lovemybabies76

Hi all, Thankyou KAZ for your great advice. I was thinking that the female has bred too many times for this season and I have been reading heaps on the net about breeding budgies. The male budgie never seems to leave the poor female alone, (Laughing out loud) he is really a randy bugger. I have ended up taking the small baby out of the nest and made my own nest with a warm wheat bag under neath, and made sure its not too hot. I got a syringe and mixed a little watered down cereal and fed it a couple of drops and it seemd to take to this quite well. I did find a whole page of really good information on hand feeding newly hatched baby budgies and this has helped heaps so I will follow theese instructions and hope for the best. Atleast the mumonly has the remaining three to care for, she seems to be managing those okay, with the help of the male. Unfortunateley I cant post any pics at the moment because I am waiting for a new charger but when I get it I will post some pictures. Thankyou to all who welcomed me and I hope to become a regular here as it seems like a great forum to get good answers. We are about to build a new home for our budgies, a much bigger one. I cant wait for that. Anyway thanks again for the advice and I will be busy feeding my new baby and hopefully it wont die. Kylie

Hi all, I am new here, I just joined up. My name is Kylie and I absoluteley love my budgies. I have been breeding them for about a year now and still have a lot to learn. I have just had my third lot of babies hatch. My female hatched five this time, where she usually only hatches two out of five eggs. The last baby to hatch was so tiny, and it died the next day. There are four left, two are large healthy looking but the other two are quite tiny, one of the smaller ones seems to be huddled with the two larger babies but the other tiny one is always on the side by itself. I have pushed it over with the others a couple of times but I am unsure if the mother is pushing it aside for a reason and if there is anything I can do. I am worried it is going to die aswell as the first one. It seems like the mother is not feeding it because it hasnt grown yet. It would only be a few days old. Help, I dont know if I should interviene or just let nature take its course. I hate seeing my babies die. But I know that mother knows best and maybee she knows something is wrong with it. Please any advice would be good asap. Kylie