George & Simone (Yellow Thighed Caique pair) laid 3 eggs in December in all that cold weather. It was lovely to see a tiny chick in the nest box tonight. hopefully we may get 2 chicks which is usual case for this pair.
I am not a great one for making changes in the food diet with my parrots, and if I do then I try to do it one thing at a time. But after abit of a scare with one of the new Eclectus parrots I bought last year with a very low vitamin A count. I started to add Palm Fruit Extract to my birds since November. Supposedly this is very high in beta-carotene in a concentrated form (found in carrots and green veg). So it is high in Vitamin E and A which should assist in the improvement of feathers and bones and is said to improve reproduction.
For convenience I feed all the Caiques, Ruppells/Red Bellies and Eclectus the same diet, so hopefully we may see an improvement all round compared to last year.
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