LINEOLATE PARAKEET
Bolborynchus lineola
di Enzo Patanè
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- Italian: Parrocchetto barrato
Inglish: Lineolate Parakeet
- German: Katarinasittich
Between the representatives of the genus
Bolborynchus, without doubt, the most represented in the breedings
not only Italian but world-wide it is the lineola; original of
Mexico, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela are between all the Bolbos
sturdiest and adaptable and it is reproduced with greater facility.
The only sign of reliable dimorfism is that the last two feathers
of the tail in the male are nearly totally black and in the female
instead or is completely greens or introduces only the black tip.
The male in the complex has more shining colors and the crossing
blacker and better defined.
Lenght: 15-16 centimeters
Distribution: Messico, Panama, Colombia e Venezuela
Habitat: opened forest, savana with bushes and trees e
sub-tropical zones of Central America.
Natural diet: fruit and their seeds, berries e some time larvs.
Breeding in
nature: the period of breeding begins after the season of
rains, from December until the end of May in Central.America while
in Venezuela eand in Colombia the breeding season goes from May
to July; the nests are usually situate in dead trees.
Feedings: mixture
of seeds for small parakeets with least small sunflower and much
canary seeds; fruit and verdure (carrot, pear, apple, maize, etc.);
proteico patè for the raise of chicks. I put to disposition
of the breeders a patè self made in added seed bubbled
and fruits.Cuttle bone (or blocks of mineral), grit and fresh
water always to disposition.
Breeding in captivity:
By now very stabilizes in captivity, the birds born in captivity
breeding also in little cages from broods of 50 x 40 x 40 cm.
To avoid that the subjects fatten too much it's better to lodge
them in cages at least 70x 40x40, or to arrange them in a fly
cage, to outside of the breeding period.
The character of these parakeets is extraordinary,
does not come never stressed from the changes, but indeed in little
time they adapt to the situations more disparate. Tendentially
timids forgiveness soon every fear becoming confident with the
breeder.
Tendentially they are much sturdy but the
selection pushed from the man (above all in same blood) has carried
to little resistant subjects of small ransom and to the diseases.
We remember ourselves that the ideal ransom
of lineolateis 16 cm; smaller subjects are often little sturdy
and prolific.
They resist to minimal temperatures of
5°C, if they have the possibility to shelter itself in a nest
but they live better in little heats rooms during the winter.
The main reproduction begins in spring
but, if it lodges in a heats and very it illuminates in order
at least 14 hours the day room, they reproduce all the year.
They place from 4 to 6 eggs, intervals
between 24 and 48 hours and begin to incubate from to second egg.
Incubation 21 - 24 days; the chicks are
nourished in the nest, from the female feed from the male, for
four - six weeks and the youngster that exit from the nest are
normally independent after one week - ten days. It can succeed
to times that young and inexpert females dn not feed in good way
the chicks provoking the dead. It does not have but to deprive
of hope. Females that to the first year of reproduction often
have breeding problems at the second year will are excellent mothers.
Nest :
In figure is reproduced a nest box that
personally I use. The inner separation is fundamental for the
survive of the chicks. In fact, the fecis are much liquid and
they smear in little time the room nest.
At this time the chicks move in the remained
room free that still is cleaned up avoiding dangerous infections.
MUTATIONS OF COLOR Of the CROSSED PARAKEET
Exist many mutations of color of the crossed parakeet; all the
found mutations are recessive and nobody sex-tied.
MUTATIONS
OF COLOR OF LINEOLATE PARAKEET
Exist many mutations of color of the lineolate
parakeet; all the found mutations are recessive excluded the lutino
that is sex-linked.
SINGLE FACTOR MUTATIONS
BLUE
MUTAZION
The blue mutation is the firts born in Belgium at
the firts years '80 and, probably, it remains the more fascinating
and spectacular . The blue coloration differs between subjects
and goes from a soft blue until the blue sky.
LUTINO
MUTATION
Foto Steven Geeraert
The Lutino mutatin is much beautiful, the
only difficulty is to recognize the sex of birds being disappeared
all the black. The gradatios of yellow indicate the origin of
the subject. The subjects yellow-gilded come from olive spilt
lutino.
DARK
GREEN MUTATION
it's the first mutation found in the lineolate
and probably is due to one subspecies or betterr to an echo type.
The green is more intense and less luminous that in the ancestral.
GREEN
OLIVA MUTATION
DOUBLE FACTOR MUTATIONS
The subjects of lineolate parakeet at "double
factor" are birds that demand two geniuses of mutation color
in order to produce the color.
COBALT
MUTATION
Foto Steven Geeraert
It's the combination of the blue mutation
and dark green. The subjects are of a blue color much intense
called exactly cobalt.
MALVA
MUTATION
It's the combination of blue mutation and green
olive.
CREMINO
MUTATION
Foto Steven Geeraert
In the lineolate do not exist the mutation
albino in how much the subjects also losing all the melanine conserve
a sure charge of carotenoids. The result is a subject yellow clearly
with the red eyes.
