Bindi and Cappy are our very successful breeding pair. They lay an average of 2-4 eggs per year (not as consistent in Florida as they need a cold winter followed by a distinct spring to breed) and hatch adorable babies. I leave those with the parents until they are about to fledge, and I remove them then individually as there usually is at least 1-2 days age difference. I will handle them daily while in the nest, but there is no replacement for what the parents feed them and how they teach them in those early days. I then tame them (which happens literally overnight) and I start spoon feeding them. Because they have no association to me in regards to their food source and their emotional needs, they are and stay very balanced, healthy birds who will tame and talk without the dependency of parrots who constantly need human attention.