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Tips on breeding birds

While we take care to ensure that any information we provide is accurate we do not accept any liability for any loss resulting directly or indirectly from following advice from this site. Advice given is based on our experiences and from discussions with other breeders and not from formal scientific studies.
African Grey Psittacus eritacus.

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  • We recommend AviPlus Breeder Pallets be available at all times. Sunflower only once or twice a week. African Grey Soak mix, available from The Seed and Feed Company soaked overnight and fed daily with one hard boiled egg per pair crushed finely into the mix three times a week (we dont feed the shells).
  • Cages: 1-1.8m wide, 0.9-1.2m high, 1.8-2.4m deep. Not too big, suspended is highly recommended as this minimizes entry to the cage and so disturbances to the birds. Nestboxes available on order should be fitted so that you can inspect from outside. 
  • We recommend cages be built so that neighbouring pairs cannot see each other. 
  • Do not house Greys next to or close to noisy birds like Macaws, Amazons and Cockatoos. 
  • Minimise disturbances for the birds.
  • Greys are usually very good parents and will raise their own young.
  • We use horizontal nest boxes of size 400wide x 600long x 400 deep. See photos for detail.
Galah Cockatoo
Eulaphus roseicapilla
  • A major issue with galahs is that they can easily get overweight resulting in infertility. This can be combatted by using a low fat diet and/or larger/longer flights.
  • Galahs are usually bred in aviaries of about 1.2m wide by 1.8-2.4m high by 3m-4m long. Recently some success has been achieved in suspended aviaries of this length and we will soon be trialing 0.8m*0.9m*2.0m suspended aviaries with a very restricted diet - specifically in the off season.
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo 
Calyptorhynchus sp.​​
These birds are most often bred in large aviaries. It seems the minimum size of 'good' aviaries is around 1.2m wide by 2.5m tall by 6m long, larger aviaries seem more successful although some exceptional results have been obtained from aviaries as small as 0.9m wide by 2m high by 4m long.
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​Major Mitcells Cockatoo
Cacatua Leadbeateri
Major Mitchell males are notorious for killing their mates.​ Large aviaries are the norm with special nest boxes with 2 entances often used to give the female an escape route should the male try to pin her in the nest. They will often destroy the top of a closed nest box and breen in the demolished box with no top.
Diet is very similar to Galahs.

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