Pet Birds Farming

Pet Birds Farming
Farming is productivity oriented animal stewardship. The product from this investment and effort is what maintains the farm. Without production, the farm experiences numerous difficulties. Severe or continuous hardship will ultimately threaten the existence of the farm. Productivity, therefore, has the significant role of maintaining the life of the farm unit.

Aviary design
The closed aviary should have its own anatomy, similar to the birds that live within it. Each aviary, if it is to be conceptually closed, must have designated areas for quarantine, breeding, nursery, and isolation. Each designated area should have a distinct and separate location in the entire breeding operation. The attending veterinarian as well as the aviculturalist must have these areas well understood and properly conceptualized. It is the rules regarding traffic flow between these areas that allows for managerial control and improved preventative management efforts. Without these areas clearly understood, progressive management is at best difficult and sporadic.

Breeding aviary
The breeding aviary is the designated area where the adult breeding birds are housed and maintained. In the conceptually closed aviary, the breeding area is the area with the lowest human and bird traffic flow. Focus is maintained on productivity management within the breeding aviary, and reproductive success is generally the desired product.
The breeding aviary may be at a separate location, placed in a separate building, or located in a separate room within the house. Multiple designated breeding areas may be present or desirable within a single facility.

Isolation
Isolation is the designated area where birds that have already been admitted to the collection through quarantine or on-site hatching are housed if they become ill or no longer meet the criteria that were required for admission to the breeding aviary or nursery. Adult birds from the breeding facility and chicks from the nursery should each have a separate isolation area. The isolation area includes the 'hospital' area by definition.
Adult birds or chicks that have been transferred to their respective isolation areas are deemed fit to return to the breeding aviary or nursery by meeting uniform entry requirements. This type of protocol allows for protection of the uniformity of the breeding collection, as well as protection from potential introduction of infectious disease.

Nursery
The nursery is the location where the young are hand fed and raised. These young represent the productivity of the breeding aviary as well as the primary desired product of the breeding facility. Young antiracial birds such as macaws are environmentally and immunologically more vulnerable to lapses in management protocol and infectious disease. As such, attention to detail in nursery management tech unique and traffic flow control is important to minimize stress and reduce the risk of infectious disease introduction and transmission within the nursery.Any breeding facility that does not have a clearly designated nursery area cannot hope to protect its young from infectious disease and outside stressors. Increased mortality and decreased productivity from the nursery is usually experienced in nurseries with poor conceptually closed design or nursery management techniques

Summary
The closed aviary concept offers both the aviculturalist and the veterinarian an foundation to build on. In a conceptually closed facility, there is consistently adequate thought applied towards traffic control. Therefore, risk of infectious disease as well as other disruptive factors should be significantly reduced. Standardized medical and aviculture knowledge about breeder populations within the closed facility allows for more potential success in population management protocols. The specific management protocols recommended and structural design of each component of the closed aviary will vary significantly between facilities depending on the numerous outside variables. Consistent application of closed facility concepts, however, should always remain constant.

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