Question category: Breeding

Not sure what to do in this situation

One of my male parakeets bred with two females? His mate Birdie has been trying to lay eggs but while she was trying to do that he got a little naughty with one of my other females Bluie but she was trying to take over the other girl’s nesting box and made her break one […]

infertile egg

hi my cockatiel just laid an infertile egg yesterday. My question is should i remove the egg from her?

Breeding issue

My cockatiel was matting but no egg laying.. What was the reason?

Newborn Cockatiel not being fed

My two young cockatiels recently breeded, and one of the eggs just hatched this morning (I’m not sure exactly what time, but we found it at around 8 in the morning, dry and clean). However, it’s been 8-12 hours and we haven’t seen any signs of the mother feeding it. She is sitting on it […]

Lovebird trouble laying eggs

Hello, My lovebird has laid eggs several times before and usually lays an egg every other day when she’s laying with a total of 5-6 eggs being laid. She is due to lay another clutch of eggs; however, a couple of weeks ago we noticed she was sleeping more often on the bottom of her […]

Love bird mutations

What if black mask mauve female is crossed with white head albino male Or Black mask mauve female cross with hybrid orange head green male

Eggs

How do you stop the conure from laying eggs?

Not Laying Eggs

My lovebird are not laying eggs, I know that I have a male and female, and I know that they are mating, but I have never had any eggs from them.They have a house that they can go into so I don’t know why there aren’t laying eggs.I have had them as a pair for […]

Health of my bird

My cockatile pair has laid eggs. After laying they are not eating properly. Their dropping looks like they have dysentery. Is it because of the sunny weather? Or should I change my diet or any changes I should do for them to get better.

Breeding

Mama finch tries to sit on her eggs but papa finch wont leave her alone. He keeps trying to fight her when she sits in the nest.

New finch owner mistake

Hi. A week ago I bought my husband a pair of 3 month old finches, a cage, and of course all the things for inside the cage. I didn’t know until today that I should not have put a cup nest in the cage. They both slept in the open nest at night and didn’t […]

My budgies just won’t breed

Hi! I have two budgies male and female I give them both chopped up fruits and veggies however instead of a breeding box they have a little fluffy house and strangely my male budgie is SMALLER than my female and so I just thought that was it plus he bites a bit but he feeds […]

Cockatiel

How do I know when she is pregnant

Bird Shredding Paper

My Cockatiel loves to shred paper. I am about to run out of a 2 inch roll of shredding paper that I purchased from Drs. Foster and Smith, before they went out of business. I put the paper on the top of her cage, where it also protects the lower cage area from her droppings. […]

Male Cockatiel Attacking Mate in Nestbox

Female is sitting on eggs. Male serenades her and, when she doesn’t respond, attacks her. I’ve shut him out of the cage and nest box for tonight. Both birds have food and water readily accessible. Can the female nest alone?

Cockatiel. Breeding

I have I have a pair of cockatiels they just laid an egg and they took all the nesting material out before should I put some in the nest box or just leave it alone

Sunconure eggs

My sunconure has laid 3 eggs for the first time . its been 1 month .what do I do now. After seeing a lot of YouTube videos I came to know at the first mistakes may happen.but they have a very good bond.will I be able to incubate the eggs ?

Finch eggs

My zebra finches layed alot of eggs but not hatching. Its been 17 days. What should i do? Thank you

Lovebird laid first egg.

I have 2 lovebirds that are just over 3 years old, over this time they have both displayed mating behaviour but never had any eggs. For this reason we believed that they were 2 boys. Very recently on of them laid an egg. Is there a reason why one of them has started to lay […]

Laying Eggs

Hello, I have a female and male cockatiel. They both are about 2 years old. The female laid eggs for the first time. She laid 5 from March 3 to March 7th. They still have not hatched. How much longer should I wait before considering taking them out? About two days ago, she threw one […]

Hormonal Eclectus

any suggestions to prevent my 12 Year old Eclectus hen from laying eggs and then acting like “chickie mama” on the bottom of her cage for weeks…. I have tried covering her cage at night but she is terrified of the dark

Mating

Hi, I have two birds right now, a Monk parrot, male, and a Green Cheek Conure, female. My Monk parrot is one year old and my Conure is 10 months old, I believe, when we got her she was 4 or 5 months old, or at least that’s what they told me. I have two […]

Will my conures breed?

Hi I have a pair of conures both around 3 years of age I was told they bred last year, since I’ve hooked up the breeding box they have both been in it and only come out for food and water I also hear her scratching around a lot in the box and see she […]

My male green cheek conure attacked the female

Why did he attack her? I have two green cheek conures for breeding. I’ve had these two for a few months now in hopes for them to mate with each other. I’ve never seen them to close until yesterday I saw them going at it. But today the male attacked the female until she bled. […]

Male cockatiel attacking female

Hello, we have two cockatiels, a male and a female. When we first got them, we thought both were male, but we saw them trying to mate and one eventually laid infertile eggs so we gave her a nest box. The male didn’t care, and left her alone. On the female’s third-or-so clutch, the male […]

Unknown Budgie Egg????

Hey Lafeber, Background (all BUDGIES): 1 female, 1 male MATED: Kids: Batch1 – 6 months old(3 females, 3 males), Batch2 – 1 month old(2 unknown gender) The first 6 kids were totally fine, we supported our pair in their mating. All 8 of them lived together in a cage, when we saw the parents mating […]

Female’s behaviour is odd

Hi My Female (and male) have laid 6 eggs & now the first one has hatched today. She is in the nest box with the baby & 5 other eggs, the male is on “watch”. She is acting quite strange in the box, shuffling around, banging her beak & generally not calm. Is this because […]

Do hen lovebirds need to sit on their egg solidly for 21-23days?

Hello. I have a bonded pair of lovebirds both basal at 11 months old, they have 5 eggs and the female have been setting on it for 14days. Should the hen sit on the eggs solidly for 21days? Or is it ok for the hen to occassionally leave her eggs to eat or play for […]

High zebra finch nesting box

I have two zebra finches that have laid and almost time to see if we get any chicks. They have done such a great job taking care of the eggs but,one thing that is playing on my mind is that they used one of their food boxes to nest in and it’s right at the […]

Lovebird breeding

I have a 3 yr old pair of lovebirds. the female wants to lay eggs every time she is able. most of the eggs are infertile or die in the shell. in the past year only 1 egg has hatched successfully. any idea what is going on? Add’l info on lovebirds: I just acquired these […]

Breeding duties

Do the males & females share the duties of sitting on the eggs & feeding the chicks?

Greater Vasa Parrot

What about the Greater Vasa Parrot (reproduction) since they’re so unusual compared to other parrots?

Slow Crop

Hi Brenda, Good day to you. My 3 weeks cockateil baby had slow crop. Mean to say, the food/formula in baby’s crop still remain a little, not empty at all even my last fed was 12 hours. 1) What could be the reason for slow crop? 2) How to prevent slow crop? 3) What are […]

Mamma cockatiel flew away

Hello, I have a pair of cockatiel seating on 4 eggs, tragically the Female flew out of the Aviary today, she is very tame so I was hoping she would return but a couple of hours have passed and she did not return. The dad is still seating on the eggs but they usually take […]

Zebra Finches

My zebra finch has laid a few times,no chicks hatched,twice the chicks have been dead in the egg, why is this?will she ever have any which will hatch

Lovebirds

I have a pair of lovebirds on 5 egg due any day the hen got out cage lastnight so roughly 12 hrs eggs where cold she back in sitting on them will these eggs hatch

2 little blue eggs

I found 2 little blue bird eggs in my mailbox. I previously noticed a bird flying in & out of my mailbox. It hasn’t been back to the nest in over 3 months, that I’ve noticed. Could the baby birds still hatch. If so how long does it take.

Conure laying eggs

Hi so my sun conure laid 2 eggs. 1 of which I know she laid today as it was on the cage floor and broken as if she pecked at it. I removed the broken egg. The other I took out of her bed but put it back…I didn’t know she was nesting and took […]

breeding

My male cockatiel is 9 months old and my female cockatiel is 8 months old. Can they mate now coz they are actually interested in each other and my male makes the call. Is it good to breed now or should I separate them?

Eggs Chirping!!!

Hi, my cockatiel pair laid 3 eggs, with the first one being exactly 21 days today. I checked on the box today and all tree eggs are there intact. However, I hear little chirps coming from the eggs, and it is not the parents or any other bird but the eggs. I don’t know if […]

Female cockatiel

I have had Toots, my female cockatiel now for almost 4 years. She has laid 8 eggs since February 8th. 2batches of 4. I have moved the cage, toys and am concerned. I have had mostly male birds in past so this is very new to me.

Lovebird mating

We got a pair of lovebirds in December. The seller stated they were a pair and already had a clutch. They seem very bonded, and have each tried to mate each other so we thought perhaps we had the male and female mixed up. But doesn’t seem like they have successfully mated and no eggs […]

Conure flock fighting

Hi i have a rescued bonded male and female Green cheek and yellow sided conure that are 6yrs old that are tame. They had 2 clutches 2 years apart (offspring now 2yrs and 4yrs old offspring not hand tame only stick trained) i dont want babies and the entire 8 birds lived together until now […]

Laying eggs

My bird cocktaiel lay her 1st egg before 10 days back and the another egg she has given now does this happens so much of gap between previous egg n second egg

Conures breeding

I have a pair of pineapple conures, the girl is 1, and the boy is 3. They are really happy together. There are signs that they want to mate, but there is no nesting box. Will they still mate without a nesting box?

Bare eyed laid an egg

So our Bare eyed cockatoo laid an egg today. Do we remove it of find a blank for her to sit on

One egg

Will the female budgie sit only on one egg till it’s hatched?

Budgies birds

Hello ? I have a pair of budgie the problem is the male doesn’t breed the female, every time when the female is ready the male just stand next to her ? and sometimes after that the female fights the male. Please ? answer me

Budgies

My budies are breeding and they also lay one egg but she don’t sit on the eggs . Is there is any problem

Why is my male budgie not breeding!?

I have a male budgie who’s about 1 year old and his cere also looks like he’s mature enough to breed. But when the female accepts to mate, he just climbs on her and do nothing. I don’t know why he won’t do anything after flirting for so long

Cockatiel is being weird

Hi! My cockatiel lived with me for 3 years. He never really bonded with me but he does come onto my hands. All he wants is his mirror. I got a girl for him 2 months ago and he seems to not like her at all. He just wants to spend the whole day with […]

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