or cold i have put another baby lovebird in with it to show it how to eat bird seed and to help it keep warm .how do i tell if its sick and what materials can i put in the nesting box to keep it warm? please help
im not sure if its drinking water either i think it is because ive had it since saturday and it only started looking sick this morning
i’ve had a male and female budgie for over a year. Who i feel are clearly bonded because they always feed each other, preen, and the male is always singing to the female. Lately they have been flying around the cage more and when i play budgie sounds ( don’t want to get more budgies to encourage them) the male sings and gets excited. The male has been rubbing his head and beak to his favorite perch and the female as been knawing on it. I’ve been feeding them enriched bird seed with vegies mixed in. As well as fresh fruits, vegies, and crushed egg and of course a cuttle bone. I have a nesting box lightly dusted with aspen shaving as well as some aspen shavings in a container by a perch to encourage the female to put it in the box. I also have some baby bird hand feeding formula just in case. They are in my bathroom where they get a lot of light and the lest amount of interaction from us, my cat, and dogs as they will ever be able to get. I did have to move them there so i don’t know it that will of caused them stress and made them not breed is so how long until they do? I’ve done EVERYTHING to get them to breed and i’ve been trying for a week now. I’m not sure if they are “in season” I tried to get some pics but i couldn’t figure out how to get them up. So the male’s cere is a deep deep blue, while the females cere is crusty and darkish brown with white around the nostrils. I know that when the females cere is deep brown they are ready to breed but my female is also albino so that might change how it looks.
So i need to know if they are ready to breed and if what i’m doing is correct to help them breed. If there is anything else i can do to encourage them to breed it would help SO much!
PLEASE NO nonsense answers i’ve gone all over the interent and i really need some info. I know that they will breed in their own time but i want it to be as soon as possible. Thanks to those who answer!
They get plenty of noise in the bathroom because they are right by a window and can hear the birds outside.
Her cere has had white by the nostrils for about a week what does this mean? It doesn’t seem to be getting whiter but her entire cere is darker than it was a few weeks ago. PLEASE HELP i need info!
Yes i’m positve they are male and female and i’ve had them for over a year the males stipes on his head are gone.
Yes i’m positve they are male and female and i’ve had them for over a year the males stipes on his head are gone. Sorry this is so long but there is a lot to it!
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we love emily, M as I call her. what is good food to feed her, i just dont think regular bird seed is apitizing… anyone with pigeons, or experience please let me know. I live in puerto rico and the stores I found don’t cater to pigeons… she is a sweet bird and is free to leave anytime she likes… she chooses to stay, so I do my best with my animals to keep them happy… ciao, Eric
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Tagged animals, bird seed, good food, pigeon, pigeons, puerto rico, sweet bird
Late this afternoon when my husband came home he pointed out two baby birds on our patio, just sitting there and helpless. There’s a large tree nearby which we believe they must have fallen out of, or were pushed out of, from their nest. I couldn’t bear to leave them there for a rattlesnake to eat them or some other predator. I filled a shoebox with tissues and paper towels (using gloves the entire time so I wouldn’t leave a human scent, in hopes their mama would come back and get them) sat them against each other for warmth and comfort (I’m sure they’re scared) and placed the box on top of our BBQ so hopefully a snake can’t get to them easily. So far they haven’t made a sound but they are still alive. I don’t know what type of birds they are but they are about 6 inches long and still babies. They’ve got to be hungry and very thirsty by now. What can I do to save their lives? Is there anything I can do? Will nature just have to take it’s course? As an animal lover this is killing me! Please give me some useful advice! Please! Is there anyway I can make them drink water? Too early for bird seed? How long can they live without food & water? I don’t know what else I can do for them, I did just place a towel over 3/4 of the box to try to keep them warm through the night. Will their mama come back to get them? If they don’t cry how will she find them? I know, a lot of questions but this is important to me.
Edit: To Wacky, The Wildlife Warden. There was no possible way to put these two poor birds back on a tree branch, this tree is so huge that the limbs are extremely high and well beyond my reach. These 2 poor babies landed very far away from the tree and will NOT make a sound. How is their mama supposed to find them at least 16 feet or more from the tree? Instead they were facing being eaten by snakes, which we happen to have crawling on our porch on a regular basis. I couldn’t bear the thought of that. If they must pass I would prefer it to be under better terms, together, warm, and not being eaten by a rattler!
As for the answer from (I don’t know?) who suggested I break their necks or use a hammer? Come on over and jump off this tree yourself! Then let me do the same to you. Or once your leg is broken I’ll leave you for the rattlers.
Both baby birds are still alive, thankfully! One was able to fly the very next day and the other is still not able to fly but seems to be getting stronger every day. It’s finally flapping its wings and eating insects. I’m not sure if it will ever make it but I hope so, I’ll put it back in the box to be safe for tonight, maybe by tomorrow it will be able to handle being 100% on it’s own. If not, then nature will have to sadly take its course. I’ve fallen in love with these two beautiful babies.
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Tagged afternoon, animal lover, babies, baby, baby birds, BBQ, bird seed, birds, fast, gloves, home, human scent, husband, Mama, nest, paper towels, patio, predator, rattlesnake, shoebox, snake, tissues, tree, type of birds, warmth
well there are cedar-waxwings nesting in a white pine and i am wondering if i can feed them bird seed?
She had laid a total of 6 eggs. Two of the eggs she laid in her food dish and she destroyed them. The four remaining eggs she did lay in the nesting box. The first egg hatched New Years Eve and the chick died two days later. Two more eggs have hatched and the chicks are doing wonderful. The Daddy bird is taking care of mom and feeding her, but she is looking a little thin. There is cuddle bone, mineral block, millet, dried fruits plus the bird seed in the cage. Is there anything else I should be supplementing her with? She is 4 years old and this is her first clutch. She is in a cage with the daddy bird and another male. The other male is even feeding the mommy bird and mommy does not mind if he sits on the perch that is on the nesting box. There was another female in the cage but once the mommy and daddy bird started to mate, the other female kept attacking the mommy bird. I had to take her out and put her in a cage by herself.
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Tagged bird seed, bone mineral, chick, chicks, clutch, dried fruits, egg, eggs, food dish, mommy and daddy, new years eve, Parakeet, taking care of mom
I just got a rooster
