Part 2 Renowned author and aviculturist Rosemary Low shares stories illustrating how to get your parrots to breed. By Rosemary Low You can read part one by clicking the Archive link from the home page then clicking November. I believe that many problems these days result from keeping pairs of many species, from rosellas to ringnecks, in flights that are much too small. The current low prices of birds are making matters worse.
Many people seem reluctant to build proper aviaries for inexpensive birds.
The fact is that cages only 6 feet long are entirely unsuitable for active birds like the larger parakeets. They need a flight with a minimum length of 12 feet and preferably 15 to 20 feet. My advice to anyone starting up with parakeets, parrots or other birds that need to be housed one pair per aviary, is to draw up an aviary plan. Then divide by two the number of aviaries and the number of pairs to be kept and double the size of the aviaries. There is so much more satisfaction to be gained from watching and keeping birds in more spacious aviaries.