Content
- the perfect partner
- The Mandarin Diamond Breeding Cage
- copulation and reproduction
- Reproduction, incubation and birth
- Mandarin diamond growth
- Separation
- Location of new birds
O mandarin diamond it is a very small, docile and active bird. There are many people who find this animal a great pet, as well as a possibility to raise a bird in captivity.
They tend to breed several times a year, approximately 5 to 7 eggs each, and it is not difficult to carry out even if you have no experience.
For this reason, nowadays it is not just professional or amateur breeders who carry out this process, as anyone who wants to can start and discover the wonderful experience of mandarin breeding. Learn everything in this article by PeritoAnimal.
the perfect partner
For starters, you should look for a couple of mandarin diamonds. You can adopt looking for specimens in different shelters or choose the breeders.
Look for two adult specimens that are unrelated among them, and if you want a varied offspring, you can select a common gray and a yellowish-brown for example. It is also ideal to get two specimens that have different physical characteristics so that they compensate for each other.
From the outset, you will not have any problems of coexistence once together. The breeding season is during the spring although mandarins breed year round.
The Mandarin Diamond Breeding Cage
To control and observe the entire process, we recommend using a breeding cage, ie a small cage. Look for a 50 x 45 for example.
The cage cannot lack food in mandarin diamond seeds, fresh and clean water and the rib bone. Do not use too many toys so as not to excessively reduce your movement inside the cage. You can add Tabernil to the water (vitamins) and offer cereal and insectivore in one of the food containers, all of this favors the mandarin's health and also reproduction.
add one closed nest, which are your favorites, in the upper part of the cage and leave the hair of your hair that you will find for sale in pet stores within your reach in the sun. You'll see how one of the two (or both) will start to pick it up and put it into the nest.
copulation and reproduction
Once the partner finds himself in the cage with the nest he will start dating. The male will start to sing to the female to conquer her, it may be that in the beginning the copulation does not occur, be patient.
You will see how the male will start to turn on the female while she makes some very particular sounds, this is because the copulation is taking place.
Once the female is fertilized it will not take long to lay the eggs in the nest already assembled. It is important that don't touch anything. It is very important that you give them space and that you observe them from a distance and carefully, otherwise they may leave the nest.
Keep offering them food so that everything happens under the best conditions.
Reproduction, incubation and birth
The female will start to lay eggs, it is important to be careful if you hear her making weak and sad sounds. If you see that for a day it doesn't lay any eggs and it's very swollen, it could be a trapped egg. This happens in young specimens. In this case, you should pick it up carefully and caress the belly to facilitate the expulsion of the egg. If she is still unable to expel him and his condition worsens, take her to the veterinarian immediately.
Once you've laid the fifth egg, the mandarin partner will help to incubate them. It is a very special moment as the parents participate in this process together. During the day they usually do it in shifts and at night they will both sleep in the nest.
In a period of 13-15 days the first chicks will start to hatch. You will hear how they make sounds asking for food from their parents. It is important that you do not miss the breeding supplement at this point and that you continue without touching them, it is normal for there to be faeces in the nest, but you should not clean them.
Mandarin diamond growth
When they are 6 years old, it is advisable to put rings on them, although many servants prefer not to do so as they can hurt the birds' legs. So this is up to you.
The days will pass and you will see that the mandarin diamond chicks started to grow, the feathers will start to come out, they will spend more time in each dose, etc.
If one of the chicks is expelled from the nest, it may be because it is a weak or sick chick that the parents do not want to feed. In this case you can start doing it yourself with a syringe or let nature take its natural course.
Separation
if you go feed a mandarin diamond, in order for this one to become your faithful friend, you will have to separate him from his parents after 20 or 25 days. It is still a baby and for this reason, for at least another 15 or 20 days, you should feed it as your parents would:
- Whistle and he will answer you when he is hungry
- Introduce the food little by little down your throat with a small syringe.
- Touch the throat and you'll see it's full
If you don't do it properly, your little mandarins could die, so be constant.
If they are, it wasn't your option, leave it with your parents until 35 or 40 days of age. At this point the mandarin diamond should already have a black peak and be practically developed.
Separate them from the parents once these 35 or 40 days have passed, if not, the male will start chasing them because he might want to start a new breeding.
Location of new birds
We recommend that separate the mandarin diamonds by sex, since this way you will avoid conflicts, jealousy and consanguinity (they may try to reproduce between family members). You can look for a cage that is 1 meter long and 70 wide so that each group of birds is comfortable and has space to fly. If, on the contrary, you want them all to be together, you should look for a collective cage.
Remember that the basic elements for the Mandarin Diamond Cage are:
- shell sand in the ground
- Wooden branches and sticks
- fresh and clean water
- Seeds, fruits and vegetables
- Siba bone or calcium
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