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Alfred Ezra



PARRAKEET BREEDING RESULTS AT

FOXWARREN PARK IN 1934


By Alfred Ezra


This year has been a very successful one with me, and my Parrakeets

have done remarkably well. I had only one young Queen Alexandra

egg-bound, and she very soon recovered. My greatest success has

been the breeding of my first Blue Alexandrine and two lutino Ring-

necks. All the young this year have been particularly healthy and

strong birds. In all thirty-two Parrakeets were reared successfully.

I shall now give a list of the birds reared.


Ring-necks (P. krameri)


First pair : A green male and yellow female. Three eggs and three

young fully reared.


Second pair : Both yellow birds. Three eggs ; all young dead in

shell.


Third pair : Green male and yellow female. Two eggs ; one young

reared but the other egg was infertile.


Fourth pair : Green male and yellow female. Four eggs ; two

young reared but the other two young died when eighteen days old.


Fifth pair : Green male and yellow female. Four eggs, which were

all infertile.


The hybrid Alexandrine and Ring-necked cock and green female

Ring-neck. Five eggs ; two young reared but the other three eggs

infertile.


In an aviary where I had turned out seven birds, two wild-caught

lutinos and five yellow-bred green birds, I found two lovely lutino

young birds fully reared.


Alexandrine Parrakeet (P. nipalensis)


First pair : Blue male and green blue-bred female. Three eggs ;

two young were reared and the third egg was infertile. One of the

young is a beautiful blue bird and the other a green.


Second pair : A pair of blue-bred green birds. Three eggs ; two

young reared, both green ; one egg infertile.



