Two year old birds in immature plumage will attempt to breed, but are not usually successful until in their third or fourth year.
In the Lutino, the pink neck ring is retained but the black moustache markings of the wild type are replaced by white.
In cocks of the blue variety, the pink ring of the wild type is replaced by white. However adult plumage is not attained until the third year, though some cocks may show slight traces of the black and pink at a year old. Germinated and soaked seed helps to encourage breeding condition and encourages the feeding of young, but great care must be taken to see that it is only given fresh and contains no harmful moulds or infections.Īdults are easily sexed as the black and pink neck ring of cocks is absent in hens. Bread and milk is usually appreciated, or canary rearing food, especially when young are in the nest. Also wild picked greenfood such as chickweed, seeding grass, dandelion (flowers, roots and leaves), shepherds-purse, sow-thistle and so on. Their basic diet consists of the usual parakeet seed mixture (sunflower, safflower, canary mixture, various millets including spray, and 50/50 budgie mix), and a small amount of fruit and vegetables such as apple, carrot, pear, orange, sweetcorn, peas, grapes and celery. They can easily chew their way through 19g wire so their flight should be covered in 16g welded mesh woodwork comes in for unwelcome attention and needs to be protected with thin metal if bare areas of aviary framework are accessible to the birds. Ringnecks look their best in a large aviary with at least a 20ft flight, but will stay in good condition and go to nest in one measuring only 8ft long. These parakeets are known to be susceptible to frost bitten toes apart from this, they are recognised as a hardy long lived species. From semi-desert to woodland, and country villages to large cities
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