Your adult birds are used to having a lot of freedom and might not be happy having to stay in a cage all the time. It might be better if you can find a place where they have the opportunity to fly.

You could find out by going to http://www.google.com and typing in "bird club" along with the name of your city or area. Whether or not it has anything to do with the store is sort of besides the point, it could be a resource to finding homes or advice on your birds and breeding.



No, I meant the babies. I was thinking it would probably be easiest to find them homes. If you got the DNA testing done, you could decide which of the babies you wanted to keep and start finding homes for the others while you also figure out what you want to do with your parents, since it sounds like you want to rehome them. If you end up keeping all the babies, it still sounds like a bunch of birds to keep with everything you have going on, like your daughter wanting breakfast and clean clothes in the morning. Also, those babies will want to have babies with each other, which I'm sure you would want to avoid and it seems like fewer birds would make it easier to keep breeding under control.

What is your plan for mom's current new clutch of eggs? It sounds like she'll be looking to lay another egg tomorrow or the next day. Are you going to give her the box to lay it in? Also, what are your thoughts on what to do with these eggs? Are you going to let them hatch? If so, I just don't ever see this cycle ever ending and your daughter isn't ever going see another pair of clean underwear until she's old enough to do her own laundry! (LOL)

heck, no! this time I will go a fancy way -- I will build an incubator wherever she lays her eggs (just kidding)
I have NO PLANS for her current clutch of eggs. I only make sure she gets enough calcium and nutrients so she won't be egg bound.

Google found me Thunderbird Club only
I live in Wichita KS, in case somebody wants to help me find bird club.

by the way, how to you organize your birds' time? How often are they out of cage?

today I finally received High energy breeder Roudybush crumbles, and basically it was the first day when the babies stayed to eat for some prolonged time. They were very concentrated sorry some of them have dry formula on their chests

From what I've read here with others who have had issues with their females laying eggs constantly, it sounds like if she doesn't have access to her "eggs" to lay on, she'll just keep on laying eggs until she gets sick from it. So my question was really about what is your plan for her current clutch of eggs she's already started to lay? It sounds like if she doesn't have access to her eggs, she'll keep laying so if you're going to give access to her eggs, what are your plans to keep the eggs from hatching?

I can see that she would probably lay some eggs in locations inconvenient for sitting on them. Plus, I will be taking her to the cage for the night. I can also restrict her access to the area where she laid an egg. I don't know yet. But Its said that without special conditions that the box has (bedding provides insulation, and such), its not easy to have eggs hatched. I don't know yet. I think she would give up. But if you have a better idea, you are welcome.
Several breeders told me that after one clutch, when they remove the box, their hen would lay a few eggs in the cage and then stop seeing that conditions are not good.
We discussed this with Carolyn after our second clutch.

Well good luck, I hope this fourth clutch of eggs in a row doesn't turn into a third clutch of babies in a row!

Your babies are super cute! I love the one in the front right with the really soft colors. Very pretty.

The babies are growing well and look almost like grown up birds. They are very pretty. I would take one in a minute, except I have as many as I can handle and live too far away.