First egg of the year!

First eggs of the year are already being laid started from yesterday. Three of the twelve pairs i have laid eggs. You can see the pictures and video below. That's the beginning of something beautiful!

Lovebird family

The whole familia in one picture. Enjoy!

I hope you can distinguish the father and the mother from the children. You can see the difference in beak color (for now). I wait for a little bit of time to separate the children from the parents until the weather here in Cyprus is calmed a little bit. Worst weather ever in my whole life. Really strong wind and unstoppable rain dropping like crazy all the time. I put protection from the strong wind everywhere, and i also put my zebra finches inside my house.

New season begins!

A new season begins this year. I reorganized my parrots as follow, budgies got into pairs hence controlled breeding. I have some extra female budgies and i have in mind to get some males to join some of them. Ino's cage got a lot bigger as you can see in the video below and i moved my cockatiels into budgies' cage. Some more pictures of what's going on. Also you can see the very tidy way to write down what the heck i am doing with the pairs this year. 

Following, there is a video showing the final setup of this year's resolution. Now let us begin!

Baby lovebirds are out!

The baby lovebirds from cage C3 are out. Really beautiful birds and they look just like their parents. The one standing on my hand is the first of the breed, carrying the very first leg band i put to a bird. Also i want to remind you for the new season's start date which is going to be the first days of February, so stay tuned for a lot of pictures!

Food, glorious food

Always have a lot of food in storage. Don't let your birds ever without seeds. Of course, i always put some vegetable - fruit in their diet too. I want to keep my birds as healthy as i can. Breeding is my hobby, i don't expect to earn money from it. February is getting closed, and so the new season. Stay tuned for the best moments of the year. Cheers!

Getting bigger

My lovely baby lovebirds are getting bigger and bigger. Just wonderful. It has been almost one and a half months since they were hatched. All three of them are looking good and healthy. And of course they look like their parents, having the expected colour of dark green. All of them are hybrids just like their parents (maskef/fischer).

Check also the following video from Ino Gene's Youtube channel.

First loss

I hoped that i could make it to Spring without any casualties but unfortunately, it happened. The baby lovebird in cage C1 couldn't make it due to the cold. I couldn't take it inside and the parents were in the nest all the time and kept it warm. It had started to grow some feathers but not enough to keep it warm enough.