Breeding techniques of budgerigar

When it comes to parrots, I think we are all very familiar with them. Parrots are very cute, and parrots have a characteristic that other birds do not have. They can imitate people to talk, so parrots are very popular for many people.

What is a budgie?

Budgerigar (scientific name: Melopsittacus undulatus) is a bird of the family Parrotidae, also known as Jiaofeng, a small climbing bird species, native to the inland areas of Australia, wild budgerigars inhabit forest edges, grasslands and so on. Group activities. Feed on plant seeds, etc. The breeding period is from June to January, nesting in tree holes, laying 4-8 eggs per litter, and the incubation period is 18 days. Lively and easy to domesticate, it is one of the most common pet birds in China. It belongs to the second-class national protected animals.

Budgerigar is the most common parrot in the world, naughty and lovely, widely loved by the public, the total number of more than 5 million in the world, they are often the first parrot bought by many people who are interested in parrots, and it is also the most common species to appear in the bird show. Since 1860, Australian biologist Guigmand made a major discovery and breakthrough in genetic engineering. The variety of budgerigar has entered an unprecedented diversity, there are thousands of varieties, and they are very easy to take care of and breed, which is why they are so common. Tiger skin is a tropical bird, which has poor viability in the wild in China. A lot of them don't survive. Especially not for the winter. Please don't release it!

How to raise budgerigar

1. Cage

A large square metal cage should be used. The size of the cage is 40 cm long, 35 cm wide and 35 cm high. The bottom of the cage is provided with a drawer-type sand table (dung board) to facilitate the cleaning of feces. The nest box of the budgerigar is a transverse nest. The size of the nest box is a small rectangular wooden box with a length of 25 cm, a width of 14 cm and a height of 14 cm. There is a partition in the middle, which is divided into inner and outer chambers. The outer chamber has a round hole leading to the outside, with a diameter of 6 cm. The outer room and the middle partition of the inner room have the same round hole, 4 cm in diameter, which is the gateway for birds to enter and exit. Clean drinking water should be changed every day, feces should be cleaned once a week, and attention should be paid not to parrots in strong light in summer.

2. Food

The feed is mainly millet and barnyards. at the same time, some sesame seeds or perilla seeds should be fed, but the dosage should not exceed 10%. In order to ensure the nutrition needed by birds, green vegetables (cabbage, rape) and inorganic salts (bone meal, oyster powder) should also be fed regularly. This kind of bird is resistant to roughage, and concentrate should not be fed too much, so as not to cause deposition and affect egg laying and reproduction.

3. Feeding

When feeding, pay attention to blowing off the chaff from the canister, wash the vegetables before feeding, disinfect (1/1000 potassium permanganate solution can be used), drain, and take out the rest on the same day. Pay attention to the hygiene in the cage and clean up the sand and feces frequently. Food and water cans should be scrubbed twice a day. Although budgerigar is not too afraid of the cold, but the temperature is too low will affect reproduction, so the winter indoor temperature should not be lower than 0 ℃.

4. Temperature

Attention should be paid to keeping warm in winter, and the indoor temperature should not be lower than 16 ℃. The temperature is higher in summer, so ventilation should be strengthened when the temperature is more than 30 ℃. Budgerigars like to eat feed with shells, usually millet, barnyard grass, millet or egg millet, and should be fed with green vegetables, oyster powder or bone meal as regular feed (you can also put a whole piece of cuttlefish bone in the cage to peck). Budgerigar reaches sexual maturity at the age of 4 months, begins to estrus and mate, and can be used as a breeding bird to reproduce. Budgerigar can reproduce all the year round. Generally, each litter can lay 4-7 eggs, which are white and lay one egg every day or every other day. When laying the third egg, the female begins to sit and hatch, and the hatching is mainly female.

5. Feeding and management

Budgerigars can be raised in pairs or in groups, usually with wire cages or tin-covered box cages. The activity space of each pair of birds should be more than 0.5 cubic meters, otherwise it is not conducive to reproduction. The bottom of the cage should be made into a drawer (nailed with iron sheet) to facilitate pull-out, cleaning and sand laying. Food and water utensils should be deep and strong to prevent them from being bitten. The feed is mainly millet and barnyards. at the same time, some sesame seeds or perilla seeds should be fed, but the dosage should not exceed 10%. In order to ensure the nutrition needed by birds, green vegetables (cabbage, rape) and inorganic salts (bone meal, oyster powder) should also be fed regularly. This kind of bird is resistant to roughage, and concentrate should not be fed too much, so as not to cause deposition and affect egg laying and reproduction.

6. Reproduction. Budgerigar is easy to breed, but it is necessary to avoid crossing and keep this breed pure. For the sake of the health of offspring, it is appropriate to choose 1 Murray 2-year-old parent bird pair. Soon after mating, the female begins to lay eggs, one egg the next day, and a total of 9 eggs are produced.

7. the female does not leave the nest after laying eggs until the end of hatching, during which the male is fed. The incubation period is about 18 days. The nestling of budgerigar is a late adult bird, which cannot live independently within 25 days of hatching and is fed by adult birds. The method of raising chicks by parent birds is that the males feed the females, and the females feed the chicks. After 28 days of growth, the chicks can eat by themselves and live on their own. Sexual maturity can be achieved in 6 months when it grows to 5m / m / m.

How long is the life span of budgerigar?

The average lifespan of budgerigar is 7 to 10 years, which is even longer if carefully bred. In fact, the lifespan of parrots is generally divided into physiological lifespan and actual life. excluding all environmental factors and external unexpected conditions, budgerigars may grow to about 50 years. Similar parrots like Asuer are about 8-12 years old, cockatoos have about 15-20 years, medium-sized parrots such as Amazon are 20-50, and large parrots such as King Kong and Bataan are 30 years old.

How to feed budgerigar

For the owner of homemade feed for budgerigar, you should pay special attention to the matching of nutrients in the food, because it is related to the health of budgerigar. If you don't know exactly how to prepare food for budgerigars, don't give them what you think is good for them. You can buy special feed for budgerigars, or ask people in the industry for help.

In the process of breeding parrots, there are a lot of breeding techniques, parrots have high ornamental value, and many bird owners like to raise them. If you like raising birds, I suggest you try to raise a parrot. It can also learn to talk. It's very interesting.