My dog was barking outside and would not stop! I went outside to look and it was a baby bird! Me and my mom put him in a box. He can’t fly yet but has feathers and hops around trying to fly. Soon he fell asleep in the box. My step-dad is going to be home soon and we are going to put him back in the nest. Do you think his mom may have left him? What things should we give him to keep him alive for a couple more hours?
my birds are losing lots of little tiny feathers fluffy down are they going to mate umm i know for sure theres 1 male 1 female they kiss and cuddle but loose alllllllllloooooooooot of little tiny feathers and even more doun feathers. I just put a nest box in tonight i hope they…..(u know)…. cuz baby parakeets are sooooo cute
Recently, my pair of cockatiels just laid two eggs, and we are expecting another one tonight (11/06/08), since every other night Grey Grey has laid her eggs, and she has verly large and smelly droppings, and a egg shaped vent. And she has been doing very well with the eggs! Along with her mate and the father of the chicks, Diablo.
But the problem is, Diablo is over-protective. It is a good trait in parents, I understand that, but this is goes way too far. Whenever Grey Grey leaves to drink or eat, or say hello to us, Diablo takes over the sitting. Which is good, but, Diablo won’t let Grey Grey into the nest box! He stampedes out of the nest box and attacks her by biting her in various places, trying to attack her, and trying to attack us to get to her when we are holding Grey Grey. And he keeps trying to mate with her, so we separate them at that time. Grey Grey likes to be picked up, and comes to us, so we don’t really interfere with the eggs. But still, he won’t let Grey Grey in at all, to lay or incubate the eggs.
We have a spare cage for any of our birds (cockatiels/parakeets), if a problem occurs, and Diablo is currently staying in there while Grey Grey is incubating and doing the motherly roll. And Diablo gets a little mad at first, but he is settled down and Grey Grey is sitting in the cage as we speak.
My question is, should we keep Diablo separated from her permanently? Grey Grey is doing a fine job of taking care of the eggs, but I was wondering. And I was reading, and I read that cockatiel eggs can stay viable for seven days, and the maximum time she is gone is about five minutes, and it is room temperature around their cage. But still, my question stands, should we separate Diablo from the mother and eggs? If so, can Grey Grey fully take care of the eggs on her own? We are pulling the chicks at two weeks of age, if that matters.
FIRST EGG- Laid Monday, November Third, 2008 at night. Due to hatch in sixteen to nineteen days.
SECOND EGG- Laid Wednesday, November Fifth, 2008 at night. Due to hatch is seventeen to twenty days.
We are expecting a third egg, and we are goig to candle them in about a week to see if we have fertile eggs.
Recently, my pair of cockatiels just laid two eggs, and we are expecting another one tonight (11/06/08), since every other night Grey Grey has laid her eggs, and she has verly large and smelly droppings, and a egg shaped vent. And she has been doing very well with the eggs! Along with her mate and the father of the chicks, Diablo.
But the problem is, Diablo is over-protective. It is a good trait in parents, I understand that, but this is goes way too far. Whenever Grey Grey leaves to drink or eat, or say hello to us, Diablo takes over the sitting. Which is good, but, Diablo won’t let Grey Grey into the nest box! He stampedes out of the nest box and attacks her by biting her in various places, trying to attack her, and trying to attack us to get to her when we are holding Grey Grey. And he keeps trying to mate with her, so we separate them at that time. Grey Grey likes to be picked up, and comes to us, so we don’t really interfere with the eggs. But still, he won’t let Grey Grey in at all, to lay or incubate the eggs.
We have a spare cage for any of our birds (cockatiels/parakeets), if a problem occurs, and Diablo is currently staying in there while Grey Grey is incubating and doing the motherly roll. And Diablo gets a little mad at first, but he is settled down and Grey Grey is sitting in the cage as we speak.
My question is, should we keep Diablo separated from her permanently? Grey Grey is doing a fine job of taking care of the eggs, but I was wondering. And I was reading, and I read that cockatiel eggs can stay viable for seven days, and the maximum time she is gone is about five minutes, and it is room temperature around their cage. But still, my question stands, should we separate Diablo from the mother and eggs? If so, can Grey Grey fully take care of the eggs on her own? We are pulling the chicks at two weeks of age, if that matters.
FIRST EGG- Laid Monday, November Third, 2008 at night. Due to hatch in sixteen to nineteen days.
SECOND EGG- Laid Wednesday, November Fifth, 2008 at night. Due to hatch is seventeen to twenty days.
We are expecting a third egg, and we are goig to candle them in about a week to see if we have fertile eggs.
Hello, I would just like to clarify, he is attacking her! She is afraid to even go into the cage! But I was wondering, would she be capable if she was left to do her job alone? And should we separate them? I am not experienced with this, as this was my first time and accident, but I have done my research. I was wondering (from experienced breeders!) if this would be okay?
I found a baby bird I think its a crow but anyway he was on the ground flapping around… now i made a makeshift nest for him and his parents lol came and fed him… tonight when i came home from work he was on the ground so i put him back up there 20 min later he fell again… so i put him in a box til morning when i can put him back in the tree… i dont know what to do… he might be hurt but i cant tell bc he cant fly anyways and just wobbles around… i dont want to take him to the vet they might kill him right?
Yes thank you I know its so hard i get so attatched to the darn things
we had a birds nest in the box that houses our air conditioning unit…and tonight when my bf came home he scared a bird outta there when he walked by and she flew up and hit her head on the roof and shes dead so we decided to take the nest out of there so we dont scare no other birds well when we took the nest down there were unhatched eggs in it….should i just throw them away or what i dont know what to do with them
im pretty sure shes dead we picked her up and she wasnt breathing or anything
they’ve been uncovered for a while now i believe it was 11pm when it happened and its not 1130
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An Indian Minor bird laid 4 eggs in my electricity box which hatched 5 days ago. Since then 2 have died but the mother has been with them 24/7. When I checked tonight the mother was gone & the 2 surviving chics are left alone. I have put cotton wool in the nest to heip keep them warm but I dont know how to feed them. Will the mother come back or has she abandoned them for good now? Because it seems strange that she hung around for a few days & then disappeared. Can someone tell me what I need to feed them & how to do it?
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