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A Guide to Incubation and Handraising Parrots Incubation - Artificial Incubation, Meet the Egg!, Choosing an Incubator/Hatcher, Equipment, Handling the Egg, Incubation, Hatching Details, Problems and Troubleshooting, Egg Weighing. Handraising Parrots - The Goal, Fundamentals, Brooders and Brooding, Formulas, Feeding Instruments, Feeding the Newly Hatched, Growth Phase, Peak/Weaning Phase, Weaning Black Cockatoos, Pulling Chicks, Troubleshooting. A Guide to Popular Conures as Pet and Aviary Birds Featuring 13 of the most popular conures kept as pet or aviary birds throughout the world, this title is packed with easy-to-read, highly usable information and features full colour superb photographs throughout. Combined with their own experiences, Ray Dorge and Gail Sibley have recorded the results of an extensive research of large conure breeders. This title is sure to satisfy all fanciers and breeders of these wonderful parrots. Contents Conure Behaviour, Obtaining a Conure, Husbandry, Housing, Diet and Nutrition, Diseases and Disorders, Pet Quality and Mutations.	CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Distribution Map INTRODUCTION Derivation of Name 13 Distribution 13 General Description 13 Sexual Dimorphism 13 General Behaviour 14 Moult 14 Personality 14 Voice 15 Aggression 16 ECLECTUS IN THE WILD Environmental Variations 17 Life Above the Canopy 18 Moult 19 Breeding Behaviour 19 Food 24 Relationship with Local Communities 26 TAXONOMY Subspecies Classification 28 Evolution of the Eclectus Subspecies 29 Difficulty in Identifying Variations in Subspecies 29 Determining the Validity of Subspecies 31 Examination of Skins 31 Establishing the Validity of the Westerman’s Eclectus Parrot 32 THE IDENTIFICATION OF SUBSPECIES Introduction Lavender or Purple Breast-feather Group Cobalt or Blue Breast-feather Group Red Breast-feather Group Cock Identification SUBSPECIES Grand Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus roratus Vosmaer’s Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus vosmaeri Westerman’s Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus westermani Red-sided Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus polychloros Solomon Island Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus solomonensis Australian Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus macgillivrayi Aru Island Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus aruensis 56 Biak Island Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus biaki 58 Tanimbar Island Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus riedeli Sumba Island Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus cornelia ECLECTUS IN CAPTIVITY Introduction Essentials of Health and Happiness— Physical and Emotional Security, Sunlight, Showers, Play, Fixed Daily Routine New Bird Health Checklist— Signs of Health, Behaviour and Activity, Feathers, Vent, Eyes, Nostrils, Breast Muscle, Beak, Droppings, Feet, Mouth ECLECTUS AS PETS Introduction Choosing your First Eclectus Veterinary Check Preparing a Home for Your Pet Eclectus— Cage Design, Cage Location, Cage Floor, Perches, Enrichment, Physical and Emotional Security The First Days at Home ONGOING CARE FOR YOUR PET ECLECTUS Feeding The Benefits of Good Nutrition Weight Bathing/Showers Beak and Nail Clipping Wing Clipping Harness Restraint Taming Rules and Conditions for Taming, Taming Unclipped Birds Behavioural Patterns Baby Stage, Weaning and Post-weaning Stage, Juvenile Stage, Adolescence, Adulthood TRAINING Discipline Training Without Food Rewards Talking Teaching Your Bird to Talk Behavioural Problems Biting, Screaming, Feather Plucking Changes in Behaviour The Story of Georgie A Pet Owner’s Perspective Our Georgie!, The Taming and Training of Georgie ECLECTUS IN THE AVIARY The Newly Acquired Eclectus Selecting a Healthy Bird Quarantine Procedures Next 1 2 3 4	A Guide to Asiatic Parrots: Their Mutations, Care & Breeding (Revised Edition)
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