Posted March 3, 200916 yr I never meant to breed my birds. It happened and now I am taking responsibility for the babies. pulling at 53 seconds: I moved mom the smaller cage in the video so I can watch her feed the babies and stop the plucking. I saw some blood on one of the babies from plucking. Why is she doing this? I move the babies back to the nest box in a cage with dad, but dad does not feed them.
March 3, 200916 yr I never meant to breed my birds. It happened and now I am taking responsibility for the babies. pulling at 53 seconds: I moved mom the smaller cage in the video so I can watch her feed the babies and stop the plucking. I saw some blood on one of the babies from plucking. Why is she doing this? I move the babies back to the nest box in a cage with dad, but dad does not feed them. i cant awnser your question birds do it for diffrent reasons but i say take chicks away and buy hand rearing mix go to vet to be shown how to feed the young birds propply and DONT BREED AGAIN how could it be an accident if their was a breeding box as for vid i think your stupid to even allow it to happen even to show anyone sorry but honestly mate either find someone who has lots of time to rear it is a big job or find someone with birds on chicks around the same age thats all i can say oh apart from mabe read what daz wrote on hand rearing in here somewhere if anyone can place it here a link for this chap i would be thankful cheers Edited March 3, 200916 yr by GenericBlue
March 3, 200916 yr She looks unimpressed by them. I agree with Generic Blue. It looks like you need to hand rear them as the mother has lost interest and the father isn't interested in feeding either. It is probably caused by stress. Most birds like privacy when nesting and these guys look like they are in a pretty small cage. Also anxieties from the owner is proven to transfer to the nesting bird. It is essential to be relaxed when birds are breeding. Hand rearing is not easy and is devastating when it goes wrong. I would take the babies to your vet and ask them for feeding demonstrations and lessons. If you are not comfortable feeding the babies yourself, then you need to quickly find someone experienced who will do it - possibly surrender them to a vet. Good luck with them and please do not give the parents a box. Link on handrearing ---> http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...hlight=handrear Edited March 3, 200916 yr by **Liv**
March 3, 200916 yr I never meant to breed my birds. It happened and now I am taking responsibility for the babies. pulling at 53 seconds: I moved mom the smaller cage in the video so I can watch her feed the babies and stop the plucking. I saw some blood on one of the babies from plucking. Why is she doing this? I move the babies back to the nest box in a cage with dad, but dad does not feed them. I agree with advice Liv has given you. I wish you had been able to come to us sooner though. In moving the chicks you have actually caused the issue where Dad wont feed them. If they had been left in the original nestbox, the first thing you should have tried was to put a clear cover on the nestbox. That would have made mum feed them but not stay in the nest long enough to pluck them. If you put a block of wood in the nestbox for her to chew on it helps also, as does seed in the nestbox. But the second thing that WAS worth trying was to remove Mum far enough away so the Dad didnt hear her and then allow him to find the chicks in the nestbox and feed them. Now that you have changed the original location of the chicks both by nestbox change and cage change you will not get parents feeding them....they will be interested in whats going on with the new arrangement and not with the chicks. Handfeeding as you have been advised, for the inexperienced is hard. Urgent attention must now be paid to getting these chicks under a foster parent ( another breeding budgie with her won chicks ) or you need to be shown how to care for them by an experienced person. Edited March 3, 200916 yr by KAZ
March 4, 200916 yr Try puting a couple of millet sprays in the nest box, that works some time & stops the feather picking.
March 4, 200916 yr so you know i was not being nasty although reading this topic to see others advice it may of sounded that way im sorry i called you stupid just frustrates me to see so many people on this forum get fantastic advice from the well known and trusted members (me not being one of thoughs im just a novice breeder) and yet still repeating or comming back with same questions it didnt even pass through my mind that you may be even new here so but new or not i had no right to atack you in that way everyone here (well almost everyone) has been so kind and acomidating to me and id hate for you to think this place is unfrendly as it is far from it with some the best knolage out their so my sencere apoligys and please see i was only concered for welfair of chicks still no reason to be so abrupt hope all goes well the advice you have been given i hope you concider and best luck gb
March 4, 200916 yr I noticed in the vid that the hen seemed to be looking for certain seeds. I don't know what mix you are feeding but some hens just won't feed a variety they will select one type of seed and that's that. I had a couple hens over the years that come breeding would only feed White Millet. If she is being selective then provide what she is feeding in greater quanitity. Make up for balanced diet by feeding vegies and put vitamins in water. As for plucking it seems the hen was plucked as a youngster as she bears the results herself. Edited March 4, 200916 yr by RIPbudgies
March 4, 200916 yr Author I am not a breeder. Last year my wife brought home two budgies that some lady did not want anymore. The hen never really wanted anything to do with the cock. As it started getting colder I put in a towel into the cage so the birds would stay warm. I also started putting a towel over the cage at night to retain the heat in the cage. The cock deciced he really liked the towel and started have "humping" the towel. A month later mom started laying eggs. At that time I figured I better get a nest box for her. I moved mom to the small cage after I saw her plucking their feathers out and one baby had blood on both sides of his wings. I keep dad and the babies in the big cage but he rarely approaches the nest box. Mom would chase him away from her all the time and she would not let him eat. I'm very surprised they had babies. I feed mom a variety of different mixed seeds. So the hen was plucked as a baby. I asked so many people why she was bald on her front and back. Thanks for finally solving the mystery for me. When I put all three birds in mom's cage I noticed she will feed the oldest, second oldest and then sometimes the youngest. She has been going after the youngest more often, plucking his feathers and not feeding him too much. Mom will feed the birds for a while and then start plucking a feather here and there, going to eat more seed and plucking more feathers or feeding one of the older babies. I feel bad for the youngest since he has splayed legs and can not get around to well. I put a hobble on him but one foot is still turned towards hid behind. I noticed a what looks like a fluid filled sack with some yellow stuff floating around in it on the side of the babies back. I assume the yellow stuff is fat. It looks like a big blister. It looks delicate. What is that? Edited March 4, 200916 yr by powerpete
March 7, 200916 yr Author Here are some pics of the legs http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/p...09/CIMG0435.jpg http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/p...09/CIMG0436.jpg http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/p...09/CIMG0437.jpg
March 7, 200916 yr Here are some pics of the legs http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/p...09/CIMG0435.jpg http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/p...09/CIMG0436.jpg http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu119/p...09/CIMG0437.jpg Why the bandages ?
March 7, 200916 yr treating splayed legs is quite tricky. Too tight and the circulation is cut off, too lose and they come off, too much bandage and the baby cant stand, too little bandage and it doesn't support the legs. Its really interesting that you said the mother was plucked. I have always sworn that chicks that were plucked in the nest are very likly to pluck their babies when breeding. Its a really sad thing and it must be stopped as she will damage the babies feathers to the point where they wont grow back
March 7, 200916 yr Here is an article on how to treat splayed legs http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=14002 Hope it helps. Are you sure the legs are splayed or do the chciks have rickets. Rickets displays as chciks suddenly laying on their backs with legs in spasms stretched out towards the tail. The photos showing the chicks do not seem to show they have a quantity of food in the crop and also they or it is looking dehydrated and lacking in nutrition. Weak legs can come from that. What do the chicks look like before you out that bandage setup on ? By the way....the bandage setup if you are trying to fix splayed legs, will result in a chick that can only lay on its back and not get around. Happy to advise you further to help these little chicks out
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