Re: Dear Caryn

Posted by caryn from scl.seagram.com (199.222.28.2) on Monday, April 08, 2002 at 7:18AM :

In Reply to: Dear Caryn posted by EB Cravens from spider-wg072.proxy.aol.com (205.188.196.52) on Monday, April 01, 2002 at 9:20AM :

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Eb,

Thanks for all your help and info. Well I finally decide to become a cape parent and I may have to wait. The breeder has two babies and two others ahead of me. My only chance is that one person wants a male so if there are two females, I will be blessed with a baby cape. I sincerely hope so. Otherwise I will have to wait longer...I will ask her how long she keeps them with the parents.

Thanks again,

Caryn

There are differences between the sexes, but they tend to be hard to categorize since both males and females can be the dominant ones in a clutch or breeding situation. If I had to set down a tendency, I would say hens are the more outgoing, less suspicious and more assertive in the growing up period, but once puberty is achieved at age three or above, provided your male birds are never traumatized and are brought up with a slow building of confidence, then they take over and begin being the stronger willed. This is what I have seen with breeders and with home pets.
: Caryn, April and I really feel strongly about one aspect of handfed baby capes, and that is that they be left for at least four to six weeks with their parents to get optimum upbringing and nestbox security before pulling them from parents and placing them into human situation for imprinting.You might even urge your breeder friend to leave them one or two weeks longer each clutch. We are up to eight weeks and looking at ten and the pets are awesome. This also prevents parents from getting into a conditioned routine of always stopping feeding of chicks at a certain day....dangerous if you wish to reward them and allow a parent raised conservation baby in the future.
: These parrots develop VERY slowly, eyes sometimes do not open until past three week point and full colored feathers do not begin to come in thickly until four weeks plus. They should never be rushed into the nursery, they are sensitive and can either become jumpy--or the other side of the story, come to depend upon humans too deeply.
: Our current chicks are four weeks today and will begin their meeting of humans for the first time this evening. Good luck, EB and April

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