okay, here are the latest pics of Jellybean, Pinto, Cashew and Peanut:

 

Jellybean! Who is a very light greeny blue in real life with grey and white wings - Cute as!

 

 

and the other three! Who all have purple cheek patches, are a pale lavender blue body with grey wings with the body color through the wings as well. Opalines aren't they? - Also, cute as, of course!

 

But what amazes me is these 4 chicks have not left the nesting box as yet (the eldest, Jellybean is 5 weeks old today) and today, when I checked on them, there is an egg! I was planning on resting the parents even though this is the first clutch they have raised.

What would you do?

Advice please! Should I addle the egg, remove it or is there no harm in letting them raise a second clutch?

I was just thinking the babies could have addled the egg already - yes??

I am torn as what to do.

Edited October 10, 200618 yr by budgie_addict

addle the egg for now or removed if if you wish to be sure. The mum will continue to lay a few more now since she has started her cycle again.

 

How old is the youngest?? If s/he is over the age of 4 weeks you could remove the box and give them a small hiding platform (or small cardboard box) so they feel safe again but the parents stop trying to breed again and they start to learn what life outside is like, how to balance and eat seeds.

 

You must have great fun trying to tell them all apart :(Laughing out loud): they look super.

Your babies are absolutely beautiful !!

Jellybean took the huge step into the big wide world this morning! He is flitting from perch to perch, a little wobbly but he looks great!

I have seen him eating but what is funny he has taken an instant liking to water! I have a shallow terracotta dish hanging in the avairy for baths and in just two hours I saw him bathing twice! - I guess it was time to wash off that nesting box dust!