PAPAGEIEN-Sonderheft Jungvögel

PAPAGEIEN Special Issue JUVENILE BIRDS

Nutrition, health, care, species-specific rearing

New, bundled expert knowledge and practical help for successful rearing. From professional breeders and experienced veterinarians.

Content excerpt (specialist topics): Egg and hatching: What can the breeder do? Mastering artificial brooding and hand rearing. Actively accompany natural brooding. The rearing phases in practice. Hygiene in everyday life. Necessary health care. Recognising infections/viruses. Physical diseases: Malpositions, splay legs, skeleton. DNA analysis and sexing. Ringing, marking. Right of purchase (buying and selling).

Plus: Practical chapter on raising amazons, macaws, Australian parakeets, eclectus parrots, fig parrots, grey parrots, white and black cockatoos, poicephalus parrots, lories, pionus parrots, South American parakeets, lovebirds, caiques.

Authorship (excerpt): Laurella Desborough (USA), Tobias Ehinger, Jörg Ehlenbröker, Dr. vet. med. Heiner Müller, veterinarian Saskia Nemitz (University of Giessen), Ralf and Rosina Neumeyer, Dr. Matthias Reinschmidt, lawyer Dietrich Rössel, Dr. Sascha Scharf, Volker Seidl, Dr. Martin Singheiser and Jürgen Hirt (BNA), Tony Silva (USA), Xavier Viader (ESP), Dr. vet. med. Susanne Vorbrüggen, Dr. vet. med. Elisa Wüst.

80 pages, numerous pictures and graphics

New publication 2021