african grey parrot for sale
african grey parrot for sale

African Grey Feather Picking

Feather Picking and Mutilation
Feather Picking Causes
Feather Picking Preventing & correcting

African Grey Social Interactions

Mechanically produced sounds Agonistic behaviour
Defensive, appeasing & submissive behavioural patterns
Sexual behaviour
Sex-recognition, bond and mating

African Grey Breeding & Hand Rearing

Breeding African Grey Parrots
Reasons for hand rearing
Reasons against hand rearing

Sex-recognition, bond and mating:

wild African grey parrots are most probably monogamous. Pairs of grey parrots sometimes breed close to each other in loose colonies of up to several hundreds of pairs, contrary to some new world parrots, that live in couples withdrawn from the rest of the flock during the mating season.

The pre-bonds of subadult birds can lead to an adult long-lasting partnership. When two birds become sexually mature, a very clear hierarchy is developed within the couple (the male is usually the dominant partner) (Lantermann, 1999).

The mating rituals are not very well known in the case of grey parrots. Some displays are quite manifest, for example both birds walk to and fro on a perch with dangling wings, scratch themselves several times with their foot and rub one another's bill. Beak wrestling sometimes takes place which might be a preliminary stage before allofeeding. However, courtship is not very specific: allopreening, regurgitation, strutting and posturing of the male (shoulders raised and slightly spread), tail fanshaped, neck feathers puffed out, eyes pinning and groaning.

There are very few displays which are exclusively shown during the mating ritual. Most behavioural patterns can be seen during the whole year and are simply intensified during the mating period (Lantermann, 1999).

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Egg Incubators and Egg Incubator Resources

NEW R-Com Auto Egg Incubator w/ Humidity
GQF Poultry Box Brooder
Brower Top Hatch Incubator
Genesis Incubator 1588
GQF 220-240 Volt / 50 Hz Still Air Incubator
Corti AF25 Semi-Automatic Turn Incubator
Thermal Air Flow Hova-Bator
Thermal Air Flow Incubator
Hova-Bator Still Air Incubator
Hova-Bator Turbo Fan Incubator
Hova-Bator Incubator & Automatic Egg Turner
Conomax Incubator
NEW EZ Scope

Trouble Shooting Failures with Egg Incubation Symptoms of incubation/breeder management problems

Clear eggs with no visible embryonic development.
Blood rings in incubated eggs.
Many dead embryos at an early stage.
Chicks fully formed, but dead without pipping.
Pipped eggs, but died without hatching.
Late hatching or not hatching uniformly.
Sticky embryos.
Embryos sticking or adhering to shell.