As some of you have read, this is my first time breeding Budgies, and I was so egg-cited that Patches had started to lay, well now she has laid 8 eggs and she is actually sitting on 7 of hers and a Lorikeet egg! My brother inlaw had picked up some suspended cages for his various birds last Sunday(the 8th) and whilst cleaning them discovered an egg in one of the nest boxes! The birds had only been removed from the cages that morning, and as he didnt have anything sitting on eggs or even looking like laying he handed the egg to me. I candled it yesterday and it has veins, so theres that possibility that it may hatch! So I have been researching Lorikeets, but its hard to find anything on handraising them, any one got any ideas? I'm getting rather nervous, as it "should" be due to hatch at the end of the month.

You should do research on lorikeets in general so you know that you even WANT to own one. Their diets are complicated, their poo is liquid and can be "shot" across a room, and they are VERY loud. They also need an extremely large cage due to their hyperactivity (lots of sugar in their diet doesn't help matters!)

 

Babies are nice, but make sure you're not taking on more than you can handle. :glare:

congrats on all your eggs! mom budgie will freak when that "special" egg hatches, (Laughing out loud)

I would say PM Lin she has a lorikeet here on the site.

Have you done an internet search for Lorikeets? Also your local library for books. I read up a bit on them, Terri is right about their diet they are not like regular birds. I am pretty good with finding good links on the net so if you need my help give me a PM .

you could probably contact the person whom he got the cages from, they could give you info too maybe.

last week i was in six flags and they gave me a liquid food to feed the loreeks

Thanks guys, I will spend another day searching the internet, perhaps pop into our small local library if I have the time today. Its the finer details I am after, like where in the beak to place the food, consistancy of food etc.

 

Well now I have two hens sitting! Olive was removed from the avairy with Opal as they were causing trouble for the others, and now Olive is sitting on 4 eggs of her own! Which is good in a way because I could probably use her as a foster if needed, or Patches for hers! I'm not worried for Olives eggs though, as she is inside in a cage and its nice and warm and quiet.

see if you can find a message board that support lorikeets like here budgies or a board that has a mixture of message boards and lorikeets are in there. I have seen them out there.

I did a google search for lorikeets and narrowed that down to handrearing, and found an interesting site all about lories, posted a question and within 10 minutes was directed to a page where everything I needed to know was located.... gotta love the internet!

Edited May 19, 200619 yr by Patches

I hope the egg hatches! There is something special about lorikeets, they make fantastic pets.

I had a Rainbow Lorikeet since she was 8 weeks old, she was the most insane bird. We all loved her to bits.

They are alot noisier than budgies but not overly so. Mine used to abuse me when I took her tray out to clean. She was fully flighted but had no interest in flying as she had slaves to carry her everywhere!

I did a google search for lorikeets and narrowed that down to handrearing, and found an interesting site all about lories, posted a question and within 10 minutes was directed to a page where everything I needed to know was located.... gotta love the internet!

 

Awesome Patches, keep us updated.