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A Guide To Eclectus Parrots: Their Management, Care and Breeding

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This book does have some good information some pretty good photography as well showing health problems to look for as well as some very beautiful healthy birds. There is some good information on diseases well worth reading. It is however rather s short book for the price.

The book does need a good editor for the next time it is published. The reader will find the same sentence pasted into the text over and over I would guess as the result of abuse of a word processor.

Published by Australian Birdkeeper, a highly respected publisher of avian books and magazines. This book is subtitled "Their Management, Care & Breeding" and it covers those topics quite well. It does not have extensive information on identifying subspecies. Contents: Introduction; Health of the Eclectus Parrot (Individual Characteristics; The Healthy Eclectus; Nutrition; Feather Picking; Health Aspects of the Newly Aquired Eclectus; Stress Reduction; Stress Reduction By Good Aviary Management; Stress Reduction By a Varied Diet; Seed Sprouting Procedure; Recognition of Stress and Illness; Breeding Success and Stress Reduction; Breeding Failure and Infertility; Vitamin A Deficiency; Breeding Failure and Disease; Breeding Failure and Incompatibility; Breeding Failure and Physical Problems); The Main Diseases of the Eclectus (Symptoms of Disease; Plumage Problems; Respiratory Problems; Gastrointestinal Symptoms; Eye Symptoms; Main Diseases in Adults; Diseases in Baby Eclectus; Symptoms of Disease in the Hand Reared Eclectus; Health of the Pet Eclectus); Brief Word on the Incubation of Eclectus Eggs; Management (Housing - Suspended Cages, Aviaries; Feeding; Breeding - Compatible Pairs, Mating, Nest Boxes, Egg Laying, Hatching and Chick Development); Artificial Incubation; Hand Rearing Eclectus Parrots - Bird Nursery, Brooders, Eclectus Chicks, Containers, Temperature, Feeding, Weighing, Weaning, Stress, Dietary Essentials); Eclectus As Pets. Highly recommeneded.