Taking on a parrot and caring for a parrot as a pet is much different and requires a different level of commitment than mating parrots. Mating parrots in captivity swallows a tremendous amount of quality attention to ensure your potential parrot parents are in prime health and to also ensure they have ideal surroundings and environmental conditions.

Parrot Health

In order to properly mate parrots, it is of equal importance to have healthy parent parrots to ensure healthy parrot girls. The mating pair should not be related in any way, and they should also get rid any outer birth problems, abnormalities, or illnesses.

Having your local animal health expert, breeder, or animal medical practitioner check out the potential mating pair would be a good idea and would provide confidence to engage in mating. Lastly, the potential parents should be at least one year old.

Cage Requirements

When mating parrots, their external conditions is vital to ensure they really feel enough to mate in captivity. When mating parakeets for example, the cage must not be any smaller than 2' x 2' x 2' and should have a wood nesting box that is at least 12" x 12". It is also ideal to have this tree chips or some similar material at the base of the nesting box to have it as comfortable as possible for the potential parrot parents.

Diet for Mating Parrots

Mating parrots need special care and attention, and require a varied diet of seed, high quality pellets, and lots of fresh and preferably organic veggies. Mating parrots should also be provided with cuttlebone to eat as well as some form of calcium supplements to assist in the development of the female's eggs, and to also help her gain back some of the lost mineral after laying eggs.

Incubation Period

Female parrots will lay their eggs immediately after the mating process. Most parrot breeds have similar ovum laying timeframes, with an ovum laid every single day until all eggs have been laid. Typically there are between four and seven eggs in each clutch, but this varies for every parrot.

Incubation schedule is between 18 and twenty-one days, but keep in mind this is just an average and can occur a few days before or after, which is also normal. African grey parrot for sale

Raising Baby Parrots

Depending on what your plans are for the little girls will see how you raise them upon hatching. If your objective is to train them as pets, then many parrot breeders will allow the parents to lift their babies until they are weaned. At this point, the breeders typically remove the babies to begin the process of interaction with humans. Generally speaking, most girls are weaned by six weeks, at which point it is safe to remove them from their parental care.

It's definitely useful to speak with other people who have successfully mated parrots or join certain clubs with other breeders to discuss their approach. They are passionate about mating parrots, and are excited to help. There is also much information on this topic on the internet, but ensure anyone who offers their information is an expert in mating parrots.