The bird is about one week old and was abandoned by the mother bird.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to feed it and or keep it alive?
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My Friend Found A Baby Bird?
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Tagged baby, baby bird, Bird, Found, friend, mother, mother bird, week
What could my cockatiel need?
I have 2 cockatiels and they are a bonded pair. They had babies and all of them hatched and are doing great. It’s been about a week and a half since they hatched. The parents are great at raising them and have raised babies before (they were given to me since the owner of them got babies from them and didn’t want to keep the adults anymore)
They are not friendly birds and especially not since they had the babies. They will however screech to me if they need or want something. Example – if I don’t give them fresh water right away and sleep in or whatever, they let me know about it. Or if they are wanting some millet, they will screech until I give them some more. I change their food and water daily, made sure everything is clean, cleaned the nest box and put fresh paper towels down so the babies are kept clean, and for some reason the adults are screeching and carrying on all day today. They have been really quiet since they laid the eggs and today has been the first day I heard them really acting crazy. I’ve been keeping the curtains closed and only letting some light come in because they haven’t been so active…i know when I keep the curtain open before they laid eggs the female would screech and be active the whole time. I’ve done everything and they are both running about screeching. The male is usually the quiet one except for his pretty whistles and he does the cat call. I walk back into the room and they start running around back and forth on the bottom of the cage attacking their cuttle bone (they knock it down and only eat it on the bottom of the cage for some reason). There is plenty left and its clean…i dont know what they could want , but all this screeching I’m surprised the babies aren’t scared lol. Anyone have any ideas? Or is this just normal?
blank, i read somewhere to make sure to take the shells out and clean every other day in the nest box so bacteria doesn’t build up. I haven’t cleaned every other day in there, but I do check every day to make sure it’s not filthy. This has not been the first time I cleaned inside. But I had to, because they had went poo all over the place and the paper towels were wet and nasty. Birds really do use the bathroom ALOT! lol!
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Tagged adults, babies, Cockatiel, Cockatiels, half, owner, pair, parents, week
yellow maggots in a beehive?
ok,during the last 3 months we have had bees nesting in our bird box and this last week they have seemed to of disappeared,so out of curiosity we thought would go and take it down and have a look inside,as we started to get inside we noticed maggot looking creatures crawling around inside the box, but they were bright yellow unlike any maggot ive ever seen, so we need to know if they are bee larvae or maggots ,thanks for the help ,martin
how long until baby birds leave the nest? I have a nest in my garage and…?
About a week ago I noticed a bird flying in and out of a box on a shelf in my garage, sure enough there were little eggs in it. Sense then I have not disturbed it, did my best to keep the the cat away, etc.. Today i peeked in, and there were 5 tiny baby birds, looked like they very recently hatched. How long until they are able to fly out the nest and survive… im going through the moving process and there is noise and everything during the day.. we also have a cat, and to my knowledge she has not noticed the next but I’m worried she will jump on the shelf and disturb or harm them, i keep her in at night, so hopefully the mother bird is around at night more then the day? recently i have not noticed her flying in and out as much.. I know the rules, dont touch or look too much; Any helpful answers to my questions will be great!
Should Obama do something about the bird feeder? (A little long yet worth reading)?
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.
Then there came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, on the table …Everywhere!
Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.
Soon, the back yard was like it used to be…. Quiet, serene
And no one is demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now let’s see. Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegal came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; Your child’s 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to ‘press one’ to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than ‘Old Glory’ are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
Just my opinion, but maybe it’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
I myself have been out of work for over a year, due to a previous battle with an illness. (No fault of Obama’s) However, since my recovery I have been actively looking for work for months now. I dont just mean a couple of months, I am talking 5 months without even one interview. The work is just not there. I not only experience this but millions of others have been looking for work much longer than I have and very few are having any luck at all. Shouldn’t Obama be focusing on job creation instead of all of this spending that isn’t helping anyone? How many people have to lose their homes that they have worked years, decades for before Obama finely starts doing the right thing. Is he purposely trying to destroy this country?
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4 week old budgie chick?
Hello, my pair’s third clutch was finally successful. But only one chick made it outta the egg.
so anyway, it is healthy. and the pair is breeding again 
i freaked out that the hen would die (it happened to my previous bird,, laid too much eggs.it bcam very weak and died), so i shifted the 2 birds and the one chick to a normal cage without a nest box (hoping that they would stop mating).. the chick can sit properly on the perch and move around.
Is this okay?? will the parents feed the chick??? it is not weaned yet. otherwise i wouldn’t have a problem. it has been 3 hours since i moved them and the chick has not been fed yet. or should i keep the mother and the chick in the breeding cage and move the dad to the normal cage?
How long since hatching day should I candle a lovebird egg?
My lovebird just hatched her first egg today! And I understand that they hatch a few more eggs later on in the week, is that right? I also noticed that my lovebirds hatched it inside the nesting box without nesting materials, is it alright? Should I put some in or put some on the cage floor and let them do it themselves. I also want to know how long since hatch-day should I candle their eggs, is it 5 days after the 3rd egg is laid, or 6-7 days after an egg was laid. And what ideal nesting materials to put, and what ideal food to give for these “parents-to-be”. It’s currently raining here every so often, like, every 3 and a half to 4 hours a day, sometimes strong sometimes mild. And in the morning it’s a bit chilly. We put the birds at our laundry room, it’s outside. . .the cage can feel the chill but they can’t feel the rain because our laundry room is under a roof at our yard… Is it fine to put them there? They could only feel the slight chill, is that ok? Or should I keep them in the house from now on?