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So I am thinking it's my temperatures in my bird room. Not having any luck now that I have lowered my temps to 60. I have Green Cheeks and Painteds. Who keeps them at what temps???

Any input?

I'm not a breeder, nor do I own any Pyrrhura conures, but from my experience, when the temps are low 50's (at night) to high 60's/low 70's during the winter, my birds aren't hormonal. However, when the temps rise to the low 60's at night to the high 70's/80's during the day, the birds start going into breeding mode. I'm not a breeder so I don't encourage them to reproduce, but regardless of that, I prefer my birds being on a cycle, so they aren't revved up and ready to breed year round. They also follow the day and night schedule, so in the winter they get around 14 hours of night, while in the summer they get around 9 hours (of course, depending on where you live this varies).


So with all that said, I doubt this post was very helpful...

Hi:

I breed greencheek conures and have not found them to be overly touchy in regards to temperature. This winter their bird
room heater was set at 65 and it varied between about 62-65. All pairs went to nest and produced young. Now it is set at 70 and
I just pulled 8 chicks from 2 pair and another pair is laying. I also had a pair lay this summer when it was 85 in the bird room with no problems. I feed lots of veggies/fruits/sprouted grains/soak and cook every day so I think this diet keeps them conditioned. Lights were set to go on at 7:30 am and off at 8:30pm in the winter and now are on at 7:30am and off at 10:00pm.

What was your temp in the bird room before you changed to 60 and what made you change? If it was a drastic change then that might have been a problem.

I lowered temps because right now, the bird room is in the house. And it was getting too warm, I think we have a problem with the thermostat! Light is on at 7am and off around 9pm.

We are in the process of turning the garage into the aviary. Which would be temperature controlled and with lighting on timers.

That sounds like a good idea. Our birdroom is actually a room in the garage that we built and is temperature controlled w/heat in winter and a/c in summer. Your lighting sounds right too. Did you get any babies at all this year?? Or did they just slow down from what is normal? I have a pair that are very prolific but they took a year off and then went twice in a row. So sometimes I think they just take a "break."

well, it looks like they may be starting to go. Getting some quiet days, and a little more "aggressive" behavior from the hens. They will hardly let me change water and food, sooooooooooo, looks like we just may have had a late start!