Question category: Breeding

Sister Wives?

I have a male cockatiel who had been without his companion for about a year when we decided to adopt 2 female sister cockatiels from someone needing to find them a home. At first I kept them separate from my male but he was so curious and after a few weeks I allowed them to […]

baby cockatiels

Two of my babies have left the next box, two are reluctant, I’ll give it a few more day. Their parents are already attempting to mate again, how do i stop this?

My cockatiels

My cockatiels are 2 years old and they have been mating for a month now but the female won’t lay eggs but I did notice both of them sleeping in the nest these past few days

Eggs

I had my cocktail for 2years plus. I can assume it’s a male bird since no eggs were laid ????

Puesta de huevos

Tengo dos agapornis, macho y embra, y aunque no tengas nido ella pone huevos, como lo evito?

Urgent: 5 weeks old green cheek conure hand feeding

I got a 5 week old gcc, blood tested as male with a ring around one of his legs. The breeder seems legit. I figured when we met at the mall, he was quiet because he was scared. He had a rough 2 hour trip where he was visibly trembling the entire time. That was […]

breeding

Can a finch successfully breed with a canary

Aaron/GCC

Arron is in this “Time of the Season,” as well. At first, I had Aaron walk up to my shoulder. He would nap there. Then he would want to go home to eat. I taught him to say: “Aaron on a stick!” He does say this when he wants to be w/me. Now, I don’t […]

Breeding zebra finches

I have a pair of zebra finches; the female deposited five eggs, two of which were fertile and three were infertile. Four weeks later, the female laid five more eggs, one each day. I couldn’t dismantle the nest since two chicks were inside, and their parents were caring for them. My question is: how can […]

Fi nches breeding

My female bird lay an egg this morning which was break because I often remove once they want to started a nest. What should I do now to make her stop laying eggs? She has done 2 clutches since November till now ad there’s 3 baby finches already that is on adulthood.

Cockatiel does not sit on her eggs at night.

Hello, I have a pair of cockatiels and the female recently had 3 eggs. The problem is, the male does not incubate them and she only sits on them during the day, at night she abandons them and, instead, sleeps next to her mate. Should I remove them or put them in an incubator?

Mating cocktails

My female laid an egg and pooped black this time afterwards she is 3years old and my male is 9 years old she has laid before and her poop was smelly and brown she has been to vet several times does she need to see doctor again?

Lovebird killed baby, what should I do about unhatched eggs?

Our lovebirds layed eggs a few weeks ago. 2 hatched yesterday, but unfortunately 1 didn’t look so healthy and died. The other one seemed perfectly healthy, but today our male bird took him out of the nest box and killed him. We still have unhatched eggs. What should I do with these? Do I need […]

Breeding budgies

My male budgie wants to breed with my female budgies but she is uninterested so I want to find him a new female budgies that’s ready to breed what do I look for?

What should I do?

Hi! I have a soon to be five year old cockatiel female who started to lay eggs in a nesting box my mom gave her without my knowledge. I have delt with eggs before so I knew to just leave them alone until she abandoned them. She laid a total of 5 eggs and when […]

sexing love birds

Hello we were given 6 adult love birds how do i go about sexing them

Zebra finch

My zebra finch has fledglings that are now eating on there own but the dad is still feeding them.the mum has laid two eggs in her feed bowl,what should I do?

Single mom

Hello. I have a pair of cockatiels. One is a WF male and one is a grey female. So, the male and female I have tried to breed together, they have been caged together for almost 2 years and I gave them a nest box. They’ve mated for 2 weeks straight, then the female started […]

Fight of budgies

In a big cage recently I have brought two pairs of matured budgies in that cage I kept only 1 nesting pot and I think because of. That they were fighting between each other

Baby cockatiel and Mom trying to mate

Hi, I have 3 cockatiels.. 2 males and one female. One of my males is the biological baby of my other 2 birds. The dad’s name is Banana, the mom’s name is alaska and the baby is London. Both parents are around 4 years old and London is almost a year old. I’ve been letting […]

Should I separate my breeding pair of Kakariki?

I pulled their last clutch 3 weeks ago to hand feed and momma is laying eggs again. Should I be separating them to discourage egg laying? I have read they shouldn’t have more than 2 clutches a year. But I’ve Al reason read separating them can cause depression.

Breeding diamond doves

I’m new to breeding and I’ve had 3 females for about a month now and I’ve got a male that ill be getting. So my question is, will I need to put the male in a separate cage with just 1 other female, or would he be ok together with the 3 females until mating […]

Cockatiel has laid eggs on cage floor

My cockatiel has laid eggs on cage floor. The first egg was laid on 26th, another on 28th and another today, usually between 1 and 3 in the afternoon. The eggs are on the cage floor, which is made of wire mesh. I tried keeping a towel nearby, but she wont move her eggs on […]

Canary hen laid eggs 1 day after our male canary died.

I have a question. I had two pair of canary’s male and female they got along really well. The mail would help the hen build the nest. Unfortunately, our male Canary passed away one day before the hen laid an egg. How can we help her?

Baby cockatiels

I have two baby cockatiels one is 4 weeks old the other is younger about 2 1/2-3 weeks old. The father plucked all feathers from 4 week old baby’s head. I took him out of the cage and now mom is alone in cage with them. Will she be able to care for the two […]

Do we separate bonded male/female budgie pair?

We adopted two budgies from a pet store: a girl and a boy. After doing plenty of research and feeling confident in our knowledge on budgies, we bought them in a pair to prevent loneliness. However, we have overlooked the possibility that our budgies are siblings and I’ve learned that since they were adopted from […]

Laid an egg

My Quaker parrot just laid an egg. What to do now????

Egg size

My sun conure pair is fertile. And its my pair second cluch. The question is this that female laid first egg of second cluch and size off egg is small as compared to first cluch. What this issue of low size egg.

Baby Zebra Finches Outgrowing Their Nest

I have three baby zebra finches that were born Dec 4th and 5th (they are 10 and 11 days old today). The parents keep adding nesting material (parsley) and the nest they made in their stainless steel food bowl has become too small for the babies. I’m afraid the babies will fall out of the […]

New cockatiels

I just bought two cockatiels and 3 eggs, the previous owner stated that eggs are still viable however I am not so sure. Obviously transporting them is stressful in itself especially with eggs. I did buy his whole set up in an attempt to limit the stress as much as possible. When I arrived they […]

Eggs

Only have 1 cockatiel. She just laid infertile egg s. Do I remove egg or let her sit in on it. She’s 1 yr old. She found a basket and made into nest. Do I remove egg and basket?

A new Zebra Finch

I bought only one pair zebra finches, male and female. Do I need to put them in a separate cage for a few days at first? or I put them together in the same cage?

Breeding

My sun conure is an older girl and I just put a male conure in there. She always laid eggs on her own and now she has laid an egg that she’s in the bottom of the cage sitting on she has no nesting material or anything I know it is not going to survive […]

Budgie breeding

How do I get my budgie to sit/incubate her eggs? She lets them drop to the bottom of the cage and ignores them. Is there anything I can do to help her care for them or can I care for them until they hatch

Breeding

I have a female cockatiel that is 11 years old and I have a male cockatiel that is three years old. They have been in the same cage for about a year and they get along fine… But no breeding … Do you think they will ever breed?

Неразлучники самцы

Добрый день, у меня два неразлучники розовощекие, думала, что пара, молодые, начали спариваться, повесила домик, но кладки нет, и мне кажется, что это два мальчика, сто же делать теперь?

Budgie mating

How long are my 2 Budgies going to keep mating??? It’s been going on since September!!!!! I don’t want eggs!!!!!

Female cockatiel

Hello! I have only one female cockatiel. Few days ago my female cockatiel laid 2 eggs. I was waiting for the third egg, but did not get laid. There were no signs of egg being stuck. But then after 5 days she laid the third one. Does that mean it is a new clutch and […]

My cocktail laid an egg

So i have 3 birds 2 cocktiels and one colorful one i forgot the name… So my cocktiel Kiki laid an egg and the eggs “father” is my other cocktiel Riki, i saw they breed and i was like “no worries they will stop i guess” and this day my mom noticed my bird laid […]

Preventing Cockatiel from layoing eggs

we have a cockatiel pair. Pied female and Lutino Male. the are free in the house and not caged. They have laid the eggs for the first time. but now we don’t want them to lay eggs any further. how can we avoid that.

Hi

Hi my budgie laid two eggs on the floor and we found them broken and then she just laid another egg that was fine on the floor i picked it up and put it in her breding box and she threw it back out

Why my bird’s poop is large?

Well, it’s been 6 days since my female budgie laid her last egg. And yesterday the male bird flew away. So still my female budgie’s poop is large like before her pregnancy. Why is her poop large and is it going to affect her health?

can a female budgie takes care of her fertile eggs without a male

well, it’s been 5 days since my budgie laid 3 eggs. Today when I woke up I saw the male budgie was missing because the cage door was open and I remembered that the door was closed last night. Then I searched the whole room but couldn’t find it. Also, the window was a bit […]

advice please

One of my canaries has laid 5 eggs in the seed feeder. Can i move her eggs? will she still sit on them if i do?

Parakeets

I have 2 parakeets both female with brown ceres. They have been together for just over a year. They have laid a few eggs but I knew that they could do that. But last Friday one of the eggs hatched and I have a baby parakeet. Is this even possible?

Birds trying to nest?

My two cockatiels (one male and one female) have suddenly started obsessively shredding paper. I bought them a few months ago and both have relatively settled well (i.e. theyre properly eating, chirping/singing, flying around and coming back to their cage on their own). Since about a week now, ive noticed that the paper has bitten […]

lovebird false pregnancy

I have a male peach faced lovebird and a female Fischer’s lovebird. We had the male in his own cage, and the female was the last of a new baby Fischer’s clutch and we hand fed her and she is very tame and we decided to keep her. We felt the male was lonely and […]

Finch not feeding babies

i have 1 pair of finches and yep they have alot of space in there cage they oftenly give eggs and almost every time have 1-3 babies but the twist is that they dont feed them and unfortunatly die out of starvation asthe parents dont feed

How to make bond

Hello , I have a green winged macaw pair I just bought it from another person they are not familiar with each other how I can make their bond want to breed them in future

Meri mada kokteil

Meri mada kokteil ke egg ko 25 din ho gaye hai lekin vo futa nahi hai or bacha nahi nikla hai

Breeding

I have 2 adult cocktails been together 2 years one yellow female one grey female is ready keeps eating sand sheet very active whistles a lot head under wing at times crys for attention but male just not interested last year she laid 7 eggs but none hatched even though she sat on them she […]

Infertile eggs

I have a pair dna tested African greys I give them their box in march they do their business but the eggs are not fertile their diet is seed vegetables fruit and pellets they were both to the vet a couple months prior for check up blood work shows they are healthy no issues the […]

Zebra finch fledglings

My zebra finches have had 4 chicks, all of which have fledged the nest for the last 4 days and returned to the nest each evening – mum and dad showing them the day. One of the chicks is smaller than the rest, day 1 we found it on the floor and put it back […]

Male Lovebird Escaped from Cage Leaving Female Lovebird with 2 eggs

Hi, one of my lovebirds escaped from its cage. It is a male lovebird that has been separated with a female lovebird in a cage (they’ve been together for a year). I only noticed that there were 2 eggs in the nest when the male lovebird was missing, these are their first set of eggs. […]

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