I think on of my baby budgies is dead !!! I have look just then and he wasn't moving at all I couldn't see him breathing and when I picked him up he didn't move at all. Mom was not happy with me doing at she squealed the roof of the house.

 

I hope I didn't cause this since I moved and handled the young ones to clean the box out. It is my little one he was one week and 2 days old.

 

Do you think the others are okay? They have feathers fluff over their crops so they only way I can tell they are being feed is the side, and they all seemed to have a swelling in that area.

 

Did I do this too early? I also just removed the last egg today and now this? I'm so upset and now I'm worried about the others, everything was running smoothly.

 

Is it right for them to cheep-squeak every time one or both of the parents go in the box, roughly every 10 mins to 1/2 hour or so? Should I keep a very close watch on them or just start feeding them something now just in case they are not getting enough.

 

There are no marks on the baby so I don't think either of the parents attacked it.

I just had a look and they are back in mating mode, he is feeding her on the branch which since the eggs where around I hadn't seen at all, any time he feed her it was in the box.

 

What should I do?

Edited October 20, 200420 yr by nerwen

Oh dear, I hope the little one is alright. When I cleaned out the nest box, I never removed the babies from it, I just picked up poop around them. It was very dry, so not a problem to do it. I think the oldest was about three weeks old the first time I cleaned it out. They all had feathers. After that, I did it daily or every other day, depending on how deep the pile was. I wouldn't think it was anything you did though-it seems I'm the only one who never removed the babies to clean. I think most people do. Especially since your birds didn't make a fuss when you cleaned out the box. One thing I did notice though, is that if I left a few pieces of poop in the box, they seemed to think everything was okay when the parents went back in, but if I cleaned it out completely, Skittles would scream when she poked her head back in and would get very agitated I think because the nest box "looked different". The first two times I cleaned it out all the way, and I thought she was not going to go back in the box and take care of the babies she was so freaked out. It really scared me. But if I left some in, she was fine with it. Maybe something to think about the next time you clean it out, it might help you..

 

I'm sure the others are fine. It's normal that they make noise whenever mom or dad enters the nest box. It doesn't necessarily mean they are hungry, although I'm sure they get fed whenever they make noise.

 

Just keep checking on them, I really hope they are all fine. Let us know.

Thank you rainbow the bit about them making niose all the time eased my worries a lot, but the little one is dead, I just didn't want to believe when I first started that post.

 

I didn't clean it all out and in fact I just moved clean shaving that where plied up over the other side of the box in the space, already most of it has been shifted back there.

 

I read what Hath said he did and did that, got a shoebox filled it with some sawdust and then cleaned the box and but them back, freckle and pie were still eating carrot by the time I was done.

 

I'm sure they are okay, I have seen them with stuff around their beaks and sometimes bits of gunk on their back that look like half eaten seeds.

 

Just first time and all you panic at every thing that goes wrong

yes i remove the chicks completly it is sad you have lost one and i dont want to sound hard or not caring but it is something you have to get not used to but prepared for if you want to continue to breed these birds

im sorry. lots of hugs to you.

Oh nerwen,so sorry. We've all enjoyed sharing your story so far so it's right that we share this with you as well.Nature sometimes knows what she's doing and I don't think you could have done more.

Your other little ones sound be doing just great though,keep telling us about them.

 

Julie

Thank you all

 

And hath yes I understand that you need to sort of close yourself off a bit to things like this it was just that everything was going so well so someone was telling me to keep a careful watch still.

 

When I look back over his time here, I believe there may have been something wrong with him way back, becuase he was not deloping as fast as the others, he was almost a week and a half and my that time the others where getting black dots on there back the start of their fluff be he wasn't.

 

THanks again it make me feel better that people half way around the world are sending be good vibes

Edited October 22, 200420 yr by nerwen

thats so sad when you lose a little one