Description
PAPAGEIEN INTERNATIONAL – SPECIAL ISSUE YOUNG PARROTS – from hatching to independence
Nutrition, health, care, species-specific breeding.
New, bundled expertise and practical help for successful rearing. From professional breeders and experienced veterinarians
Content excerpt (specialist topics): Egg and hatching: What can the breeder do? Mastering artificial brooding and hand rearing. Actively accompany natural brooding. The rearing phases in practice. Hygiene in everyday life. Necessary health care. Recognising infections/viruses. Physical diseases: Malpositions, splay legs, skeleton. DNA analysis and sexing. Ringing, marking. Right of purchase (buying and selling).
Plus: Practical chapter on raising Amazons, Macaws, Australian Parakeets, Eclectus Parrots, Fig Parrots, Grey Parrots, White and Black Cockatoos, Poicephalus, Loris, Pionus, South American Parakeets, Lovebirds, Caiques.
Authorship (excerpt): Laurella Desborough (USA), Tobias Ehinger, Jörg Ehlenbröker, Dr. vet. med. Heiner Müller, veterinarian Saskia Nemitz (University of Giessen), Ralf and Rosina Neumeyer, Dr. Matthias Reinschmidt, lawyer Dietrich Rössel, Dr. Sascha Scharf, Volker Seidl, Dr. Martin Singheiser and Jürgen Hirt (BNA), Tony Silva (USA), Xavier Viader (ESP), Dr. vet. med. Susanne Vorbrüggen, Dr. vet. med. Elisa Wüst.
80 pages, numerous pictures and graphics
