My indian ringneck often times will go on top of her cage, arch her back so she’s facing up, stretch her wings a little bit, or she will open her beak at me whenever i look at her, I don’t know what this means, is this a sign for concern?
Thank you so much for all the advice it was so weird because I have a big cage that has six cockatiels total and she is one of them when I first had them I thought they were all boys because it was like 4 yrs and no eggs from any of them so I […]
My male cockatiel and female have 4 eggs. My question is why is my male cockatiel mimicking regurgitación when he is eating , does this have to do with preparing for his eggs to hatch or what is your opinion. Thank you
My cage fell and the male budgie got frantic snd flew off and the female with the 4 baby budgies and 2 budgies that are about 8 days old are in the nest box…will the mother budgie be able to survive and rear the young
I have a female cockatiel who is bonded with a male but she mates with another male then when she lays eggs she attacks the male she mated with and I have to remove him from the cage and she only allows the other male she’s bonded with why is she like that??
I’ve recently bought zebra finches to breed.a few days after the person I bought them off said they have recently laid eggs two days after I bought them off him I had the eggs and nest boxes off him and haven’t touched them I’ve put them in with the finches now but I don’t know […]
Mate is 11 yrs +. What do I need to provide for proper nutrition and nesting materials?
My male cockatiel is not showing any nesting behaviors, but the female is biting up the wooden sticks, paper, coir, everything into a cardboard box. My cockatiel are not mating yet, they have together for a week now, and my male keeps whistling to the female, but no mating yet
I have 2 cockatiel male and female but my female is only sitting on the egg and not letting the male even close … In this process she is not eating or drinking anything. It’s been 2 days and now I am really worried
My male budgie escaped from the cage( no one in the household was present to control the situation) and left his female after she laid four eggs for the first time after about two weeks. He cared for her all the time even after she laid the eggs. He fed her by the nest box […]
My lovebird laid 5 eggs in early December and just laid a new egg mid-February, that seems way too soon. Is this normal? She turned 2 in November. She had never laid eggs before that. She was really mean and aggressive for the last few months. I changed her cage around and put her in […]
I have a pair of parrot finches that are building a second nest after abandoning the first. The female fights off the male when he tries to mount her. I introduced a second female and the male immediately copulated with her. she seemed more submissive than the prior female. My question is should I leave […]
Hi I’ve had my male cockatiel for 5 years and my female for 3 years. Usually before they never liked each other and always hated. I’ve always had a nest box in their cage for a long time but they never went in it. Now this time I see that my male cockatiel is so […]
Hi my adult pairs of cockatiel aren’t going to the nest box after mating many times. It’s almost been a month since they are mating. What should I do?
Hi, my budgie laid an egg on the cage floor despite of having nest in her cage few hours ago and is not sitting on it. They are 2-3yrs old, we got them from a pet shop few days ago so they aren’t tamed yet and it’s their first time .What should i do ?Should […]
My budgie sat on the egg for 20 days now and she threw 2 eggs out of the 3 eggs… I checked that one egg was empty it was clearly white while the other hand a little crack but I checked it was red and black in the half of the egg… While the 3rd […]
My female and male are fighting they have 4chicks do I take male out or female out as he is holding her down at times and want let her near chicks
How long before eggs hatch
Why is my lovebird not sitting on her eggs during the day when the evening comes the female and male will go in it and sit on the eggs all night this is not my first time for hatching eggs or dealing with lovebirds I’ve had baby many years I have love birds parakeets and […]
Hello, looking for some advice on 2 green cheek conures I got late past December. I had no idea on their sex until I did a gender/DNA test and found out I have a male and female. Both are starting to show interest in each other in which I will have to prepare for eggs […]
I am from New Delhi, INDIA. These days the night temperature is about 9 degrees and day time max. about 18 degrees. I have a yellow naped well bonded AMAZON pair in my aviary. I have seprated them from the aviary and have given them a seprate room with a big cage in that room. […]
I have a Parakeet egg tha has been in a incubator, after it hatches can I but it back in the nesting box with the parents.
female cockatiel not accepting the male to mate they both are adult and how to mate them
I took on two lovebird siblings found out one is male and one is female I do not want the eggs of the female to hatch. Is it ok to remove them she just had her first two eggs
My budgie laid the egg out of its nesting box i.e. in the cage.the shape of the egg is slightly distorted I picked up the egg and placed it in another nesting box.The other bird has accepted it as its egg so is it right or not
I have a wooden nest box for my breeding pair of budgies. It has gotten covered in poo but I’m not sure exactly how to clean it without having the wood mold and avoiding toxic fumes for the birds.
Hi, I got a female yesterday, the owner said she might lay an egg and as she had a mate, so she did today .but she is not sitting on it. She has had chicks before so she has experince. She is in a big cage with two males that I already have. Why she […]
my one and only birdbath baby is now 5 weeks old when should I remove it from the cage and how do I prevent the parents from mating again besides separating the pair.
Hello, I own 2 cockatiels: a 5 year old female and 2-3 year old male. The female has laid eggs once when she was about 2 years old, she just sat on them and got bored after a week or so. The male was introduced to her when he was very young so there was […]
Cockatiel laid there 1st clutch and weaned them. Now after a month they laid their 2nd clutch,is it too soon to lay eggs ?
I have two cockatiels (male and female), this is my seeing her laying egg, and i don’t know what to do. She laid her’s egg on the cage floor. Should i buy some kind of box? Every help would be appreciated.
He is definitely hurting them by biting their skin as well because we can see small sores on their skin. Also we haven’t seen him feed him to today though mummy cockatiel tries to feed them abut he won’t let her. Is it right to take the babies out the box because it seems to […]
Our male cockatiel is plucking out the feathers of his 2 and a half week old babies. We don’t think he’s driving them out because when we took them out he desperately wanted them back. We are also giving him lots of salt.What do we do?
I have 2 lovebirds recently bought by a breeder he told that they are male and female. According to him green was male and yellow lutino was female but i see sometimes green climbing on yellow and sometimes yellow on green(green more)green share food also yellow bites harder and shred more paper. I am confuse […]
I move my cockatiel pair with 16days old eggs. Then my pair won’t go inside nestbox about 10 hours … now I’m worried if the checks inside still ok or what ?????????
How long can my parakeets eggs survive, if she left the nest for over an hour and still has not returned?
I had to move the nesting box, the mother parakeet will not go back in nesting box and sit on her eggs now. What do I do?
Sooo I have a female who is getting ready to lay eggs, but her male mate just died, will her eggs be fertile? Even though he has died ? They mated several times before he died too
Two of my female budgies mated together and laid eggs. Will these eggs be infertile or should I keep and try to incubate them ?
Hii My cockatiel has laid an egg today in her nest box but she is not sitting on the egg. She enters the nestbox and comes back within 15 min and sits on the floor of the cage. I have seen her sitting silently on the floor everytime I enter the room. She has not […]
Baby zebra finch is 4 or 5 days old and seems to be moving alot less than first few days after hatching. He looks like he has grown a little bit and looks like he is being fed. He appears to be weak. Could he be dehydrated? Not sure if he should be given a […]
Hi..I have a male an a female budgie and they are about 3 years old. She laid an egg in her food dish last night. Is it possible for it yo be viable and if so is it too late to put it in a nesting box. Thanks
My birds gave 2 eggs 15 days ago and when I went to check on them today the eggs disappeared. Not even egg shells remained. What should I do?
My female Fischer lovebird has laid three eggs. We just candled all the eggs around 10 days after the first egg was laid. All we see is a yolk inside. Does this mean the eggs are infertile or do they still need time to develop?
hi i have two cocktails and they are pair they put 3 eggs and two eggs are hatch but now the female cocktail put 2 eggs and male was try to incubate but female was attack male while male cockatiel why?please help me I have no idea
Cockatiel laid 3 eggs after hatching their first clutch 1 egg was fertile among the 3. The first clutch chicks has weaned and left the nest. Should remove the nest box ?
I have a baby lovebird(1 month old)the last two days I noticed that it’s loosing feathers from the wings
Hi my cocktail female is more than 3 years and male is approx 2years of age but female is not showing in mating they are together with approx 6 months
I just noticed our cockatiel has hatched an egg an the chick was not near the mother or the other egg an the mother was not paying attention to her baby what does that mean we have put the baby back in the nest hopping that the mother will go back to it but still […]
I have put a deposit on a male and female cockatiel about the same age. One will be ready in a week and one will be ready mid December. How difficult is it to prevent the female from laying eggs?
I have a pair of budgies who surprised me with their nesting the hen laid her eggs in her food dish after that I supplied her with a nest box which she refused to use she continued to lay her eggs in her food dish so far total is 4 she incubates them not sure […]
So I have mum n dad cockatiel on veg diet n seeds n pellets ..with a vitamin in there drink..do I need give anything different when there babies hatch..
I have 2 cocktail birds they are both under 2 years old , my female bird started laying eggs long time ago , and my male bird also sits on these eggs even though they have never mated , so they are expecting little birds even though they never mated , taking away the box […]
If my male budgie comes out and goes missing can i put a new male with mom and babys?
I am a veterinarian with a client who has two budgies which are bonded – a male and female 6 months of age. It is unclear if they are related. The male is smaller than the female – we are assuming sex based on cere color. Must these birds be separated? What is the current […]
Hai there I had two love birds. And it laid 7 eggs. But unfortunately male bird died. Will the female bird need a pair or Can it be stay single? And it’s been more than a month since the eggs were laid. And still none of the eggs hatched and 1 egg broke itself with […]
So I have two cockatiels the male is aged 1 year and a little more. I bought a female aged 2 year old. On the 2nd day the male climbed on the female and started to mate type thing. Then after again 2-3 days the mate. But the problem is they jus fight every other […]
Hi Brenda, I have removed the nest, al 6 babies died,, the mother dies not seem to feed them after she had those 3, I asked about previously,,, even quite a big one of the later 6 did not survive. I will only put breeding box then back after a year, like you said. I […]
My finches are not feeding the babies at all and they die within a day or two of hatching. Why? Will they ever be good parents?
Why is Female Budgie attacking 3 fledge lings whilst having 6 nestlings
