Parrot care features
If you keep parrots and decided to engage them in reproduction You will have to equip the birds nest. We will tell how to make a navy for wavy parrots
Wavy parrots are quite frequent inhabitants of urban apartments. Small bright birds with friendly temper are very quickly becoming pets of their owners. Domestic wavy parrots consider Australia. In nature, birds live flocks. They prefer the places near the reservoirs, but also in the city, they can be found quite often.
Food in natural conditions of the pack during the day are engaged in search of feed and water, and in the evening they are hidden in secluded places on the trees.
What you need to know about bird care?
Bird care is simple, however, has some features. Celling a cage for wavy parrots or injectors, it is necessary to install in it at different height of the jergight of the tree. You can also put a small ladder, mirror, rings and bells in the cage.
The location for the cell should not be on the draft, otherwise the birds can be cold.
It is not recommended to install it and where it will be in direct sunlight all day. From late spring to early autumn, parrots can be taken outdoor or balcony.
Daily in the cell carry cleaning, change water in the drink and update the feed. It is useful from time to time to produce parrots from the cage and give them the opportunity to fly around the room.
To birds were healthy, their diet should consist of cereals, pieces of vegetables and fruits.
For what parrots nest?
Many owners of several lovers or wavy parrots try to engage in their breeding. But the time passes, and the offspring does not appear. The reason is that in nature the female is equipping the nest in the wood. Only with the advent of such a secluded place, it may have a need to surfaches chicks.
Very few individuals are capable of rapid eggs in an uncaped cage, so if you are seriously configured to receive the rating from your pets, it will be necessary to put in the cell bought in the store or made with your own hands the nest.
Before installing a house for sitting, it is necessary to determine whether the birds have achieved necessary to remove the age of age. The productive period of the parrots occurs from one and a half years, and reaches a peak between 2 and 4 years. Due to the staked lifestyle, the reproduction process is more successful in those cells where several pairs of individual live.
You can determine the age of birds in several signs.
At the wavy parrots, the characteristic picture of the head comes to Klyvik only in very young individuals who have reached several months. The drawing over the wax of the beak disappears after the first molting. This happens in different ways, but, as a rule, linen the parrots for the first time aged 4-6 months.
Another way to determine the age is the inspection of the iris. If the iris around the eye is absent, then the parrot has reached the age of six or seven months. The wider the rainbow shell, the older the bird.
If you have determined that birds reached puberty – it’s time to put a house in a cage.
Types of nesting houses
Before making a nest for your wavy parrots, you need to figure out what they happen.
Depending on the design, all houseics are divided into such types:
vertical;- horizontal;
- compromise.
Consider what the design of each type is different, and which has advantages and disadvantages.
Vertical nest The house for wavy parrots is made by sizes 20 * 20 * 25 cm. The pilots are located on the front wall, retreating 3 cm from the top edge.
Believers are fixed below the jergight in such a way that one of her end performed outside 10 cm, and the second one came inside for 3 cm the main disadvantage of such a design is that trying to get inside the nest, the female can damage the eggs.
Horizontal nest made for lipurci parrots or wavy parrots more conveniently vertical. It eliminates damage to female.
The dimensions are the same as for vertical design, however, the long side now performs the role of the floor and the ceiling. The entrance to such a house is done on the side, retreating from the roof 3 cm the diameter of the flyer – 5 cm. Prandie fastening outside the house. Near the inside of the pilot build a small threshold. Thanks to him, the laying and only hatched chicks will not be damaged, and over time, the growing birds will be able to look out.
The third option is a design in which the advantages of the first two models are combined.
The pilot is located so that the chicks do not get out of the house too early, the step inside prevents damage to the masonry and chicks. The dimensions of the compromise nest for wavy parrots are as follows: bottom – 22 * 15 cm, the height of the walls is 20 cm, the diameter of the flyer – 4 cm.
The wooden jergin is inserted under the pilot so that it is reached from the outside of it 10 cm, and inside – 2 cm. At the bottom there are a round depression, the depth of which should be in the range of 1-2 cm. It is here that eggs will be held. If you decide to make a nest for a female wavy parrot with your own hands, it is best to choose this particular design.
In addition, each of the designs must necessarily have a removable roof, which will allow you to inspect the masonry and chicks, clean it and disinfect.
Make a nest for parrots from cardboard, plywood or wood. Regardless of the material in the side walls, several small holes for ventilation are done.
Stages of work
Before making your own hands, a nest for parrots, on a sheet of paper you need to draw all the details of the future design.
Next, the drawing is gently transferred to a sheet of cardboard, plywood or on a wooden board. Further, all parts are cut or cut down depending on the material.
In the billet, which will be the front wall, do a hole for the future flyer.
In the side walls, a holes with a diameter of 0.8-1 cm for ventilation. Prepared details, except the roof, are collected and fasten with glue, cloves or small self-draws. In the finished design from the side of the pillar, the flags are placed, stick the pranch.
Before installing the house disinfect and dry well. The design is attached to one of the cell walls. On top of the installed house are placed roof. Additional lighting in the nest will not need.
After performing these pretty simple manipulations, the nest for birds is ready. But it is necessary to further equip it.
Arrangement of a house and care for it
Since parrots do not climb the nests from twigs, twigs or other material, additional arrangement will have to spend you.
To do this, you must take care of the litter.
What can be put in the nest to parrots? Inside the house recommended to put well-dried sawdust. You can use waste from any breeds, except for coniferous trees.
To scare the parasites inhabiting birds, before putting in the socket of sawdust, you can noto all the pharmaceutical chamomile (1 teaspoon).
Caring for the nest lies in periodic cleaning and disinfection.
The first cleaning is carried out upon reaching chicks of two weeks. They are moved to a cardboard box, and in the meantime, the eggs are removed from the house, the sawlords are cleaned. After the brood comes out of the house, it is also carried out additional disinfection by scalding with boiling water.
As you can see, nothing complicated. You are quite able to please your birds with a cozy nest.
