Abandoned eggs
My budgie abandoned her first clutch of eggs due to me not doing my research. I moved the pair to a new, bigger cage. Now they both will not go near the nest. I tried moving them back to the original cage. They still wouldn’t go near it. The first egg has hatched. I’ve been hand feeding the baby every 2 hours when it starts to cry. It seems healthy. I keep it and the remaining 6 eggs all in the nest box with a heating pad around it. It stays at about 92 degrees. The eggs are all alive and moving when I candled them. My question is, is there any chance that the parents will go back to the nest? Should I keep them close to it? They hear the baby cry and don’t do anything. Will they know that they are their babies when they start exploring? I know I messed up. I feel so bad. But I work from home and am going to do everything possible to get these babies to grow into healthy buggies.