The Mandarin Diamond is a very small, docile and active bird. Many people find in this animal an excellent pet, as well as the opportunity to raise a bird in captivity.
They usually reproduce several times a year, from 5 to 7 eggs each, and this is not difficult to achieve even if you have no experience.
- That is why.
- Today.
- It is not only professional or amateur breeders who carry out this process.
- Because anyone who wants it can start and discover the wonderful experience of creating mandarins.
- Find out everything in this Animal Expert article.
To begin with, you should look for some mandarin diamonds. You can adopt by searching for specimens in different shelters or by choosing breeders.
Look for two adult specimens that are unrelated to each other, and if you want a varied offspring, you can select a common gray and a yellow-brown one, for example. It is also ideal to obtain two samples that have different physical characteristics so that they are staggered between them.
Initially, they will have no trouble living together once. The breeding season takes place in spring although the mandarins breed throughout the year.
To control and observe the whole process, we recommend using a breeding cage, i.e. a small cage. Look for an example of 50 x 45.
In the cage, you can not miss the food in the diamond mandarin seeds, fresh and clean water and siba bone. Do not use too many toys to prevent excessive movement in the cage. You can add Tabernil to water (vitamins) and offer cereals and insectivores in one of the food containers, all of which promotes tangerine health and also reproduction.
Adicione um ninho fechado, que são os seus preferidos, na parte superior da gaiola e deixe ao seu alcance no sol pelo de cabelo que encontrará à venda em lojas de animais. Verá como um dos dois (ou ambos) irá começar a pegá-lo e a colocá-lo dentro do ninho.
Once the couple is in the cage with the nest, appointments will begin. The male will start singing to the female to convince her, it may be that at first there is no copulation, be patient.
You will see how the male will begin to return to the female while she makes very particular sounds, it is because copulation occurs.
Once the female is fertilized, it won’t take long to lay the eggs in the already assembled nest. It’s important not to touch anything. It is very important that you give them space and look at them from afar and carefully, otherwise they could leave the nest.
Continue oferecendo-lhes comida para que tudo ocorra nas melhores condições.
A fêmea começará a colocar os ovos, é importante que tenha cuidado se a ouvir a fazer sons fracos e tristes. Se vir que durante um dia não põe nenhum ovo e está muito inchado, pode-se tratar de um ovo preso. Isto acontece em exemplares jovens. Neste caso deverá pegá-la com cuidado e acariciar o ventre para facilitar a expulsão do ovo. Se ainda assim ela não o conseguir expulsar e o seu estado piorar, leva-a de imediato ao veterinário.
Once you have laid the fifth egg, the Mandarin partner will help you incubate it. This is a very special time because parents participate together in this process. During the day they usually do it in turns and at night they will both sleep in the nest.
In 13 to 15 days, the first chicks will begin to be born. You’ll hear how they make sounds by asking their parents for food. It is important that you do not miss the breeding supplement at this stage and that you still do not touch them, it is normal that there are stools in the nest, but you should not clean them.
At age 6 it is recommended to place the washers, although many servants prefer not to do so as they can injure the legs of the birds. It’s up to you.
Days will pass and you will see that the chicks of the Mandarin diamond have begun to grow, the feathers will begin to come out, they will spend more time with each catch, etc.
If one of the chicks is expelled from the nest, it may be because it is a weak or diseased specimen that the parents do not want to feed. In this case, you can start doing it yourself with a syringe or let nature follow its natural course.
If you are going to feed a Mandarin diamond yourself, so that it becomes your faithful friend, you must separate it from your parents at 20 or 25 days. It’s still a baby and that’s why, for at least another 15 or 20 days, you should feed it as your parents would:
Se não o fizer adequadamente, os seus pequenos mandarins poderão morrer, por isso seja constante.
If it wasn’t your choice, leave your parents for up to 35 or 40 days. At this point, the Mandarin diamond should already have a black beak and be practically developed.
Separate them from their parents after these 35 or 40 days, otherwise the male will start hunting them because they may want to start a new procreation.
We recommend separating mandarin diamonds by sex, as this will avoid conflict, jealousy and inbreeding (they can try to reproduce between family members). You can look for a 1 meter-long cage by 70 meters wide so that each group of birds is comfortable and has room to fly. On the contrary, if you want everyone to be together, you must look for a collective cage.
Remember that the basic elements of the Mandarin diamond cage are
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