(Nestor notabilis) Husbandry Manual - Kea Conservation Trust
(Nestor notabilis) Husbandry Manual - Kea Conservation Trust
(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