Good luck with your Barras - I think there have been too many disruptions this year with our aviaries to get babies, but the princess hen is still sitting on one egg, so fingers crossed for that one

The Barrabands now have two chicks hatched. The mother to these last year attacked her babies as they hatched....she did not seem to recognise them as hers and as they hatched through the night last years she was surprised by them and attacked them.

This time the first two hatched have full crops and are being very well cared for. It pays to persevere at times

Excellent! Never seen Barraband chickies

Excellent! Never seen Barraband chickies

They look exactly like Princess chicks

wow you can really see the holes where their ears are :question:, glad Ken is having success this year with his birds and everything is going well and healthy.

wow you can really see the holes where their ears are :question:, glad Ken is having success this year with his birds and everything is going well and healthy.

It seems the success is due to the aviary dynamics having reached a happy point. The right types, the right conditions, the right numbers, the right food and health, and all becomes right with the world.

Here is our blue princess parrot baby

 

 

and we now have three barraband parrot babies ( one egg to go )

 

and three eggs yet to hatch under this Barraband hen

Awww cute! I can see the blue coming though on the princess too - so pretty

Awww is one of this ladies or chicks peggy's relative ?

Awww is one of this ladies or chicks peggy's relative ?

The three babies are Peggy's brothers and sisters. Same mother and father

 

The hen on eggs is the barraband that raised Peggy.

Edited November 27, 200816 yr by KAZ

Cool pics

They are sweet Kaz.

very cute pics, Princess parrots are very beautiful birds. still trying to convince hubby to get them.

very cute pics, Princess parrots are very beautiful birds. still trying to convince hubby to get them.

They are delightful. When the barrabands finish for this season we are rehoming them and we are getting into lutino princess parrots, starting with a pair that are split lutino.

Here is the three barraband chicks

 

and the blue princess baby getting its coloured feathers...

 

Edited December 4, 200816 yr by KAZ

What are barrabands? Do I just know them by another name?

What are barrabands? Do I just know them by another name?

They are also called superb parrots :rofl:

Ah ha, I know superbs :rofl: Thanks

Here is the blue princess parrot baby still in the nest

 

and here are the three barraband parrot babies in the nest.

 

 

Aww how cute are they!!!!!

The Blue Princess baby is out of the nest today

 

 

and here on the left with its Mum on the right

 

 

and here are the Barraband Parrot babies still in the nest but feathering up

 

Aww look how he is grown!!

You said he would be out by Wednesday! how right you were

They are so gorgeous Love the blue colors.

Very Cute

beautiful birds Kaz, everyone looks great!

Today the first blue princess baby hatched from round two from the mother that didnt care for her babies the last time...sibling to the fledged princess baby and two more eggs to go. Guess what ? She didnt feed this one either. I have worked out she tries but she doesnt know how to do crop milk and just fills their crops with air and no food. So the only solution for the newly hatched baby was to foster it with Smokey and his hen Precious who are sitting on a second clutch of eggs. I put the baby in with Precious watching me. She took it from me, fed it and pulled it under her with the eggs. She is a very good Mummy and she is one I hand raised as a baby.