The egg
It will start again soon. Breeders watch nervously in their flights, then catch a male, then another female, and just check: are the birds healthy, and are they starting to become sexually mature? I think we all know this. In this article I don't want to talk about the preparation, but about the egg itself. Many problems already occur with the egg, so we will go into that in more detail.
When the birds are sexually mature, i.e.:
- be 10 months old,
- be in good health, have clear eyes and a clean, shiny plumage,
- the man shows swollen testicles, with a slightly sunken abdomen,
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