Princess Parrot Chicks... Finally!!!

I have been keeping Princess Parrots for some time now but never had any luck with breeding them until now. Probably due to my terrible luck with females losing two since the purchase of my original pair but this year my young female has produced four chicks!

When she first started to lay she broke her first egg. I took this to mean that she was inexperienced and would probably produce next year, like I have experienced with other pairs of parrots in their first season. However she laid four more eggs and although I wasn't expecting much she hatched them all.

I think I was trying too hard with the Princess Parrots trying different types of boxes and giving multiple options. I had spoken to a couple of breeders and they said they just use a standard medium sized box. So this year I offered a medium sized parrot nesting box with non toxic wood shavings as the nesting material.