as you know i am trying to breed a single pair in their cage, i am providing them with a good seed/veg/fruit and grit food, (yes i know grit isnt a food i have that in a separate pot), i give them 12-14hours of daylight a day, i am providing a nest box, i just wanted to know if i can do anything extra to make them any happier or speed up the process?

Put some cuttlefish in for Mummybird, and hang some of their favourite food near the entrance to the breeding box if their not going near it

i have hung her millet next to the nest box, and i already have the cuttlefish in their, but she doesnt seem to touch it

an a mineral block, they are normaly found in a shape of a bell

 

Up the vegges a bit, lots of fresh food to a budgies mind mean's a good time to breed. Your doing all you can I jut you have to wait.

okay, i already have an iodine bell i will get a mineral block aswell, i cant seem to get them to eat their veggies, any hints on how to get them to eat them?

Just keep trying. Make the pieces smaller than their head. Try some in a dish, and some clipped to the side of the cage. A bit of leaf put in their bath water might also get eaten. They eventually get the idea, but you might have to try for weeks to get them to eat.

Breeding Budgies like to be lean and mean. That doesn't meen starving them. Make sure you stay away from oats and sunflower seed. a canary base is good and pleanty of vegtables. Endive is a great one for Budgies. Plenty of vitamins.

 

Remember as Lin and Nerwens is saying a healthy budgie is a happy budgie who wants to breed.

 

Ummm maybe a talk to Phoebe might help.

Thankyou so MUCH for nothing DAZ!! My guys are rescue birds and I have been pampering them all along with good food, millet, greens, fruit and vegetables and even when I withdrew the extras, it didn't seem to make a difference to their procreating behaviour. They just laid another egg tonight, I go to the vet in two days so shall ask about shots to stop them but that is just the opposite of your problem, all I can say is to be patient and provide them with a calm, happy environment. Good Luck to You!!! :ausb:

Thankyou so MUCH for nothing DAZ!! My guys are rescue birds and I have been pampering them all along with good food, millet, greens, fruit and vegetables and even when I withdrew the extras, it didn't seem to make a difference to their procreating behaviour. They just laid another egg tonight, I go to the vet in two days so shall ask about shots to stop them but that is just the opposite of your problem, all I can say is to be patient and provide them with a calm, happy environment. Good Luck to You!!! :ausb:

 

 

Phoebe you have some very special birds. They must have been in a viagra factory when younger. Wow.

 

You are trying to stop them breeding and other are trying to start. :feedbirds:

budgie_lover how long have you ben waiting now? counting from when the box was added.

mabey you need to wait a bit longer

Edited December 29, 200519 yr by budgie_boy

they have been in the cage together since the 10th, i wasnt saying that i need help trying to get them to breed faster, i just want to make them feel happy and safe, thanks forall the help i will follow it

sorry to but in here, but if your in england how are they getting 12 - 14 hours of sunlight per day? it only gets light at 8am and is dark by 4pm. the only way you can do it is by giving them an avian lamp... but even that doesnt contain all the natural rays of sunlight.

they have been in the cage together since the 10th, i wasnt saying that i need help trying to get them to breed faster, i just want to make them feel happy and safe, thanks forall the help i will follow it

 

I would look at removing them and give them a break of about two weeks before retrying them.

they have been in the cage together since the 10th, i wasnt saying that i need help trying to get them to breed faster, i just want to make them feel happy and safe, thanks forall the help i will follow it

I knew this wasn't for speed. But it must be ckept in mind that not all budgie will breed with the one we pick for them.

as Daz said, breeder that have more than one piar wil have by now given the piar up and swapped for another. Sometime removing the box and add it again a week or so later can help.

pixie25, i am keeping them indoors and i am providing them with artificial light, i will try removing the nest box for a week and then adding it again, if that doesnt work, i will swap the male.

Thats sounds like a good idea.

 

What you should find is the hen should start investigating the nest box within a week of being set. she will start to spend more and more time each day in the nest box before the eggs are laid. If she doesn't seem interested in the nest box it maybe that she is out of condition, the male is not suitable or she just doesn't want to breed.

 

Here cere should be just starting to turn brown

or is brown

 

 

 

 

 

If her cere is not like this, she is not in condition.

 

Give her a rest for a while and try again. Spangle's first attempt was a no show. I rested her for a month and tried again. she was laying with in 9 days. and had two clutches.

 

Greeny was the same. Her first attemp with Duey was no go. She was rested two weeks and laid at 7 days. She has 5 eggs with the first to hatch next week.

Edited December 30, 200519 yr by daz

okay cool, ill give her a rest for a week, see if she seems like she wants to breed and if not i will give her more time