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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:10 am    Post subject:

hi peeps
Many thanks for all your help Steptoe, Sandra, nibbles & pepper. Kura is now a much happier bird and I'm sure it's not just cos the mites have gone but its cos her diet is much better now. She gets tuna most days plus egg, boiled and scrambled on top of the fruit and veg that i give her every day, her plumage is returning to that golden yellow it was when I first got her. She is still quite timid so I've given up on the training regime, I'm just gonna let her do her own thing and hope that eventually she'll come around.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 8:04 pm    Post subject:

So glad to read that your little Kura is doing well with her protein additions. She sounds like a lovely girl. My kak "Nibbles" is very tame and friendly but he likes to do his own thing. The cage door is open all day + evening and he comes to me for attention when HE wants it. Kaks are just like that. My tiel "Pepper" would sit on me ALL day and begs for neck scratches at every possible moment. It's amazing how different their personalities are. But tiels are flock birds in the wild and spend all day in very large flocks, preening each other and being very social, whereas the kak is not a large flock bird and spends their day on the ground digging and foraging in a more solitary way. The social instinct is still deeply ingrained even after years of captive breeding.
Hope you and your Kura are well.
Sandra, Nibbles + Pepper.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 10:15 am    Post subject:

kakariki are a flock bird... in the wild would congregate in huge flocks, but at nesting time would pair off... but as chicks appear out of nesting boxes , single males move in to feed them.
Have a large aviary with 30 to 60 kakariki in with no nesting boxes.. definitely a flock bird.....and have aviaries spread around a large area, the communication between them over most other species is quite an eye opener.. even in breeding seasons.
u will find the social structure is an essential part of defence against predators also.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 4:29 pm    Post subject:

Thanks for the information. I appreciate learning more from the experts and people who raise them in outdoor aviaries vs single indoor pet. I had done a lot of reading and research on the breed before I purchased my guy and everything I had read led me to believe they were a more solitary bird. My breeder had described them as similar to our Canadian starling birds. They fly around in very large flocks throughout the day, covering the lawns and feeding on bugs in the grass and soil. However, you would never see starlings preening each other, showing any displays of affection, or feeding each other outside of courting rituals. Our starlings remind me of people in a large city, downtown (New York)....they are all there next to one another out of necessity, bumping into each other, not really paying attention to the other people around them, just doing their own solitary thing but in an oblivious group. LOL!!
Anyway, thanks for the clarification from someone who sees them in their natural habitat. I think that would be an amazing sight!
Take care Steptoe.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 4:59 pm    Post subject:

Yeah we have starlings here to...introduced.
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