Just for fun check out these beautiful ringies
http://www.inet-1.com/~wademan/ringneckphotos.html
can someone tell me how you can tell a lacewing ?
And the following link is to moustache parrots, anyone know anything about them , easy to tame, noisey ? etc. ?
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~waynej/ ... tached.htm
Pretty cool lookin birds anyway.
Cheers!
Andrea (Angie)
Check Out These Beauties
Moderator: Mods
-
Mikaela
- Posts: 3752
- Joined: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:12 am
- Location: Islamorada Key, Florida U.S.A.
- Contact:
Beautiful!
I think my next area of research will be learning more about mutations. That, to me, is awesome!
The purple IRN's are awesome but veeery rare. People should try for them more. A lady in Japan is successful with breeding them failry consistantly. Good for her! You know she is racking in the ching-ching.
I think my next area of research will be learning more about mutations. That, to me, is awesome!
The purple IRN's are awesome but veeery rare. People should try for them more. A lady in Japan is successful with breeding them failry consistantly. Good for her! You know she is racking in the ching-ching.
~ Mikaela Sky
-
Neokireina
- Posts: 864
- Joined: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:42 am
- Location: Adelaide
- Contact:
lacewing is yellow head in the green series and white head in the blue series
its very hard to make money in the bird business.
There's the cost of setting up aviaries, building them, boxes, feeders, carriers automatic feeders, enough for pairs. Then there's food.
Then for breeding you need, incubators, hand rearing mix, brooders, (power bills) all your time and effort, no holidays.
Then there's losses if birds die. or a virus goes through your aviaries or your birds dont breed, or eggs get eaten or smashed.
And then on top of all that the prices drop dramatically because everyone else is breeding them and they become much more common.
friend of mine bought a pastel blue hen a year ago for $1000, prices dropped so much that a year later you cant even get half that price back.
Lacewings are becomming really cheap now.
its very hard to make money in the bird business.
There's the cost of setting up aviaries, building them, boxes, feeders, carriers automatic feeders, enough for pairs. Then there's food.
Then for breeding you need, incubators, hand rearing mix, brooders, (power bills) all your time and effort, no holidays.
Then there's losses if birds die. or a virus goes through your aviaries or your birds dont breed, or eggs get eaten or smashed.
And then on top of all that the prices drop dramatically because everyone else is breeding them and they become much more common.
friend of mine bought a pastel blue hen a year ago for $1000, prices dropped so much that a year later you cant even get half that price back.
Lacewings are becomming really cheap now.
-
Mikaela
- Posts: 3752
- Joined: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:12 am
- Location: Islamorada Key, Florida U.S.A.
- Contact:
I dont see how people breed. It consumes my life taking care of three birds. I couldnt imagine having flocks.
It is hard to make money in the bird business. Especially here which is why every other booth you walk by at the flea market is a bird store. That is about all the store front they can afford.
In Florida, MANY breeders. Upside is you can have about anything you want, anytime you want it. Downside, there are more bad apples in the bunch than good ones. But that is probably true everywhere.
There is an umbrella 'too at one flea market for only 850.00, 6 months old. I wont buy it though because I am moving soon and I want a baaaaaby. 850.00 is an AWESOME price though and the bird looks great.
A flea market baby? Hrm, I dont know about that.
It is hard to make money in the bird business. Especially here which is why every other booth you walk by at the flea market is a bird store. That is about all the store front they can afford.
In Florida, MANY breeders. Upside is you can have about anything you want, anytime you want it. Downside, there are more bad apples in the bunch than good ones. But that is probably true everywhere.
There is an umbrella 'too at one flea market for only 850.00, 6 months old. I wont buy it though because I am moving soon and I want a baaaaaby. 850.00 is an AWESOME price though and the bird looks great.
A flea market baby? Hrm, I dont know about that.
~ Mikaela Sky