Macaws Australia

A Camelot Macaw is a hybrid, a cross between a Catalina Macaw and a Scarlet Macaw.

At Macaws Australia, we prioritize the well-being of our baby Yellow-dominant Camelot Macaws, and as such, we utilize a parent-started approach. This involves allowing the parents to raise the chicks in a nest box for a few weeks, where they can communicate with them, instead of starting life listening to the drone humming of an incubator.

Unlike parrots that are incubated, our parent-started chicks benefit from exposure to beneficial environmental bacteria and receive food regurgitated from their parents, which contains live enzymes and crop flora. From the moment they hatch, they begin cloacal drinking, which exposes the lymphocytes in the bursa of Fabricius to antigens, thereby creating B cells, a distinct line of defense in the acquired immune system. A nest provides a better environment for this natural process, instead of an artificial, sterile environment like that of an incubator.