Show raising birds in captivity Capt vity the first attempts to produce a so nestle supply of parrots and cockatoos cocka toos were made with incubators this was unsuccessful the eggs hatched but 1 the baby birds perished for lack of S mothers care in feeding them all young barda of the parrot family being fed from the parent birds crop like gl doves or pigeons efforts were made to feed the incubator hatched birds by hand but to raise a single parrot by this method almost required the ices of a special nurse setting pary rots and cockatoos cocka toos were then tried J and M ath greater success the nesting J room Is virtually an artificial bungle in which the temperature Is kept at s degrees F humidity Is main talked by numerous tiny spray pipes that discharge onto the annd floor upon which the birds make thelt nests john edwin hogg in popular mechanics magazine |