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help! please i need an immediate response

Phoebebird — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:32:58 GMT

nestbox fell of bird cage and the egg that was due to hatch tommorow cracked and a baby fell and hit its head and has a bump and i think the others are ok but im having a panick attack and cant find anything on the internet and im soo worried help they are all still pink but starting to get feathers i need help and its the middle of the night help i dont want my baby to die btw its eight days old

my little bird died :(((((( help plz !

scage — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:35:52 GMT

im having cocktail birds and trying to breed them for long long time and i never had success till now and he died :/

yesterday the first egg was hatching

i was so excited , checked the nest box and there was that egg shaking then i found the little bird broke the egg but his face side was down to the nest , i tho it was wrong position of the egg by the parents or sth , so i turned the egg so he can go out and he started hiting the shell by his legs , but i couldn't wait and decided to help the egg to hatch as his parents was outside the nest and not paying any attention to him

i took the egg out , helped it to complete hatch by removing the shell slowley then there was some white cover kinda stuck on his head i tried to move it but i think it hurts him so i left it
there was some blood or something like a tail coming out of his back i think ,i didn't try to remove it , he was alright i believe

so i put him back to the nest and he started calling his parents and they ignored him till later they gone inside , i checked back the nest at night and the baby was doing fine and having feathers grown fast

today his parents was inside for long time , when they got out i checked again and found he isn't moving so i assume he's dead :(

have i killed him ? i done something wrong ? i feel so guilty about it and disappointed at the same time coz my breed didn't work
what should i do with the other eggs ?

i think i just will not open that nest box for day's i can't handle see them dying again and hope they gonna survive :(

budgies first clutch

Phoebebird — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:09:35 GMT

Hello, my budgie pair just laid their first egg of this clutch. i have had two very sucessful clutches before, have hand raised babies. I have a two year old female and a two year old male that started mating a week ago so i put a nestbox on the cage. i have a cuddle bone, two calcium blocks, good seed, a lot of toys, perches, and two other birds in the cage. they are hand raised babies, and don't really payattention to rhetorically pair. its a four by three foot cage. The cocky is taking wonderful care of her, i marked the egg with a pencil(don't worry i didn't break it)and she has been sitting on it. Please let me know if i forgot anything, ask me questions, and tell me if Im doing it right.

HaHa all my neighbors call me bird girl and come to me for all their bird questions. ok, this is the third time I've tried posting this, and have had to rewrite it 3 times. By the way i dusted their seed with lafebers bird formula.

Help! Father bourke trying to mate with baby

mpballet — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:35:16 GMT

The bourkes babies came out of the nest last night...exciting! The father bourke has been trying to mate again with the female but she usually gives him the beak. So the hormones are back on! And tonight he went up real close to the baby and then he mounted him/her! The poor little one was crying and being squashed. These babies still need to be in the same cage because they are fed only by the parents for another week, they can't take care of themselves. It is mostly the father bourke that teaches them to eat, ect. What do I do? Any advice? I have a part-time job so I can't be with them 24/7 and I'm really worried he'll kill the poor baby. Thx.

Sun Green Cheek baby born!

Conureking12 — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:49:33 GMT

2 baby Sun/Green cheek conure born! Pics soon!

Babies scream when I put my hand in nest box

mpballet — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:19:17 GMT

As some of you may already know, I have two 2 week old baby bourke's parakeets that are being raised by their parents. The parents are very dedicated except they don't clean out the poop from the box. I have been trying to clean it up and (as gross as this may sound), I've found the best method is to take it out with my hands. But every time I put my hand in the box the babies scream very loud and it upsets the parents. I was hoping to begin holding them to get them hand tame but I'm nervous because of their loud screams. Would any of you recommend that I just ignore their yells and pick them up? Or would you recommend that I just leave them alone. I really want them to be hand tame but I don't want to stress the babies or parents. Thx!

Canary breeding issue

akeh — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:45:27 GMT

Hi all,

It's the breeding season in my region, it's my first time, I am facing problem with the hen as she is not nesting.

the cock canary and the hen canary are separated, they hardly can see each other. The cock canary is singing laud for her and the hen is jumping right to left, up and down in her cage, i guess this is like a kind of positive response, it's like if they are both having a conversation.
so now I kept some nesting material today, shredder papers, cotton and the nest cup hanged.

The hen is not doing anything with the materials, she inspected them and inspected the nest cup, but still jump around whenever the cock sing for her.

My questions are: 1- is it early to see such a stage as i've just got the hen 3 days ago?
2- it's hard to find wooden nest materiel where i live, is the nest material of shredder papers and cotton is enough or do I need to find out something else, what idea can i try?
3- will placing the cock canary in the breeding cage "with a divider" helps to push the hen canary to make a nest?

Thank you for taking the time to read through my concern.

Canary breeding

Lark Spur — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:38:43 GMT

Ive a pair of consorts. It is the fifth time that they bred, chicks hatched but they all died within a couple of days of hatching. Please help. Did I go wrong in pairing two consorts as opposed to one consort and one corona?

what to do?

shihab.iub — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:35:04 GMT

I have a pair of parakeets. In the cage i have two nest, 3 days ago i saw the female parakeet laid an egg, after one day she laid another egg in the other nest box!! till yesterday the female bird sat on the first egg and since the second egg has been laid it started sitting on the second egg. i bought this pair about 7 months ago and this is their first egg. i don't know what to do? please help

Barrons hand feeding and raising baby parrots?

21611ccf — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:09:55 GMT

Ok I bought this book hand feeding and raising baby parrots by barron's company off of amazon for one penny so I ended up paying $4 all together for shipping and everything! Has anyone read this book? Is it any good?

Parakeet eggs haven't started hatching as of day 19

21611ccf — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:50:34 GMT

My parakeet laid her first egg on the 22 of December! She started sitting immediately! None have started to hatch yet! It is 19 days should I give them a few more days? Will the eggs start to hatch around the same time of day they were laid?

Female sitting on eggs but not pooping

mpballet — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:54:13 GMT

Hello,
My female bourkes parakeet has been laying on 5 eggs for 19 days now. Everything is going well except she hasn't pooped since yesterday and her area near the vent looks a more puffy, but clean. She comes out of the nest box to eat and the male is always feeding her. She had been pooping outside of the nest about 3-4 times per day. The reason I know it's not her poop at the bottom of the cage is because hers are very, very large. The males is small and normal.
I always make available cucumbers, peas, carrots and lettuce, but they have only been eating seeds since she's been on the eggs. I put in some apple slices today thinking that the extra fiber can help if she is constipated. Can anyone help out and let me know if I should be concerned? Thanks!

HELP EMERGENCY NEST BOX NEEDED!!! ANYONE KNW WHAT I CAN MAKE ONE FROM?

21611ccf — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:04:07 GMT

I recently bought two parakeets from a breeder in my area! The female is in breeding condition and I've only had them a few dAys!
She was in a flight with other keets so I don't know if she has mated! However her bumm is swollen!
My other females look the same when they are about to lay! I have no xtra boxes or wood to build one! Is there anything else that I can use?

What ever happened to

ickybird — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:30:21 GMT

Many years ago, when I first joined this forum and Monica was ( a VERY smart) young kid, there was some talk about mixing grey tiels with the smaller black toos to eventually get to a black tiel.
I haven't heard anything on this in ages, although I KNOW Monica knew about it at the time. Do you, Monica or any others know about any of these birds existing or what happened to the breeding that was being done? I think the majority of the work was in Australia.

Is this teil a boy or girl

Liberty — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:28:27 GMT

I had a post up a couple moths ago but it was an older photo of my Illia boy\girl four years old and has never laid an egg

Illia molting currently so has a little feather loss

Sorry if not the best photo she doesn't sit still lol

Parakeets feeding babies only seed!!!!!HELP!

21611ccf — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:34:07 GMT

I have 2 pairs of parakeets and all are seed junkies( thanx to the pet store:( I have tried to get them on fruits and veggies but have not been successful! Is it ok for them to feed the babies this way or should I handfeed from day one? Yes I am experienced with handfeeding! Any advice would be great! Thanks!!!!

breeding

MalcolmJoan — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:31:15 GMT

At what age do breeders start breeding their mares and stallions?

I need some advice with my newly hatched baby cockatiel

Cat345 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:36:56 GMT

I have two rescue untamed cockatiels that I have not had long enough for them to be completely comfortable with me and they have a three day old baby, they seem to be taking good care of him but I'm not sure what to do as far as hand-taming the baby because the parents are not tame and don't like anyone going near them, only if you sit very still by the open cage for a while will they come out and sit near you, and the mother will only let my dad pet her head through the cage, so my question is how am I supposed to hand tame the baby? I know you're supposed to start handling it everyday for a few minutes after 2 weeks of age but will the parents be so upset from me taking the baby that they stop caring for him?

Also any information on caring for the baby will be helpful, thank you

NOT trying to breed.

ickybird — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:50:17 GMT

it seems that I have been blessed or cursed with almost always having female birds. the only one I knew was a male was Icky Bird, a peach faced lovie. He was such a horn dog that it was clear to one and all that he was male. (We always called Gussy, our first QP, a male, but I suspect he may well have been she)
So Ducky( QP) and Eepie ( lovie) were sexed as female and I was not happy about that. I do NOT want a broody hen in my little flock of two.
at 3? and 2? they have only asked to be fed by each other and the feeder insists upon being fed too. So there is a bit of confusion and upset behavior between them. But I have not seen any really female mating behavior in Ducky at all, and only very little ( VERY little) in Eepie.
I think a lot has to do with the lack of warm mush sort of food, no hidy holes to get into ( tents, cups, etc are No Nos) I also change their toys often and their cages are moved about the house from time to time. Because their cages are about the same size, but not shape, I even switch cages on them.
I've always done these things with my female birds and never had or seldom had any nest behavior. Phew.
What experiences have others had?

A question about Lovebird genetics....

MR-McChicken22 — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:46:03 GMT

I plan on getting a Lovebird someday hopefully in the summer! I want to get a weaned baby female Lutino peach faced lovebird get her attached to me and then after about a year Or so after I have had her I would love to try breeding birds for the first time. I would then plan to get a hand fed 1 year old normal male peach faced lovebird I would wait about 2 months maybe intill I would bring the two together so I can get close with the new one. I know all my info on breeding and handfeeding and all that and still have a long time to learn more about it but, I if I were to breed a female Lutino peach faced lovebird with a normal male peach faced lovebird that would mean that all the babies would be of the normal type but would also have a Lutino gene in them right? SO, Is it guaranteed that all chicks coming from these birds would all have the normal coloration? It dosnt really matter but Im just so confused on the whole thing. To get lutino offspring that would mean I would have to get a lutino split male right? If that was to happen then would the off spring be both of the normal type and the Lutino mutation? Thanks!

Please help me sex my budgies!!

inrainbows — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:20:15 GMT

I have 4 budgies. Please help!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurieschillinger/8224289127/

this is wolf, I bought him/her from petco about 3 months ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurieschillinger/8225269262/

the green/yellow is Mischa, the white is Titi. (I am aware Titi is a recessive pied, and is therefore a boy) but what is Mischa?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurieschillinger/8224196879/

this is blueberry, bought at the same time as wolf. Im pretty sure blueberry is a boy.

Help! mating pair of budgies fighting

Chrissy86 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:22 GMT

Hi, I have a pair of budgies that have lived together for about 18 months now, i recently attached a nest box to their cage and all has been well up to now, the female has been showing a lot of interest in the box and spends most of her time in there now, only coming out to eat or mate, they have been mating daily for about 6 days now although no eggs yet, Suddenly a few hours ago they got into a massive fight leaving the male with an injured leg and bleeding from his nostrils, now every time she comes out of the box she attacks him and will even sit half in and half out of the box until he comes close enough to take a bite out of! all this only an hour after they last mated. Is this normal, and what shall i do? i don't want to separate them unless i have to.

any advice would be greatly appreciated :-)

Chrissy

Parakeet Breeding

cjochoa — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:04:51 GMT

I have three parakeets(white-f,lime-m,blue-f) in one cage with two nestbox. About two weeks ago the white parakeet started laying eggs until she laid six in all. Well, the blue parakeet tends to bother her but the white parakeet wont let her get in her nestbox. Yesterday, I was cleaning the cages and I check the nestbox and two eggs were missing and I seen them on the bird tray crack. Now, the white parakeet is not sitting on eggs no more. If I remove the blue parakeet that is not laying the male parakeet will be looking for her. Just like I did before in the summer when the blue parakeet was laying and never sat so she gave up and the white parakeet was bother her. So I remove the white parakeet and the male was looking for until Oct. I have put her back and she began laying.

Looking for a Mitred Conure

glo1949 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:00:19 GMT

HELP! I have desperately been looking for years someone that breeds Mitred Conures. Can anybody help me with this and connect me with someone who breeds them or someone that has young Mitred Conures for sale? Thank you.

Cockatiel Boy or Girl

Liberty — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:58:29 GMT

I think Hes a boy but i Want to make sure before I purchase a female this weekend

What age should hand raised budgies perch

AshForever — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:03:53 GMT

What age should hand raised budgies be put in a temperature controlled cage padded with towels and with thick secured perches resting on top of the towels with small pellet scattered on them? Most of the time I do this at three and a half weeks and it turns out well. Is this what I should be doing? Just wondering what other people think about this, they eat lafebers instant nutristart every three hours and the pellets are zupreem fruitblend parakeet. The babies perch well even on thinner perches. I am a breeder with thriving healthy babies where six out of seven babies in this clutch survived and all hatched.

Breeding canary winged parakeets

feathers50 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:46:59 GMT

I have just acquired a pair of these adorable little birds. I have had them as pets before but never bred them. What is their breeding season? Are they hard to breed? This pair seems very nervous and flighty where the 2 I had as pets were not.

Gang Gang Cockatoos

sarahedw — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:12:59 GMT

I would love to find a pair of Gang Gangs. BUT it seems it's impossible to find them in the US. Has anyone seen the Gang Gangs here in the US or know how or where to get them?

mostly seed in newborn parakeets crops HELP

AshForever — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:53:57 GMT

when my parakeet feeds her babies she is barely producing any crop milk. it is mostly seeds. I have been hand feeding the babies as well as letting her feed them. she eats lots of veggies and eggs. is it okay for there to be so much seed and so little milk? what can I do about it?

Can my Jenday Conure mate with a Mitred?

CasiJAne — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:08:05 GMT

I have had a Jenday Conure for 7 years now. Recently I got a friend for her. . . a Mitred Conure that turned out to be a male. They don't seem to get along very well, but for the first time ever my female has begun to lay eggs. There are two so far, and it looks like a third on the way. I am not sure what to make of this. Could the eggs be fertile?

Budgie baby doesn't like thickened formula

AshForever — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:30:37 GMT

i hand feed my baby, i WANT it to be imprinted on humans because i want a happy confident bird that enjoys spending time with me, i have at least 20 hours a day to spend with my bird, now it is a week old and its eyes are open and its learning to stand and it can cheep so loud i get confused which one of my birds is making the noise, the only problem is if i try to the thicken its food the tiniest bit it starts to fuss, (I DO KNOW WHAT I'M DOING AND I HAVE EXPERIENCE) Should my bird stay with food a bit more watery than it is supposed to be for a day or so? I'd like to know what you think, it is 7 days old and the formula instructions say 1 part formula 1 1\3 to 2 parts water, if its more watery say, 1 part formula 2 parts water he is happy. Is this weird for a bird this age?

Well, there is a nest box in Weasley & Jacob's Cage

WeasleyLover — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:42:09 GMT

My Mom & Dad got me a nest box for Xmas, so I moved Hermione and Bella into another cage and stuck the box in with Weasy and Jacob.
I'll let everyone know when and if they lay eggs.

hand rearing methods

Phoebebird — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:31:38 GMT

what is the most popular way of hand feeding birds?

first baby budgie hatched!

Phoebebird — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:22:39 GMT

Omigosh guys! When I went to check pn the eggs today to turn them the first baby had hatched! He/she just had their first hand feeding! So you guys have any tips for less air in the crop? Oh, and mommy bird ate the shell! The baby is sooooo cute! If you have any advice pleace tell me it! I can't believe it. The first baby had died while hatching. And it was kind of formed to the wall. So I've been turningthe eggs and now my efforts have paid off! This if phoebes first clutch. Btw it was a day before its due date! Isn't that weird?

Help! First Diamond Dove Chicks Died, Now More on Way

PtitsaKrasavitsa — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:18:33 GMT

Our pair of diamond doves recently had its first pair of chicks. Sadly, this has not been the happy experience one might expect. The first chick hatched several days earlier than its sibling, and the smaller scrawny latecomer was largely ignored by the parents. When it became clear that it was no longer even asking its parents for food, we decided to hand feed it with Exact Hand Feeding Formula and returned it to the nest. About an hour later, when we thought of perhaps giving it another feeding, we discovered it either pushed or fallen from the nest and dead.

The surviving chick appeared to be thriving well enough in the week or so that followed, even toddling around outside the cage with its parents, pecking along with them at a millet seed strand we had laid out in a sunny spot of the floor that they favored. It still harried its parents for feedings, but they began largely ignoring it. When we tried hand feeding it, it was clearly not interested at all in what we had to offer, but still continued approaching its ignoring parents for feedings for a time. Eventually it grew noticeably ever weaker and we tried hand feeding it more often, with little real success. One morning it was so weak that it appeared nearly dead in the cage. We hand fed it with more urgency, using a small syringe, and it seemed to recover somewhat after these basically forced feedings. At least it was able to stand. More frequent almost hourly feeding attempts did not really help matters in the long run though, as it continued to decline in general vigor until it too died.

Since we now have a new egg in the nest, with perhaps a second on the way, and are eager to do what we can to avoid a recurrence of the recent sad events, we hope that we can rely on the collective wisdom of these forums to help us avoid further tragedies.

We found a web page about finches called "Failure to Thrive" at http://www.ladygouldianfinch.com/features_failurethrive.php, and wonder if any of the problems described there might apply to our diamond doves. According to the page, the most common cause for chick deaths is bacteria, which is said to be treatable through the adults with something called Tetratex. Is this advisable as prophylactic measure? The thing is, our stronger chick seemed clearly eager to be fed by its parents, but all but refused hand feedings from us. Does this sound at all likely for a wasting away caused bacterial infection?

Sorry for this overlong posting from a newbie, but we look forward gratefully to any and all good advice that more seasoned bird folks may care to offer.

Tanya in Woodbridge, Virginia

Parakeets are not entering there nesting box.

parakeetcolors72 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:52:56 GMT

My parakeets well not enter the nesting box i gave them. I really do not know why. They are each a year old now and i filled the box with cotton. I was wondering if I was doing someting wrong or i placed the box in the wrong place. Please provide as much knowledge as possiable.

Thank You.

baby bird died in egg

Phoebebird — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:36:07 GMT

help! my parakeet laid eggs and yesterday the first one started hatching. about half way through it stopped. i thought it was just resting but it was midnight and their was still no more progress. i candled it and i didnt see it moving. i put it back in the nest box. the next morning when i checked it was the same. i enlarged the pip mark and looked in. i could see the baby and i knew it was dead then. so i took the top off and saw that it was attached to the wall. so she hadnt been turning it. so now i have been turning her other eggs for her. this is her first clutch. i dont know what to do. the third egg was supposed to hatch today. but the first one started hatching a day late. any advice would be much appreciated. thanks in advance.

Parakeet Breeding

carlitos_20042000 — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:26:32 GMT

I have four parakeets; two males and two females in a breeding cage all set-up. I already know which parakeet is bonded with. I wanted know if i should remove a pair in order for them to breed or keep them all four in the same cage.

problems breeding

MJose — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:33:17 GMT

Hello everybody!

I have a pair of budgies. They are together and they seems to love very much. I put the nest more or less three months ago and she is inside the most part of the day.

I look inside the nest and I can see feathers and she has work the wood but I don't see any more sign that she will put any egg. I give them a lot of seeds, vegetables and fruits but I don't know why they don't put any egg.

Could you help me giving some idea?. More information is that she has the nose brown.

Finally I am sorry for my bad english, I am in Spain and my english is so bad :(

Regards.

M.J.

cockatiel colony breeding

asif — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:31:08 GMT

Hi Friends
i have space 10 feet x 10 feet hight 7 feet can i house 10 pairs of cockatiels of my home breed. for colony breeding is this setup will go successful or should i breed them in separate means etch pair in separate cage.

waiting help from experienced breeders.

Regards,
Asif