I have had my budgie Sammi for about 3 years and our neighbors just moved and gave us their bird Coco. Sammi is the female and Coco is the male he is about the same age. I have a nice big cage lots of toys and they love the bottom of the cage filled with the bedding you use for hamsters. I don’t really want to put a nest box in there. I just caught them mating and was wondering if she will lay her eggs without a nest box.
i tried using food, i tried placing her egg in there and put her in there as well as the father. each bird just panics and runs out. they dont even look at it to explore it. she layed an egg on the floor. sat on it fo r2 days and now just left it there. i tried using a tupperware top with bedding and placed the egg in there but still no attempt to revisit the egg. the egg is a fertile one.
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Tagged bedding, Bird, box, Cockatiels, dont, egg, father, floor, Food, nest, nest box, panics, r2, tupperware
I’m very worried on how I should go about caring for my baby parakeets when they hatch, the hen is currently nesting her eggs, however in the past she’s laid a batch (1 hatched and died after a single day). I want to avoid the same thing from happening again, and I don’t have the heart to break the eggs like others who don’t want to go through the trouble do. The problem starts when the babies are first born. (about the first week or so) the mother doesn’t really know what to do when the babies hatch, and she just continues to sit there paying no attention to the baby at all. While I’m afraid to touch it since when they first hatch they seem so frail and soft, and I’m not sure if I should. I’ve bought a Nesting box for my hen, some bedding, and baby formula with a Syringe to begin the feeding, such as that I’ve seen on youtube. However I don’t think it’s possible to start feeding the baby birds 1-3 days out of the egg since their mouths are so small. What do birds eat when their 1-6 days old? When should I start hand feeding the birds? Should I take the hen out of the nest after the eggs hatch? How long should it be until I stop hand feeding the babies and introduce them to seeds? If there’s anybody out there who is an expert on baby Parakeets i plea to you, PLEASE help me!!
I’m very worried on how I should go about caring for my baby parakeets when they hatch, the hen is currently nesting her eggs, however in the past she’s laid a batch (1 hatched and died after a single day). I want to avoid the same thing from happening again, and I don’t have the heart to break the eggs like others who don’t want to go through the trouble do. The problem starts when the babies are first born. (about the first week or so) the mother doesn’t really know what to do when the babies hatch, and she just continues to sit there paying no attention to the baby at all. While I’m afraid to touch it since when they first hatch they seem so frail and soft, and I’m not sure if I should. I’ve bought a Nesting box for my hen, some bedding, and baby formula with a Syringe to begin the feeding, such as that I’ve seen on youtube. However I don’t think it’s possible to start feeding the baby birds 1-3 days out of the egg since their mouths are so small. What do birds eat when their 1-6 days old? When should I start hand feeding the birds? Should I take the hen out of the nest after the eggs hatch? How long should it be until I stop hand feeding the babies and introduce them to seeds? If there’s anybody out there who is an expert on baby Parakeets i plea to you, PLEASE help me!!
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Tagged babies, baby birds, baby formula, bedding, egg, eggs, heart, mouths, Parakeets, plea, seeds, single day, syringe, YouTube
I’m very worried on how I should go about caring for my baby parakeets when they hatch, the hen is currently nesting her eggs, however in the past she’s laid a batch (1 hatched and died after a single day). I want to avoid the same thing from happening again, and I don’t have the heart to break the eggs like others who don’t want to go through the trouble do. The problem starts when the babies are first born. (about the first week or so) the mother doesn’t really know what to do when the babies hatch, and she just continues to sit there paying no attention to the baby at all. While I’m afraid to touch it since when they first hatch they seem so frail and soft, and I’m not sure if I should. I’ve bought a Nesting box for my hen, some bedding, and baby formula with a Syringe to begin the feeding, such as that I’ve seen on youtube. However I don’t think it’s possible to start feeding the baby birds 1-3 days out of the egg since their mouths are so small. What do birds eat when their 1-6 days old? When should I start hand feeding the birds? Should I take the hen out of the nest after the eggs hatch? How long should it be until I stop hand feeding the babies and introduce them to seeds? If there’s anybody out there who is an expert on baby Parakeets i plea to you, PLEASE help me!!
I bought some pine bedding to put in my parakeets nest box.but then i started hearing that it can cause respitory problems in rodents, so is it harmful to parakeets too?
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Tagged bedding, birds, box, litter, nest, nest box, Parakeets, pine, pine bedding, respitory, respitory problems, rodents
my pet rat, when i picked him up today, he has been sneezing ever since i got him, which is about 1.8 days, and untill now, i looked at his nose, it looks like blood, but he never gets into fights or even playfights with his brother, from what i understand, they are about 2 or more years, more being 2.2 years old, and thier cage was constantly neglected by the 10 year old who owned him, the previous owner wasnt too intellegent with her pets, nice and all, but just didnt know alot about them, i think her bird died because it loved chocolate too much, they havent been to the vet yet, so if anyone knows a good vet in the US, ontario, california aeria and how much it might cots to get them looked at, PLEASE REPLY. i just cleaned out thier cage, and its a 10gal fish tank with a wierd mashed cardbord like bedding, mostly like recycled paper, and it has a ramp that leads to a cage above, i havent had time to get to the pet store, something came up, so i had to feed them hamster food. help.
also, is it safe to give them un-sweetend cherios, the plain brand to a pet rat? how many is safe?
thank you, ill take him to a vet, ill to some research now, see if i can find exotic pet vet, i dont care howmuch it costs, alsong as its a reasonable price, i think bobby’s vet does small animals.
also, he squirms when i try to pick him up, its soo sad hes old, the lady only wanted $25, and that in its own pays for the cage, and the rats, but i had to lie, we were really low on gas, and didnt have enough to get home. anyone know whare i can go about actuall hand handeling the rats, they might be too old for it, ill pickout the sunflower seeds and go first thing in the morning to get the food
