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Kiwi breeding facility expansion - 19 August 2010
2010/2011 Season begins - 19 August 2010
End of 2009/2010 season - 4 May 2010
Almost there - 24 February 2010
Facebook - 17 November 2009
GSK Chicks hatch - 9 November 2009
100th Okarito chick - 9 November 2009
2009/10 kiw season begins - 5 October 2009
First chicks hatch - 5 October 2009
The big clean up - 15 July 2009
A successful 2008/09 breeding season - 21 May 2009
Paparoa GSK chick - 18 February 2009
Kiwi's hatched - 18 February 2009
New Tuatara - 18 February 2009
Kiwi breeding statistics - 12 December 2008
Princess Anne visits - 3 December 2008
08/09 kiwi eggs - 24 September 2008
2008/09 Breeding season starts - 29 July 2008
Final kiwi breeding numbers for 2007/08 - 9 June 2008
Hannah the GSK wild chick - 9 June 2008
Great Spotted Kiwi eggs - 18 February 2008
Numbers of kiwi eggs and chicks - 30 November 2007
2007 Breeding season begins - 21 August 2007
First N.I. Brown kiwi egg 2007 - 5 July 2007
Tui - 18 April 2007
Lemurs - 29 March 2007
Banded Rail - 29 March 2007
Otago Skinks - 29 March 2007
Tuatara - 29 March 2007
predator free island - 28 February 2007
kiwi breeding season 2006 - 14 February 2007
Education Programmes Open - 12 February 2007
Okarito release - 21 December 2006
Baby Joey's arrive - 14 December 2006
Current Okarito numbers - 14 December 2006
Haast Kiwis - 8 December 2006
North Island Brown Kiwis - 7 December 2006
Okarito chicks released - 16 November 2006
Haast Tokoeka Chick hatches - 2 October 2006
Second Okarito Kiwi egg hatches - 14 September 2006
First Okarito kiwi chick hatches - 9 September 2006
First North Island Brown Kiwi hatching - 6 September 2006
South Island Great Spotted Kiwi together - 18 August 2006
North Island Brown Kiwi Release - 4 August 2006
Enderby Island rabbits born - 24 July 2006
Arrival of Saxon - male Great Spotted Kiwi - 17 July 2006

A successful 2008/09 breeding season

Issue Date: 21 May 2009

This season has once again shown that through the dedication of DoC staff and those in the Kiwi Breeding centre we are achieving wonderful results with the number of eggs being brought in as well as a 98% hatch rate. Apart from the eggs brought to our facility we have also had a number of wild chicks brought in. Should the eggs be inaccessable for retrieval they are then monitored and once the chick has hatched and begins to leave the burrow they are then caught and brought to us to prevent predation. These chicks are then called wild chicks. Wild chicks are kept in a seperate area to those that have hatched at our facility in case they carry diseases. The breeding season is roughly from July through to March. The statistics for the past two years are as follows:-

2007/08 Season
Kiwi Species                    Eggs hatched                       Wild chicks
Okarito (Rowi)                          18                                            11
Haast Tokoeka                         19                                             0
Great Spotted                             3                                              1

2008/09 Season
Kiwi Species                     Eggs hatched                         Wild chicks
Okarito (Rowi)                           41                                             7
Haast Tokoeka                           8                                              8
Great Spotted                            13                                             0


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