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(Nestor notabilis) Husbandry Manual - Kea Conservation Trust

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4.7.4 Requirements of<br />

young<br />

4.7.5 Methods of<br />

controlling breeding<br />

4.7.6 Breeding<br />

recommendations<br />

have appropriate nesting<br />

areas and material<br />

(tunnels, nest box, straw<br />

etc) available to their kea.<br />

• All nesting material<br />

(straw) checked to<br />

exclude mould spores<br />

• Breeding seen to occur<br />

with recommended pairs<br />

only<br />

• Non–breeding pairs have<br />

any eggs produced<br />

replaced with dummy<br />

eggs.<br />

• Young are parent raised.<br />

• Hand-rearing to occur<br />

only under specification of<br />

species coordinator.<br />

• <strong>Kea</strong> held in single sex<br />

groups (male only unless<br />

under observation<br />

(records to be sighted)).<br />

• Non –breeding pairs to<br />

have eggs removed and<br />

replaced with dummy<br />

eggs.<br />

• Breeding pairs to have<br />

eggs surplus to breeding<br />

requirements removed<br />

and replaced with dummy<br />

eggs.<br />

Facilities breeding their kea must<br />

show the following information:<br />

• CMC current<br />

<strong>Kea</strong> <strong>Conservation</strong> <strong>Trust</strong> Final 25/11/2010

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