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Hi Luka! Love your collage! Luka is a turquoise female, not a greywing male as you heard. Is she legbanded? How great to find a Linnie at a local petshop! Keep us posted on her progress ♥

How is it going? Getting head scritches that soon is a sign of great relationships brewing! For treats, yes on apple! Pomegranate sliced in a wedge really gives foraging fun instead of feeding just the seeds. Those are the only fruits I really feed besides the dehydrated ones in the feed mix...

That is a sf gw male. So, since both of the birds are turquoise series, and greywing.... you can't pair them for breeding. I would take down the nestbox, dna sex the df gw looking one, and if a hen... cage her alone, with another older hen, or rehome her. Looks like she has had a tough life...

Hi Charlie! When desiring to breed, knowing the sex of the pair is the first step. You mention that one is a greywing. Can you share a photo? Single Factor appearing Greywing can only be male. If the Greywing appears Double Factor, it can be either sex. Do you know the parentage of the bird? If...

You're welcome. I think going with a breeder you know is always preferable, but if this other breeder closed banded with 2021 hatch year, you can always DNA yourself if it is single Linnie you keep as a pet. I would ask why they won't do it. It is unusual they don't DNA any bird that isn't a sex...

The Lineolated Parakeet is hard to find for one reason... they are hard to breed! So, this means that females are very difficult to trigger hormones in for the most part. This makes a female Linnie unlikely to be a chronic layer. Cockatiels, budgies, lovebirds.... VERY prolific and difficult to...

Love that sticker on the cage too!

Cooked/Fresh/or Sprouted foods mimic the "wet/fertile season" in the wild and if fed in excess of 3x a week to a sexually mature female, it can get breeding hormones (egg laying) activated. Males also can be triggered, but usually just start some bratty nipping and/or masturbation which is less...

Oooh what a great picture! She is soooo pretty! 🥰

Discouraging Breeding Behaviors © Laura Fratoni – Eddie’s Aviary -reproduce only with permission please Have a Pet Linnie? Are you fearful your male pet may become aggressive towards you if he becomes hormonal, or have a hen you don’t want to lay eggs? Then this is the article for you...

General Feeding Information © Laura Fratoni – Eddie’s Aviary -reproduce only with permission please Feeding your Linnie is most of the fun of keeping them. What do we feed them to ensure they are getting what they need? Wild Lineolated Parakeet diets? One of the biggest challenges with...

Toys and Enrichment © Laura Fratoni – Eddie’s Aviary -reproduce only with permission please We love our birds. We want them as comfortable and happy in their homes as possible. It is the human’s responsibility to make sure our birds don’t suffer from boredom as it is a source of over preening...

Considerate Linnie Housing © Laura Fratoni – Eddie’s Aviary -reproduce only with permission please Domestically bred birds are raised and comfortable with being caged. All birds benefit from the largest enclosure possible, with width taking precedent over height. Out of cage time is a benefit...

Mutation Color ID Guide for Linnies © Eddie’s Aviary – reproduce only with permission please One of the exciting things about the Lineolated Parakeet are all the beautiful colors they come in! Identifying the mutations properly is the first step in choosing birds for breeding as some breeders...

About the Lineolated Parakeet © Laura Fratoni – Eddie’s Aviary -reproduce only with permission please Characteristics: The Lineolated Parakeet, lovingly nicknamed the “Linnie” is a small, compact parrot with a stocky frame and broad tail, weighing between 50 and 60 grams on average. In the...

Toe Defect Explained © Eddie’s Aviary - please do not reproduce without permission The cardinal rule when selecting breeding “stock” is to ensure that they are the finest quality available. Part of that selection process is to ensure that the birds used to pass their genes do not have any...

Genetic Basics © Eddie’s Aviary – reproduce only with permission please When considering breeding Linnies, learning how to identify the mutations properly, understanding basic genetics (click here for the post on Genetic Inheritance), and Proper Pairing Protocols should be your first step...

LINNIE GENETIC BASICS © Eddie’s Aviary – reproduce only with permission please Please check the sticky on Genetic Basics before reading this if new to genetics. That thread has simple definitions to the terms used here, and will really help you on your way. Once done with this document, check...