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Palm
Cockatoos only lay one
egg at a time and our
2 breeding pairs have
excelled this season with
the Goliath Palms also
starting to breed for
the first time ever. This
is a first for SA in terms
of second generation Goliaths
that were originally hand
raised producing their
own chicks. I am busy
raising 18 chicks with
two more eggs in the incubator
so if all goes well we
should reach 20 babies
for the season which would
be our own best breeding
record for the species
in one season.
The Goliath
chicks have proved to
be quite different to
the normal Palms and not
only are they much larger
but they appear to have
must faster crop emptying
time and are also able
to handle much larger
volumes of food. Peak
weights on the first 5
chicks are well over 1000grams
per bird!
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