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Breeding Data

Fischer's are very prolific producers and very good parents.

They are always eager to breed if the materials are available.

I use palm leaves and the husks from sweetcorn for nesting material.

The average clutch is four to six and hatching around 23 days.

Fischer's fledge quickly for lovebirds as early as 5 to 6 weeks.

This lovebird offers hardiness and reliability to the beginner.

 

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AGAPORNIS FISCHERI 

This species was discovered in 1887 by Dr Fischer in North Western Tanzania, south of Lake Victoria. The sexes are similar in appearance, basically green, with light green on the underparts. The forehead, cheeks and throat are bright orange, merging into yellowish orange on the breast and nape of the neck. The rump is violet and there are blue, orange, and black markings on the tail. The beak is red, the feet and legs gray. The irises are brown and there is a white eyering. This species is fairly common in captivity, breeds readily, and a number of colour mutations have been developed.

The LUTINO is my passion, and I take great pleasure in breeding these little birds. The bird itself is a beautiful pure yellow colour with white flights. It has red eyes with a white eye ring, red beak and a fabulous full reddish/orange mask. The rump of the lutino fischer consists mostly of white feathers.         

My method of producing good healthy lutino  fischer's takes a bit of time and effort but the results are fantastic in the end. I believe that extra attention should be paid to the quality of the parent birds when attempting to breed these ino birds.  I use a red eye to a pure normal (green) first up, you get your own splits (green/ino) then you put split back to green. Then you pair split to split and finally red eye to split. I run several pairs up for this to get different bloodlines and always still breed pure normals with no mutations whatsoever in them. That way we have strong bloodlines to begin with and stronger genes. You can still produce lutinos by missing a couple of these steps and going straight from 1 to 4 (lutino paired to split). Alot of people do this because in steps 2 & 3 pure normals (green) are produced and telling the difference between normal and split is impossible due to the fact both birds visually look the same "GREEN".  I never put two red eyes together for breeding, reason being Inos  have a lethal gene. It causes weak young and death in most cases and for me a lesson never to be repeated. Keep clear of pairing birds that are closely related for this is another recipe for feeble youngsters.  Remember though that in Fischer's the Ino is an Autosomal Recessive mutation which is  Non Sexed Link  (NSL). This means that it doesn't matter what sex the Ino parent is.