Breeding the Quaker (Monk) Parrot aka Grey-breasted Parakeet
Quaker (Monk) Parrot |
| Number of Eggs: 4-8 eggs |
| Incubation: 24-28 days |
| Compatibility with other species: Not Advised |
| Feeding: Seed and Fruit Eaters |
| Sexing: Surgical or DNA sexing is required. Females are generally larger than males. |
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Unites States Laws Regulating the Ownership & Sale of Quaker Parrots
Quaker Parrots are easy to breed and prolific, and therefore make an .excellent choice for the novice breeders
Many beautiful mutations have occurred in aviculture. Please refer to this page for photos.
They usually produce two clutches of 4 to 8 babies a year.
Most breeding successes have been reached in an aviary environment -- as they need lots of space and plenty of plenty of shrubbery. Although some breeders have been successful using breeding cages and ordinary cockatiel nest boxes. They do prefer to build their own elaborate nests using twigs, vines, grasses, shredded paper, grasses, or just about any safe building material. It is the female who usually constructs the nest. The young will leave the nest at about six weeks.
However, breeders usually pull the babies and handraise them - to fill the demand for handraised, tame companion birds. Fortunately, the chicks are easy to handfeed. Handfed babies usually wean at eight to ten weeks of age.
The visual differences between the sexes is very slight, so having the birds sexed by surgical sexing or DNA is almost mandatory. They are sexually mature at about a year or a year and a half and will usually bond closely with the mate provided them.
It is not recommended to keep them with other species of birds, as they are likely to get very aggressive with others.
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