May 31, 200816 yr Author Today B2 layed her 5th egg so she must a needed a break and now is back laying.
June 2, 200816 yr Author i got my 6th egg today, i am very excited because i had thought she had stopped at 3.i hope some are fertile and white Df spangles.
June 2, 200816 yr Author how many days since the first egg was laid? Â Â the first egg was laid 12 days ago but i have still seen them mating.My husband went to check them yesterday and they were in the nestbox mating.
June 4, 200816 yr Author I got the 7th egg today but what i am worried about is that she does not seem able to sit on all the eggs and when ever i check her there seems to be one egg pushed to the side but it is always a different egg.
June 4, 200816 yr They rotate them :sad: she should be able to manage that many eggs... any more and it gets alot harder for them :rip:
June 4, 200816 yr Author Thnks Libby, it seems strange to me that she is still laying eggs when the first one if fertile is due to hatch on sunday.
June 4, 200816 yr 7 Eggs!!!!! Yah She'll be busy if they all hatch... especailly if she's still laying. I'm sure she'll manage fine though. They seem to know what they can handle.
June 8, 200816 yr Author Yeah, my first egg has hatched. it has only just hatch this morning but she has not feed it yet so i am hoping she knows what to do and looks after it.
June 8, 200816 yr Congratulations Deb, most of them know what to do, you just have to take the chance anyway, that’s the only way you can find out. Budgies seem to be able to handle big batches, even if the batch is large they will most likely all survive, but if too big maybe the chicks will turn out a little smaller. Do you have any other pairs that you can foster some to?
June 8, 200816 yr Congrats Deb!!! Sometimes it takes the hen a couple of hours before they feed their newly hatched chick, so dont panic yet!!
June 8, 200816 yr Author i only have one pair breeding so no foster parents but if they all hatch and she is struggling to look after them all i can handraise some. i had to handraise my last clutch from when they were a week old and they all survived.
June 9, 200816 yr Author is this their first time raising a clutch   yes but they seem to be great parents.i checked the baby a little while ago and it has a full crop.
June 9, 200816 yr Congratulation Deb on your first baby! YAH!!!!! I hope all goes well and more hatch.
June 9, 200816 yr Author second egg hatched this morning so now i have 2 cute litttle bubs,i went and candled the last egg she laid and it does not seem to be fertile.
June 11, 200816 yr Author Number 3 hatched this afternoon, it was not due to hatch till tomorrow so hopefully it will be okay.
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