Posted April 25, 200619 yr Hi, Im new an I need some help. 1.My neighbor has cockatiels and she gave me an egg.Will my budgie feed it? 2.Can you test an eggs fertility by placing it in warm water?(If it floats its fertile, sinks its not? Or is it reversed?)
April 25, 200619 yr welcome to our forums I don't know the answer to your first one but the second one I don't believe is true at all you have to candle the egg. I have a URL on it I can dig up if you need it. You say you are in Parma, is that Ohio? Or another state, just wondering because if it is Parma you live right by us
April 25, 200619 yr Why on earth did they give you an egg?!?!?!?....Is your hen going to sit on it? If shes not in breeding condition, and/or if there is no nest box that shes comfortable in, shell never lay on it, and he will be dead shortly! Id suggest you take it back to the neighbour ASAP and try to let his mom hatch him....but its probably to late now, if hes not been sat on for over even 20 minutes.... Kirby
April 25, 200619 yr Author Ohio!How old are you?By The Way she has eggs and is sitting on the egg currently.Just need to know if she'll feed it.One baby needs a name any suggestions?
April 25, 200619 yr How old?? Old enough, with 2 awesome kids and a hubby . So you live like probably 10 minutes away, now how cool is that. As for feeding a tiel, they grow at a different rate so keeping up with taking care of her own and a bigger bird could put alot of undue stress on the parents. Why didn't they keep the egg with the parents? Edited April 25, 200619 yr by lovey
April 25, 200619 yr If she's sitting on it she will feed it but as Lovey said Weiros (cockatiels) are different birds and need more food than i think a budgie can provide comfortably and stay in reasonable health. Her own babies would suffer because the biggest baby will take the most food and room in the nesting box. I also am wondering how come the egg isn't still with it's natural parents? What happened to them? Edited April 25, 200619 yr by Nerwen
April 25, 200619 yr Author Awesome!Nothing,they wont allow theres to have babies.So we took it. :angel1:
April 25, 200619 yr ohh... (Laughing out loud), sorry i was rude to you! I was soo confused! Please forgive me! As for what to do...i dont know! (Laughing out loud).... i guess try and see if she will raise it? What if when it hacthed you hand fed it! That would be aewsome, then youd have a REALLY tame pet tiel who was raised by budgies! Kirby
April 25, 200619 yr now that is an idea Kirby, you can hand feed or assist in feeding but I agree the bigger baby will get all the food and the budgie babies probably would not have a chance. Another question, why are they allowing the hen to lay eggs if they don't want babies? They need to separate the female and the male and take out any nesting boxes. Are they sure the egg is fertile? Edited April 25, 200619 yr by lovey
April 25, 200619 yr Another point to consider - is it due to hatch at the same time as the budgie eggs? She will kick eggs aside, or the babies will as they grow older.
April 25, 200619 yr I myself would thing this is a good idea. I could kinda see it if you where willing to take the hatchling from birth to hand raise that way you don't have to worry abut the safetly of your budgie babies and the extra stress on the hen. Incubation for Tiels is 19-21 days so close to a budgie. and fledge date is 30-40 days where a budgie is 30-35.
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