A Guide to Incubation and Handraising Parrots

Covers all the necessary requirements needed to successfully take an egg through incubation, hatching, brooding and development into a fully weaned chick. Colour images, charts and diagrams support the informative text. A must in any breeder’s library.

CONTENTS

Incubation 
Artificial Incubation
Meet the Egg!
Choosing an Incubator/Hatcher
Equipment 
Handling the Egg
Incubation
Hatching Details
Problems and Troubleshooting
Egg Weighing

Handraising Parrots 
Fundamentals
Brooders and Brooding
Formulas
Feeding Instruments
Feeding the Newly Hatched
Growth Phase
Peak/Weaning Phase

Weaning Black Cockatoos
Pulling Chicks
Troubleshooting