breeding meyers

hi all new here has anyone bred the meyers parrot, weve had our pair for about a year they have been seen mating on more than one occassion but no eggs , they have a 15inch x10 x10 box they digging away at the material etc i also feed them on a good diet seed mix,pulses fruit and soaked sprouted pulses with breedmax added to their egg food or fruit , they have willow branches to chew on , any other info would help thanks smoggy

Please consider very carefully what you are doing. Breeding birds is not a matter of putting a male and female together and allowing nature to 'take its course'. You need to have a lot of knowledge and a mentor to guide you step by step. You obviously know very little about the subject if you are trying to breed your birds at the beginning of winter. Birds don't breed on the 'off' season in nature and only bad breeders do it. Bad breeders who don't care if the birds end up depleted by the time they are ten years old or the babies they produce are sickly.

Besides all that, parrots and all psittacines are in overpopulation in USA, the rescues and sanctuaries are overwhelmed by the huge number of birds that are homeless. Parrots don't make good pets. They are messy, noisy, destructive, nippy, expensive and very difficult to keep happy and healthy in the long term plus the novelty wears off after a while and the owner doesn't want to deal with the bird any longer. Result: another homeless bird. To make matters worse, poicephalus become aggressive when older so there are a lot of them in rescues and we are getting more and more every day.

If you love your birds, take good care of them and enjoy them but don't breed. No true bird lover would.

hi , firstly the meyers ,senegals etc do happen to breed in our winter months their season here in the uk is october to march , and has for breeding birds i have been breeding birds for 10 years so yes i do know quite a bit and have alot of knowledge when it comes down to it , maybe your a little nieve when the seasons are they are different here , but you have your opinion and alot of us here in the uk will disagree with you thanks smoggy

My dear, the UK is in the Northern Hemisphere, same as USA, so, no, the seasons are not different. You are, same as us, going into your winter and, I repeat, birds do not breed on the off-season (this is not my opinion, it's a rule of Nature). Anybody can make any bird breed all year round if he manipulates light, food and temperature. But it is unnatural and the birds pay with their health... Mother Nature always knows best. And yes, there is a lot of people who don't agree with me but it's usually people who really don't know that much about birds or who care more about the babies they can sell than they do about their birds' health.