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Thunder and Lightening produce normal green and Australian cinnamon green babies. They have
had four clutches now. During the last clutch, Lightening had some sort of stress problem and killed
all but one baby. I believe it was due to the 4,000 mile move from Alaska to Oklahoma, the new environment,
new sounds, new climate. The baby survived and his name is Sunny. Thunder was the first baby I hand
fed. Lightening was about three months later...my first yellow baby. Butch and Sundance have had one clutch, the babies were normal green and Australian cinnamon green. They are EXCELLENT parents. Butch loves fruit and corn, and will try most anything offered to him. Sundance likes to take a warm bath daily. Both enjoy tearing up wood and hemp rope. Disassembling toys is great fun! Currently Romeo and Juliet are spoken for. In the event the deal falls through, they will be available for "adoption." Feel free to email me for information. They have produced three clutches of healthy, normal green babies, and are excellent parents, although Juliet begins to pluck the babies a bit when she wants to start another round of eggs. The reason they are looking for a new home is because they are extremely jealous of babies from the other breeding birds. They are both tame, were hand fed by me, and are approximately 2 years old. In happy new homes, but always in our hearts, are breeders Thimble and Rip, Stitches and Pip, Snap and Snip, Bogie and Bacall. These pairs delighted me with the pairs I have now. They, also, were tame birds. The flock had to be down-sized for the move, and oh, what a difficult time - saying goodbye to my beloved babies. Not only to them, but to their offspring, also: Frankie and Johnnie, Bonnie and Clyde, King Arthur, Storm, Tornado, Bert, Ernie, Oscar, Gracie, and many, many, un-named sweethearts. Most of my pairs lay five eggs. The hen starts sitting on the eggs after the 2nd egg is produced. The males take excellent care of the hens during the incubation time. The hens are very protective of their cage and bite extremely hard if you get too close to the nestbox while cleaning or changing food/water cups. After the babies have fledged, they are back to their normal happy selves, but even through handfeeding, they know their babies are close by and tend to be nippy. Eggs begin hatching in approximately 23 days. Most of the time they hatch every other day, as this is how they were laid, but there have been times when I have had three hatch on the same day. I pull babies when the oldest is seventeen days old. For about 2 weeks they try to hide from me, but once they realize the hand provides food, they start running towards it! T |
