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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 8:49 pm |
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I tried to dig out eggs but couldn't find them easily. Then I had to remove those 2 eggs out of the box, so I could dig thru the whole content of the box - found them finally. I thought I wouldn't like to do it again, so I just put all the eggs together on top of bedding. Later she added one more, so total now is 6.
I don't like the situation. The chicks are sitting on parents' cage. I come and try to do something with the chicks (play, communicate), then parents freak out, angrily look out the nestbox, and leave it.
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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:25 pm |
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Thank you Couldy skies, I think its improving a little bit (parents are getting used that nothing is threatening the nestbox I think). Chicks like to climb on parents' cage (because this is where the parents are) and even get inside the nestbox sometimes that causes parents to get out. I wonder, the more they are flock birds, the more difficult it is to make them companion birds, right? Today it was a funny moment, the hen landed on my head and chicks tried to do the same but they didn't have enough room and kept falling off (at some time I had 4 birds trying to balance on my head ). Interesting, they are cautious to land on me by their own but they would do what mom does. Still babies, I guess. 10 weeks old today.
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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:00 pm |
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Everything is rather calm. The parents are incubating pretty much all the time, and they are not jumping out of the box with every little noise anymore. The last time I saw eggs there were 7 of them, so I guess all my actions increased their number, not decreased. Last time, when everything was unchanged, she laid only 6 eggs. I don't know why, but Cuddles doesn't take bath anymore. I always prepare warm bath for her (she likes to bath) but instead she gets inside much smaller shallow water dish that has cold drinking water. I wonder if she prefers cold bath to the warm bath. Trillie (and the chicks) like to be misted from the spray bottle. I will candle eggs in a few days if parents cooperate and let me. The chicks are doing fine, I think. Their weight is between 85 and 92g. I don't recently have a chance to feed them formula. Every day I am planning to but something gets on the way.
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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 9:14 am |
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I candled the eggs. Almost all of them are fertile and there are 8 of them! (If I understand right what fertile look like), but some also looked like there were just laid so its hard to say yet. I mean, A LOT of fertile eggs! I hope the hen would stop laying them now (well she can't count to 8 and she didn't read in the internet that 8 is maximum for tiels, so I am a little worried), I lost a track of her dates. This is the hugest clutch for us so far.
She also looks tired. Often standing still looking at one point being deeply in her thoughts. I don't know if it's normal.
They incubate eggs well.
The chicks got a habit to land on my head and back (especially when its feeding time in the morning), they try to do it all together but some have to leave due to high competition.
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Post subject: Re: Caring for new chicks and parent birds  Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:37 am |
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thanks. Tielfan, what do you think about using formula past 30 days since opening? Do you follow this recommendation or not really?
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