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"Congratulations on your new "web site club" it is just what is needed, something
different
to other bird sites". BREEDING BENGALESE - TIPS for SUCCESS
(this was sent in by a Member to share with other members)
"The best way to breed Bengalese is in a cage
- minimum cage size is 18inchs x 12inchs wide x 15inchs high
- in one side you need to put a dish with a bird grit or oyster shell grit
a dish of foreign finch seed, a cuttlefish bone lodge between front cage wire
- put a cage front drinker on
- hang a nest box on the front of the cage with coconut fibre
- How to sex your Bengalese:
- Very simple - the Cockbirds "sing" and the hens don't!
- Once you have sexed a pair - you can put them in their cages
- Feed Egg food every day to help protein levels prior to producing Eggs
- Once they have laid eggs - just seed and water while hen is sitting
- Once Chicks hatch - give egg food x2 per day
- within 10 days you should see your first egg
- after 20 days you should have chicks
- at 17 day you can start ring them up to they come out of the nest
- this is for aviary birds
- For show birds
- ring at 17 days
- 6 weeks after they hatch you can take them away from their parents
as the hen will start laying again.
- Once you have removed the Chicks from parents continue Egg-food x2 p. day
- the parents can go back to getting Egg food once per day until they have a new clutch of chicks.
- If you want to show your Bengalese join your local club and show at your club show
- If you wont to show at N.B.F.A show then join the club and as a novice
- I would buy 3 pairs of self chocolate and 3 pairs of dilutes
- breed them and ring them with N.B.F.A rings and show your own breed birds as these colours are the easiest to make a mach pair for showing
Click here to go to Bengies Breeding Charts (print-out - using Landscape Setting on Printer)
Best Regards John (Bengalese Breeder and Exhibitor)
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