Artificial incubation of pet birds eggs
May 14, 2009 by admin
Filed under Breeding Pet Birds
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It is possible to artificially incubate the eggs from any bird. There are usually two reasons for doing this; the parent birds may have left their eggs because they were disturbed or you may decide to remove the eggs from the parents so that one pair can raise more chicks in a season. Whatever the reason for incubating eggs artificially, always remember that after incubation the chicks will have to be hand-reared, which involves a great deal of care and attention. In any case, it is important that you find out as much as possible about incubation before you even attempt to incubate your own eggs or consider buying any items of expensive equipment.
Rearing the youngsters of ground birds, such as ducks and pheasants, is generally fairly easy, but it becomes more complicated with birds such as parrots. Incubating and hand-rearing softbills can prove to be extremely difficult and should not be attempted without a great deal of experience. The safest option is to leave incubation and rearing to the adult birds.
Still-air and moving-air incubators are both efficient. Moving-air incubators are aimed at beginners, because the whole machine is set at one temperature. With a still-air incubator, there is a temperature gradient from the top to bottom of the machine of up to 4