Please give me some advice!!!!! I have four babies areouind 2 weeks old in one nesting box and 2 about 4 weeks in another. There is another two budgies have started breeding in another... The younger set of bugdies have been attacked by the three females ..... I have taken the box with the littlies in it out... I found one of them on the floor of the aviary bleeding slighlty on his rear end They all seem to have similar marks in their rumps, some more bad than the others. One is bleeding really badly. He still seems alert though !!! What do I do????? I cant separate the mother and the chicks cos the mother is one of the ones that are attacking them???? Can IO keep them and hand rear 6them??? One of the babies is just past 1 week are they too young??????

 

Help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By the sound of it you are colony breeding which a lot of people don't like for this exact reason, the hens fight. The 4 week old babies can be separated into a separate cage with their dad because at that age their dad is the main carer. The others you can either hand rear yourself (you would need someone experienced to show you how or you could try fostering the newest chicks into the nest with the 2 week old babies then removing the other hen. That's all i can really think of. Hope it helps. You should probably have some handrearing mix and a syringe on hand just incase the dads won't feed the babies or for some other reason you need to take over.

 

By the way, i've moved this topic to where more people with breeding experience are likely to see it.

Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!!

Do you know what I could do with the baby thatr is bleeding? Will he be okay with hias parents??

Has the bleeding stopped now? If not you could put some corn flour on it which helps to stop bleeding (i think normal flour is fine too). It should be fine with it's parents just make sure there's no more attacks. If there is then you should remove it.

YAY!!! I have put them back with their parents and they are fine. They are in a seperate breeding cabinet. Thankyou Bea!!!!

No problems, i hope everything goes well from now on.

How are things going know? I hope everythings okay. :bluebudgie:

An injured budgie needs to be seen by a vet, not just tossed back in with the parents. Even if the bleeding's stopped, you said one was bleeding very badly. Please at leat have that one seen, it's probably in quite a bit of pain.