have this one come into my backyard occasionally. Presuming it's a galah x little corella. I've usually seen it in a flock of corellas when around town, but seems to come only with its mate when using the birdbath. Does anybody know how often this happens naturally in the wild? Or is it a bred bird that has escaped? I would of thought it would have been rejected as it looks so different from the rest of the flock?