**KAZ**

She is eating, and she is a red ringer. Hasnt been bred with and she is one of Omelette's babies.

You still havent explained the zebra part

I probably wouldnt take it if I was you

The scalped hen is still alive. I havent euthanased her...............yet

It takes 21 days to lay ten eggs, and thats why your first hatching has happened already. Incubation is 18-21 days. So assuming they are all fertile ( hope not ) they are all due to hatch every two days from now. Even if all fertile some may not hatch. they may not hatch if she knocks them all around the nestbox addling them. They wont all hatch if the eggs get poopy from the other chicks which will happen over another 21 days it takes to hatch ten eggs. The reason I said you cant add them to the nest of a female who hasnt yet begun to lay her own eggs is.............even if she starts laying, she wont be incubating until she has at least three eggs. Any eggs you transfer will need incubating immediately as they have been incubated already. Any incubated eggs may not survive if the order in which they were being rotated in and out from under the hen ( they do this to keep temp constant ) has changed. Unless you marked eggs in turn of being laid you will transfer eggs all out of sequence. Always pays to set up several pairs to breed at the same time so you have a backup plan for these kinds of situations.

You cant use your other hen to incubate any of these eggs. If you at least work out if some are infertile you can remove those so she isnt trying to cover all her eggs.

Well you cant move the eggs to the other pair anyway as she hasnt begun to lay and the eggs you are thinking of moving have been incubated. So you dont have a back up plan at all. You can candle them to see if they have anything in them, or you can tell by the colour. A fertile egg looks pearly white. An infertile egg looks peachy pink. Read this http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...=fertile%20eggs

Also........have you candled the eggs to see how many are fertile ? How immature ?

If you have another nest with eggs about due to hatch and not too many of them you can remove live chicks to the other nest. Or move chicks to a nest with chicks same sort of age. Its better to move chicks than fertile eggs, but move the eggs if you have to.

Sorry Squeak. 12 is a child. You can call it pre teen if you like. I am certainly not using the term pre in relation to me as that would make me a pre-pensioner :rofl:

Looking great !! Open cage door is taking a chance ??

Love the grey chick !!

Zebra ??

More nestbox pictures The greywing to dilute nest another greywing nest dom pied nest and others and this poor baby has a ruptured blood vessel in it's nostril ( I will keep an eye on it )

Opaline cinnamon grey green :fear

Another choice to make. I came home from a budgie show yesterday to find a hen had been attacked in a holding cage for the cull birds. She has been scalped and has a bad eye injury as well. I believe the eye has lost its sight. She has made it through the night.

Use seed as the bedding not sawdust. March might be your better option as November pairing might result in chicks in the nestbox during hot weather.

I use a 2 litre icecream container and cut one side down so they can get in and out. I use seed as bedding in that container.

Is your aviary soil floor ?

Remove the hen and the nestbox. Put a container on the floor of the cage with all babies in it. Dad should feed them and show them how to eat. PS If you do this http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=22446 as a matter of course with all your nestboxes you will have chicks a little more self reliant and feeding themselves earlier too.

Welcome to our forum :fear

Normal quarantine practices should be in place for any birds that are to be near other birds. Normal quarantine practices are.........in another room, another airspace at least 5 metres from any other birds. Many diseases are airborne and spread from droppings and dander dust. Psittacosis can be carried by abird not showing symptoms but the minute that bird is next to another, the new bird goes down withina week to ten days and will die within two days of showing symptoms. ANYONE who says they can board your bird next to their birds is already showing a lack of knowledge about how these things work. In this case the bird is far better going to be cared for in the home of someone who hasnt any other birds. A well disinfected cage should be fine but a lot of people get their cleaning skills for cages at differing levels too, or how to fully disinfect a cage with the right stuff to make it safe.

What were her parents ? Do you have pictures of them ?

Here's some more chickie pictures from some nests

Dunno about that.......your task is now to find out Here she is today