Peach face love birds: (also known as: soil small parrot)
Latin name: agapornis roseicollis
English name: peachface lovebirds
Bright and clean appearance with almond green body feathers, the lower body is a lighter green feathers, tail feathers for the color blue, deep rose red forehead, ivory and gray feet pecking; overall color with very beautiful.
Length / body weight 16-17 cm (6-7 inches) ,50-55g
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Life expectancy: 10-15 years
Habits:
In the wild, most of them to ten for a small group; the most prolific birds, male and female birds have great family values. Artificial propagation of peach surface feeding parrots, very close to people; like to give the itching, and he likes to stand in the hand, shoulder and head. They are lively, very curious about new things. However, strong fields, difficult to peaceful coexistence with other ethnic groups.
Distribution: appeared in the arid region south of Africa and Angola.
Difficult to distinguish with the naked eye to distinguish male and female, to dna test the most accurate, followed by an experienced person touch near the anus? Small bone particles location, width, compared with females, male narrow compared with the accuracy up to ninety percent, the other by the appearance and the Judgement, will not be reliable.
Keeping food they most like to eat sunflower seeds, red millet, hemp seed. Should be given fruits and vegetables daily, cuttlefish bone and egg powder supplements.
Additions in the cage breeding methods (15x15x20cm) nest boxes, and cuttlefish bone / calcium block, before mating the male will feed the food to the female frequently vomit. After mating, the female lays eggs in the nest box (about 5), after about 28 days of incubation period, birds cry of hen pheasant hatch, and then by 35-42 days, chicks will learn to feather out of a long homogeneous fly. If you want artificial feeding, the most desirable birds broken shell in the cry of hen pheasant 15 days will be removed from its parent by hand feeding. |
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