Natural breeding of hand- raised birds?

[Bellicosus]

Hi people. I have a female hand raised IEO. I decided to feed her up a while back. 2 days ago she laid an egg and as expected she was very aggressive when i went in to clear the egg. From, what I've heard, hand- raised birds don't work out for natural breeding. Since i don't have a male, i had to get rid of the egg as it was obviously infertile.

Is natural breeding a no-no for all kinds of hand- raised BOP or just for particular species?

[BHawk]

there is no rule for the birds, it depends on the bird! it has been known to re-imprint a bird back to birds for natural breeding (i think it was a lugger, andrew greenwood wrote about it in 1980) also some species will still breed even though imprinted, the most common to do this is the eeo, i have seen silly tame eeo's still copulate and breed succesfully. again there is no rule, it just depends on the bird you have!

[Java Falconer]

I guess, it is worth trying to set up a breeding program for your IEO mate!

Who knows, you could have babies next time :supz:

[Bellicosus]

Hmm, maybe i can give it a shot. Would need to give it serious thought first...

[Bellicosus]

Would be nice to hear from those who have had breeding sucesses with paired- up imprinted birds...

[Jackson]

i know of two pairs of imprinted owls that have bred succesfully. at preent we are handrearing one of theiryoung. so it can be done but not sure of the difficulties etc. if i find out ay tips ill post them up for you!!

[Bellicosus]

Thanks Jackson. What species of owls?