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Quaker Parrots killed their 4 babies.?

Posted on May 22, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

My birds had 5 eggs and 4 had hatched about 1-2 days altogether. We were going to let them take care of their babies naturally, so we didn’t take out the eggs but we gave them food to feed the babies once they hatched. The 5th never hatched, so I have it set up with the light and everything if it does. Well, they had their 4 babies alive and about 1 or 2 days later, I saw them dead in their little cube box. They have a big enough cage and pretty much had everything made. I want to know what made the birds kill their babies.
Also, if they do have more eggs later on, we will take the eggs out once layed to prevent the killings again, but we are not planning to let them mate anytime soon. <<Just to let the bird breeders know so you all wouldn't get mad.

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What could my cockatiel need?

Posted on May 13, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

I have 2 cockatiels and they are a bonded pair. They had babies and all of them hatched and are doing great. It’s been about a week and a half since they hatched. The parents are great at raising them and have raised babies before (they were given to me since the owner of them got babies from them and didn’t want to keep the adults anymore)
They are not friendly birds and especially not since they had the babies. They will however screech to me if they need or want something. Example – if I don’t give them fresh water right away and sleep in or whatever, they let me know about it. Or if they are wanting some millet, they will screech until I give them some more. I change their food and water daily, made sure everything is clean, cleaned the nest box and put fresh paper towels down so the babies are kept clean, and for some reason the adults are screeching and carrying on all day today. They have been really quiet since they laid the eggs and today has been the first day I heard them really acting crazy. I’ve been keeping the curtains closed and only letting some light come in because they haven’t been so active…i know when I keep the curtain open before they laid eggs the female would screech and be active the whole time. I’ve done everything and they are both running about screeching. The male is usually the quiet one except for his pretty whistles and he does the cat call. I walk back into the room and they start running around back and forth on the bottom of the cage attacking their cuttle bone (they knock it down and only eat it on the bottom of the cage for some reason). There is plenty left and its clean…i dont know what they could want , but all this screeching I’m surprised the babies aren’t scared lol. Anyone have any ideas? Or is this just normal?
blank, i read somewhere to make sure to take the shells out and clean every other day in the nest box so bacteria doesn’t build up. I haven’t cleaned every other day in there, but I do check every day to make sure it’s not filthy. This has not been the first time I cleaned inside. But I had to, because they had went poo all over the place and the paper towels were wet and nasty. Birds really do use the bathroom ALOT! lol!

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why wont my budgies wont enter there nest-box?

Posted on May 13, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

i put the nest-box outside there cage (had to cut some bars from cage) and its been there for about 3 months and my budgies wont enter it, nor will they get even close to it, what can i do so that they wont be scared of it, the female has layed an egg before on the cage floor but it broke, is there an alternative i can use instead of a nest box?? they are both 2yrs old, and i want them to have babies, but unless they enter the nest-box this will never happen, ive been reading a lot of articles on the web, and all say to use nest-box, any suggestion or websites?? the birds have been mating a lot lately, but they will just refuse to go in or close to there box
yes it has a whole for them to get in it, and its also clean, its brand new, this is the one im using http://www.petco.com/product/6183/PETCO-Parakeet-Nest-Box.aspx
yes they are both male and female, one has blur cere and other has brown cere, yes everything is correct on the nestbox, and i feed them diff foods, they are just really scared of the box, they have never approached it, not even by putting a millet spray, it does have a perch also the nestbox

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Male and Female Parakeets!?

Posted on May 12, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

I have had a male parakeet for 8 years now, and I recently got a new one last winter. I put them in their own cages because I thought after so long the male wouldn’t like having a new bird in his space. But I didn’t know that it was a girl! I thought it was taking a long time for the cere to change to blue, and when they finally got to interacting together yesterday, they started to ‘kiss’ each other and she put her tail up in the air and his pupils got really tiny! I tried to take him away but he hopped off of my finger back to her! Eventually he let me put him back in the cage. I can’t deal with any babies but I feel bad to separate them. I think they are bonded already now! I have never had more than one bird at a time. I would like to let them be together but I want to be pretty sure they won’t have babies. I read to not give or let them make a nest box….Had anyone had personal experience with this and what did you do? Also, I noticed that the female eats everything- the cuddle bone is almost gone in a few weeks, the grainy perch covers are eaten up, and she even eats the wood perch…I gave her the mineral block and she just pooped on it. Is there anything special I need to do for female parakeets? Thanks.

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Hand feeding baby Cockatiel or parents feeding?

Posted on May 11, 2012 by admin| 5 Comments

I had purchased a breeding pair of tiels from someone recently. Apparently they gave them a few chicks and are very good parents when it comes raising the babies. I have put them in a separate room with little traffic and noise and plenty of sunshine etc.. I put in a nesting box and yesterday I saw them mating.
I was wondering when the eggs are hatched, do I have to hand feed the babies for them to be tame or could I let them take care of the babies and they end up just as tame as long as I keep interacting with them daily. The birds are friendly, but not as friendly as I would like….I understand they are still getting use to me and I am offering millet spray as a peace offering to them daily in hopes they get use to my hand. I had read somewhere though that its rare to have a friendly ‘pet’ bird and a breeding bird. It’s either one or the other. If I could have tame babies without hand feeding that would be great. (if its possible)
Thanks :)
Good suggestions guys. I will let the parents take care of the babies and just keep interacting with them daily. The babies health is most important as well as the parents! Hand tame or not, they are still lovely to watch and my boy even whistles pretty boy :)

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I found three baby birds on my lawn that got blew out of there nest,please help!?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by admin| 6 Comments

Tonight we had a huge wind storm, I went outside to clean things up and found three baby birds on the lawn.The nest is to far up in the pine tree to even reach it with a latter. I have the babies in a box in the garage in a towel.Please help I’m not sure exactly what to do?

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my dog is out of control he wont just sit down he is extra hyper for no reason?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

we have a mixed pit and rott it is around one and he is outta control we had him since he was a puppy he was a runt so i dont know if that has something to do with it but he doesnt learn shit he always jumps on people and us he playfully bites people nobody can play b/c he jumps on them he wants all the attention and he is greedy he sits in front of your face and drools he doesnt understand no stop sit go nothing he is hardheaded he is crazy i take him out every mornin and he jumps around and bites the leash drags me around to chase the birds he licks babies ears he’ll take your food off the counter and eat it once a while and he can eat all day and night he sleeps inthe bed with us but he takes most of the room you cant give attention to anyone with out himgettin jealous there is nothin gi can possibly do i dont have money for a trainer and swatting him on the nose with paper doesnt work i do the most for him (bathe feed take him out ) and he doesn’t even listen to me. he just looks
i know dogs have to run around but i cant he will run away and make you chase him for hours.and there are too many stray dogs out he hasent had dog fights or anything. he also likes to be under my boyfriend alot i cant be around him like touchin or anything. also he hasent had sex yet so he could be going crazy over that one day i brung my 10 month old son home from his grand mothers house and the dog was cryin to get next to him he stared at him all night and sat by his crib wit his peepee hangin out is there any thing i can do i dont wanna turn around and see my dog humpin my child oh yeah one last thing he eats anthing garbage mold whatever he is nasty but he breaks my screens in my window to ge t outside if someone we know walks by the window he has to get air but he cant keep breakin my stuff can any one help with this unruly dog
we have spent countless hours days with him trying to teach hi to sit stop he doesnt learn!!!!!! i do not back down hen trying to tame him i am persistant it’s just his brain is made of air. the only time he listens is for food and then after a while he’s like whatever. my boyfriend doenst want to get him nuetered cuz he’s like dont cut off his balls. he is the only reason y we have thedog its our first dog and we dont wanna give him away cuz my nephew loves himand so do we . i just need some pointers. most of yous who answer my questions have no feelin so wheni say that we dont have money for a trainer dont b smart please.

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