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Oh sure Jeff. When do I not have something to say......lol.
In a tropic situation there are times you can have problems with resp. systemif it's extremly humid. Size - nope hasn't ever had that effect. From the looks of Melissa's birds in TX I would say she hasn't experienced this either. Carol Buffington is in Phoenix, She can loose birds to heat as anyone that lives in a heated climate can do. Size adjustment. No - her birds have always been competitively big. Where your at, if I'm not mistaken, it gets really hot due to no breeze being further instate? Run electrolytes in the summer and do plenty of fresh water. You might run into a head soaker or two due to the extreme heat. If you can, when it's really hot provide them with a back n forth sprinkler to play in within shade. If you feed pellets instead of crumbles to adults the beards will fare better. Crumbles get into the beard too much from the additional water they drink in heat - it really destroys them. But they do grow back out after the next moult.
I remeber that being written in the Brit book. I din't quite understand it but certainly would not say it isn't so. Aussie land could be rougher? I read where they didn't do well towards the coast of Scotland either. Austrailia is so vast with differeing climates as well. I wonder if this has been seen in one particular region.
Henry, Great new addition. David, glad to hear from you. Cloverleaf, I can't count but 2 of mine as everything else is too young also. Dick - has anyone heard from Dick? Know he's been too quiet on here. -)
Young birds out all day so far. A hawk was here for a bit. They all hid appropriately and I wished him on his way.
Have Fun
peter
I have been emailing with Dick he is busy with work. Maybe he will get on this weekend. Glad your birds are doing well. Join the new site so you can post on the website!
Henry