How to keep pet birds.
[ad#blod-ad] When they are born, waterfowl and pheasant chicks are downy, which keeps them warm, and they are able to move about and feed themselves. (Chicks born in this condition are described as ‘precocial’.) Hand-rearing these ground birds is an established and fairly easy procedure. Before starting out, it is a good idea to visit [...]
[ad#blod-ad] 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 [...]
[ad#blod-ad] The two most common reasons for clipping your bird’s feathers are to restrain its flight and to prevent it flying altogether. You may like the idea of keeping birds such as ducks or pheasants at liberty in your garden, but if you buy and release them without clipping their wings, they will disappear.Clipping the [...]