GENERAL NEWS - Brinsea collaborate with one of America's top parrot breeders

Parallel but independent lines of inquiry have led to close collaboration between Brinsea's Florida facility and Voren's Aviaries in Loxahatchee. Howard Voren, also founder and director of the Voren Research Institute for Psittacultural Science, has been breeding a vast variety of parrot species for more than 25 years and is recognized as a world authority on Amazon parrots and Ara Macaws.

Having used many of the different brands of incubator available, Howard has been developing his own novel technique over the past seven years, which successfully imitates the natural incubation environment more closely than commercially available machines. His approach, which has not been published, has many features in common with a project initiated by Brinsea more than 20 years ago and which has remained dormant following some early disappointments.

Since Frank Pearce of Brinsea, and Howard first met in July 1997 and realized the possibilities of pooling their complimentary expertise, prototype incubators are undergoing tests at Voren Aviaries in the hope that a radical new product can be developed to meet the needs of conservationists and breeders of exotic and wild birds.

The work goes on! Howard Voren is the principal author of 'Parrots: Hand-Feeding and Nursery Management' and author of numerous papers published in BirdTalk and other magazines. For more details see www.voren.com

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