Hi other than palm leave can i give hay or what u cal that frm rice crop? I tried with shereded papers but this birds take em al out of the nest and dirty the whole room and empty the nest box. Can i give the coconut hair? Or wot other house hold thngs could be used?
A wren building a nest
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I posted here because I know many who garden put out nest boxes. These babies should be ready to go, there is one perched half way out of the box. The parents keep coming around, but one baby is on the ground hopping forward and trying to take off, but can’t. He spreads his wings and tries to flap them but then just tips forward. When the parents bring him something to eat, he flaps his wings very hard and fast to have them bring him food, so I don’t think he has a broken wing. I’m not sure if he was pushed out by another or tried to take off and fell out. I just noticed this about 1/2 hour ago.
Has anyone had this happen to them if you use nest boxes? I’ve had tree swallows and blue birds for the past four years and never had this.
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well i have 2 loves birds a male and a female and their outside with a big cage we made for them she has her nest box at the at the bottom of the cage.the female had layed her eggs like at least 3 weekks or 2 and i was wondering because they stay in the cage the whole time and i know that at it takes like 25 days for them to hatch but what if it passed and the lovebirds still stay in the nestbox? what do they know they aint going to hatch or they know that it may take longer
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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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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my cockatiels are 1 male and 1 female and because they never leave the nest box together since they started nesting, i don’t even know how many eggs they have laid and i didn’t do the candling test. the last time i checked was before nesting started and there were 3 eggs.
i heard that opening the nestbox while the bird is sitting on the eggs will cause them to get scared and break the eggs. is that true? i’m sorry but this is my first experience and i really want to make it right.
thank you
