I was wondering what the largest clutch size you have had raised by the parents only. Mine is 7. It was amazing to watch, it was the cleanest nest I have ever had and the mother bird was always moving the babies around so that the 2 week old didn't squish the newborn. Most of my other birds will only hatch 3-4 of their 4-6 eggs or have the smallest one die.

 

 

I had the 7 babies in a lunch box while I cleaned the nest. Most of my breeders are tame and just watch me play with the babies.

Clean, perfectly fluffy babies I kept the older of the clearbodies (it was a bright green clear body, and had purple cheek patches, and after his first moult, was the most amazing buttercup colour). Unfortunately he, and his terrific and wonderful mother were both victims of my rat story that I have posted in the Budgie Safety forum. I kept the yellow too and she is going strong with a sky blue mate

 

 

On a side note:

I have tried to foster babies before (once) and it failed miserably so I have never tried it again. I have fostered an egg to a mother who never successfully bred herself, who had clear eggs at the time. What I found interesting was that this was the 5th and final egg of the clutch. This baby grew up and left the nest at the same time as its second oldest sibling. Just shows what extra attention the fostered egg was offered to grow up effectively nearly a week faster than its siblings.

Edited December 30, 201113 yr by SarahC

Ten for me...... but some of their were adopted

 

TEN BABIES....Custard and Puddings and adopted....

 

1. theirs YF cinnamon cobalt dom pied

 

2. theirs cobalt dom pied

 

3. theirs cinnamon violet dom pied

 

4. adopted

 

5. adopted

 

6. adopted

 

7. adopted

 

8. adopted

 

9. adopted

 

10. adopted cinnamon violet

 

and Custard and Pudding

 

 

Kaz - 10 - wow they must have been excellent parents. Did you add in the others in as babies or eggs? I think the pair I had could have done it, I wish they were around to try! - unlike some birds where they look really tired after raising only a few babies, these birds looked fresh and you wouldn't have even noticed that they'd just had a nest.

 

PS - I love your birds! I have a soft spot for pieds, make them violet or Yf and wow! Thanks for sharing.