Hi there...

Well... i got a problem ..

i bought three pairs of birds a some 9 months back .. four of them are now couples but i just couldnt understand the behavior of the rest two ..

one pair is currently breeding in a separate cage and they have now three babies out of five eggs:) ..

the other couple breeded earlier and hatched only one egg out of four .. the baby is now a month old ..

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now that female again had already laid SEVEN eggs .. but one of the other birds(male but am not sure) is continusoly trying to jump in the cage of breeding female and is giving her real tough time and when the breeding male comes to help his female ..the other mail hurts him too.. earlier coz of the older baby i guess the first two eggs might have gone bad . coz baby always use to play with the eggs until the parents asked him to step out of the cage:) .. now the male bird is also weekening and so is the female..coz of all this continuos breeding period.. i wonder if its normal?

but i dont have any spare cage now .. sometimes the MALE? of other pair and sometimes the FEMALE? hurts the couple by trying to hurl into the cage ..

 

is there any way to stop this? coz i am afraid to loose 4, 5 eggs out of the whole 7 coz of all this fight stuff... i do take the other pair out of cage in the room.. but coz at day time its too hot here in my side of the world so have to switch on the roof fans .. and then i have to put the birds in again ..

 

its a long explanation .. but i just thought of putting it here on forums.. someone might be there with some good suggestion..

 

also i wonder if both the other birds are females? coz i have seen of them trying to mate with one of the other males... until he have had chosen otherwise:)

 

regards,

Tahir

You could take out the bird(s) causing the fights. Also after a pair has raised babies you should give them a resting period of at least 2 months so the female can regain her weight and condition before breeding her again.

If your birds are healthy, 2 clutches in a row should be no problem. But if you are cage breeding, there should only be one pair per cage. The wayward birds should not be able to get at the pair that are currently on the nest. Especially if you suspect they are females. If at all possible, they need to be moved to a different cage. After this second clutch has fledged, I would give much more than two months before allowing them to breed again...I'd give closer to a year. Two clutches of babies puts your hen in the nest box without much of a break at all for about 5 months straight. She will be exhausted, vitamin and mineral depleted, and quite stir-crazy. It will take her a while to build up her strength and replace what her body has lost.

If your birds are healthy, 2 clutches in a row should be no problem.  But if you are cage breeding, there should only be one pair per cage.  The wayward birds should not be able to get at the pair that are currently on the nest.  Especially if you suspect they are females.  If at all possible, they need to be moved to a different cage.  After this second clutch has fledged, I would give much more than two months before allowing them to breed again...I'd give closer to a year.  Two clutches of babies puts your hen in the nest box without much of a break at all for about 5 months straight.  She will be exhausted, vitamin and mineral depleted, and quite stir-crazy.  It will take her a while to build up her strength and replace what her body has lost.

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Well my birds are healthier.. but i surely will follow the advice to not to breed them .. but as its my first experience.. so i wonder how to prevent them to mate again.. should i take the nest out of cage or what?

and i guess i have to arrange for one more cage ... to keep those other birds...

 

thanks 4 ur advice friends...

 

tahir

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but as its my first experience.. so i wonder how to prevent them to mate again.. should i take the nest out of cage or what?

 

 

You can't stop them from mateing unless you split the boys from girls.

If they have started to lay eggs for the third time and still have young in the nest you can put those eggs in with another female who is sisting for the first or second time. then when the babies are out of the nest block the nest or take it out.

 

good luck.

 

(just fixed your quote no rule breaking here -N)

Edited April 25, 200520 yr by nerwen

remove the box once the clutch has fledged. If you haven't another female sitting they will lose the eggs if any in there. And since you are getting another cage now for the none breeding birds once the nest is gone oyu can split them into males and females.

i have separated the fighitng birds in other cage... and today i can see two lil babies with this couple of mine too... rest five eggs are out there.. I AM EXCITED . but

now the old baby is trying to jump in the cage.. and i can observe that when he hear the sounds of lil babies he tries to enter in ... and gets punishment from MOM .. who once loved him a lot (I know she still do.. she is mother) ...

but should i shift the baby into other cage with those two fighitng birds.. he might be beaten up by them out there..???

 

thanks always...

If he is still being fed by the parent birds, I'd leave him in. It's normal for the babies that have come out of the nest box to want to get back in for a few days. Either the hen will let them back in or she won't. The new babies need to be eating on their own for at least 10 days before you remove them from the parents. Congratulations on all the babies!