Yay one of Saff's eggs that I fostered to Isis has hatched. However Isis's babies are already 2 weeks old. I'm worried that they will trample the new baby. I don't think i can really give the baby back to Saffy as she is staying ff the nest now and she let all her other eggs go cold last night.

What do you think I should do. For now I am going to take the two older babies out and put them in a box in side the cage so that the father can feed them. Is this a good idea? Help!

Thankyou very much for your replies.

Edited February 11, 200718 yr by Sailorwolf

I don't know the answer but good luck. You may want to PM bubbles she has had much experience with fostering.

I just hope the older babies don't get chilled. They have down.

two weeks is a bit young still to be from mum. It's a risk with bigger bubs in the nest but they are hardy little things.

Well it survived the night. It hatched around 1 am this morning. I'm just worried, because my last baby got squashed and died only one day after hatching. Should I put a divider up in the nest box?

 

Well I put the babies back in the nest box. I'll just have to hope that the little one doesn't get squashed. I think it has a good chance as Isis sits on it but the bigger babies sit around Isis.

Probably your last experience has you worried. A dead chick in the nest always appears squashed even though it may not have been the real reason it died, so the previous "squashed" chick may not have died due to larger chicks sitting on it. If a baby budgie can wriggle about and move out of the way of parents and siblings when it needs to it will be fine. If you notice, when you look in a nest with babies, parents step all over the top of their newborns and they handle that well enough....tough little things.

I moved a chick once but the siblings were much larger and it was getting lost in the nest. I would leave your chicks as is and watch them closely. I think you will be fine, really

Yay thankyou. Yes. Isis stood on it before, but it was okay. It still has its little umbilical cord

Unfortunately the baby died.

I found it squashed. I'm quite sad about it. :angel1:

Poor little thing

Unfortunately the baby died.

I found it squashed. I'm quite sad about it. :angel1:

Poor little thing

Oh....how upsetting I am sorry you have had to go through this again .....BIG HUGS :angel1:

Thank you.

 

I thought maybe if I put a small ring of cardboard around the next one that might help to save it.

Edited February 7, 200718 yr by Sailorwolf

I lost a newborn today too, so I know how sad you feel. Mine were new parents and they didnt see the need to feed it. When I found out it was too late.

Yay thankyou. Yes. Isis stood on it before, but it was okay. It still has its little umbilical cord

 

Sailorwolf, what do you mean "It still has its little umbilical cord " that is not good. that means that the yolk had not receaded to the chick before hatching. It wasn't going to make it anyway. I am sorry for you lost. I just read this post.

hugs to both your loses Sailor and Kaz

So very sorry to hear about this Sailorwolf, take care.

Sorry to hear abotu your baby Kaz. It's sad when you find it all cold. :oliveb:

 

Daz: It's umbilical cord was just really the dry wispy remains of it. It looked like a hair. So I don't think that was it.

It had its yolk in its tummy. When I found it dead, though, it looked like it had been ruptured inside from being squished.

Edited February 8, 200718 yr by Sailorwolf

Well I have done what I did last time and have taken the older babies out of a nest box and put them in another box just outside the nestbox in the cage. Hopefully dad will feed them. I'll put them back in the nest at night time and bring them out again the next day, until the newest baby is strong enough to stand up to being squished.

Well I have done what I did last time and have taken the older babies out of a nest box and put them in another box just outside the nestbox in the cage. Hopefully dad will feed them. I'll put them back in the nest at night time and bring them out again the next day, until the newest baby is strong enough to stand up to being squished.

Sounds like a good plan :ausb:

Yay. It has purple eyes too. They aren't black like the last baby and they aren't red like a lutino. They are purple. What does that mean?

I just hope it manages to survive the night. The bigger babies don't move so much during the night.

I handfed it before and he lapped it right up. He is quite lively.

Edited February 9, 200718 yr by Sailorwolf

Arkady isn't feeding the older ones. So I thought maybe one of my other budgies might. Stupid idea. Saffy bit one on the head and now it is bleeding. It has clotted.

So I put the poor little babies inside with their mummy, so thay can get some food and then I will take them out again.

In the end the parents started feeding them outside the box. I put them back in at night, to find that another baby had hatched that day! The babies all went to sleep and I woke up this morning to take the older babies out and I put them back out. But Arkady started biting them. I had no choice, but to put them back in the nest box and hope for the best for the other two babies. I just checked on them then and they are great!

 

The funny thing about the third baby, apart from the fact that it hatched on the same day as the second chick, was that it came from one of the eggs that Saffron abandoned and let go cold. I thought I might as well put them under Isis as they looked fertile anyway and I got a baby! From an egg that was stone cold only 5 days ago.

Hi Sailorwolf, am getting mighty confused here, how many babies do you now have? Sorry for all the problems you are encountering, you have wanted the babies for so long. :greenb:

Sorry that you lost the young one. I hope these next two will make it through.

 

As to the cold egg baby, the only thing I can think of it they might have felt cold but they were not cold long enough for the growing chick inside to die.

Mum budgies also rotate the eggs under them so sometimes when you look in the egg thats out and off to the side might have only just been moved there out of the rotation. Then they pull it back under and another eggs stays out for awhile.

In saying that, a lot of my hens abandoned their nests over a hot few days we had here, until I installed the airconditioning for them. I fully expected a whole lot of eggs to have dead in shell chicks, but all is fine and checks are still hatching.

Saffy had completely abandoned the nest.

What do you think the purple eyes could mean?

Saffy had completely abandoned the nest.

What do you think the purple eyes could mean?

I am still unsure of the purple or plum looking eye thing too. BUT a lot of my babies born to recessive pieds start out with plum eyes and also those born to spangles and some cinnamons have too. Hopefully an answer awaits us from some knowledgable person on here

Edited February 10, 200718 yr by Bubbles