hello again! it has been a while since i popped in here and today i need some help.

 

i have 3 pairs.

one of them is okay the stay together and occasinaly have eggs and thats it.

now one of the probs is that the two other males want and feed this one female and have eggs.

the other female seems to be alone as she had her male and he escaped. before with him she seemed to be very close.

they are all in one big cage with 2 cockatiels.

 

now the biggest prob.

 

i have not had a young servive until he is old enough to come out of the nest. once i found one chick out on the bottom of the cage and after three days out he died. this was the closest of having a baby out of the nest. and most of the time like yesterday i go and feed them and peep in the nest and i try to be very discret and i was shocked not to find from five eggs none(this was in the nest of that female with two males). another episode was when i peeped in a nest where there were two chicks and i found one dead i removed it, cleaned the nest from the dead baby and dirt with disenfectant and two days after i find the other which was about 3 to 4 weeks old dead.

 

help me please

thanks

can any one help

i dont breed so i dont know if this is of any use to you or not, but do you think it would be wise to sparte them into 3 pairs rather than them all being together?

 

i dont know if budgies are very terratorial breeders and this example might be a bit farfetched...but a male lion will kill another males babies when it takes over a pride, maybe one of the males is destroying the eggs?

 

also, how long have they been trying to breed for, if you try too many times sometimes the birds and chicks can suffer with calcium deficiency?

 

this is only novice advice from a non breeder, so these are only suggestions.

Hi there I known it is very sad when you find a dead baby,

But some times mummy bird is not a good mummy and will abandoned her young or even atrtack them for what seems like no good reason,

I have had this happen on several occassions for no apparrent rerason ,

The only way around this is to have several pairs breeding at the same time so you can transfer babies from one nest to another.

GILLL.

Pixie, one time i bred with 2 males and one female in the breeding cage. I didn't know which one the daddy was! Neither did they, they both pitched in and fed and cared for the mummy bird.

 

Maybe if the mummy bird isn't looking after the babies properly she shouldn't be bred again. It's a huge stress on the mummies body to raise chicks and if they aren't surviving then the stress probably isn't worth it.

well then i will leave them do it alone and as they are! i do not think that they are terratorial at all

It sounds a bit stressful on the birds. Maybe you shouldn't breed them? If it's not working then something is wrong. The female is probably in need of a bit of a rest anyway.

thanks bea thats very interesting and i learned something new today... thats so not the way i would have thought they would act though! mine would fight over an empty seed husk if they found one!

 

maltabudgie how long have they been trying to breed? if you let them continuously try to breed they may do themselves a bit of harm

An empty seed husk you think??? Surely that's a bit excessive!!! :(Laughing out loud):

 

Maltabudgie, i really really really think you should stop trying to breed at least for a little while!!! it's probably cause the female a lot of strain to keep laying eggs and raising chicks with no success.

Hi maltabudgie, good to see you here again.

 

I would Take out the cockatiels...

Edited March 30, 200520 yr by Rainbow

:bluebudgie:

Hi there

Well my advice would be

Go out and buy separate cages with breeding box attached

I don?t know if you could get them where you live

If not make your own.

I sometimes run my breeding budgies twice being if they have raised only two or three chicks there not stressed

If they have raised a brood of six or more then give them a six month rest

With budgies there not like cockatoos which mate for life

You can move your budgies around to suit your self

I myself keep records and change my birds around making sure not to inbreed that is breading sister to brother that?s a no no

As for the cockatiels I would put them in a separate cage

The only birds I have with budgies are quails canaries and finches

Before you start breading feed your budgies up for about three months

By giving them plenty of greens and lots of treats

Well I hope this helps you out and all the best with your breading program

Why do you fatten them up? I read that you shouldn't breed with heavy frame or overweight budgies as breeding will make them fatter and make it harder for them to fly. I have also experienced this...

no i dont agree with fattening them up feed them the best quality (but you should do that anyway) and ensure thw conditions are at the best

Fat budgies are sad. Buzz is fat (but steadily slimming down) and at first after breeding she would try to fly one foot and would drop to the ground. I had to put a branch from the ground to the caged sides so she wasn't stranded on the ground!!! She can now fly from perch to perch but it requires some effort. :bluebudgie:

Edited March 30, 200520 yr by Bea

Fat budgies mm

Overweight budgies would not be and ideal way of breeding

It just an expression I use to say I?m feeding them the best and there condition is tip top

Feed your birds plenty of greens and good quality food mix and cannot go wrong

I also feed mine gum tree leaves off the gum nut tree which they love nearly as much as millet sprays

My prime objective is to breed the biggest and the nicest budgies ever and hopefully I will achieve this

Crikey am I starting to bore you

Hopefully not

Well I hope this answers all your questions and by for now

My budgies also love gum leaves!!!!

hello again! it has been a while since i popped in here and today i need some help.

 

i have 3 pairs.

one of them is okay the stay together and occasinaly have eggs and thats it.

now one of the probs is that the two other males want and feed this one female and have eggs.

the other female seems to be alone as she had her male and he escaped. before with him she seemed to be very close.

they are all in one big cage with 2 cockatiels.

 

now the biggest prob.

 

i have not had a young servive until he is old enough to come out of the nest. once i found one chick out on the bottom of the cage and after three days out he died. this was the closest of having a baby out of the nest. and most of the time like yesterday i go and feed them and peep in the nest and i try to be very discret and i was shocked not to find from five eggs none(this was in the nest of that female with two males). another episode was when i peeped in a nest where there were two chicks and i found one dead i removed it, cleaned the nest from the dead baby and dirt with disenfectant and two days after i find the other which was about 3 to 4 weeks old dead.

 

help me please

thanks

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Well back to the original subject

Take my advice and get separate cages with breeding boxes attached and you will have no problems at all

By for now and have a good day

An empty seed husk you think??? Surely that's a bit excessive!!! :fear  :(Laughing out loud):

 

Maltabudgie, i really really really think you should stop trying to breed at least for a little while!!! it's probably cause the female a lot of strain to keep laying eggs and raising chicks with no success.

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sometimes when i let them play on the floor they go round like little chickens pecking and trying to find loose seeds that have fallen when i refill their seed pots. they mainly find husks and will actually bicker over who gets to eat the crumbs! that is...before they actually realise that it is only a husk! :(Laughing out loud):

Gosh......that's pretty obessive!

Well this is a cage with a breeding box attached it was internally attached but I moved it out side so I could have more space.

Cost about $39.95 Australian

And being made of timber you can replace the breeding box when it gets a bit shabby

I wash mine out after every nest with disinfectant and replace any worn parts like the floor or the entrance

A replacement breeding box cost $4.50 and I use about 3 a year per breeding cage

 

 

Ahah.....do i spy Agro and wife????

thankyou all especially "homer" but the think is that i still live with my parents and ever bit of space i get a lot of grumbling so it is better not to for now but will keep it in mind when i move to my place. what i will surely do is remove the nest boxes for now so they rest.Now if i remove them, and at the moment i have a chick which layed her eggs about 15 days ago will it effect her, i mean the others will not try to take her box? i think not

right now i have two hens on eggs on with 4 which are supposed to hatch soon if they are fertile and the other has started to lay hers till now she has two

they are starting to hatch!

wow you must be really excited! i hope all goes well and we can see some pictures soon!