Colony Breeding

Colony Breeding

• Colony breeding is when you have more than 1 breeding pair in an aviary, with nest boxes.

When I started breeding budgies I colony breed for the first 12 months.
I found that the hens would fight over the best nest boxes and would often eat or kill any eggs and babies inside.
I also found that young birds were breeding themselves to deat.

• Colony breeding Advantages

• I honestly cannot think of any advantages with colony breeding.

If you can think of some please email me and I will put them up.

• Colony Breeding Disadvantages 
  
• You cannot tell who the parents are, A hen could have mated with countless male birds before laying eggs. Fights happen for the highest nest boxes Jealous hens will kill chicks and eggs out of other hens nestsYoung birds will breed. The results of young birds breeding can be: Feather plucking, killing chicks, egg binding and many more.