Okay, she brought the SAME chick back after I used your advice to let it go, this is 10 hours after I let it go. It’s now bleeding, it’s leg looks crippled etc. I’m going to try and feed it, but I’m really asking for help here, thanks!
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my cocktails (male and female) lay ed off 4 eggs like 4 weeks ago. they were very protective with the eggs all time. when the first egg hatched they took care of the chick very well, they were feeding it and protecting it every time i wanted to see it. Then they threw out an egg from the nesting box, ok so i thought they figured it out it was death already. So the next days when I tried to see the chick and if a cocktail was out of the nesting box he would go into it quickly they were very protective. Today when I got home i went to see if the other 2 eggs were hatching, but I didn’t hear the chick any more so I saw the nesting box empty and the cocktails were out in the cage and didn’t care any more about me looking at their eggs they were both eating, they never did that only one could go out and then return to take care of the eggs. So I saw the the nesting box and i couldn’t see the chick so i opened the cage and the nesting box. Nothing was there only an egg, so I search the chick everywhere, until I saw it, it was death and incomplete in the nesting box, and now i dont know what to do with the pair of cocktails, they ate and killed their chick, threw an eeg out and left another one there by itself. I don’t like them any more how come they do that. now they don’t care about the egg either. Please someone help me!!!!! i need help from someone that knows about birds. why they did that? they are like screaming like never before help!!!
ok, my bird is almost 5 months old, and shes laying eggs, and i dont know if they are fertile because she is in a cage with her dad and her.. other sibling. well i put them in a bowl with some nesting materials because i dont have anything else to put them in. in another cage i have a (lutino) hen and a cock in a nesting box and then one chick out of the 6 eggs that hatched. (the other 5 were duds). so im wondering if i should take the eggs from the one cage and put it with the lutino hen and her chick. the lution’s chick is about 18 days old, and the the first egg was lain 16 days ago.
and i have another question. in this third cage i have a hen that is on her second set of eggs this year. i didnt think that she would lay anymore (thats why i put the lutino and the male in the box) because she wasn’t in the cage with her mate, but i did see her doing it with this other male one time (which i didnt think would happen….) right now i have them in the best thing i could find that is close to a nesting box. shes in a popcorn box that has the top opened, and its on its side, on the bottom of the cage, but its really short and she cant really stand up on it. so would it be better just to put a bowl in there wit nesting things or no nesting things?
oh, thats alot. please help me.
the one that was 5 months old ate her egg. SHE ATE IT. or something. it was all gone and there were little white flecks on the bottom of the thing…
I don’t know what to do anymore…I have four chicks and the parents take good care of them. The problem is that the male bird plucks the tail feathers of only one of the chicks…I would have tried to separate them but the father is the only one who feeds the chick. This chick is diffrent from the others…he is all white…What should I do? How can I stop the plucking? The chicks are a month old. And the parents are zebra finches the CFW type.
The male is only plucking this chick and only at its tail.
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Tagged Bird, care, chick, chicks, diffrent, father, finch, finches, male bird, parents, problem, Tail, tail feathers, White, zebra, zebra finch, zebra finches
Hello, my pair’s third clutch was finally successful. But only one chick made it outta the egg.
so anyway, it is healthy. and the pair is breeding again
i freaked out that the hen would die (it happened to my previous bird,, laid too much eggs.it bcam very weak and died), so i shifted the 2 birds and the one chick to a normal cage without a nest box (hoping that they would stop mating).. the chick can sit properly on the perch and move around.
Is this okay?? will the parents feed the chick??? it is not weaned yet. otherwise i wouldn’t have a problem. it has been 3 hours since i moved them and the chick has not been fed yet. or should i keep the mother and the chick in the breeding cage and move the dad to the normal cage?
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
I have been breeding cockatiels for more than 10 years. Most of my birds are pied, or cinnamon. I have had more than 100 babies born in the last 10 years, and I have only had pied, cinnamon, cinnamon-pied, or normal grey babies born. This morning I checked on my newest clutch, and I was very surprised to find a little all white red eyed chick in the nest box. I have been searching everywhere about cockatiel genetics, and I can’t really find anything about why this little baby was born. Could this be a true albino, or have my birds been hiding some lutino genes? This is the fist clutch from this particular pair; the mom is cinnamon pied and the dad is pearl. This is the first pearl I have ever owned, so I don’t know if they normally produce lutino chicks. What do you think?
Posted in Bird Nest Boxes
Tagged 10 years, Albino, babies, birds, breeding cockatiels, chick, chicks, Cinnamon, clutch, Cockatiel, cockatiel genetics, dad, fist, genes, little baby, lutino, mom, Morning, nest box, pearl, Red, True, true albino
