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Buffon's
Macaw Babies
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9/02/07
- These are our 2 newest baby Buffons macaws.
The first one hatched on 7/22/07, & the 2nd one on 7/25/07. They were parent raised the first 3-1/2 weeks, then pulled from the nest box on 8/14/07 to finish hand-rearing. They are huge babies, weighing in at 1345 grams at 42 days old, and 1220 grams at 39 days old this morning on empty before their first feeding. Both of the babies are DNAed males, & both have now been adopted. |
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The
2 pix below, were taken inside the brooder on 8/19/07. The baby Buffon's
Macaws weighed 910 grams at 28 days old, and 740 grams at 25 days old
before their first feeding.
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Buffon's Macaws develope slower than most large macaws
and take 4 months or more to wean.
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