Wavy parrots are very common as pets. They have a bright color, their singing raises the mood to adults and children, such parrots can be tamed, and also teach talk. And the cost for the pet is in quite reasonable converts.
But still, if a person decided to acquire such a pet, first of all he needed to deal with how to care for the parrot at home.
House for friend
Wavy parrots have a small body size, - from 17 to 19.8 centimeters - and therefore do not occupy a lot of space even in a small room. Power costs for feathered friends do not beat their owners on the wallet.
Unlike cats and dogs, which, in most cases, have free access to all parts of the house or apartment, wavy parrots must be contained in the cell. It is she who will become the main habitat for a small pet: it can be hidden for sleeping or in case of danger (for example, if there are cats in the house), eat, drink. Therefore, the choice of cells - the foundation Proper pet care.
Best suitable rectangular Cage with a flat roof. Its stretch in length is an additional advantage. Since in this case the bird can flap With one rustling to another, without feeling inconvenience due to the small space.
Round cells are not the best option for feathery. In such parrots lose Orientation in space, do not feel protected, can not retire, and therefore feel extremely uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable cells will be cells inaction Designs or with elegant roofs. Since they are harder to care for them, and the accessories for wavy parrots are not always convenient.
If we talk about the size of a house of a bird, then necessary It should be borne in mind that one pet should have an average of 30-35 centimeters. If a pair of birds be placed in one cell, this figure should be increased to about 60 centimeters.
Bottom cells should be retractable. This will facilitate the cleaning process. At the same time, it is better not to place the lattices or other elements. Otherwise, the bird can damage the paws.
Hosts when choosing housing for pets it is better to give preference iron cells, rather than wooden. The first is much more convenient to clean, and also they retain their own kind of service longer.
Climatic conditions
The wavy parrot together with the cell should be placed in a room with a stable microclimate. Temperature mode must be maintained at a mark from + 18 ° C to 25 ° C.
Since the duration of the light day for feathers should be about 15-16 hours, then in winter necessary It will take care of the additional lighting of the room to maintain optimal conditions.
An important requirement for the correct care of parrots is the absence of a bird where there is a bird, skavoznyakov and frequent shifts of temperature modes. Such conditions will be destructive for home parrot.
It should be borne in mind that a cage with a bird it is impossible Place in the following places:
- next to heating devices and radiators;
- near air conditioning and cooling systems;
- next to windows;
- on the floor or on the cabinet (the table is optimal for the placement of the cell with the parrot, as its height will be perfect for the bird);
- in noisy places.
Interior design
The cell for the parrot, like the house of its owner, should be equipped inside with special devices.
Cell Care - Mandatory condition. General cleaning in the pet house should be held once or twice a month. During it, it is necessary to flush with a sponge and water with a whole cell, including stiff, and then dryly dry. The use of detergents is prohibited, as they may cause an allergic reaction in a pet.
Feeding a wavy parrot
In order to know how to care for a wavy parrot, you need to examine the question in detail. feeding.
Food must be balanced, diverse to make a pet for getting all the necessary nutritional elements during the day. The diet may include the following products:
- special bird feed: It is balanced and rich in vitamins and minerals;
- cereals, cereals: oats, millet;
- corn seeds and wild herbs (pre-operated);
- greens: Leaves of swakes and lettuce, dandelion, St. John's wort;
- berries and fruit without seeds, as well as fresh vegetables;
- food containing protein: crushed boiled eggs, softening bread;
- live feed: moths, small insects.
The cage should always be fresh, clean water. It should be noted that the petition is better not to poison the water water.
What you can't feed
Proper pet care implies with a full nutrition that does not harm the pet. Therefore, as for many other pets, there exists for parrots scroll Forbidden products:
- non-freight products;
- sweet, acute, oily, fried, smoked food;
- black bread;
- gREEN: Parsley and dill, basil;
- onion and garlic;
- meat;
- coffee.
Bathing
Purity - Pledge of health and full care. This concerns both wavy parrots. In summer, they can be broken every day, and in winter it will be enough two or three times a week.
For bathing you need to use a special bath installed in the cell. But also you can splash Bird from a spray with a spray or redeeming water.
If the pet does not like water, then the bath must be filled sand For cleaning feathers. And in the pet store acquire a special brush for those purposes and use it about once a week.
Parrots are very active and sociable creatures. They love the company. Therefore, the pet often needs to talk, let him sit on his hand or shoulder.
In the case of a long absence of a house during the day, you can leave a wavy friend "Company" as included radio. Then the bird will think that it is not alone in the apartment.
One or twice a day of the parrot necessary Release from the cell to fly. So he can smash his wings and explore the territory, finding something interesting for himself.
But you can not mess around and stitching the parrot: he should know the boundaries permitted.
A wavy parrot (lat. Melopsittacus undulatus) is the form of birds from the parrot detachment, parrot family, the only representative of the kind of wavy parrot (Melopsittacus).
The Latin name of the species is formed with 3 words: the Greek word "Melos", meaning "singing", the word "psittacos" - "parrot" and the Latin word "undulatus", which means "wavy". Therefore, in the literal translation, the name of the bird sounds like a wavy parrot. A number of ornithologists proposed to call the bird singer wavy.
Wavy parrot - description, appearance and characteristic.
All the above names are absolutely complied with the truth: the wavy parrots are really very noisy and chatty, well remember and imitate individual words and phrases, which repeated repeated, often without much sense.
The wavy parrot is a beautiful and slender bird, which, at the expense of a long tail, looks much larger than it really is. Body Length The wavy parrot without taking the tail reaches 17-19.8 cm when the body weight is about 40-45. Poultry participating in exhibitions often have a body length from 21 to 23 cm.
Wings Wavy parrots from 9.5 to 10.5 cm long used by birds exclusively for flight and are completely not suitable for support when walking or seat. The flight is beautiful and arcuate, like a flight of swallows, and when planting the wings of birds bend to the bottom, like the quail. Thanks to this building, the wavy parrot flies quite rapidly and is able to cover considerable distances in search of food.
A wavy parrot has a sufficiently long tail A stepped shape growing up to 8-10 cm long, and the young individuals are much shorter.
Limb Pernaya developed and chain, ending with 4 long fingers: 2 of them directed back, 2 look ahead. This design allows birds to capture with paws. Different objects, feed, and deftly climb trees and walk along the ground. At the end of the fingers, strong curled claws of dark blue, black or practically white are growing. The paws of the wavy parrot can be painted in gray-blue, reddish, bright scary and pale pink tone.
In wavy parrots living in nature, eyes Dark blue, and the color of the iris is yellowish or practically white. These feathers are able to distinguish colors, and a fairly large viewing angle allows you to overcome 2 perspectives at once.
Wavy parrot is distinguished by strong beak, protected by a solid corneum, and its curved form resembles the beak of prey birds. At the base of the beak of the wavy parrot, the aweskov with nostrils is well noticeable. The beak of the bird is quite movable, the upper jaw is not scrambled with the bones of the skull, and keeps at the expense of the ligament apparatus, while the lower jaw is much shorter than the top. Thanks to peculiar morphology, the beak of these birds serves as an excellent mechanism for breaking and crushing shoots, foliage and plant seeds, and at the same time is a convenient tool for transferring objects, food and climbing on the branches of trees. In the event of an enemy attack, the beak of the wavy parrot acts as a reliable subject of protection.
The wavy parrots have a small, short and thick language, and its rounded tip is protected by a cornified epithelium. In almost all individuals, the inner surface of the beak is equipped with special horny cloths, which serve the role of a stitching beak, help clean the grains, and tear and break fruit. The beak of chicks is distinguished by dark color, but with age becomes intense yellow, with a slight greenish tide.
Thanks to the natural color of herbal-green, wavy parrots are invisible for enemies against the background of a natural landscape. Cheek All individuals are decorated with symmetrical purple markings of an elongated shape, and below, on both sides of the goiter, there are spots of black color - special signs inherent in all representatives of the species. As a rule, marked partially overlap the throat specks.
Goiter and head The wavy parrots inhabitants are painted in an intense yellow color, in the occipital region, thin and light dark brown waviness turns on the back, where it becomes much wider and brighter on a shared yellow background. In young parrots, waviness is noticeable not so much and starts straight from the wax, and as they grow up, it replaces the characteristic yellow mask.
Feathersthe wavy parrot on the forehead in males have a unique feature: under the influence of ultraviolet, they fluoresce, thanks to which the females in nature choose a partner for nesting. And the eye of a person can catch this radiation only at night, and the wavy parrots see the glow even at the light of the day.
Definition of the floor of the bird does not cause difficulties. To find out the floor of the wavy parrot, you need to look at his flaw, which is located at the base of the beak.
- Young males have a purple shade waucc, in a young female she is intensely blue with a light cut around the nostrils.
- The mature males have a dark blue or lilap (in albinos). Adult female can be distinguished on beige-blue or brown blisks. By the way, the brown color of the wax in females appears during nesting.
On the left of the male, the right female
Types of wavy parrots, photos and colors.
Today, the wavy parrot is considered the most common and favorite decorative bird for home content. For many years of breeding work, more than 200 varieties of these feathered with the most diverse colors of the plumage were derived, including recessive varieties, which have no characteristic waviness.
Photos from Budgerigar.com
Yellow colorful parrot color is the first mutational color and was obtained in Belgium in 1872, and later all modern color variations based on a yellow or white-based basis appeared. Below are some varieties of wavy parrots:
- Natural, traditional colorwavy parrot boom - light green(Light Green) with a glossy tide, which covers the breast, belly and the bottom of the bird's back. The traditional mask is light yellow, the points on the throat of black color, purple marks are located on the cheeks. Head, wings and back Parrots decorate severe black waviness. Long tail feathers dark blue, carrying the surface of the wings painted into black with a minimal light yellow edge.
- Dark greenwavy parrots (Color Dark Green) are painted particularly elegant, they appeared in France in 1915. Breast, belly and bottom of the backs of these parrots are dark green, light yellow mask, a point on a black throat, slightly overlap with purple bile stains, characteristic waviness on the body. The shade of the plunder of the wings is identical to the classic variety, but the tail feathers are darker.
- Olive greenwavy parrots (Olive Green color) originated from dark green individuals and were bred in France in 1919. The prevailing color of the bird's plumage is olive-green, the mask is bright yellow. Black waviness is contrastingly designated on a yellow basis. Wings of wavy parrots black with green sings, feathers on the tail are darker compared to dark green specimens.
- Heavenly bluea wavy parrot (Skyblue color) was bred by Belgians in 1878. Breast, belly and bottom of the backrest of a parrot differ in blue, and the mask of birds is purely white. Characteristic waviness is clearly expressed on a white basis, the tail plumage is distinguished by blue, primary black black feathers with a minimal white edge.
- Cobaltwavy parrots (Cobalt color) were first demonstrated on the London Exhibition in 1910. Their breast, abdomen, back and tail are distinguished by blue, bird mask pure white, bright waviness is well expressed on a white background. The wing color of the wavy parrot varies from black to blue. Steering feathers are darker in comparison with the parrots of the sky blue color.
- Sirenwavy parrots (Mauve color) appeared as a result of mixing 2 dark factors giving a deep lilac color without the presence of a gray shade.
- Gray-greenthe wavy parrot (Grey Green color) is the fruit of the works of the Austrian breeders, which was obtained in 1935. The front, lower part of the body and the bottom of the back of these birds are distinguished by a very light mustard or gray-greenish tone. Parrots brightly yellow mask, specks on black throat, and gray cheeks, clear waviness contrasts well with a yellow background. The tail plumage is painted black, the primary flying feathers of a black parrot with a minimal light yellow edge.
- Gray Wavy parrots (Grey color) appeared in Austria and England at the same time, in 1943. Representatives of the varieties of breast, the lower part of the body, the cheeks and the bottom of the back are characterized by a gray color, a snow-white mask, marked on the throat of black. Characteristic waviness is clearly indicated on a white basis, the tail is black, and the plundering of the wings is black or grayish.
- Purplea wavy parrot (color Violet) first appeared in Germany in 1928. Breast, abdomen and bottom poultry backs are distinguished by deep violet color. Wavy Parrot Mask Snow-White, Black Mixed Marlands, Tail Dark Purple, Primary Black Black Feathers with Minimal White Edge.
- Yolterolithicwavy parrots are of two types:
- The first type of single-factor assumes the presence of a lemon-yellow mask in a bird, which rarely enters the occipital area and on the chest. Lemon yellow tint can cover white steering feathers of tail and other white pieces of bird plumage. On the other feathers, the yellow shade does not apply. Two-factor birds have a yellow mask.
- The second type of yellow-behaolic parrots also includes two varieties: single-factor and two-factor. Both those and others have a yellow mask. At the same time, yellow color spreads not only on white feathers of the wavy parrot, but also on the main plumage of the bird, making it from a light green turquoise, from cobalt dark green, from pinkish-lilac olive.
- Luntinos(Lutino) is a very unusual variety of wavy parrots with a bright yellow color of the plumage of the shade of egg yolk. These parrots have red eyes with a bright rainbow shell and zilly markings of a pearl shade. Tail feathers and wings of a wavy parrot bright. Males distinguishes pink or purple shade of wax, in a brown wax females. Paws of red-brown or rich pink birds.
Left Albino, right ottynos
- Albinos (Albino) were first obtained in Germany in 1932, and at once two amateur breeders. Such wavy parrots differ in a pure white feathers and red eyes with a white rainbow sheath. Wisch and albino paws are the same as Luntin.
- Khokhlatoywavy parrots are represented in a variety of color variations, but differ in the Type of Khokholka. Some individuals are decorated with a pointed chuffy of feathers growing on the forehead or on the top of the science. Others, the railway has the shape of a semicircle formed by feathers, which grow to the beak itself a kind of shield. The third type of wavy parrots is decorated with a double or round chuffy, growing out of 2 points, while feathers are arranged symmetrically and can form corks of different shapes and lengths.
Where do wavy parrots live in nature?
Wavy parrots live for most of the territory of Australia, on Tasmania and other closest islands and are the most familiar and numerous kind of Australian parrots.
In natural conditions, the wavy parrots live with flocks of 2 dozen to several hundreds of individuals and all their lives are roaming on the mainland in search of food. Usually, birds hold semi-desert and steppe landscapes with a parel, so inhabit the Eastern and West Coast, as well as the central part of the mainland, with the exception of the northern regions with thick forests.
The composition of the flock of wavy parrots is constantly changing: individual individuals fly away, others join, small groups can be collected in gigantic flocks up to a million individuals, which are unforgettable spectacle.
The hot time of the day of the bird is usually listed in the shade, hiding on the branches in the thick foliage of the trees. At night, the wavy parrots sleep, and with the first rays of the Sun gather in small pieces and go on water and fodder sites, located a few kilometers from the place of bed. Some birds drink from the edge of the water, others are lowered to the surface itself and quench thirst on the fly. Often the company on the water-tree consists of Cockada and Zebra Amadins.
What do wavy parrots eat?
According to the observation of scientists, the basis of the diet of wavy parrots in nature is the seeds of terrestrial plants, to a greater extent it is the seeds of Kangaruric grass. Due to human intervention in natural bird biotopes, the birds are forced to rebuild their diet depending on the changes in environmental conditions. Today, the main grain culture of Australia, grown everywhere, is, but the grains of this cereal for small birds are too large. In addition to grains, wavy parrots eat young shoots and leaves of plants, various berries, vegetables and fruits, occasionally feed on insects and other invertebrates.
The nesting of the wavy parrots in their natural habitat occurs all year round: the northern part of the population begins to multiply immediately at the end of the rainy season, in the south the nesting begins in November and December. The nesting couples occupy a hollow, stumps with clefts and any other hollow niches.
The marriage games of the wavy parrots conclude in various courtships, the important part of which makes the "kisses" and jogging by the male of food. Thus, he demonstrates his ability to feed the future offspring. In the selected place, almost without any litter, the female of the wavy parrot lays out from 4 to 12 white eggs, their exercise lasts about 3 weeks. The entire period of incubation of the wavy parrot male feeds the female, being nearby in a tireless search for food.
The chicks of wavy parrots hatch out of the eggs bare and blind, weighing about 2 g, the mother heats off the offspring, and both parents do feeding. 10 days after birth, the chicks open their eyes, at the age of 1 months they are completely fascinated and can leave their native nest, although some young individuals still hold around the nest. At the age of 3 months, grown individuals are already able to multiply.
The breeding of wavy parrots at home is a rather laborious process. The male and female, unlike most feathered, should grow together and experience greater sympathy to each other, and the artificially created pairs, as a rule, do not give offspring for several years.
How many wavy parrots live?
In nature, wavy parrots live about 7 years, and at home with decent bird care can live to 10-15 years. The life expectancy of some individuals in captivity can reach 22 years.
Wavy parrots at home: content, care, feeding.
The choice of a feat pet for home content is better to stop for 3-4 monthly individuals: at this age, wavy parrots easily get used to the owners and new dwellings. But before bringing a bird home, you need to stock all necessary for decent care and the content of the wavy parrot at home.
The rectangular cell is considered an optimal option. The cell size for the wavy parrot should be such that the bird can peck from one barrel to another, not hung the wings of the wall. For the content of one wavy parrot, there is enough cells with a size of 25x40x40 cm. The cell with frequent vertical and rare horizontal bars will ensure the unimpeded movement of the bird and will prevent slipping. The best material for the cell is an unpainted stainless steel. If the rods are painted, the bird will nibble them and can eat paint particles.
What should be in a wavy parrot cage?
It is not so difficult to equip a cell for a parrot. It is desirable that bottom cells The wavy parrot was solid, without a row: so the bird is more convenient to run.
Bottom cell necessarily equipped palletthat facilitates cleaning.
The cell must be at least 2 prandielocated one above the other. The thickness of the porridge for the parrot should be such that when she picks her paws, the bird could not completely close the claws, that is, there should be a distance between the curls. Otherwise, the bird can rub his paws. The optimal throttle thickness for a wavy parrot is 1.5 cm. Harves themselves should be made only from wood. If necessary, you can independently make riders from any fruit trees.
To heat the beak in the wavy parrot cage, you need to place rustles of rowan, cherries or special chalk.
Well, if drinking and bathing There are porcelain or glass: these materials better retain water purity. Also in the cell must be 2 cordushki: For grain and soft feed. Like feeders, it is desirable to wash the drink every day, each time putting up a new feed and pouring new water. Be careful and do not place strands over the feeders and drinking, otherwise the litter can be in a stern or water.
The boat parrot belongs to the type of parrot and is the only representative of wavy feathery. By purchasing a wavy parrot, to begin with, it should be decided with the aim of staying in the house. He can simply speak as a favorite pet, which will become an excellent friend or the purpose of his acquisition can be further breeding these birds.
It is from this criterion and will depend care Behind the wavy parrot.
Care rules for a wavy parrot, how to choose a feather friend
Most people who are going to acquire a wavy parrot, absolutely do not know what to pay attention to the purchase and how to further contain their pet. In order for the feathers to grow healthy and cheerful, it should be discouraged in more detail on this issue.
How to choose a wavy parrot?
Stands with the maximum severity Take this issue. It is best to acquire a wavy parrot from a specialized breeder than a bird market. This will give the opportunity to inspect the place where the wavy parrots live. Moreover, in such a place, the risk to purchase a sick bird is much less than on the market.
The bird you like should visually inspect. A healthy person is active with clear eyes, the plumage is glorifying and will not shine in different directions. Each paw should be 4 fingers. Two of them in front of the paws, two from behind. The patient is a wavy parrot, as a rule, sits motionless, he is not interested in what is happening around him, the plumage is laughed, and the area around the clock can be smeared with liquid flowering.
Optimal age For the purchase of a bird is the period from 2 to 4 months. It was during this period that wavy parrots quickly get used to the person and a place in which the bird will live that much simplifies the process of further detention.
Definition of age
In order to avoid cheating from the seller about the age of the bird, you should independently be able to determine how old the wavy parrot. For this there are certain signs:
It is worth noting that these criteria are not suitable for the birds of the birds, the whole color of which is always white or yellow. Such eyes are always black, and the beak is light.
Definition of a wavy parrot floor
You can distinguish parrots by sexuality in the color of the flaws. While the birds are still young, then both sexes are light lilac. In 4 months, the area over the beak in males acquires blue, and in females this part of the beak becomes beige. But after puberty, and this age is 9 months, in the females of the wax starts to darken down to brown.
Wavy parrot care and content, choice of dwelling for wavy parrots
For prosperous The content of the wavy parrot at home he needs not only the presence of high-quality feed, but also the correct placement of the cell.
How to choose a cell location?
The best place where the cell will be located is the bright part of the room. It is not recommended to install the cell on the windowsill, since the wavy parrots are affected by drafts. Nevertheless, daylight lights need for wavy parrots: in the summer time of the year at least 12 hours, in winter from 10 hours. That is why in the cold seasons, when the light day is rather short, the owners should additionally illuminate the cell. In order for domestic loves to get used to its owner faster, it is necessary to put a cell at the human height level.
Choosing a cell
In order to correctly choose a cell, it is necessary to pay attention to the following criteria:
Equipment for cell
In order for parrots to feel in their home comfortably, it is necessary to put no less than two barns of different diameters, drinkers, feeders and various toys.
All porrodies should be located in such a way that the parrot can easily fly from one to another.
Drinking Must be made of glass or porcelain. In such drinkers, water is much longer than fresh. Every day, the drinking bowl needs to be washed in hot water. You can use the soda to clean the soda, which then you need to thoroughly wash and wipe the drinking dryer with a dry cloth.
Must be minimum two. One will be located dry food, in the second fruit and vegetables.
Especially in hot summer days should be put in a cell bath. Water in the bath should not be too cold or hot. As soon as the bird refreshed in the bath, it should be removed from the cage.
If only one parrot lives in the cage, then a small mirror in the top of the cell should be placed. It will help the wavy parrot not to feel lonely.
Wavy parrot: care, content and diet
In the diet, these birds include a large number of different fruits, vegetables and feeding.
Grain The mixture consists of oats, flax and millet. It is best to acquire such a mixture in hermetic packaging, on the surface of which there is a transparent site. This will help visually assess the quality of the purchased goods.
Vitamins Parrots are obtained mainly of fruits, vegetables and various berries. They love to nibble carrots, cabbage leaves and cucumbers. As for the fruit, apples, oranges and peaches are ideal. Berries included in the diet of the wavy parrot are represented by blackberry and raspberries. However, the parrots will not refuse parrots either.
To parrots grow active and shone their health, they should be given mineral food subordinate. As an organic feeding, you can use chalk or sand. These substances are filled with calcium, which is necessary for the organism of the feathery.
The first days after the acquisition, the bird should be kept separately from other birds if they are available.
Changing the situation can create a stressful situation for the bird. Therefore, the main rule of pet care is the fence of it from external irritating factors. Such factors include loud sounds. In no case cannot raise the voice to the parrot. Talking with him, you should make your voice as gentle. No need to try to force your pet in your hands forcibly. It will only aggravate the position, and the adaptation process will delay for a long time. But as soon as this barrier is overcome, you can start teaching your bird to talk.
Buy a wavy parrot and put it in a cage, pre-embelling food there and putting water, this is not exactly the care that your new family man is required. Having bought a wavy parrot, you take responsibility for his health.
Many will immediately ask, so how to care for a wavy parrot?
Here, good, nothing is complicated, but failure to comply with these requirements can lead to bird death. The first moment - the new family member should be released from the cell flying around the apartment, at least 30 - 60 minutes a day. If you purchased a chick, and having bought it a big cage, you think that this is enough, it is better not to torment the animal and give it to someone who without pity will give their new curtains and eaves to the tornness. Not only these items may suffer, but all that is at the height. It is likely that the top of the wallpaper will be shredded. Do not open the windows, be sure the parrot will feel fresh air and will surely fly away, and do not hope that he will return. Perhaps your pet and will fly to unauthorized people who will try to find the present owner, but most often parrots are victims of pigeons and just die in an unusual setting for them. If I have not yet changed my mind to give a purchased chick, then we go further.
An important point on which you want to stop attention is the care and the content of the wavy parrot. The cell, where your feathered pet will live, should contain: drinking, feeder, a nashet, swimming and a swing with a mirror. The mirror needs only lonely parrots who live alone. At the bottom of the cell, put the river sand and the scratched eggshell, can be putting charcoal. All of these components will provide "Pernavom" good digestion. A cell with a bird should stand indoors where there are no drafts. You can not allow direct sunlight on a cage with a bird. Do not forget about the fact that the parrot loves to swim. Caring for wavy parrots, bathing must be included. Just put once a week on the roof of the cell ceping, the usual plate with warm water is suitable. After bathing, it should be removed, otherwise there is a risk that the bird will go on dirty water.
If there are other pets in the house, try to get acquainted with the new family member as much as possible. It is unlikely that the cat Vaska, who will hang on the cage by all its limbs, will bring positive into the life of a little bird.
And whether you pay attention to the fact that there are two types of wavy parrots in the store. The first look is the usual wavy parrot. The second is an exhibition parrot Czech, which is twice as much as his relative. Care for a wavy parrot Czech, differs only in the fact that he needs a cell of large sizes, in the rest of the care there is nothing different from the usual "wavy".
Many are wondering the feeding of wavy parrots. The store has a very rich assortment of grain mixtures, at the most different prices. What feed is most suitable for the bird and is it worth overpaying for seeds and cereals released by well-known manufacturers.
In the care and feeding of wavy parrots, the method of samples and errors will help you. The bird itself will choose what kind of food is the most pleasant. Of course, for this you will have to buy not one grain mixture, but in the end you will understand what is more like a parrot. Do not limit yourself to one seeds from the pack, periodically put in the cage of the grass, borker, operated in milk, sunflower seeds. Be sure to impose through the rods of the cell chalk or mineral stone - the parrot will receive all the necessary substances and sharpen the beak.
By the way, you need to not forget about the rest of the beak of the wavy parrot. There is nothing complicated here, just give him pebbles, twigs and other solid items that the parrot would have the opportunity to heal.
Most bird lovers are interested in the question of whom to buy a female or male?
The care of the boys of the wavy parrot is almost nothing different from the care of the fellowship. The only but, boy is the opportunity to teach talk, but if you bought a couple in advance, female and male or put a mirror in a cage, then you will most likely hear the phrase "Kesha good" on the Russian-parrot language.
Determine the floor of the wavy friend, the color of the wax will help you. In other words, you need to determine what color from the parrot nostrils. For boys, after 4 months, the flaw acquires blue, the girls remains pink.
It happens that after buying a female and male, you want a new offspring, but for some reason, it does not appear.
As it does not sound strange, but an important role in the care and reproduction of wavy parrots plays the factor "Loves - does not like." It happens that birds live together, get proper nutrition, care, but chicks, as it was not and not. I do not want to upset you, but they are unlikely to appear. Try to solve the problem by changing a couple. Sut the female to another cage and buy a new one or change with familiar males or females. If you have noticed that the relatives are scattered each other, kiss and feed each other from the keyboard, then expect to recharge (see).
Do not count on the fact that the sove of the female will be directly on the pranchka or in the corner of the cell. For breeding chicks, she will need a house. In it she will put eggs. You can make such structures for the reproduction of future parrots with your own hands, for the example, take the usual bench and do the same, only in the size of your cell. That is, the house for reproduction should not occupy half of the free space, but also should not be the size of the matchbox.
With proper care, after 3 weeks it will be possible to see the first eggs, and the first chick will appear 18 days after the masonry of the eggs. Your contribution to the departure for the chicks of wavy parrots should be as follows: inspect the nest with newborn chicks and if you find dead, throw out immediately. Make everything quickly to bring the female stress and in the future, whatever she began to throw eggs and chicks from the nest. If this happened, then in the following times just put in the socket of sawdust and the grass of the chamomile. 
After reading the article, many answered themselves to the question of how to contain a wavy parrot at home and were convinced that there was nothing complicated in this. Following the recommendations, how to properly contain a wavy parrot in captivity, your feathered friend will live with you about 15 years.
If your child asks a little colored parrot, think in advance about how to care for him, what feed is needed and how much time will take your time. Let the parrot not so much take time, like dogs or other pets, but still need to follow their health.
The most important question for caring for such a pet is a cell selection. The cage for the wavy parrot should be spacious and made of conventional metal rods. At night, if the bird works you, you can cover the cage by any cloth. The parrot calms down and will understand that it is time to sleep.
Home parrots
Homemade wavy parrots are very beautiful and interesting. Children love to talk to the bird, watch the game. The colors of their plumage is so diverse that each color is surprising. Each wavy parrot is unique, photos of any bird attracts attention, as they are really interesting and curious creatures.
Parrots, like all living things, need caring care. It is important to know which cell is needed and how often it must be cleaned. All this we will analyze in our article.
How many little parrots live?
The natural range for parrots of this species is Australia. There, the parrots feel great among wild thickets. But in the cities they also got along well. How many wavy parrots live in urban environments? In the wild, these birds live only 8-10 years. But thanks to a person, their lives can be longer.
A wavy parrot at home lives for about 15 years, only sometimes lives to 17. These birds are afraid of drafts, they can hurt. Like people, they are also subject to bacteriological and viral diseases, so they can die before without proper care.
When you choose a bird, pay attention not to a more beautiful pet, but on a healthier. That bird, which is too calm - does not chirbish, does not play, perhaps something is sick. It is best to buy a parrot in a good pet store or right at the breeder with extensive experience of breeding, and not in the natural market. That is, where the birds are cared for birds.
Budgerigar. Care and content
How to care for wavy friends so that they live for a long time and pleased their owners with their cheerful temper and twitter? Let's talk more about the content of the wavy parrot.
It is very important a cage to keep clean, often change water. Every day the parrot is desirable to produce from the cell so that he can straighten the wings and fly. Without movement, they do not have it, especially if the cage is cramped. Long sitting in a cage Bird not only quickly loses interest in games with people, but also earns obesity, because the birds also need to move to lose calories.
Food for wavy parrots need to take a qualitative, good proven brand. But besides the feed, you still need to give many vegetables, fruits. During the masonry of eggs, female need chicken boiled eggs.
Birds require mineral food, such as the ground energies. We need both greens, in particular parsley.
The cage constantly there should be a feeder with ordinary feed, and near need the same for gentle grain. Power should be diverse. Only one millet cannot be given. Nuts, fruits, corn and seeds are suitable. Everything must be moderated in the diet. Homemade wavy parrots often eat and often straighten. On the day they do it from 40 to 50 times. This is considered a normal chair.
Every day you need to change water in the drinking. If water is not fresh, the bird will get sick. Clean the bottom of the cell is required three times a week, but when the parrots are two or more, then, accordingly, it is necessary to clean it more often.
It is important to monitor the condition of the beak and claws. The bird should have a piece of chalk or sepia for sharpening beak. After all, the beak is also growing, like nails in humans, and over time, a long key hinders a bird.
What kind of cell fit?
The fact is that the parrots need a lot of space in the house. Keep them constantly in the cage - no way out. The bird will be bored, she needs to knead the wings. The cell itself should be large and spacious, especially if there are two parrots.
In the length of the parrot house should be at least 60 cm, and better 80 cm. Height - at least 50 cm. Additionally, you need to attach the drinking and a small bath for parrots. If the rods are painted, then you can not drink between them.
Wooden cells will not fit, since the boat parrot necessarily spats the wooden rods.
There are various curly cells on sale. But they are suitable more to transfer the bird, but not for living. Best is the usual, unpacked cages of rectangular shape. In such dwellings, birds are more conveniently climbing the stairs, play. The parrot itself is not as important as his house looks like, he needs a comfort. Sometimes he is sad, and he needs a "personal" home angle. Another advantage of the rectangular cell is simplicity of care. To straight rods it is easy to attach all sorts of pet toys - these are bells, rocking and more.
Additionally, you need to say a few words about choosing porch. It is not worth buying barbells, placed sandpaper, which have recently appeared in pet stores. The paws of the wavy parrot can bleed.
The diameter of these crossbars should be different. One put a little higher, the other is on the lower floor, this location is convenient for birds.
Do I need a mirror with a poan friend?
When people buy one parrot, breeders recommend attaching the mirror to him to the cage so that he does not feel so lonely, did not give up. But there is another opinion. Many believe that so pet will not learn to speak. Although this point of view has not yet been proven.
Cubs Parrot
How do wavy parrots multiply? If you decide to buy a couple and try to output a few chicks, then keep in mind that the couple you yourself choose may not bring chicks. Parrots form a union for life. And if he or her a couple did not like, mating will not happen.
The most prolifics are between the ages of 2 and 8 years old. The female brings about 6-9 young at a time. The offspring is displayed more often in the summer, when the day is more than 12 hours and enough heat for them. After all, the parrot is a thermal-loving creature. The female rises eggs exactly 18 days. Trying all the time to turn them over them, as the egg, which suffered heat, will die.
In the summer period, parrots need to give more fruits and vegetables and germinated grains so that they safely brought their offspring. If you want to get the rating in the winter, you will have to additionally warm and illuminate the socket.
Display female chicks conveniently in a cardboard socket. To equip it, it is enough to cut a small hole on the side of the box, with a diameter of 5-7 cm. It's a lase for female. And so that the male fell to the nest and fed the female, he needs to build a small barrel near Laz.
What wavy parrots when only hatched? Chicks are hatched so helpless and weak that the female has to feed them in a lying position. They are inextriced, and their eyes are completely closed. The weight of only hatched chicks of all a little more than one gram. Their mom is all the time with them, climb into the nest and scare the female. Chicks will come out of the nest to the 23rd or 24th day, when they already raise the bulk and they will have a plunder.
Signs of the disease from the parrot
When your parrot feels bad, it can be seen by some changes in his behavior. Of course, a bird, although speaking, cannot say that she has something hurts. But the attentive owner should notice the following signs:
- The bird lowers the tail and looks weak. She is not interested in things from things or toys.
- Failure to eat.
- Parrots cease to clean feathers when they are bad.
- On the keyboy, the growths are sometimes detected.
If the parrot is just a little sluggish, you need to put the lamp near it and warm. In a comfortable temperature, and this is 27- 28 ° C, it will be done itself. But when the situation is serious, it is visible on the growths and, perhaps, there will be strange discharge from the keyboy. Then you need to immediately call the veterinarian and sign up for reception.
Parrot diseases
What you need to know the owner of a wavy parrot about diseases of these birds? First, the fact that health and well-being depends on the conditions of its content. High-quality feed and frequent inspection of beak and suddenness should also be included in the practice. So you react to the disease in time.
The bird can be infected with salmonellosis and die in a short time from dehydration, since with diarrhea all the water quickly leaves the little Taurus of the parrot. Infection comes from the use of infected water or dirty food. Either the parrot contacted other birds, for example, at the exhibition.
Another common disease is psychotaxy. When overheating or after the stressful situation of moving to another house to the new owners, the bird can get sick. The parrot disappears appetite and run nose. A characteristic feature is swelling tissue and selection. Previously, whole flocks died massively from this disease, which is caused by chlamydobacteriums. But today, with the help of antibiotics, the disease is well cured.
Also, the bird can get knemidocoptosis or to be infected with ticks. In general, there are a lot of diseases. It is necessary to constantly follow health, so that the parrot does not die ahead of time.
Varieties
The subspecies of the wavy parrots of the main three. These are wavy monochrome, with a motley plumage and crested wavy species. In each group, many varieties of coloring. The main natural color is light green. Stripes on the head and on the back of the waves play the role of masking in green more often. Blue, white, gray and other tones and shades are derived using selection.
Those who are engaged in breeding birds know that monophonic parrots with light shades of yellow or pure-white colors have more faded, poorly pronounced wave patterns. And on blue feathers and dark green, this pattern is visible very well.
Multicolor parrots, in turn, are divided into three more subspecies: harlequin, motley wavy and parrots-penguins.
It is best breeding in captive parrots of light green. And those that were deemed selectively are poorly adapted, they are weak, and with them hard when breeding.
How to teach talk?
If you want to teach a parrot to speak, then you need to buy a boy, and one, without a pair. He will then be bored, and he will get used to a person faster, will try to "find a common language" with his owner.
How to teach the wavy parrot to pronounce the first "words", and then phrase, or rather, to teach them to parody people? Parrots, in fact, do not say, and imitate human sounds, absolutely not aware of them. Moreover, the voices of children and women in most of these birds are better to depict. To the bird began to learn imitate, you need to constantly talk to it.
Wavy parrots cannot remember many words. Total about 10-20 phrases. Their larger relatives say more and better. However, wavy birds are easier and cheaper than Jaco or Cockada, and they adapt to ordinary city rooms better.
At first, one word will have to repeat, more often pronounce his name. Then the phrase in which this word is present. And even later, if the parrot comes talented, you can see some kind of children's poem or joke. But it should be noted that all this takes a lot of time, and the owner must gain patience and do not shout at the parrot if he does not work.
How to tame?
After you brought a purchased parrot to your home, let him get comfortable. A few days try to completely disturb it. Come only to change food. In no case do not take it immediately in hand. At the parrot shock, and he must first get used to you. Over time, we talk more often with him. You can open the cage in a few days so that he played in your room and became interested. Do not scold him if it breaks something, and do not turn on loud music.
Your task is to support the atmosphere of trust. You can not have enough bird with your hands, you can not scold her. Otherwise, she will be afraid of you and, perhaps, treat hostile. In general, parrots are very friendly and go to contact well. But frightening the bird or caused violence, planting in a cage with hands, the location of a small pet you will be lost forever.
Output
What can I say to summarize the information? Homemade wavy parrots need a good and clean house, in high-quality feed and friendly. The content of one parrot is not so problematic. It is necessary to monitor its health and the condition of the beak. Long beaks can be trimmed, but it should do this veterinarian, not the owner.
Food is needed for your pet diverse and good enough. Feed the bird with mineral feed, pieces of fruit, be sure to give greens. If all the rules of care will be observed, your parrot will live for a very long time.
A wavy parrot at home is very well adapted. These birds are interested in people, they quickly learn and can bring a lot of joy to the house. However, do not forget that by bringing a parrot to the house, you are responsible for his health.