1. Establishing your breeding aviary Part #1
Establishing your breeding Aviary
Light:
The light in your aviary must not just be bright. Full spectrum lighting is important to the health of your cockatiel and it promotes good breeding habits. I use full spectrum tube lighting supplemented by full spectrum coils. In the most ideal situations, light should be brought up gradually during the non-breeding season (normally in December/January) so that number of light hours increases from about 10 hours of light to around 12-13 at optimal breeding. This will cause most birds to reach a good condition in feather and health at around the same time and thus you can maximize your output for fertile eggs.
This isn't a fail proof method and other factors still exist (diet being one of them) that can cause birds to lay infertile eggs. Sometimes nature decides for you.
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Incompatibility
Incompatibility is, what I have found, to be the number one producer of infertile eggs. A fairly picky hen will go to nest with a particular cock but refuse to have him mate her. Then there is the "coveting of thy neighbor" where either sex is more interested in the bird in the cage next to them or across the avairy. There are two suggestions for this dilemma. The easiest is a "wife swap" where you swap the birds and let them have the mate of their choosing. The other possible solution is to remove the bird that is distracting the pair from mating. Sometimes you must not only remove the bird from sight but also from ear-shot.
Next we will discuss cage size and location
Light:
The light in your aviary must not just be bright. Full spectrum lighting is important to the health of your cockatiel and it promotes good breeding habits. I use full spectrum tube lighting supplemented by full spectrum coils. In the most ideal situations, light should be brought up gradually during the non-breeding season (normally in December/January) so that number of light hours increases from about 10 hours of light to around 12-13 at optimal breeding. This will cause most birds to reach a good condition in feather and health at around the same time and thus you can maximize your output for fertile eggs.
This isn't a fail proof method and other factors still exist (diet being one of them) that can cause birds to lay infertile eggs. Sometimes nature decides for you.
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Incompatibility
Incompatibility is, what I have found, to be the number one producer of infertile eggs. A fairly picky hen will go to nest with a particular cock but refuse to have him mate her. Then there is the "coveting of thy neighbor" where either sex is more interested in the bird in the cage next to them or across the avairy. There are two suggestions for this dilemma. The easiest is a "wife swap" where you swap the birds and let them have the mate of their choosing. The other possible solution is to remove the bird that is distracting the pair from mating. Sometimes you must not only remove the bird from sight but also from ear-shot.
Next we will discuss cage size and location
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