Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Splay Legged Bourke Parakeet Treatment
Into every endeavor some rain must fall ... Sunny in the end, however.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Questions?
If you have questions about your own Bourkes, or ours... Please send us an email so we see it the same day. Between this Blog, Facebook, Producing You Tube Videos, and Hand Feeding Baby Birds, we stay very busy and don't check everything as frequently as we otherwise might. But, we do see our daily email at:
rosie.birds@gmail.com
Peace and Blessings.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Bourkes and Other Birds
When I perused the Spam Comments, some relevant questions weren't answered. People asked if Bourke Parakeets can breed with Linnies, Lovebirds or Splendids. The answer to all is NO!
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| Songster & Blossom, a male Opaline Fallow Rosy and a Lutino hen. |
Those in the know tell us that a Bourke Parakeet, genus Neopsephotus bourkii, is only able to reproduce with its own kind and no other variety of bird. The same is true of Budgerigar Parakeets, genus Melopsittacus.
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| Our male Splendid Parakeet. |
A few varieties of small birds can interbreed with another. Turquoisine Parakeets can interbreed with Splendid Parakeets (also called Scarlet-chested Parakeets).
Canaries can interbreed with Green Singing finches. There is even a repost on this blog of photos of an offspring from a Cockatiel and a Galah (also called a Rose Breasted Cockatoo). They call it a Galatiel.
Many Macaws will interbreed if put together, as will Conures or certain varieties of large parrots. However, interbreeding among different species is not desirable. Offspring are often mules (unable to reproduce) and you are watering down a healthy, natural species.
Bourke's Parakeets already come in some lovely colors, while still remaining Bourkes.
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| A young Normal (wild color) Bourke. |
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| A young Lutino Bourke hen. |
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| A Normal on swing, a blue-edged Cream in front above the Rosy with a Lutino in back. |
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| Front of Clyde, mate of Bonnie. |
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| Back of Clyde, mate of Bonnie. |
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| Pink Opaline Fallow Rosy Bourkes with red eyes. These three are all sisters. |
PEACE AND BLESSINGS!
About the Comments For This Blog...
I confess that lately my time is mostly spent raising, hand feeding and selling our Bourke Parakeets. After that, a lot of time and concentration goes into producing videos by Rosie Bird on YouTube. The Splendid Bourke Bird Blog gets less attention then it used to. If I missed a comment you made, I apologize.
For the first time ever, I opened my Spam filter today and was amazed to find over 2,000 comments captured there since 2012. Most came from Anonymous and were ads that were either stupid or disgusting. But, I took the time to scan the last two years and found four or five comments that should not be targeted for Spam.
Comments are appreciated. However, if you have a Bourke related question send it to my email directly, or I may not see it. For whatever reason, Blogger doesn't usually notify me of comments made to my posts any longer.
Email is: rosie.birds@gmail.com
Through email you will get my attention ... unless you sign off as Anonymous ... those are ignored.
Friday, August 9, 2019
Baby Bourke's Parakeets, Newly Hatched in 3 Nests
MORE BABIES! Eleven in last clutches and eleven again this time.