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EMRERGENCY HELP for pet bird owners that breed needed! How can I repair a cracked egg?

This is the first time my cockatiels have laid eggs. The first one was on the cage floor but I may have saved it by putting it in a nest box with bird nesting within 24 hrs. However, that’s not my biggest concern. One of the 6 eggs has a small crack that goes lengthwise. It is probably a half an inch if even. I hear colorless nail polish works but I only have colored polish! Anything else that may work???? I don’t have a car right now to get to the drugstore. I’m afraid time is running out. Also, the parents are EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE AND PROTECTIVE. Even the normally sweet female, bit me very hard and it’s bleeding profusely. By the way, should I see a doctor? I’m up to date on tetnus. I’d really like these eggs to hatch! I’ve been researching a lot and have 4 books on ‘tiels but none list anything but the nail polish. PLEASE HELP!!!! One more thing for fun, the male is a white faced pied and the female is a white face with just a dab of grey on one wing, what (Cont’d)
might the babies look like? And if I sell the babies (provided they make it), how much should I ask? And should I try hand raising maybe atleast one or two of them so they are more people friendly? THANKS FOR ALL ADVICE! HOPEFULLY, YOU HAVE SAVED A FUTURE LITTLE ‘TIEL! BY THE WAY, AREN’T BABY ‘TIELS ADORABLE AROUND 4 weeks old when they just start to get feathers? Cute, in that funny looking way like a bulldog puppy???
might the babies look like? And if I sell the babies (provided they make it), how much should I ask? And should I try hand raising maybe atleast one or two of them so they are more people friendly? THANKS FOR ALL ADVICE! HOPEFULLY, YOU HAVE SAVED A FUTURE LITTLE ‘TIEL! BY THE WAY, AREN’T BABY ‘TIELS ADORABLE AROUND 4 weeks old when they just start to get feathers? Cute, in that funny looking way like a bulldog puppy???

One Budgie Or Two?

I’m buying my first bird this Christmas (a budgie), so I have plenty of time to prepare. However, I’m a little confused. Should I purchase one or a pair? My new budgie book says just one is an “incomplete bird” and needs a friend to thrive. Is this true, or will they just ignore me? Will I still be able to tame them both? Also, will a male and female still breed if I don’t give them a nest box? I’m so confused!!

My Female American Budgie(parakeet) Has laid an egg. Now what?

Ok, I have been trying to Breed my budgies for quite some time, and I just recently caged the two I am trying to breed together with a nest box. They have been spending a lot of time in the nest box together and yesterday my female laid her first egg.
In all I have 5 birds. Alexander Flury(Alex for short) a Lutino ‘Teil. Lilly my nesting female green budgie. Baby, Lilly’s Mate. Kitten My lone female Budgie. And Sweety, My Ash variety Ring Necked Dove. They are free flight except for the dove as she is older. And the Nesting pair I have kept caged to Prevent an egg cracking inside Lilly and getting infected.
I have hand raised birds before(Rehabilatating wild American Robin chicks) And I have a *VERY* good Avain vet. I have been bird keeping for many years and this is the first time my birds have bred. Anybody have any advise for me?
Maybe I didn’t make it all that clear. I have the basics covered, Cuttle bone, egg food, dried greens, millet etc. Im just looking for misc advice. I have read up already and I suppose Im just making sure I didn’t forget anything important. I have a humidifier running to help the laying and hatching processs. Im keeping the room warm.

Can you feed a dove a different breed of bird food?

I work in a preschool and we have a dove as a new pet in our classroom. Do you need to feed it dove food or will other breeds of bird food work just as well (i.e. – finch, cockatiel, etc.). There are other breeds of birds in different classrooms, but I just wanted to make sure that this was safe to do for the health of the bird…I know dogs, but am a newbie with our feathered friends! THANK YOU!!

PLEASE HELPASAP – just found baby bird can you help identify!?

I went outside at 10 min ago and on the front lawn was a little baby bird! just sitting there like it was chilling haha. i find babys all the time but never this breed…i need to know what it is so i can help it accordingly!
heres a link i found with the pictures of the same bird someone else found.

http://www.wanderingthought.com/2009/06/yellow-beak-baby-bird.html

i live in AUSTRALIA and i do know it is a NATIVE aussie bird –
i called it Grimace cause its huge yellow grin :P

ive raised baby budgies all my life and looked after many wild birds but not this one!!!!
i WILL be taking it to a carer today but they arent open for another 2 hours…ive got him in my old nesting box with sheddings andi chucked some woolen bedding pads around him so hes nice and warm and in dark. but hes next to me chirping away so please advice asap!!!
oh also…i will NOT be returning him where he came from…i have always in the past and the mothers come back =) but Grimace (lol) was in the middle of the lawn and there are no trees around it till about 10m out (and they are pines) so not nesting trees…plus my 3 cats are outside…no idea how he got there!
sigh.i hate when people DONT READ THE QUESTION!
dude its a practically unfeathered bird in the middle of a lawn with a street full of cats. i waited 20min and no bird came by. there were NO trees around. and the ones that were, i checked over and over and NOTHING
i hate people like you! anyway im driving it to a rehabilitation centre now so you can shove that up ya lskjdfl!
sorry but people like you make me mad.

my baby budgies have fledged so i have took out the nest box so the parents dont breed agein?

i have a pair of budgies in my bird room that have bred now the chicks are 4 weeks old and last night 1 chick came out the box but my mum putt it back in so today the other chick came out the box so i took the other out and blocked out the nest box as i don’t wont them to breed Again until they have rested the chicks are fully feathered and are doing ok i have put in a budgie bath so they can hide in there (i have not put water in) so they are sitting in there now and i think that they are eating as i have seen one of them eating seed so do you think ive done the rite thing and will they be ok now

can and should i transfer a baby budgie chic?

ok so i breed budgies i have been for about 2 years now i have an out door cage and it had 3 budgie pairs in it, some idiot opened the cage and let one of my male budgies out when that happened i took out the female so she wouldn’t harm the other nesting pairs young, then i found 2 massacred budgie babies about a week later so i took out the other pair and put the remaining hen back in the out door cage with the breeding pair, then today i went and checked all the birds i looked in the nesting box and the female that has the 1 remaining baby and there was blood spread all over the nesting box and on the baby budgie and all over the mothers face, so should i and can i transfer a baby chic??