Parrolets/Fig Parrots
DGill10267
Looking for information on parrolets and or fig parrots - can they be
hand-fed and do they make good pet birds? Also looking for reliable
breeder who will ship to Western US (not to the coast) Any books available
on them?
ker...@csl.uiuc.edu
Fig parrots are rather problematic. Every fig parrot
breeder I have spoken with says that they have lost
a lot of babies, and often grown birds too. It is
very difficult to get babies to survive more than
about 10 days. The only book I can think of that has
much about fig parrots is "Parrots: Their Care and
Breeding" by Rosemary Low, for about $80. One breeder
told me that they can not be tamed so you can handle
them; they must be kept in cages like finches. A fig
parrot died by flying into the wall of an aviary, so
Low suggests keeping them in a cage with their wings
clipped, rather than an aviary. As for finding fig
parrots for sale, if I find any, I will buy them for
myself.
Many types of parrotlets are being bred commercially
on a large scale. Certain types may be difficult to
breed, but at least most of them are fairly simple.
The latest issue of Bird Breeder has an article about
parrotlet breeding, claiming that they are prolific.
Ian Kerfoot
http://what.csl.uiuc.edu/~kerfoot/ficus/
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Pascal Niessen
Hi, we have several pairs of figparrots, and have bread some youngs. It is
very difficult to breed figparrots. We have never tried to raise chicks by
hend, and I don't know if it is neccesary to do so. Because all the youngs
that we have are quit tame, eventough the parents are still wild.
Figparrots are birds that doesn't make a lot of noise, but they make a lot
of mess with there food. Figparrots want to eat the seeds out of the figs
first, so they throw the figflesh around the cage. Furthermore the
droppings of figparrots must be removed from the bottom of the cage as soon
as possible, because of there fruit containing food it has a unpleasant
smell.
As far as I know there are no specific books on figparrots. But you can
always visit us at our homepage. There we have an article published about
the Salvador's figparrot. URL:http://WEB.inter.NL.net/users/P.Niessen.
Best regards
Pascal and Huub Niessen
Stein, Holland
P.Ni...@inter.NL.net
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DaLinda
Parrotlets make great pets, but I would not want to have one as my first
bird. They can be a little difficult but they are also a lot of fun.
There are no books on parrotlets, but there was an article in Bird Talk a
couple of years ago and there is an International Parrotlet Society that
has a lot of information. They have a web page and you can either write
to them or e-mail them. They are located in California.
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The International Parrotlet Society sells a handbook on Parrotlets. I
believe it is produced by them.
Also, the latest issue of Bird Breeder magazine features Parrotlets. One
of the people from The International Parrotlet Society wrote it.