I have just ringed the baby Yellow Thighed Caique chick and looked to see if there are any other chicks about to hatch out. Sadly both the remaining eggs are not any good. One egg was obviously fertile to begin with but had a strange elongated appearance. Whatever had started had eventually dried up I guess related to the odd shaped egg. The 2nd egg was quite small and infetile or clear. Not a chance this would have come to anything. Not quite sure if this is related to age of the parents or the weather perhaps ?
Suddenly realised I had not ordered any 2011 rings (opps!), and the chick was ready for ringing. Luckily I still had a couple of 2010 rings left, so I used on of these. Technically speaking the egg was hatched in Dec 2010 anyway. I am deliberating as to whether to hand rear or parent rear this chick ? In general I have many more people asking for HR pets than breeders asking for breeding birds sadly. At the end of the day it would be easier to sell as hand reared with the market being as it is.
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