Hi Friends !

 

I hope all is well and great !

 

My name is Kush and I'm from India.

 

Recently me and my Wife got a few Budgies for my Baby boy and there are about 14 of them in a Big Cage. We have fixed 7 Mud Pots with holes in them in the cage and the Bugies have made them their homes.

 

The birds have started laying eggs but strangely none of the eggs have hatched. Infact within 2 to 3 days of the Egg being layed, the eggs are thrown out of the nest and it falls to the floor and breaks. We really would be very happy to see the eggs getting hatched and new babies coming out.

 

I request you friends, to kindly guide me what is wrong with these Birds and why are they throwing out their babies.

 

Kindly advice and help me, Friends...

Thanks and Regards

Kush

Hi Kush and welcome.

 

Unfortunately, the problem lies in the way you are trying to breed your birds...you are doing what is called colony breeding and it is the hardest way to breed budgies. The females are not throwing out their own eggs. Other females are choosing the nest another female is laying her eggs in. In choosing the other females nest they then set about "cleaning it out" ready for their own use. Cleaning it out means throwing out any eggs in it. If there was chicks in the nest they would be killed and thrown out too. They need twice as many nests as there are pairs of birds. The cage for 14 breeding budgies would need to be HUGE...more an aviary rather than a cage.

Best and safest way to breed birds is to have a cage they live and play in with no nests and remove a pair to a seperate cage to breed....just two budgies with one nest in a seperate cage. There will be less stress on the birds and less deaths and broken eggs this way. Stress means sickness to birds...they get ill with stress and stress is breeding and stress is fighting for competition for nests and space and over partners.

 

How old is your baby boy ?

Edited June 8, 200915 yr by KAZ

As kaz said, this happens a lot with colony breeding, i colony breed myself, the hen's did this for the first month, and now all the pairs have chosen their box and are laying without problems or fights, i like to think myself lucky it turned out like this, what i would suggest is putting more box's in, or take out the trouble makers. so the pair can nest peacefully.