How long to leave babies with parents

[Crazy4lories]

Hi Guys, hoping that my rainbow and red collar have babies, I will hand raise myself but have had and found varying advice on, if at all, how long to leave them with their parents. I like the idea from the initial hatching for all parties concerned. Any advice on this would be appreciated, has any one seen what these two produce? do you recommend a brooder per chick? cheers, Ian.

 

[Crazy4lories]

Great, thanks for the advice, just wanted to know if anyone who's already bred their lorikeets leave the chicks with the parents for any length of time, maybe a couple of weeks? maybe just a few days? maybe not at all. Can anyone give me an option, anything would be better than nothing. Is it such a stupid question it doesn't warrant a reply of any sort? Am after ANY info on raising these guys.......

 

[thekarens]

I think it's probably more of the fact that there may not be any Lory breeders here on the board.

I know nothing about breeding lories. I have lineolated parakeet chicks, but I'm letting the parents raise them.

 

[Kiwibird]

You have a perfectly valid question, but I agree with thekarens that there probably aren't any lori breeders on here. In fact, I can only think of a couple members who own loris, and none of them have breeding pairs that I'm aware of.

I will say, given the fact they they are softbills and the significant differences in diet from hookbill parrots, I would imagine the rearing of loris babies is quite a bit different from rearing hook bill parrot chicks. I did find a couple articles that may be of help though:

http://www.lorywebsite.com/About_Us.html
Breeding & Caring for Lorikeets - Hunter Valley Avicultural Society
HANDREARING GUIDE FOR THE BEGINNER

I do wish you the best of luck with your pair and the babies.