Question category: Breeding

female always kills its chick

Hi! From the Philippines. I used to have a pair of finches. A gray and a white. Since the seller of the white finch told us that it was ready to breed, I bought a fertility vit to laid eggs ASAP (its my first time to have a pet bird). After 2 months, it laid […]

15 year old hen laying every Spring

This hen has only raised 1 clutch successfully and does not have a bonded mate. However every Spring she lays a clutch of eggs in small spaces of the aviary. Should I put a nest box in or discourage her from laying. There are males in the cage.

6 oversexed parakeets in a huge cage

2 males 4 females. Keep laying eggs. One has been on her eggs over the 23 days. Should I remove eggs. She looks weak heavy breathing male feeds her but she gets out only for a minute then back on her two eggs. They are in coconuts. Another female just laid three eggs which were […]

Reproduction chez des amie de vacances

Bonjour j ai laisser mes 2 calopsite en garde pour les vacances chez 1 amie qui elle aussi a 1 calospite et pendant se mois de vacances ma calospite en a profiter pour se reproduire avec l oiseau de mon amie elle a vu la reproduction se faire mais la je rentre et veut recupere […]

Eggs hatched

My female budgie’s egg just hatched first one . As a pet parent is there anything I should do, or should I just let mother take care of chick?

Zebra finches : Preparing the nest

We recently bought a pair of zebra finches and they are busy preparing a nest. The male is always busy working on the nest, and we have observed that he sometimes sits in there. I think the female does less in the preparation. Am I correct? Is this the habit of zebra finches?

My Rosellas are not sitting on their eggs at night

My Rosella hen laid her eggs as follows: 1st 16 August 2nd 17 August 3rd and 4th 18 August 5th 20th August 6th 21st August She and the male incubate the eggs only during the day but, at night, they both sleep in the cage not in the nest. I also have a pair of […]

Black mask fisher lovebirds

I have two black mask, fisher lovebirds how will their babies were come out? My bird are Blue and white black head

Finches

I Recently got four little finches, I Was given a little hut with them I thought to sleep. they look so cute together. I’ve had them now for about a month and now I have four eggs. I don’t want more babies because the cage is too small for that many birds I don’t want […]

Peachface

Hi my female peachface is with a male and has just laid first egg was just wondering if I need to do anything or just leave them be

Cockatiel Breeding

Hello, my two cockatiels (around 2 years old) have been mating for the past 2 weeks, they are on a mixed seed and pellet diet with a salad mostly consisting of green leaf lettuce and spinach with a commercial egg food. They have a breeding box. Just today the female started hissing and fighting with […]

3year old male cockatiel bullying 3 year old female cockatiel

I recently rescued 2 cockatiel siblings 2 months ago. I have paperwork on her saying she will be 3 in October and was told the male was a sibling but I can’t know for sure. Within a few weeks of them being with me I noticed her pecking at her tail base and squaking in […]

My conures have laid an egg

Hi, my 2 pet conures have laid 2 eggs (one has dropped and cracked) and the other is fine. We didn’t intend on breeding and was unsure on the sex of one as it was given to us as a rescue. I’m wondering what we do with the egg to help it survive with the […]

My love birds had an egg lain on the cage bars

My love birds had an egg lain on the cage bars while i was traveling. I had no idea when did they lay it. I want to move the egg and put it in a prepared nest but my husband keeps freaking they won’t take care of it later thinking it’s not theirs. The female […]

Cockatiel egg

I have a cockatiel egg that has finally dipped down. What I mean by that is the aircell has turned on a tilt, and I can see the chicks shadow within the aircell. Now the problem is knowing when it will internally pip. If you know please let me know!

Budgies breeding

We have one male budgie who is around 15 months old, our vet told us he was lonely and needed a friend so we got another budgie a month ago from the same place. They told us that the new budgie was male and the vet also agreed, however after looking online, we think she’s […]

Baby cocktail 1day old died

My cocktail hatched 2 eggs an one is 4days old and other is one day old . The one day old died .. i think the parents does not feed him properly baby bird stomach is empty.. is possible for hand feeding for the 4days old?

My 6 month old cockatiel laid an egg

Recently, my very young cockatiel has laid an egg. I think it’s because she has been near my 7 year old male cockatiel. I feel bad for her but my family thinks it’s normal and that it’s fine.

Zebra finches

Initially I had a pair of finches and they hatched 3 babies, I think 2 male and 1 female (2 have full white feathers and 1 has greyish color feathers). Its been about 5-6 months they hatched, now the babies started to harm their mother but they didn’t do anything to their dad when they […]

My cockatiel is only attached with me.

I have a 7 year old Male cockatiel. After a year or so, he was basically attached to me and attacked everyone other than me. Now that I think of it I feel like he thinks im his mate but I try to discourage this behavior when he try’s to mate with me. Recently, our […]

My cockatiel has laid an egg

My beautiful white cockatiel has laid an egg and it’s fertile, about 2/3 days ago the baby was cheeping from inside the egg but yesterday the cheeping has stopped, has the baby died?

Predicting chick colours

I have a female cinnamon and a male turquoise. Just wondering the possible colour results of babies? Only thing I am unsure of is the splits for the parents. I understand if an accurate answer can not even be given without that information. I was told when I first got my birds from the breeder […]

Can you pair conures for one breeding season

Can you safely bring two sun conures together for just a breeding season and separate them after the chick’s have matured enough to be split up or would that be detrimental for the parent and baby birds physical and mental health.

First time breeding

We have a bonded pair of green cheeks, and recently had an egg hatch from a clutch. The second egg is getting ready to hatch, and we have been observing the mother on a camera. She has fed the first baby at least once as we could observe the full crop. We are just wondering […]

Cockatiel breeding

Hello! I set up a nest box for my cockatiel pair, they have been mating for the past week, how will I know when she is getting ready to lay eggs? They are both in and out of the nest box all day. (I have a camera set up)

female laid eggs

Hello i am a 15 year old caretaker for my cockatiels. They have a pretty big cage and have mated and laid eggs again, this time one of them hatched (And i am sure more will follow) and they have laid eggs last season as well but those did not hatch. My question is how […]

To replace eggs with fake eggs or not

My female lovebird (11mths old) has layed 3 eggs over 5 days. My male lovebird keeps throwing them out of her hut. I replaced the 3 with fake eggs and she’s doing well with sitting on them etc, however my male keeps taking them off her and throwing them to the bottom of the cage. […]

My budgies won’t mate :(

My friend gifted me a pair of budgies who were initially a pair. At the time, the female budgie was laying eggs however, when she had a change of enviroment she no longer sat on the eggs therefore, I removed the nesting box. Fast forward, I have given them some time to take a break […]

Cleaning Cockatiels cage when there are eggs

My cockatiels have laid eggs-abandoned the first set- and now has laid a new one. But they get very possessive and attack when we go to change their food and water bowls, which also makes cleaning the cage a bit difficult

Keeps laying eggs.

This time ,3rd time since February, she now has 8!! She is NOT fertile, I have only her. It breaks my heart to see how she cares for them and I know they’ll never hatch. I would like to let her hatch a clutch, however I’m not buying another bird especially when I got her […]

Love birds

I have male and female they are in the box a lot together is this normal please

40+ male breeding

Hello I have a 41 y/o male and a 12 y/o female. Female came into season and male didn’t even bat a eye at her. They have been together for about 5 mths now and they are not in a cage but get along well with each other. Just don’t know why male does not […]

Female attacking male cockatiel

Hello, I recently asked a question relevant to this. My female from the “pair” attacks her mate. She had laid an egg which is infertile. They don’t mate anymore and she had laid the egg in the nesting box. The male was very interested and willing to help at first, but now he’s just terrified […]

Male female

I have 2 birds, 1 yellow shouldered (20+ years ) and a orange winged (40+years) amazon parrot. Can they be put together? Can they mate? Can they reproduce together?

Babies

My cockatiel pair are about 7they always lay eggs but then leave them alone this time they have been sitting on them at the bottom of the cage , I really did not think they would hatch because none of the others did but did not want to distress them by removing, today I have […]

Not hatching eggs

Why my budgie is not hatching eggs she layed eggs more but she don’t hatching any agg it is happening from 3 years too still she is not hatching eggs she laying eggs how can I do that she may hatch eggs?plz tell me

Lovebirdsa age

My female peachfaces have 2 year and male 7 month,their breeding gonna be successful? I think if they have egg

Female cockatiel attacking her mate

There are two cockatiels I purchased as a “proven pair”they mate and snuggle and preen each other, but whenever it comes to a nest box, the female is very aggressive and keeps the male away. The previous owner said they have never tried to breed them before. The female gets so bad that just him […]

Eggs

I have 2 year cocatial female. She’s lied four eggs now and she’s the only bird I have. I’m more really worried that something can happen to her. I don’t wanna lose her. Should I get a male? What should I do? And how can she lay eggs when they aren’t fertilized please help me?

Is this Odd parakeet behavior

Is it normal when you have 3 pairs of parakeets and one female chooses to breed and lay eggs, that the other two females keep destroying her eggs. I’m a first time birds parents so this is odd behavior to me

new baby parakeets

the mother is in cage with father and another female parakeet she laid the eggs in a food bowl on top of pellets they hatched now 9 days old should i move birds to bigger nest box with paper towels so they can be in clean environment is it ok to put fresh bedding so […]

nestling finch diet

Hi. If you have to hand raise baby finches, what diet do you recommend? What formulated diet would most be like the seeds the parents regurgitate to them?

Is it ok for two females to breed

My two lovebirds which i paired because i was told one was male and the second was a female but recently i saw a bump on both what should i do

Cockatiel Aggressive Behaviour

My cockatiels is around 16 to 18 months. Recently I got a female for him but it seems the female is too young. Now he is on heat and she doesn’t respond to him. Since then my cockatiel’s behaviour is very aggressive and he is biting me. Not letting me come closer to him.

Eggs

Why is my conure birds eggs not hatching? She laid her first on April 30th which had a slight crack but the rest came within a week after. We didn’t check if there was cracks or not because she sits on them all day without leaving. it’s now currently June 7th. For more information, the […]

weaning baby budgie

my budgies have a baby which is 3 weeks old had to take the female out because she was fighting with the male so the baby is with the male he seems to ignore it at time the baby is picking up seeds and vegies from the dishes at the bottom of the cage, the […]

Irn

Can a male and female irn live together in a cage and not breed? They live together in an Avery with a lot of other birds

Finches

Moved 4wk old finches into their own cage, eating & drinking on their own. Can I leave them in the same room that the parents are in?

Can I break up a bonded pair?

Hello. My question is: I have two female parakeets not in the same cage and I want to breed one of them. I recently acquired two males who are bonded to each other. Can I put one of them in a breeding cage with the female. Will they breed? Will the other male be broken […]

Keeping a chick

Hi, In the previous reply you gave me you said that the parents may become aggressive towards the babies if I keep handling them. I will take your advice and I will stop handling them until the chicks are weaned. One of the things is that I am planning on keeping one of the chicks […]

Aggressive Female Cockateil

Hi, I have a question about one of my cockatiels. I have had this cockatiel for around 3/4 years and she is turning 4 years old this summer. She also has a mate and she recently became a mom to 3 baby cockatiels. The babies around around 5-6 weeks old and they are doing great. […]

why are my cockatiel’s eggs empty

hello I’m a beginner in owning birds. now my cockatiels are less than 1 year old and the female laid 2 clutches of eggs both did not hatch maybe because they are not fertile i had 2 cockatiels a male and female but the male flew away from home and wasn’t mating with the female. […]

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