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Post by silvercloud on Sept 21, 2006 11:36:43 GMT 10
How easy is it to tame a newly weaned, parent raised baby alex?
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Post by AussieBirds on Sept 21, 2006 14:08:33 GMT 10
I have done it with Cockatiels and it worked very well, it's time consuming and a lot of fun you have to be prepared to spend a fair amount of time with them, but there is no reason it wont work.
John
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Post by vankarhi on Sept 22, 2006 9:20:01 GMT 10
Jules it is not hard to tame any parent raised bird that is just weaned. The older they are the more time it takes, but I did it for many years until I discovered handraising them about 15 years ago.
Jules is there any reason why you could not take one of those babies and raise it for yourself??? Are they going to dna them??? If not do you want a particular sex??? If so ask Pauline - Petiel to help you sex them by pictures if possible. She is very good at it. By pictures is probably harder than in the flesh (or feather. LOL) but I am sure she could help and tell you what to look for...........she was spot on with Takoda and picked him virtually from taking him out of the nest.
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Post by vankarhi on Sept 22, 2006 9:21:26 GMT 10
oh by the way................I am no help if you are trying to talk yourself out of getting one. LOL as you know from yesterday heh. LOL  |
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Post by silvercloud on Sept 22, 2006 11:56:35 GMT 10
LOL Tracey. Despite all my wildlife caring I have never hand raised a bird myself, if they are easy to handrear I might try it myself, just not sure at the moment. I have 2 breeders with eggs or new babies that I can get a bub from so I have a few weeks at least to decide.
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Post by petiel on Sept 22, 2006 13:01:16 GMT 10
Jules alexandrines are a easy bird to raise even if they are left in the nest until about 4 weeks they are still very quite, you might be more comfortable with that age if you have never handreared a baby before.
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Post by silvercloud on Sept 22, 2006 17:14:41 GMT 10
Thanks Pauline, if I did handrear that's what I'd do. |
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