Agapornis babies

So we had this Agapornis. We like to give our birds the possibility to fly around our living room. We thought it would be nice to buy the bird a pal, a friend. This turned out to make it a couple (with these birds it is hard to tell whether they are male or female).

Before we knew it, one started typical behaviour of trying to collect nesting material. Which means they'll try to find stems from plants and flowers to rip them apart into fibers. So after some plants were demolished before we knew what was going on, we basically stopped buying new plants. After that, the female turned to ripping paper. It's funny to see they put the material between their feathers to transport it to their nest, often loosing most of what they collected.

Getting nesting material from magazines

So you want to clean the cage and find this surprise...

Couple of weeks old ... checking out the world outside the cage

They like coconuts as a nest ... father and child

A moment of rest, chilling on an electrical wire near the ceiling

Just a second after daddy showed you can eat a cookie from this hand 

A warm cave ;-)

The whole family checking out the bananas

Sliding down, commando style...

Napping at a nice comfy warm laptop

2 babies enjoying each others company

So i found this blog with lots of info about Agapornis nesting and young. If you ever wonder at what age you could sell/buy a baby Agapornis, how to handle a nest etc: read it! Interesting is that in that article, they say you can take the young babies in your hands for a short while every some days; i emailed them, as our Agapornis attacks us when we get close: we need protective gear :-). Turns out their parent Agapornis flies away when they approach it. Their explanation: if your Agapornis has learned not to fear hands before it started nesting, it probably also feels o.k. attacking hands while having eggs and raising young.

Other observations:

• our agapornis love our salt lamp and seem to bite stuff off it
• our agapornis seem to eat soil (from a pot from a plant they ripped apart)
• our agapornis love biting of parts of an ornament i think is made of gypsum (although we offer them grit)

(Dutch/Nederlands) Overweeg je een jonge Agapornis te kopen? Of heb je zelf jonge Agapornissen en ben je benieuwd hoe je daar mee om moet gaan? Lees dan zeker dit blog .