African Grey Congo Babies

Written by George Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:56

We seem to be in some sort of strange late season baby boom here at our aviary and we are not complaining one bit just because all our birdies totally forgot to go to nest this spring..lol. So we now have our first clutch of African Grey Congo Babies - they are from Jake and Molly and so far they are taken wonderful care of the two babies and it has been solid 2 weeks. Jodie will be pulling these babies to hand-feed any day now. I think she wants to co-ordinate with the eggs that are hatching in the incubator from our Military Macaws. Talking about them - they do not know how to feed the babies (trust us, we tried!) - so we pull them and they go back to nest. Last year they did it 2 times (3 clutches for the year) before we literally locked the box so she would not be able to go back in. This time we are trying a different approach. So after we pulled this clutch of 3 eggs last week (all good!) we gave couple of eggs from our B&G's which were not fertile so that she can complete her cycle and then sit some more. We are hoping that this will prevent her from going back into the egg laying mode soon. Honestly, we would love for her to stop with 2 clutches every year as all this egg laying and incubating is very physically demanding on both the male and female.

In other news from the aviary - we talked about the first clutch of eggs from our own babies that were paired up. We candled them and found that they were not any good. Mama is still sitting on the eggs, which is a good practice for when they get the act right :). Other than that we have to get ready for the weather to turn cold, which I am not looking forward to and I am sure Jodie is not either. We still have some babies left for sale - Macaws (Military), Grey (Congo) and Conures (Suns) are all available. So let us know if you are interested in any one of these wonderful babies.