Red Factor Sun Conures Sunkiss, Pyro, and Sanchez

Pyro

Pyro

Sunkiss (front)

Pyro and Sunkiss making shadow puppets! :)

Sunkiss and Pyro's backs

Sanchez

Sanchez was hatched three days before my daughter was born. Enjoy the pictures of this little one. It looks a little different because it is going through a molt and still quite young. In a couple years this youngster will look like Sunkiss and Pyro!

_ Red Factor Sun Conures _

Red Factor sun conures, Pyro above and Sunkiss below, have just been let out of their cage this week after setting on eggs. They look more red than ever. 8-6-2010

Red factor Sun Conure on eggs #3

Sunkiss is on eggs again! She laid her 1st one Sunday June 27, 2010. She typically will lay one every 3 days until there are 3 eggs. Guess we will see what happens this time :)

The picture is from just minutes before Sunkiss laid. Pictured is Sunkiss on the left, Pyro on the right, and my 3 month old Amira.

I will candle the eggs in a week or so.

WARNING 'Doubles' -- Up Date

Pyro,

To the right, is standing guard at the entrance of the nestbox where Sunkiss is incubating their 3 eggs. He is still quite friendly and nice as long as Sunkiss is in the box, when she comes out he becomes very protective of her. He spends much of the day taking food into her while she's in the box making little whimpers :). Their 1st egg should hatch on Father's Day, how exciting!

As for the WARNING*CAUTION

-Single Factor sun conures crossed with Single Factor sun conures have the ability to produce Double Factor sun conures. These Double Factor Sun Conures have a reddish-bronze color covering much of their bodies. Cool right? Not exactly quite yet, it has been discovered that Double Factor babies do not live much past weaning, just several weeks old they die without a known cause. Necropsies have been done on such babies, but all they could come up with is that it is a cumulative gene, possibly too many red factors breeding. Currently we are trying to find the root cause and possibly a solution that could help save these babies.

The chance of a Single Factor sun conure pair producing a Double Factor sun conure is 1 out 4 chicks.

Please think about it before trying to breed two Single Factor sun conures.

Red Factor Sun Conure Eggs

Sunkiss and Pyro are up to 3 eggs!

The 1st egg was laid May 28, 2nd egg May 31, and the 3rd egg June 3rd.

Sunkiss eating like she's starving