Can lovebirds breed and multiply so easily?

[Cardinal]

Hey all Parrot lovers

I saw this video on youtube

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This lady Nancy apparently got a pair of lovebirds and within a span of some (unspecified) time, she has 250 of them now.
I find this incredible. Are lovebirds and specifically masked lovebirds so prolific?

I think it is possible with budgies, perhaps over a period of 5 to 7 years but thought lovebirds are a bit more fussy.

Avin

 

[SilverSage]

Lovebirds colony breed very rapidly, I’ve seen plenty of people “accidentally” go from one pair to dozens in just a few years.


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[Cardinal]

Hi Silver Sage

By Colony breeding, you mean a spacious aviary or room with plenty of nest boxes or potential nesting places. I assume they are not as prolific when confined to breeding cages with individual pairs.

But 1 pair to 250 would have involved a lot of sibling mating here and the predominance of just 2 colours - a dark mauve blue and light sky blue in this flocks perhaps confirms the same.

 

[Inger]

This is a very sad story. I guess that many birds don’t really need a lot of human interaction, since they have each other, but what is it that compels humans to hoard anything? And what a sweet husband she has! “I just want to live happily ever after with Nancy.”


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[SilverSage]

Yes it would have been a terrible mess of inbreeding, and clearly they HAVE added outside blood because I saw two greens, but consider that each pair can easily produce 20+ babies of left to their own devices, that number isn’t unreasonable at all.


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[Cardinal]

Yes it would have been a terrible mess of inbreeding, and clearly they HAVE added outside blood because I saw two greens, but consider that each pair can easily produce 20+ babies of left to their own devices, that number isn’t unreasonable at all.


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Can't blue birds produce the odd green offspring; have seen it happening in Budgies. I also noticed the green birds; they look like they have a considerable amount of Fishcer's blood, as do, unfortunately many of the Green- wild type masked lovebirds.

 

[SilverSage]

Yes it would have been a terrible mess of inbreeding, and clearly they HAVE added outside blood because I saw two greens, but consider that each pair can easily produce 20+ babies of left to their own devices, that number isn’t unreasonable at all.





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Can't blue birds produce the odd green offspring; have seen it happening in Budgies. I also noticed the green birds; they look like they have a considerable amount of Fishcer's blood, as do, unfortunately many of the Green- wild type masked lovebirds.

Green birds can produce blue, but blue cannot produce green unless the other parent is green.

Green is dominant. If a bird has one blue gene, he is green. If he has two blue genes, he is blue and doesn’t carry green genes.


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