Should you breed birds?
If you want to breed birds, you should first check whether appropriate accommodation is available for the offspring. This fundamental consideration is crucial to approach breeding responsibly and ethically.
Once this consideration has been made, specific measures must be taken to ensure successful breeding:
- Select a suitable breeding pair (breeding maturity) and, importantly, no siblings due to inbreeding
- Optimise accommodation and nutrition; breeding and rearing young means increased strain.
- Offer nest building options such as cave, nesting box, basket and, as needed, nesting material such as twigs, bark, leaves, blades of grass, moss, coconut fibres, wood wool, Sharpie
- Suitable food (egg food, possibly live food) must be offered for rearing young
- Optimise accommodation and nutrition; breeding and rearing young means increased strain.
- Offer nest building options such as cave, nesting box, basket and, as needed, nesting material such as twigs, bark, leaves, blades of grass, moss, coconut fibres, wood wool, Sharpie
- Suitable food (egg food, possibly live food) must be offered for rearing young