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Topic Started: Apr 15 2007, 07:32 PM (448 Views)
butterfly	Apr 15 2007, 07:32 PM Post #1
Newbie Posts: 32 Group: Full Members Member #84 Joined: April 11, 2007	Right heres my list of questions :rolleyes: What the basic daily diet requirement? Do they need anything extra when getting them into breeding condition? How do you sex parrolets, mainly the green, blue and yellow varieties, pretty please? ban1



Gardengail	Apr 15 2007, 07:46 PM Post #2
Staff Member Posts: 12,746 Group: Staff Member #25 Joined: January 18, 2007 How many Parrotlets do you have 1 What types Pacific What colours Blue Other Birds ? Severe Macaw and 2 Timneth Greys I live in Upstate New York, USA My name is Gail	The answer to all your questions would be.... Kevin Buuz Kevin Buuz... LOL!!! I don't have a clue! I'm new at the Parrotlet business!!!! Although I do know you are suppose to be able to tell the sex just by their coloring... but who's who in the zoo? No idea!!!



kevinp	Apr 15 2007, 08:14 PM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 6,047 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: October 7, 2006 How many Parrotlets do you have I have one Parrotlet What types Celestials What colours One green Other Birds ? Budgeries four off I live in a mess of my own making !!! My name is I'll give you a clue	hi butterfly food wise this is what mine get, 1 parrot premium (a very high quality human grade parrot mix). 2 the mix i make which is 50% cockatiel 50% grass parakeet, 3 parakeet soak mix, 4 and as a daily extra supervit ll. ( this can be feed dry or saoked i feed it dry) 5 Veg and fruit everyday this might sound a lot of different foods for such a small little parrot, but i feel this covers all the bases, so to speak. i buy this in bulk (well five kilos of each) to which i add the budgies mix as well, which again is a very high quality Versele Laga mix. here are the links Dry Mix Soak mix bought from Double Dutch Double Dutch they will need lots of veg and fruit, cuttle bone and mineral blocks. and you should make sure that they are at least over a year old parrotlets are what is known as sexually dimorphic, meaning that you can tell the sex of the cock and hen by their different colouring. the male will have blue underneath his wings and a blue stripe above his eyes. see here, or if you look at my sig you will see the blue strip above the eye types and mutations hope this helps kev



bonnie	Apr 16 2007, 11:02 AM Post #4
Co Admin Posts: 14,044 Group: Co Admin Member #73 Joined: March 10, 2007 How many Parrotlets do you have 0 Other Birds ? YNA GCC. Cockatiel I live in Pennsylvania My name is Bonnie	I hadn't a clue how to sex them :lol:



kevinp	Apr 16 2007, 11:30 AM Post #5
Administrator Posts: 6,047 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: October 7, 2006 How many Parrotlets do you have I have one Parrotlet What types Celestials What colours One green Other Birds ? Budgeries four off I live in a mess of my own making !!! My name is I'll give you a clue	hi bonnie the good thing about parrotlets is that you can sex them as soon as their pin feathers show, this will by the under wing feathers rather than the head marking though. kev



bonnie	Apr 16 2007, 12:05 PM Post #6
Co Admin Posts: 14,044 Group: Co Admin Member #73 Joined: March 10, 2007 How many Parrotlets do you have 0 Other Birds ? YNA GCC. Cockatiel I live in Pennsylvania My name is Bonnie	I think that's great, I didn't have a clue what sex most of mine were. Had to have the vet sex them for me. However on the Cockatoos the females will have dark brown eyes and th males have black eyes.



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