zeusophobia
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I work from home full time as a website owner. I have a pacific parrotlet and I want an amazon. I also have a few friends (and literally everyone who knows my stepson) who want birds. I've decided the thing to do is to raise birds for myself, friends, and family.
There are obvious and less obvious reasons I want to do this, but I have experience raising pythons from egg, so this won't be my first rodeo. Although I realize birds vs snakes the bulls are 10x bigger and meaner.
I can't find any complete articles on what to do when you get your egg, hand feeding the chicks, so on and so fourth.
As far as I know I have to incubate the eggs, which is something I have loads of experience with. Then I have to feed them every 5 hours and the food has to be thinner the first 3 days. I guess the chicks are kept in fishtanks with a heating element??? I need latex gloves? Please correct me if I got any of this wrong.
I'm understanding that this is a big commitment including waking up at 2am to feed them.
Edit: apparently parrot eggs are a scam =( nevermind.
I also understand that unlike raising dogs and cats, raising parrots doesn't hurt anything as there's no overpopulation of abandoned parrots in the pound.
I just want to do this right and be responsible so some guidance would be nice.
There are obvious and less obvious reasons I want to do this, but I have experience raising pythons from egg, so this won't be my first rodeo. Although I realize birds vs snakes the bulls are 10x bigger and meaner.
I can't find any complete articles on what to do when you get your egg, hand feeding the chicks, so on and so fourth.
As far as I know I have to incubate the eggs, which is something I have loads of experience with. Then I have to feed them every 5 hours and the food has to be thinner the first 3 days. I guess the chicks are kept in fishtanks with a heating element??? I need latex gloves? Please correct me if I got any of this wrong.
I'm understanding that this is a big commitment including waking up at 2am to feed them.
Edit: apparently parrot eggs are a scam =( nevermind.
I also understand that unlike raising dogs and cats, raising parrots doesn't hurt anything as there's no overpopulation of abandoned parrots in the pound.
I just want to do this right and be responsible so some guidance would be nice.
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