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can i change my baby cockatiels’ pine shavings?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

i have a male and female cockatiels, they have babies for about 2 weeks now. the babies have been inside the nestbox ever since and i occasionally let them out and handle them (without their mom and dad knowing anything). the problem is, the babies have been pooping inside the nest box and their poop is accumulating inside so the nestbox really has a stinky smell and i want to change the pine shaving for hygiene of both the babies and my home. is that ok or would the parents abandon the kids if they noticed that the pine shavings have been changed? i don’t want that to happen because i don’t want to hand-feed the little birds. thank u

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can i change my baby cockatiels’ pine shavings?

Posted on May 12, 2011 by admin| Leave a comment

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Tagged anything, babies, baby, baby cockatiels, box, dad, hygiene, little birds, mom, mom and dad, nest, nest box, nestbox, parents, pine shavings, poop, problem, stinky, stinky smell

what do you feed a wild baby bird that needs to be handfed?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by admin| 13 Comments

I found a baby bird that needs to be handfed by my house. The mom and dad,brothers and sisters were eaten by the cat down the street.It’s a starling

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Tagged baby, baby bird, Bird, brothers and sisters, cat, dad, house, mom, mom and dad, starling, street

My Cockatiels mostly eat seeds.When their 5 eggs hatch will that be okay for the babies?Can I touch the eggs?

Posted on April 7, 2011 by admin| 4 Comments

My female didn’t lay her eggs in the nesting box, she did so on the bottom of the cage. Both mom and dad are attending to the eggs. When I got the birds a year ago (already a year old) they were only eating seeds. I got them to eat now a little dandelions leaves and spinach leaves and sometimes a little bran cereal. Will this be suffitiant for the baby birds. Also can I touch the eggs? Will the birds still sit on them If I touch them. And when the eggs hatch will I be able to handle them.

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Tagged babies, baby birds, bottom, box, bran, bran cereal, cage, cereal, Cockatiels, dad, dandelions, eggs, hatch, leaves, mom, mom and dad, seeds, spinach, year

Small bird fell out of her nest?

Posted on July 4, 2010 by admin| 13 Comments

She cannot fly but is old enough to chirp and screech. Mom and Dad (bad father’s day—bad joke) cannot come down and bring her back to the nest. Should I feed her bread crumbs until she can fly???? This sounds crazy but I am serious–poor thing! Kids with stupid answers can proceed to next question.

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