Budgerigars rather cultivated bird who well breeds in the conditions of the city apartment. However it must be kept in mind that budgerigars exactingly treat the choice of the partner for pairing and also to know some rules of care for them during pairing and removal of baby birds.
It is required to you
- - cage;
- - nesting ground;
- - birch sawdust;
- - egg and green forage.
Instruction
1. Make a nesting ground for pairing of parrots: take or hammer together a wooden box of 15 by 25 cm in size, 15 cm high, make a letok (an opening with a diameter of 4.5 cm, approximately in 3 cm from the upper edge). The bottom of a nesting ground has to be with the hollow in the center about 1-2 cm in depth. Attach a pole under a letok 10 cm long, then attach to a sidewall a step 3 cm high and 10 cm wide (the top cover of a box has to act or lean back for cleaning).
2. Hang out a nesting ground in a cage, put on a cage bottom ware with a pounded egg shell and grated chalk or crush a tablet of a gluconate of calcium and resupply at the rate of 1 tablet a day. Fill in a nesting ground of 1 - 2 glass of dry birch sawdust a layer 3-4 mm, it is possible to take any sawdust, except sawdust of coniferous breeds of trees. Add to sawdust a teaspoon of a dry pharmaceutical camomile for scaring away of parasites.
3. Add to a forage during nesting, except a millet and oats, an egg forage and vegetables. In the period of a nasizhivaniye give only a millet and oats. You watch humidity of air in the apartment, it has to be not less than 60%. During feeding of baby birds give egg mix, from green forages – a zvezdchatka and leaves of dandelions.
4. Check a cage 2-3 times a week after appearance of baby birds in due time to remove the dead of baby birds. In two weeks after appearance of the first baby birds it is necessary to clean a nesting ground, having placed for this time of baby birds in a box. Examine legs of baby birds and if to them dirt, their otmochita in warm water stuck.
5. Clean a nesting ground, fill fresh sawdust, put eggs, put in it baby birds and return into place to a cage. You make cleaning of a nesting ground of times a week, but if the female badly reacts to the procedure, you should not persist, in this case just periodically fill up fresh sawdust and a pharmaceutical camomile in a nesting ground.