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Parrots: Hand Feeding and Nursery Management

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This book is valuable to not only new breeders, but also to experienced breeders. Facts are explained. This book also encourages you to make changes to your existing set-up, supported by facts, rather than to let you question your own dicisions.

If you handfeed birds or plan to this is a must have book. It's a great reference not only for general information on how to feed, but also the problems that can occur while doing so. It also details proper handling and sanitation procedures to keep disease from spreading within a flock. Small breeders may not be able to emulate all the procedures outlined in the book. Regardless, it is an excellent source of information on how an ideal facility should operate (something any size aviary should know).

For breeders who incubate their own eggs I suggest Parrot Incubation Procedures by Rick Jordan as well.

This is a must have book for anyone new to breeding, and a great reference book for experienced breeders. Here are the chapter headings:

1: Managing the Nursery
2: Maintenance of Nestlings (Brooding)
3: Formulas
4: Feeding Instruments and Methods
5: Feeding
6: Weight Monitoring
7: Non-Dietary Factors That Control Weight Gain
8: Potential Health Problems in the Nursery
9: Non-Pathogenic Death
10: Medical Procedures for the Aviculturist
11: Weaning

Each chapter is packed with critical information and well documented with excellent photographs from experienced aviculturists Voren and Jordan.