by Pajarita » Sat May 22, 2021 9:05 am
Please do not breed. Breeding requires much more than putting a sexually mature male and female together. It requires A LOT of knowledge so you don't lose babies or deplete the parents to the point that they can't recover. You know so little, you asked here about the actual species of your birds...
Just to give you an idea: you need to wait until the second breeding season of the sexually mature birds because allowing a too young bird to breed is like allowing a 12 year old girl to have a baby (NOT good!). You need to keep them a strict solar schedule so their endocrine systems are healthy and in tune with the seasons or you produce off-season babies which are never as strong and healthy as babies produce in the right season. You need to 'condition' the birds for, at least, three months prior. You need to keep the right temperature and humidity in the room or you end up with DIS babies (Dead In Shell). You need to give the right food before and after the babies are born or the parents will allow a number of babies to die. You need to give the exact amount of calcium and D3 or you deplete the mother and produce weak babies (splayed legs, etc). You need to know about the species physiology, diseases, treatments, parasites, etc
Now, I am not trying to make you feel bad or criticize you but, if you had known everything that you need to know about breeding, all the babies would have survived and not only one. No bird lover would breed in such a way that babies die under his/her watch. And it's not true that this is something that happens to all breeders. I bred canaries for over 25 years and had zero infant mortality and a perfect male/female ratio. And I bet you the surviving baby is a male because birds that are bred under bad conditions only produce males as they are expendable when it comes to survival of the species.