Sulphur and moluccan hybrid

[Peanut]

Saw 2 of these babies today and they are gorgeous! Anybody own one? Would love to see pics of them as adults. Went to look at a macaw but those babies sure could change my mind.

 

[allison]

Wow, never seen that kind of hybrid before.

 

[allison]

A quick search found this Triton/Molluccan hybrid at the cockatoo sanctuary.
http://www.cockatoorescue.org/index_files/image45221.jpg

 

[drop]

Here are some pictures of Nikolai, a Moluccan/Triton Hybrid.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamooj/3733728241/in/set-72157600160879944/

 

[Bokkapooh]

Some of the hybrid cockatoos are pretty and even neat looking. But I personally would not recommend a cockatoo hybrid. Most hybrid cockatoos have a "bad" attitude, and hybrid 'too seem to pick up the "worst" traits from both parents. Most people cannot live with a regular 'too, a hybrid is twice as much as a regular 'too.

 

[Anne & Gang]

they are gorgeous but I am with Mercedez on this one, I cannot imagine why ...especially a moluccan...

 

[jmfleish]

Some of the hybrid cockatoos are pretty and even neat looking. But I personally would not recommend a cockatoo hybrid. Most hybrid cockatoos have a "bad" attitude, and hybrid 'too seem to pick up the "worst" traits from both parents. Most people cannot live with a regular 'too, a hybrid is twice as much as a regular 'too.

I will disagree here. Hybrids are hybrids, regardless of the family and you may end up with a better mix or a worse mix. I think it's just more acceptable to hybridize the Macaws. I fell head over heels in love with a Citron/Bare Eyed cross a long while back and they supposedly make a good hybrid. It's definitely going to be more of an individual bird thing than anything else.

 

[4Z Birds]

Designer cockatoos? Why?

Sorry, I don't support breeding hybrids.

 

[nellysmom]

WHY??? there are so many "regular" TOOs and other parrots that need homes and now they are doing this? Unbelievable!!! Especially since TOOs are the most relinquished birds. Stupid people.

 

[4Z Birds]

WHY??? there are so many "regular" TOOs and other parrots that need homes and now they are doing this? Unbelievable!!! Especially since TOOs are the most relinquished birds. Stupid people.

From a rescue point of view, it seems unconscienable to breed hybrid cockatoos for profit. Hybrid or not, the statistics on rehoming will hold true. In a few years, when these adorable babies feel a surge of hormones and test their owners, they will be back on the market or in rescue.

The hybrids are beautiful. All cockatoo babies are creatures that I look at in awe; however, what's more magnificent than a Moluccan cockatoo in full display? Why do we, as man, want to tamper with a species? It tells of man's conceit.

Excuse me as I slink off of my soapbox...

 

[MoluccanZoey]

I would have to imagine the triton/moluccan as the loudest bird on earth, lol. Have you ever heard either/or going off? WOW! Its pretty impressive.

 

[Bokkapooh]

I will disagree here. Hybrids are hybrids, regardless of the family and you may end up with a better mix or a worse mix. I think it's just more acceptable to hybridize the Macaws. I fell head over heels in love with a Citron/Bare Eyed cross a long while back and they supposedly make a good hybrid. It's definitely going to be more of an individual bird thing than anything else.

Im just looking at the behavioral aspect of it.

A regular cockatoo is a hard bird to keep for even the more advanced parrot people.

When you hybrid 2 different species of cockatoos, its going to be hard to understand the behavior of the hybrid bird vs a normal purebred.

Take Mollucan cockatoos. They are unique in how they display, how they show they are hormonal, and everything about them is unique. Then breed them to another cockatoo species that is unique in its displays and how is shows its typical behavior, and you create a bird that is not "predictable". You read both info on the M2s and the SC2s, and both of these species are sooo different. It is nothing like breeding two different macaw species.

Its also not like hybriding two sulfur crested cockatoos that are of the the same species but different subspecies.\

Even if you bred the M2 with a U2 (which creates a Mobrella), both the U2 and the M2 are so different in personality, that its hard to read and understand the hybrid bird.

Now we have to look at each individual bird, and train and raise it accordingly to its personality, as no two birds are the same. But nonetheless, its harder to understand and handle a hybrid cockatoo.

Cockatoos are already classified as "WARNING" birds even for experienced parrot people, why make a bird that has a harder chance at adapting to a human house-hold because its so hard to understand and read?

I have never been around a M2/T2 hybrid. But I have been around Mobrellas and G2/U2 hybrids and BE2/G2 and U2/BE2 hybrids. And they are very different than their purebred relatives. I love them no matter what, but it can be tricky to read and understand a hybrid cockatoo.

JME.

 

[Grey Poizon]

I shudder at the thought of the noise a triton/moluccan would make. My ears ring just thinking about it