i have 1 male and three females he seems to have bonded to one of the females but it has been over a year and they have not had any babies they dont have nextbox..could that be it..i have heard of birds laying eggs regards wheter there is a nestbox or not… please help me and if i need a nest box how can i make one i want to make it not buy it… thank you
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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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Here’s the situation: I have two pigeons. I originally thought they were both females because they would lay eggs that would not hatch. Eventually, they laid a pair that hatched. I noticed that they weren’t sitting on one after a few days, and it was super cold, so i took it in and hand raised it. Unfortunately, the other one was not sat on during the night and died. I did not take it in with the other one because it felt very warm when i was checking the other one. ANYWAY, I started making a larger coop to house more pigeons, and they laid more eggs. My mother did not let me replace the eggs with false ones because she wanted nature to take its course :/ .The eggs recently hatched and so far the babies seem healthy. Today though, I noticed that the birds were not sitting on the eggs, they were sunning themselves, eating, and preening one another. I checked the babies to make sure they were ok, and they seemed fine, they were warm and looked healthy. In the afternoon, I saw one of the birds in the nest box with them, possibly feeding them ( i couldnt tell for sure) but later, they were both out of the box again. I’m going to check again now, but it’s getting late,and if the birds are still not sitting on the chicks, should i bring them in and hand rear? These birds have a history of negligent parenting…
I meant chicks where it says eggs.
I have two pairs of budgies in cages side by side, with a nest box in each of them. Both females laid no fewer than seven eggs. The first pair seem to be doing fine and getting the hang of feeding and protecting their young, and five of their babies have already hatched. The male is as crazy about the female as when they were mating, and she seems to relish the attention and care.
The second pair mated with mutual enthusiasm and the female seemed very willing and receptive. The male was very supportive to her and even helped set on the eggs. They now have four baby birds that have hatched. However, since the babies have started to hatch, it seems that the female has turned on the male. I watched him a couple of times with the babies, and I did not detect that he was too rough or anything; in fact, he would seek out their mouths to feed them. He has been very faithful in trying to feed his hen and their young. However, I have witnessed on probably several dozen occasions now how the female tries to keep him out of the box, or if he does get in, they seem to quarrel. I saw him “scolding” her a few times inside the box when she tried pecking him out, and he managed to hold his own at least for the time being. More often than not, though, all of a sudden I’ll hear “quarreling” followed by an angry screech and he exits that nest box like he’s been shot from a cannon. I can only surmise that she is giving him some nasty pecks.
I am concerned that he will get seriously hurt and that I should remove him for his own protection. But then, where does that leave the babies? I don’t want the babies to suffer for his absence. I’ve even wondered if I should remove the hen and let him care for the babies. It’s like all of a sudden mama bird can’t stand daddy bird, who seems very sweet and caring. Any constructive advice on this issue will be very welcome. Thanks in advance!
By plus others i mean other things.. Im playing a favorite song and suddenly i hear flapping so i look at my birds (he has a girlfriend but they’ve never mated) and hes sitting on his wood perch (its a dangeling twisted branch that reachs the bottom of the cage) and he was makeing his wings flap like crazy but not flying.. he cant fly (wings clipped). then directly after he started kissing the female (parakeet kisses lol) and then he went to the regular perch behind the perch the females on (2 perchs) and started bobbing his head and jumping back and forth kissing the female then back to his regular perch and it was weird and now hes biteing the wood perch… hes never done it before.. i type this while im watching them so yeah now hes regurgitating again :l whats he doing… and they do have a nest box
idk if i put this in the question but hse never done it before
idk if i put this in the question but hse never done it before
idk if i put this in the question but hes never done it before
idk if i put this in the question but hes never done it before
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I have 7 bird 3 males and 4 females, I have them in this huge aviary and i would like to breed them, but i only have one nest box. How can i make my own nest boxes for them. I was thinking of taking some balloons, and paper mashaying them, then cuttingg a hole on one side, then painting them, and then hang them up, but i dont know if that is a good idea. If you got any ideas please tell me. If not…… Do you know any where i can get them cheap.
After I got home from school today, I went in my room to say hi to my birds and I noticed there was a egg in one of the food bowls. I’ve noticed Violet (the budgie who laid the egg) has been in the food bowl lately just laying in there. I thought she was just digging out the hulls, but she used it as her nesting place. I removed the egg and put it into a nest box. I put Violet and the nest box in a separate cage because all the other budgies were bugging her, all the females were extremely curious and all the males wanted to mate her. I checked the egg and it looks transparent, its unfertilized right? But I heard that removing eggs makes a female want to lay more and the thing I fear most is her getting egg binding. I read in a book when females lay more eggs it makes their life span shorter? I love my birds very much and I’m worried. The bird that mated with her is her SON! Will that effect the chicks? But too tell you the truth I don’t really want to go through having more baby budgies again. Violet had her first clutch in August 2006, and only 2/4 chicks survived (the dad accidentally cracked one of the eggs, one was infertile, one starved because Violet didn’t feed it, and somehow one broke its leg and died), I cried for both of the baby birds and the cracked egg and missed school. I’m in high school now and I can’t really afford to miss any more days of school. What should I do? I have Violet and her son (which is now her mate) in a separate cage with the nest box with the egg in it. She doesn’t spend much time with her egg, but when I hold the egg in a cup form, she uses my hand as a nesting spot and rolls her egg under her chest and lays on it in my hand. Please what should I do?!
but i thought removing eggs make her lay more?
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