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Bird Experts! Help Please?

Posted on April 15, 2012 by admin| 5 Comments

So, In my Garage my dad found a box with a little bird nest in it. With some white down feathers, twigs, and some trash. The diameter of the HOLE of the Nest was, eh, about 8cm. The nest itself, about Diameter 14cm. And in a different box nearby there were 3 little eggs. They are whiteish Pink, with reddish brown speckles on it. They have a length of 1.4cm. and with of 1.1cm. Tiny. I researched a bit and found out it was probably a House Wren, who’s eggs and Nest it was. I live in The north west. And I’m pretty sure the nest and Eggs are abandoned. There was a cat who lived in the garage, and Who knows what happened.
So I was wondering, We have an incubator, and If anyone knew what the humidity should be, temperature, and how long to incubate them for! Or I we should even try to hatch them at all.
Oh and what the babies eat? And information you would need to know to raise these birds until they’re good enough to go in the open. We raised Turkeys before(: Thanks so much If you have any helpful information!

Pics!

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I had to move a nest full of baby Robins. Will the mom find them?

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

A mother Robin was very smart and built her nest inside our outside grill. It is all enclosed except for a for 3 inch vent hole on the top cover, which is where she entered into her nest. The problem is, My dad is big into cooking steaks out on the grill and so we had to move the nest. I put the nest in a box and cut out an entrance for the mom. It snowed here yesterday (May 8th) which is very uncommon, but I wanted to keep them as warm as possible. Will she be able to find the new nest? It’s on the deck right next to our grill, but I have not seen the Mom come back yet? I read that it is a myth that if you touch a bird nest the mom won’t come back.
Are you people for real?? You are going to come on here and give me a hard time about killing birds? I went on many sites and NONE said moving the nest would end up killing the birds. I was simply asking to see if anyone else had done this.

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I have two adult Double Yellow head amazons to breed, can I mount my nest box OUTSIDE the cage ?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

My cage is not real big (3x5x5) so I don’t want to clutter the inside of the cage with a huge nest box. I’d like to make a hole in the bars so I can mount the box outside and have the birds access it from the hole in the cage, but I don’t know if the birds will find it foreign and not enter the box. Any info would be appreciated.
Joe

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Should I put Comfy material in my nest boxes?

Posted on March 26, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

I have 5 Nest boxes in my garden (4 hole, 1 open fronted)

I was wondering if I should put materials in the boxes for the birds to roost and
should I take it out in the breeding season?

Thanks ;D

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I touched my baby lovebird and placed him back inside the nest box, did i do the right thing?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by admin| 5 Comments

My love birds have 2 baby birds. Today one of the babies climbed out of the nest box. The parents went all jungle crazy on the babies ass. The dad started biting the baby on the neck and while it was climbing inside the cage, he started biting his feet, I guess he wanted the baby to fall off or something. The dad was being a real “dick” towards him, I left them alone and i returned 5 mins later to find the baby lovebird still on the bottom of the cage, while the dad and mom were screaming. The baby looks very healthy, he was walking very well and about a day ago he climbed out of the nest box and managed to climb back inside all by himself. but this time, he was not hanging near the hole of the nest box, so i opened the cage and gently grabbed the baby. As i held him in my hands, i was amazed at how beautiful and gentle the baby was, he was very comfortable in my hands. Anyway, i noticed the parents poking their heads out of the hole watching me. so eventually, i placed the baby near the hole of the box and he climbed in. now the parents are outside and i am afraid i messed things up. Is this normal, will the parents still feed that baby??

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is a heath nesting box a real nesting box?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

i have two adult parakeets ready to breed but i have a nesting box that looks more like a bird feeder and deosnt have an entrance hole and the company is heath.

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Will my cockatiel eggs hatch?

Posted on February 20, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

2 out of my 3 cockatiels started laying eggs. I have 2 females and a male. One of the females is alone, and the two others are together (they are brother and sister). I wasn’t expecting the eggs to hatch, but the brother and sister managed to knock one of the eggs out of their nesting box. (It’s not a real nesting box, it’s just a cardboard box with a hole in the front.) When I was looking at it I held it up to the sunlight (very briefly of course, so I didn’t get a really good look at it) and I could see something in it. It was almost as big as the egg but not quite. It looked pink from what I could see. Could this have been a baby bird? Or was it just an unfertilized yolk? They laid the eggs around late April or early May. I am not sure about the brother and sisters eggs, but I know that the female bird that is alone eggs won’t hatch because the male hasn’t been anywhere near those eggs. I just didn’t want to take the eggs away because they seem to like sitting on them and I didn’t want them to lay more. I know how much calcium it takes from their little bodies. They eat special food with calcium vitamins in it. If they are going to hatch, when will they hatch?

~Thanks~

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